#god my brain is bad this week

[mike----wazowski]

sunday six hours..... thanks for the tags dears @four-white-trees @overdevelopedglasses

taggin the ppl i normally hit up @skysquid22 @passthroughtime @woundedheartwithin !!

not got much goin on today, just daigo beating up some fools lmao, writing's been hard this week

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Asano stops the car by the side of the road. Daigo loosens his tie. “Stay here. Don’t follow me.”

“Y- Yes, sir.”

He opens the door and steps onto the sidewalk. Being just outside the city, this area is calmer, but ahead of him is a sight that Kamurocho is known for all too well. 

A group of men, crowding one helpless victim. One of them has a boot on the victim's back. Tears stream down the boy’s bruised face- he can’t be older than high school age.

Daigo rolls his neck, feeling a satisfying click. Next, he flexes his wrists. “Hey.”

His voice, tinged with the irritability of ever-present sleep deprivation, catches their attention.

“Step away from the boy,” Daigo says. “Now.”

“We got a big-shot here, huh?” One of them- a gang member, from the looks of it- sneers. “Look at that suit! Who the fuck are you?”

“I won’t say it again.”

“And who the hell are you to-”

Patience is a virtue Daigo struggles to practise these days. When you face yakuza patriarchs shouting over each other all the time, you learn how to cut through noise. Before the gang member can finish his sentence, he’s sent flying by a punch to the jaw.

[obsob]

more kitties that live in my sketchbook

[necrotic-nephilim]

what are your favourite batcest ships and why?

AAA i love this question so much. i'm going to limit myself to a top five, because otherwise, i'd just end up listing all of them. the true joy of batcest is they're all so good for such different reasons and there are so many unique dynamics you can explore.

JayTim - it's funny bc, before i started this blog, i don't know if i would've put these two losers as my number one. but because i've done so much deep diving into their dynamic and i write them the most, i think it'd be a disservice for them to be anything *but* number one. their canon dynamic is just. so fun to play with. i truly love all of their interactions, particularly pre-Flashpoint. the concepts of Tim holding such contempt for Jason while Jason is weirdly obsessed with Tim. i'm a fan of Hannibal and Killing Eve and well. if this isn't a Hannigram-coded ship idk *what* is. i like ships where love and hate co-exist and there's no real "happily ever after", just fucked up co-existing, where they crawl back to each other like a bad habit and really, this ship is that so perfectly. the themes of jealousy in the Robin mantle. Tim wearing Jason's Red Robin suit to punish himself. i will likely never shut up about them. even in the New-52, there's such a substance to them, though the dynamic is wildly different. they will always be so weirdly dependent on each other's existence. i love them.

BruDick - you can't outdo the doer, i fear. i think i like BruDick mostly for the history of it, yk. there's genuinely *so much* queer history seeped into the homoeroticism of Batman and Robin, these two have been a symbol for queer people for decades. but the ship itself has so many dynamics i love. problematic age gap, "are we family or lovers", "i can't be in a room alone with you without getting into a screaming match but if you called i drop everything for you". all of it. i especially favor 80s/90s BruDick when they were in their divorce era just because it's so messy. Dick has canonically said he would die for Bruce, even during their arguments. no matter what, these two will always be single-mindedly devoted to each other. there will be other Robins, but none of them will compare to Dick Grayson, for Bruce. it's a unique and complicated bond that has endless layers to peel back. they always crawl back to each other bc no one else will match their level of intensity.

DamiTim - years and years ago, when i was a teen trying to people-please with how i existed in fandom, i used to insist i didn't like batcest and found it icky and gross. but there was one DamiTim fic that was my exception. that fic was my fucking roman empire. i reread it like once a year even though it's not completed and likely never will be i do not care. so now that i've killed the morality police in my head and i let myself ship what i actually want to ship, this ship holds a top place in my heart just bc of that fic alone. but in general i do fucking love their dynamic. similar to JayTim there's just so much mutual hatred in these two that has endless potential. Damian's insistence to not see Tim as a Wayne and as a legitimate brother/heir to Bruce is something you can play a lot if you give Damian an angry, fucked up crush on Tim he doesn't want to admit to. they have so many reasons to dislike each other, so to try to get them to slowly fall in love is a fun challenge. they either have a long complicated forgiveness arc and end up a happy married couple or they are the couple that tries to kill each other once a week. no in-between.

JeanTim - there's like. one person here on tumblr who goes as hard for this ship as i do and truly god bless them bc they feed me. Jean-Paul is too underrated in the batcest scene. once i reread Knightfall, i will have to help popular this tag on ao3. i enjoy both a very fucked up version of this ship during the peak of the Knightfall arc, where Jean-Paul is deep in his murder Batman era and Tim is trying to stop him to no real avail, but i *also* think there's so much you can do with the ship afterwards, where Jean-Paul is trying to make up for what he's done and be a better person and better hero. they're the peak Batman/Robin ship, to me. they truly care about each other, but have a very complicated/bloody history and i just. man i love it so dearly. i've been meaning to write a fic where Jean-Paul goes to Tim post the Sword of Azrael (2022) arc to properly discuss and apologize for all his actions in Knightfall for his personal healing and they end up fucking. it could be sweet and cute or kinky fun bc what is the joy of a character with that much Catholic guilt if you don't give them a weird religious kink.

BruCarrie - The Dark Knight Returns got me into comics and i will defend it till the day i die. Carrie Kelley can be pried from my cold dead hands. i just really love these two? Carrie took one look at that cranky old bastard and decided she was his problem. and Bruce is at a stage where he should be very averse to the idea of having a Robin, he knows it's a bad idea. but he just. accepts her anyway. idk how to explain their dynamic other than she plunks herself in his lap and stitches up his wounds while telling him he's an idiot and he lets her even if he's grumbling about it. they have the biggest age gap of any Batman/Robin ship and for that, they should get like. a dead dove gold star no matter how rare the pair is.

also honorable mention goes to BruTim, because *god* do i love the concept of Tim offering himself up to Bruce as Robin in every way, knowing that there are likely sexual/romantic implications to being Robin. it's one of my favorite flavors of batcest to exist. i don't view them as a "happily ever after" ship, because Bruce will always go back home to Dick, but it's a fun lil dead dove moment.

[untimelyambition]

having a strong hyperfixation on dan and phil in the year 2025 is so interesting bc my brain is having the normal hyperfix urge to learn as much as i can abt them and gather new information and i have to sit down and be like girl youve been here basically ten years at this point you know everything theres not anything new for you to learn

[astrum99]

I am. Contributing to the Gabriel in dresses collection. o7

Process vid under cut

[moresrush]

By the gods, you are terrified of loving a man who tries to help everyone he meets --- but you chide him for his selflessness and you remind him, again and again, that you intend to keep him WHOLE as you travel together on land and sea. He, in turn, reminds you that he is no pushover, that it is the two of you against the world --- and someone should start warning people. He's going to make big changes, and you fear the ones he will instill in you the most.

[cerbreus]

surgery leave finally okayed!!!!

[fanfic-lover-girl]

I am re-reading my now former favourite PJO reading the books fic and I realized something.

It's so amusing when the authors in the fics have the gods acting holier than thou. Saying Luke is not innocent or he's evil. The gods acting horrified when their actions are compared to Luke's.

Just looking at the PJO version of the gods so far:

Hades tried to murder Thalia, didn't he literally murder her?

Zeus has tried to murder Percy on several occasions. PJO Zeus is such a major idiot, I don't know how this asshole is still king of the gods.

Zeus murdered Maria, an innocent woman, and tried to kill Hades' young children.

The gods have literally voted on whether to kill literal children who acted in their service

The state of the Hermes' cabin is a clear sign of child abuse.

Apollo literally sees Percy as his errand boy in Singer of Apollo

So many kids died because the gods, Zeus really, were incompetent idiots and had to rely on babies to fight their war for them.

Mr. D is entertaining and all but what the heck was happening in book 2??

Hades imprisoned Percy in TLO so he could foolishly wait for Nico to take on the prophecy.

Ares cursed Percy because he was a sore loser.

But no, Luke is the big bad devil! The gods clutching their pearls to be compared to such a monster!

Gods like Apollo are poor, sad abuse victims 🥺

Gods like Hermes are bound by Ancient laws and can't do anything 😭

I love fics where the gods are good parents or become better parents. But I notice that authors use Luke as the scapegoat in a sense. Because if the gods were good all along, then Luke is just an angry kid who becomes a terrorist for no reason. He didn't know how good he had it, he should be grateful!

I don't understand why Rick is willing to paint Apollo, a literal GOD (I swear the PJO gods are pathetic, no wonder these losers don't have many worshippers) as a poor abuse victim over Luke who was a mortal child let down by all the adults around him. I guess Hal wasn't a thing anymore? That's being swept under the rug I guess so we can better cry over poor Apollo.

[pocket-prosecutor]

it's not always that bad maybe. sometimes it's fun, even

[rist-ix]

https://www.tumblr.com/rist-ix/749015401700229120 not you reblogging this when you ship bloom with the man who murdered her family 😭

Bloom's into ppl who slay! Hope this helps :3

[peachykcqt]

i know its only been 1 month but if instead of improving/curing my pmdd, birth control just spreads the symptoms out so that i can get hit w them anytime instead of just during Hell Week, that will. not be ideal

[fappellmoan]

heyyy… i still have to go thru some of ur blogs and catch up but i wanted to say what’s up hello… have not been good at being online <3 but i missed u all um in my defense its been so bad 😆😆😆😍😍😍😍😍 being home for the holidays was bad and then i got back and had a few days in a row at work and new years off and then was supposed to work every day till today. but i called off yesterday. as im sick <3 and also was so close to losing my shit in a genuine way so here we are. this is the first day i feel i’ve reached close to chill. i can’t do this… my stupid job doesn’t even pay enough with my increased hours to truly cover rent and bill and live like. normally. it might be so over for me when this lease is over. but it’s literally over on my birthday come on i can guilt my parents for another year. i’ll threaten institutionalizing myself if i have to move home im not doing that. please economy i’m not even asking for career advancement rn just enough money that to be able to pretend to make it

[lesbiansanemi]

Officially deciding I shall not be going to work tomorrow because of the snowstorm so…. Yay? Extra day off?

[spaciebabie]

shoutout 2 this person in my class who i can tell wants 2 talk 2 me really bad but instead of doing that whenever she has the chance she'll talk 2 whoever else is around and ignore me entirely unless im mentioned by name

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

god is swuarshing me beneath his thumb like i am an aphid or perhaps a clover mite. yeah. its slow and painful and im small. and also meek

[resident-rats]

I /could/ write the last few paragraphs of chapter two, orrrrr I could go on a side quest and write a porn without plot one shot of krauser railing trans Leon in a tent. Worlds my oyster really