#gothamstreetcat

[sourceblog]

Jeremiah Valeska blows up Wayne Manor GOTHAM (2014 - 2019)

[gothamnetwork]

DAVID MAZOUZ as Bruce Wayne

GOTHAM (2014-2019) ↳ 3.14 The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies

[felicitykings]

BRUCE WAYNE & SELINA KYLE

GOTHAM (2014-2019) ↳ 4.01 Pax Penguina

[deecnuts]

GOTHAM (2014 - 2019) Season 5, Episode 11 "They Did What?"

[cinemapix]

PENNYWORTH (2019 - 2022) Emma Paetz as Martha Kane in Season 1, Episode 7: Julie Christie

[twelverriver]

Okay, all those little touch prompts are just so damn cute and it’s hard to pick one! So could you pretty please pick one for me + Wesley/Lilah??

<3

28. feeling for each other in the dark / 55. tracing the lines on the other’s hand.

used a numbers generator and it gave me these two numbers! hope you like this <3 it reminded me again how much i love these two!! putting this under a read more here already <3

also on ao3 now!

when lilah returned to her apartment, the electricity was still out from the beast's attack and it's gotten dark. she got in her apartment with great difficulty, one hand trying to turn the key, the other holding her wounded side. her mind was wretchedly empty, her only thought focusing on the first-aid kit that was stored in her bathroom. Though when she tried to make her way across her apartment, there was a knock at her door. She opened it, against her better judgement, and found precisely the last person she thought would be standing at her door: Wesley.

"Now what? Come to finish me off, lover?", she asked roughly, his behaviour from earlier still on her mind.

He just stared at her, then gestured to be let in.

"Let me..."

She left her door open, really beyond caring for anything he had to say or do now after the day from literal hell that's been clawing her out. It chewed her up and spit her out, and no fancy office or seeing Wesley back in her apartment when he swore he never would be could fix that. She made her way over to the bathroom, when he touched her elbow and looked at her.

"Sit down on the bed. I'll get it."

"You don't even know where it is.", she argued.

He turned around to roll his eyes. It was barely noticable in the dark, but the annoyed look on his face was something she memorized, something she could recognize even with the bare light of the moon.

He returned a minute later, successfully with the kit in his hand.

"Will you finally sit down?", he asked, now exasperated.

Lilah finally sat down on the bed, walking slowly so she didn't walk into anything on the way. When she sat down, Wesley took place in front of her, motioning for he to lift up her shirt. Something about the position of him right in front of her, instead of on the bed next to her made her feel the intimacy of the situation. She lifted up her shirt, trying to slip out of it, but her body protested.

She caught Wesley's look, and nodded once, before he lifted the shirt off her, being careful of her wounds that were on her whole torso. He started washing off the blood that stuck to her like a second skin, and instead of feeling more comfortable, she felt like he was removing her battle armor with every spot of blood he removed from her ribs. They sat in silence for a while, until he stopped washing and applying bandages to her tortured skin. Then, letting off from her ribs, he drew up a line from there to her shoulders and back down to her hands, almost as if... a more romantic person would've said he wanted to ensure himself that she was safe, but lilah knew the extent of their arrangement. whatever she felt for him was of no regard and better off without mention. not wanting to show off more of her vulnerability than she had already offered today, she tensed underneath his touch. Wesley began tracing lines on her hand, keeping his gaze there even though she knew he couldn't make out much of anything, less of all her the form of her hand in the dark, but eventually, she did relax again. in the darkness, she felt like she didn't have to keep as tight a mask on as usual, could allow herself a moment of simply being touched and not having to deal with what it meant or how people perceived her. Wesley already knew she was tough as nails and he's seen her at her worst today (the less thought about that, the better), so she just stopped trying to school her expression in any form of a mask, and just let the day's emotions be. She sighed quietly, then looked back down to him.

"Why are you here?"

He didn't reply, but after a few moments, got up and got close to her again. Wesley gently put his hands on her cheeks, then they kissed again. It was gone before she could could reply, him closing his eyes and leaning his forehead against hers. He remained like that for a while, just listening to each other breathe in the dark, take a moment in the city's chaos for themselves, then he held his lips to her forehead and took a step back.

"I meant it. You should hide.", Wesley let go of her hand, then left her apartment.

[buffysummers]

Sending you my best ✨♥️

Thank you 🙏 🩵

[nastasyafilippovnas]

Hey girl!!! Hope you’re doing well. Can I request Wesley/Lilah (you know how obsessed I am with them, sorry) or Spike/Buffy for the gif requests? <3

Hi, hun! I'm doing okay, lol. I don't have Ats downloaded (oops), so I did a spuffy set, hope you like it <33

[iamnotcreativeijustplayitontv]

In another "is it just me or is this a thing?" question, does anybody else notice that the design on Crowley's tie is like an f-hole in wooden string instruments?

(GIF by gothamstreetcat from this post)

(photo from this stringsmagazine.com article)

Perhaps an indication that he would be performing with Aziraphale? The f-holes are also where you can see into the instrument and see the soundpost, so maybe it has something to do with vulnerability, especially during the magic act? Everything in this show has meaning, and while unbuttoning the coat and straightening the tie is a normal action, they also seemed to make sure the tie was visible, so it seems important.

I feel like there's probably some deeper symbolism to find, but I need to get to bed, so I'll try to do a deeper dive on this later this week and update on what I find.

[mistysblueboxstuff]

Misty you are so pretty!! I love your glasses!

aw you're very kind, thank you! 🥰

[bisexualblckcanary]

4, 8, & 17 for the asks! <3

Thanks! 💜

4, What's a rare fear that you have?

Not wholly unfounded, if you ask me, but I'm scared of catfish. More accurately the idea of being in water with one makes me very uneasy, but either way they don't pose a threat to me outside of that, so.

8, Favorite coping mechanism

I don't know abt "favorite" but I'm forever putting my OCs in Situations to deal with the things I don't want to think about.

17, Do you have any tattoos?

I don't! I love the art form but unfortunately I have a habit of scratching and picking at any "imperfections" so I doubt my ability to let them heal properly.

[echoquery]

Boop <3 I hope you have a very peaceful day/night (wherever you may be in the world) and that something really good happens for you today.

thank you <3<3<3

[gothamnetwork]

DAVID MAZOUZ as Bruce Wayne

GOTHAM (2014-2019) ↳ 3.14 The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies

[felicitykings]

Every dead-end street led you straight to me Now you're all I need

[captainchilly]

Caroline!! Hello! I hope you are having a lovely day. Can I get 2,3, and 11 for the gifset asks?

Hi!! Thank you!!

2. What is your personal favorite gifset you've made?

This Emily Prentiss one. It was the first I made with this style and it's crazy how much time I put into trying to capture the entire story arc.

3. Is there a gifset you've made you feel is underrated/underappreciated?

This Castiel one. I spent a stupid amount of time on it.

11. Link another gifmaker that inspires you, or a gifset someone else has made that you really like, or a tutorial that helped you get where you are today.

Honestly there are so many gifmakers that inspire me that it would take too long to name them and there are so many tutorials that I take bits and pieces of to make my own giffing style.

This tutorial is where I picked up parts of my most recent coloring method.

I'm pretty sure I also used this tutorial a lot when I first start giffing.

[twoheartsoneclara]

Merry Christmas (if you celebrate!) I hope you have a lovely day. What was your favorite book you read this year? (I am trying to build a reading list for when the holidays are over.)

Merry Christmas to you, too! I had an absolutely lovely day and I hope you did, too. :)

(youtuber voice: editing claire i really did start typing up a reply to this on christmas and then fell horribly ill so here i am a couple of days later lol)

My absolute favorite book that I read this year was Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. I read it all in one night and was honestly just stunned by how moving it is as a story. It's a book that kind of defies description by genre but is kind of similar to A Wrinkle in Time/The Phantom Tollbooth/etc. in that it's a whimsical yet dark story about coming of age and yet it's also about an adult looking back on their life. It's everything to me, I think everyone should read it. It's still my favorite of his works.

Some of my other favorites that I've read this year (I know you asked for only one but I figured I'd give a couple in case one of them catches your fancy instead):

Thistlefoot by Genna Rose Nethercott - (fantasy, retelling of the Baba Yaga folktale by following her descendants, a brother and sister who inherit her house on chicken legs and they perform on tour a puppet show that they've worked on with their family for years, all the while being hunted down by the Longshadow Man). Also brilliantly moving and even has chapters narrated from the point of the view of the house with such a distinct voice(!!)

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - (literary, with three sections of historical/contemporary/futuristic settings, and a really long epic about the human condition, which I know seems kind of silly to say, but it's about taking refuge in stories from ages past and also contains a lot of commentary on the way that we treat our natural world and its resources)

The Other Side of Perfect by Mariko Turk - (contemporary, about a teenage girl who has to give up her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina after a severe injury and it's about her time in her high school drama department and also deals with unpacking her ideas about her self-worth and deals with institutional racism in the artistic world)

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders (non-fiction, and obviously about murder and what all that entails, but it's such a FASCINATING look into the victorian era and the actual details of crime but also the way that society responded to it, in the way police became codified into an actual force, how this exacerbated class tensions, also how theatre and literature reflected all of this) this book may be only of interest to specifically me in terms of subject content but it's also written and researched really well.