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lavender-lotion · 4 years ago

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Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it and/or tell you something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

thank you for the tag @stronglyobsessed!

I was really not sure if I actually wanted to go in and name ALL the files in my WIP folder, but then I realized I could use this as an opportunity to make sure that my WIP sheet is up to date, so... here we are. my entire WIP folder. organized by fandom!

Teen Wolf

chris/derek dom/sub

Deter -

deter marriage proposal

proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear

stiles/sam prompt sam saving stiles

Dressing porn

JR/Tyler

season 2 stackson

stiles in make up

July 19 - Smut

June 20: Relationship Reveal

June 23: Free Day

Stalion magic alpha pack

Together, We Belong

Stallison

Beach stanny

camboy stiles - stanny

gift for merwin

Gone and Past

Sr stalion And stennis

Stennis

Stennis sex

tattoos

You Fill My Heart (With Such a Gentle Love)

Soft steter->stetopher

Feral Derek

Kate takes video of essentially rape

familiar steterek

Set up on date

Steterek kisses

steterek sad derek

young steterek

breathing you in seuquel

hornet au

continuation to fox!stiles

fox stiles installment

hale family

Sr. Steter

steter courting??

steter for harry--alpha rut

steter kidfic

alpha stiles omega john

De-aged Sheriff

Drunk dick pic stilinskicest

impregnation kink

john jacking stiles off when he can't use his hands

Possessive fox sheriff claims his son

stilinskicest absuive claduia

Stilinskicest tattoo

Twincest only fans

John/Jordan/Stiles

Alpha Twins/Stiles

Falling Together - Hale Orgy for Green

merwin bday fic - stiles/alpha pack?

peter/jackson

Sheriff Stilinski Gets Some Good Lovin'

X-Men

Alemando age play

Colleesive

kitney making out

Lonk pt 2 "I have never felt so content with unexpected discoveries"

vAzazel/Janos snowball fight for irene

azjanos

bobbyjohn discovering cherik

cherigan fic

bab smut

charles mom sucks

Erik goes back in time cause Charles is dead but overshoots

post dofp smut

they slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered

unbendable

Cherik Dating App

bamf emma kidnapped angel

for even if she flees, soon she shall pursue

you cast diamonds across the waters of my innocence

magnet smut

Mags Family

Nina

Peter/Weny POV

Hank and Alex bond during lab time

logan/emma

lonk patching up

Lonk awkwardly flirting for jasp

Lonk for lib

Lonk

peter putting himself down

first meeting

NightAngel

EnNightAngel

5 times Kurt makes Peter bust a nut in his pants and 1 time Peter busts a nut in his pants on his own

Angry Erik

QUICKNETO

quickneto identity reveal

original timeline grief fuck

scogan first meeting

scogan peach

Summerscest ANGST

incest continuation to jasper fic

war photo masturbation

xavierine fic

Cain Marko/Charles Xavier AU

Charles angst childhood telepathy

dadneto saves the day

Emma Frost/Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier

Erik/Shaw

kurt/hank

Lonkma

quogan

Jammy

phoenix peter

Charles waking up in Jakob’s arms

MCU

Ned/Peter 2

Rhodey/Tony

keenker kinktober 12

spideypool asexual gift for frosted goddess

Spideypool Big Bang

Spideypool prompt

Starker Big Bang

starker field trip fic

Starker Mob AU

I Built My Home, Inside Of You

Thorki

Thor/Peter

Bucky/Peter sex worker fic

Physiotherapy (I'll Be Your Baby)

winterspider date fluff

winterspider smut

5 times Happy patched up Peter and 1 time Peter patches up Happy

Jarvis/Tony

Twitter Fic

Bruce Banner/Peter Parker Dom/Sub

(hold me) steady

to love and be loved by you

Glee

take us, together, like the stroke of a bow

with puck pt 2

sam not backing down

sam/kurt

kurt picking up dave's call

Kurtofsky - long fic coming out

Kurtosky - after prom season 2

Ep 5:

Puckurt

Puckurt - visiting during juvie

Fives Time Denny Payson Comes in His Pants and One Time Kurt Hummel Gets Him Out of Them First

Kurt/Chandler

will/kurt

Kingsman

Touched starved Merlin

tattoo au

protective eggsy

Kingsman

emerging from the night and heart of me

eggsy/trans roxy

Eggsy/Roxy/Merlin

Dad Eggsy

Young Justice

YJ - 1

YJ - 8

Dick and Wally team up to seduce Conner

5 times superboy watches tv alone and one time dock watches tv with him

birdflash

YJ - 10

Dick and Wally team up to seduce Conner

Superbird

Misc Fandom & Cross Overs

X-Men / MCU

venom/eddie/peter

TW x Glee

bucky/stiles

CLINT/STILES

Ragnarok

Primal Laurits

Loki Laurits

Laurits finds Magne after the show

Fate: The Winx Saga

5 times Riven gives Dane a first +1 time Dane gave Riven a first

Riven/Dane/Beatrix

Criminal Minds

Reid/Morgan - S3 E2

Morgan/Reid - S2 E

Yu-Gi-Oh

Yagi

Weird City

smexy massage

Because I have more WIPS then people I know, I am tagging EVERYONE. Seriously, if you read this and want to list your WIPS, do it! even tag me in it!! i’d absolutely love to see if and pop into your ask box!

And if you’ve read this, please feel free to send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it and/or tell you something about it!

#lavenderlotion #my writing #writing #fanfiction #writing meme #tag meme

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peppersonironi · 4 years ago

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Hey, Sis! (Batfam/Young Justice Crossover)

{Read on Ao3}

Rating: General Audiences

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman - Comics, Young Justice (Cartoon)

Relationships: Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake, Tim Drake & Members of the Team (Young Justice), Tim Drake & Cassie Sandsmark, Tim Drake & Jaime Reyes, Tim Drake & Garfield Logan, Tim Drake & La'gaan, Cassandra Cain & Bruce Wayne,

Characters: Tim Drake, La'gaan (DCU), Jaime Reyes, Garfield Logan, Cassie Sandsmark, Bruce Wayne, Unnamed Drug Dealers, Megan M'orzz, Members of the Team (Young Justice), Dick Grayson, Bart Allen,

Additional Tags: Meet the Batfamily (DCU, )Humor, BAMF Cassandra, Cain, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Batfamily (DCU, )Cassandra Cain is Black Bat, Good Older Sibling Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake-centric, Protective Batfamily (DCU), Caring Batfamily (DCU), Team, Cassandra Cain is an angel, A deadly one!, Batfam Meets Young Justice

Summary: “How is she doing that,” Cassie muttered in awe as the woman leapt above the heads of some goons, bringing them crashing down before moving on to others.“That can’t be real,” Jaime replied, “Not even Nightwing is that good.”Tim held back the urge to chuckle. They didn’t know the half of it.

AKA: Gamma Squad is in a bit of a pickle, and a mysterious figure rescues them. (Spoiler: it's Cass)

A/N: Just a short interlude while I work on the next installment in this series (It'll have ALL members of the batfam in it. I've only written a 1/4, and it's already over ten pages. So that's why it's taking so long!). This one has BAMF!Cass, so what else is required?Once again, post season 2, but ignoring season three. Batfam haven't introduced themselves to the Team, so they think it's only Dick and Tim, and they know Babs is Oracle.Oh, Cass wears her Batgirl Costume, but goes as Black Bat. I just think they fit better, y'know?

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“Okay, this is bad.”

Tim looked over to where Jaime was struggling in his bonds, and sighed. He was right, this was definitely not how the mission was supposed to go.

It was just supposed to be a recon mission - no, really - where they gathered info on a drug ring in Washington DC that seemed to be spreading a type of crack that affected metahumans in negative ways. The plan was to sneak around their base by the docks, see how much supplies they had, the number of thugs, and their set up. Because of this, only Gamma Squad was sent, consisting of Robin, Blue Beetle, Lagoon Boy, Beast Boy, and Wonder Girl.

La’gaan had gone in first, using the water as cover, but they had lost contact quickly. The others had gone in to provide backup, and within fifteen minutes, they were all tied up. Cassie was also knocked unconscious, tied with her own lasso.

Tim wiggled around under the ropes, bringing his ankle just within reach.

“What are you doing?” Gar whispered.

Tim slipped a finger into his boots and pressed his panic button. He looked over to Garfield “Calling for help,” he whispered back.

Jaime frowned. “But everyone is already out on separate missions. They won’t get to us for hours.”

Tim shrugged. “Batman will think of something.”

“He better,” La’gaan muttered.

*****

Half an hour later, and no one had come. The group was restless, especially with Cassie having woken up ten minutes before.

Everyone perked up, however, when the door opened up. But it wasn’t a rescue. Instead, the Boss stood smirking in the opening as over a dozen thugs streamed around him and began to pull them up and out the door into the main area of the warehouse.

Cassie and La’gaan began to struggle, but Tim sent them a look that clearly conveyed his thoughts: “Stand down, see what info we can gather and wait for backup.”

They rolled their eyes, but stopped resisting.

Soon enough they were tied in a group by some crates in the warehouse, surrounded by forty goons in varying levels of armed. The drug Boss stood a little ways away from them, just out of arm’s reach.

“What are you doing here?” he asked.

No one spoke.

The man sighed. “I guess we’ll do this the hard way, then.” He motioned to a woman standing to the side, and she came forward carrying a toolbox. He reached in and pulled out a wrench. “Who’s first?”

Tim bit his lip and glanced at the Team. He was prepared to go in their stead, but what was taking the others so long? Why hadn’t Bruce sent someone? He opened his mouth to offer himself up when it happened.

The skylight shattered, and a figure dressed all in black fell through. Their cape snapped open, slowing their fall just enough for them to roll safely to the floor and spring up in a fighting stance. Tim grinned at the new arrival.

The femine figure stood dressed in a leather and kevlar suit with the yellow outline of a bat, utility belt, and cowl with bat ears and stitching over her mouth. Her cape flowed around her shoulders, pooling at her feet.

There were several cries of alarm at the sight, and Tim felt his team tense behind him, not knowing the figure. The young woman didn’t say anything, only tilting her head in a curious manner.

“What are you waiting for?” the Drug lord announced, waving his wrench around, and stumbling back, “get -”

He was suddenly cut off by the woman’s hand darting out and jabbing a pressure point in his neck. He collapsed to the floor without another word.

For a long moment, no one breathed. Then the thugs rose up like an angry wave and attacked.

The woman rose up to meet them, efficiently taking down whoever came in her way. She spun and kicked out at three thugs, turning just as quickly to flip over and strike a pair of women with baseball bats. She fought so effortlessly, it was almost like she was dancing.

“How is she doing that,” Cassie muttered in awe as the woman leapt above the heads of some goons, bringing them crashing down before moving on to others.

“That can’t be real,” Jaime replied, “Not even Nightwing is that good.”

Tim held back the urge to chuckle. They didn’t know the half of it.

Soon enough, the warehouse which had previously been filled to the brim with criminals had transformed into a sea of groaning bodies atop the floor.

The woman turned to them at that moment, and strolled confidently through the masses. She stopped directly in front of Tim, staring down at him.

“You,” she proclaimed confidently, “are an idiot.”

Tim grimaced. “Hey, our intel didn’t cover how much man power they had! We thought we’d be fine.”

She continued to look down at him.

“You gonna let me loose?”

She didn’t let up.

Tim sighed. “Okay, I’m sorry. I won’t go into any more reckless situations, which cause you to have to come get me out.”

She nodded. “Not true, but okay.”

She knelt down and pulled out a sharped batarang. Within seconds, Tim’s bonds were cut loose. She turned and helped him free the others.

“Who are you?” Jaime asked, eyes wide when everyone was freed.

The woman tilted her head and looked to Tim, somewhat expectantly.

Tim sighed. “This is Black Bat,” he said, “my sister.”

*****

“I still can’t believe you have a sister,” Cassie said, glancing back to where Cass was patching a scrape on her arm in the back of the batplane she’d flown to DC.

“Let alone one that’s so freaking cool!” Garfield added, grinning.

“Seriously,” Jaime said, echoing Cassie’s earlier thought, “How did she do that stuff? I thought Batman didn’t allow metas in Gotham?”

Tim resisted the urge to laugh, thinking of a certain glow-in-the-dark brother of his. “Black Bat isn’t a meta … she’s just awesome.”

His teammates rolled their eyes, but didn’t get a chance to say anything else as Cass made her way to the front, a bandage around her left bicep. She looked around, eyeing everyone, before moving to the pilot’s seat. She sat down and turned off autopilot.

“Almost there,” she said, “sit.”

*****

“What do you mean ‘they were compromised’!” M’gann exclaimed, glaring at Batman. “Why didn’t you tell us?!”

Batfam frowned - oh, what a surprise - “You were on a separate mission, and you couldn’t be pulled.

“Of course we could be pulled,” M’gann argued. “They’re members of the Team, and when they’re in trouble, we help!”

“You weren’t necessary,” Batman said, and quickly continued when M’gann opened her mouth again, “I already sent one of my own operatives to aid them.”

M’gann frowned. “But the new intel said there were ten times as many henchmen there than previously thought! How could oneperson get them out of that?!”

Suddenly, Dick started to laugh. Everyone whirled to face him, only to find the acrobat leaning against a wall, trying to catch his breath.

“Oh gosh,” he said after a moment, “You sent her?”

Batman nodded.

Dick straightened and let out a long sigh. “Oh, those thugs don’t stand a chance.”

Batman nodded. “That was the thought.”

The Team looked back and forth between them. There was something they were missing, right?

An alert sounded, and the group turned to the now opening bay in the mountain. In which flew a sleek black jet - clearly a Batplane. It came in and set down beside the bio ship. A moment later, it opened up.

Out strolled a petite figure dressed in all black, with bat ears and a yellow Batsymbol on their chest. Honestly, she looked like a female batman. Except Batman didn’t have that weird stitching over his mouth.

Behind her Gamma Squad followed tentatively. Robin came out and stood by Nightwing, and the others slowly made their way to the group.

The Team’s eyes, however, were on the stranger. She continued up till she was face-to-face with Batman.

“Hello, Black Bat,” the Dark Knight said, “Did the mission go well?”

Black Bat nodded. “Idiots, but safe.”

Why did Batman look like he was resisting the urge to smile? Or maybe that smallest corner of his mouth was twitching from all that frowning he did. Yeah, that must be it.

She tilted her head. “You were worried.”

Batman sighed, looking long at her, pointedly ignoring the stares of the surrounding heroes. “Yes.”

She nodded, then stepped forward and gave him a hug.

Black Bat wrapped her arms around Batman.

Hug.

Physical affection.

What was going on?!

Oh, but the real kicker was when he hugged her back. They held onto each other for a few seconds before Black Bat pulled back.

“Send me out more,” she said, “avoid stupid.”

Robin let out a yelp. “Excuse me? It was one time! Not my fault the info was outdated!”

Batman and Black Bat turned simultaneously to stare him down. The boy wonder shrinked a little and slunk behind Nightwing under the combined glares of the bats.

Oh yes, this girl was totally Batman’s mini-me.

Batman turned back to the girl and nodded. “You can join on a mission or two. Might keep the boys in check.”

Black Bat nodded. “Boys are dumb.”

Batman didn’t have a chance to reply, as at that exact moment, Bart ran into the room from where he’d been getting after mission snacks.

“Oh my gosh, why didn’t you tell me Black Bat was here?” He demanded.

“Do you know her?” M’gann asked.

Bart shook his head. “No, but I know of her!” he turned to Black Bat, vibrating in excitement. “You’re incredible, did you know that? You were one of my favorite bats to learn about!” he paused for a split second, in which he flashed away and came back with a notebook and pen in his hand. “Could I have your autograph?”

Black Bat nodded and took the supplies. A moment later, however, she looked back at him. “I … uh, can’t … um, you know …”

Bart looked confused for a moment, and then brightened. “Oh, right! Could you draw a picture then?”

Black Bat tilted her head before opening up the pages and drawing a big smiley face on it. With Bat ears.

Bart’s eyes were filled with pure joy as he looked down at the simple drawing. “IhavetheautographfromsomethatcankickShiva’sbutt!”

Bart left with a grin on his face and a whoosh of air. A moment later, a loud crash came from the recreational area.

“I’m okay!”

Batman sighed. “He broke something I’m going to have to pay for, didn’t he?”

Black Bat hummed as she reached up and patted his head comfortingly.

It was at this point that M’gann had had enough. First, she wasn’t alerted when members of her Team were in jeopardy. Then, and unknown operative was sent in without her consent. Now, said operative just gained permission from Batman to join the group?

“Who is she!?” M’gann demanded, her hands on her hips.

The pair of bats turned on her at that moment, but she didn’t back down. After a moment, Batman spoke.

“This is Black Bat, my daughter. She is incredibly skilled and operates in Hong Kong and Gotham.”

The young woman seemed to preen under the praise.

“You have a daughter?” Conner asked.

Robin and Nightwing looked to each other before saying in unison: “Spoilers!”

Batman glared at them before turning back to the group. “Yes, I do.”

M’gann considered the girl, she seemed capable, if she could save Gamma squad from what apparently were impossible odds. And it would be nice to get more girls on the Team …

“Fine,” she said, turning to Black Bat, “You can come join us on a mission or two, if you want.”

Black Bat bounced on her heels in excitement.

Nightwing turned to Batman. “You know if she’s allowed to join, the others will want in too.”

There was a pause, then M’gann asked quietly.

“Others?”

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ctl-yuejie · 5 years ago

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all of @howdydowdy‘s most loveliest tags for my fanfic, you are so wonderful i don’t know how i deserved the good luck to find you ;A;

1. #OH MY GOD!!!!!!!#it's here!! i'm gonna lose my whole entire mind!!!!!#well i hope everybody's ready for me to scream about every single installment as it comes out because this is the most important thing now#i didn't even know turnip!ah yuan was gonna be in it THIS IS THE BEST SURPRISE!!!!!#i feel so honored that my tags had anything to do with inspiring this incredible au but this is absolutely so much better#even in this short installment i'm getting such a good feel for the three characters who have made an appearance so far!#excited to see your lwj!!!#'the only thing his viewers enjoyed more than his content were the occasional take-downs Wen Qing was dishing out in the comment section'#ahahaha you are so funny#PLEASE EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS AMAZING FIC! I'M SO EXCITED FOR IT!!!!#i don't know all the things that are gonna happen but i have a general idea and guys it's such a good au#op is so creative and brilliant!!!#the untamed#ah yuan and his two dads will be the death of me#fic#these are a few of my favorite things

2. #second! installment!! time!!!#i feel like i'm a reader in dickensian london waiting for the new chapter to come out in the magazine#except there's less pollution and i don't have to put coal in an oven#why are those my associations with dickensian london? idk don't worry about it#jiang cheng makes an appearance! okay so i have never really understood him but i've been reading a LOT of fic#and i'm starting to get the picture i think#this is like...just the right amount ominous to get me super excited to see what happens next#WYD JC????#also wwx's characterization is just *chef's kiss*#<3 <3 <3 love u op you're too good to me#puns

3. #ohhhh shit everybody lwj is here! things are happening!!!!#i love all the sibling feels lxc gives me always#in every single fic i read he's like 'lwj i found another boy your age please be friends with him i love you so much'#oOoOoO the shoot will be four whole days i wonder what can happen in four days you guys...#like maybe...mister stoic guqin falling in love with disaster farmer man????#STAY TUNED#you know what just occurred to me is that lwj needs an emotion translator#i'm thinking like luther the anger translator for obama in those key & peele sketches#except it's just someone interpreting all of lwj's stoic faces#i mean lxc can read his faces so you'd think he could do it but idk if lxc himself is emotive enough#i'll have to think about it more

4. #this fic is the gift that keeps on giving#slowly introducing new characters...now we're meeting my sweet baby wen ning...i don't deserve this happiness...#also wei wuxian's carefree chaotic energy is just to die for#and what's this? jiang cheng appears on the horizon? narrowing his eyes at a tumbleweed that rolls across his path#his spurs jingling menacingly as he stalks ever closer?#hold on to yer hats cowboys i smell some Plot approaching#the untamed#fic#(okay also 'explosive arts & crafts projects' ahaha you are the best at these descriptions)

5. #oooooooo things are really coming together my dudes...#more jiang cheng content! okay he is really growing on me. grouch with a heart of gold. huge schemer. just wants to make fun of his BIL with#his brother but feels like he has to prioritize his ~responsibilities~#he loves wwx and understands what motivates him and at the same time just wants him to like. chill#the air quotes ahaha#that wwx makes them and that jc hates it#also i think my favorite image from this is the fact that one of the draws of the tv show is that all the cultivator hosts are handsome#which means that when lxc needed someone to cover for him he just went to the producers like#'no worries my little brother is also super hot so he should meet all your requirements'#'is he personable? no. does he speak in complete sentences? also no. but are the viewers gonna go batshit over his face? absofuckinlutely'#and the producers were like 'oh yeah dude say no more'#this is so fun i'm really enjoying these updates!!!

6. #not the city centre itself but a nearby mound#which sounds unusual and ominous#honey you got a big storm comin'#lwj is getting there early...oh fuck the suspense...#also 'either this is just how show business works or no one really knows what they are doing' why not both lwj??#ahaha i am cackling and steepling my fingers imagining how this is all gonna go down#babe i'm glad you decided not to give me spoilers because it is so fun watching things unfold

7. #i'm just imagining the perspective of the film crew showing up and it's a barren wasteland#they're like...wtf kind of establishing shots are we supposed to take of this??#don't worry guys the cutest child on the planet lives here. just get some footage of him frolicking in the turnip fields#the audience will lose their effing minds

8. #i love jc's logic like 'no one can find out about this or it'll be bad for the family. how to accomplish this? better get a film crew'#also i love how he's lowkey bitter that no one wants to interview him AHAHA jc you peach#and he's like 'maybe i'll watch the show. JUST TO MAKE FUN OF WWX FOR NO OTHER REASON'#wow i'm like becoming really fond of this character op!!!

9. #AHAHA love this image of lwj staring after nhs as he traipses down the street#'fancy birds? tf kinda innuendo is that??'#also lwj deciding to wear all white so that people won't approach him ahaha damn where is my equivalent outfit??#MATCHMAKER LXC STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!#did lxc even have to go out of town for real or was it all a setup to get lwj and wwx in the same place??#wouldn't put it past him tbh#lwj is so perfectly taciturn here i love it#and not just because he's not personable or something it's because he's having FEELINGS#also because wwx never shuts up lol#'he is doomed just like before because even this unknown wei wuxian he wants to be close to and find out who he is'#ughughguhgghhghhh how are you finding and pushing all my buttons???#hot DAMN i am HERE for this!!!

10. #i've now read this three times and i love it more every time!#you have such a way with words and i love how you're getting into wwx's head#it can be hard to relate to him with how dense he can be but you make it all seem incredibly plausible and realistic!!#i love him like 'wonder what it would be like to share a hotel room. it's totally normal that i'm thinking about this'#and like. you show how he got there in his thought process and it makes total sense!#also: lwj as eye candy YES EXACTLY#nhs is the perfect choice for a tv interior designer expert. that is SO what he would be doing in a universe with tv about interior design#okay and MOST IMPORTANTLY we have come to the part in the gifset!! this is the best crack that ever caught feels omg ilysm#demonic blood pool WEI YIIIIIIIING#wen ning being all yeah goth guys and blood pools two great tastes that taste great together#i love everything about this and it was so worth the wait. very excited for the next installment!!!

11. #you are LITCHRALLY killing me with this sharp characterization!! how are you nailing all their voices!!!!#nhs just in it for the hashtag drama that's so spot on omg. breaking all the rules HE wrote just so he can torture jc#all 'are you seeing this??? ARE YOU??' poor nhs and jc having to watch these two lovesick fools make googly eyes at each other#for YEARS and not REALIZE it well it's your lucky day mr. fan man because soon the whole world will see this UST and validate you#okay but what i love the most is jc the masochist being so uncomfortable he has to keep turning off the video ahahahaha#wangxian out here romancing so hard that jc needs a barf bag. or therapy. or selective amnesia.#you ever get secondhand mortifying ordeal of being known? that's what's happening for jc here#it's mortifying watching other people experience the ordeal of being known. this is the hardest i have ever related to jc#it's like oh fuck. lwj loves wwx and it's so obvious. oh my god. i'm so embarrassed.#wwx is so gone for lwj and it's right there on his face for anyone to read. i'm in agony.#ALSO 'jiang cheng can feel his head get hot and he drops the phone on the table like it personally betrayed him' THANK U FOR THIS#everything about this is the best and my favorite#ahhh i'm so excited for the next chapters and so glad they're already up so i can read them right now!!!!

12. #lxc shooting lwj pointed looks every time the jiang sect comes up in conversation for the past 13 years!!!!! he would!!!!!!#i love the way you describe wwx through lwj's eyes. the love just shines through#also you are so insightful about his character but what else is new??? you're the character breakdown QUEEN#OH MY GOD AH YUAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111#i am writing these tags as i read or that would have been the first tag it's SO important#i mean my tag isn't important it's incoherent but AH YUAN IS IMPORTANT!!!!!#you really want me to die. you really want me to be all the way murdered.#this image of lwj just standing there with impeccable posture one arm behind his back the other holding a sword in the air randomly#with this squirmy lil bab clutching at his clothes and reaching up on his tiptoes#okay dang i didn't know there was gonna be action! intrigue!! an ambush!!!#this fic really has it all#bamf!wwx and rescuer!lwj#battle couple ftw#NOT TO MENTION DRUNK!LWJ!!! SELF SACRIFICING!LWJ!!!!!#how am i supposed to live knowing lwj Did That#ughghughghgughgh#'at least i made him happy.' at least you made him happy???!?!?!?#just let me live for a second!!!#just one second though then i'm gonna read the next chapter

13. #awwww jiang 'I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU I'VE JUST BEEN CUTTING ONIONS' cheng gets a tear in his eye#they are...a fambly.....#my man lxc coming thru for the people!! title of my upcoming inspirational children's book: Lan Xichen Takes a Stand#op you made me love jiang cheng. i'm in it now

14. #omg i forgot that you had written this and sent it to me weeks ago so when i read it just now i was like...obviously that's what happened???#i had already just fully incorporated it into my understanding of these characters in my head and forgotten how it got there#so this was the BEST surprise#i can't believe you. putting ah yuan and bunnies in the same chapter because you love drowning me in cute#soft domestic adoptive dad content???? ugh i literally need to lie down and go into a coma.#just a lil coma. to recharge my feels.#i don't know what you could possibly be putting in the 'extra' but i am. vibrating with excitement!!!!#this is one of my favorite fics ever and i'm forever happy that you came up with this amazing idea and executed it so well#I APPRECIATE AND ADORE YOU!!!#HEART EYES EMOJI#these are a few of my favorite things#the untamed#ah yuan and his two dads will be the death of me

15. #OH MY GOD NHS MASTERMINDED ALL OF IT#this is so perfect i'm in awe!!!!#of course he did!!!!#also 'he had been very invested in this romance he had even painted themed fans for this' ahahaha#these schemes! these machinations!! he got lxc out of the way! he put the idea in jc's head! ahhhhh!#mr. fan man

#ctlyuejie writes #well technically not #i collected these so i can reread them late #you have such a fun way with words #they are all brilliant

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minakotricksterworld · 6 years ago

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Comic Idea

Okay, just here me out here. What about a comic book with Stephanie Brown’s Spoiler and Cassandra Cain’s Orphan - the rebirth version of both these characters in the detective comics?

I’m a fan of Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain, both are characters that have collected their own fanbases in their own right. Both are amazing and bad ass in their individual way. I’m probably not the first to suggest this, but I haven’t read anything besides some people arguing about these characters getting their own comics. Fans of Steph and Cass will often point out which one will make it more on their own on a solo comic series - which to be fair Cass seems to be the runner, but not by much in my opinion. Keep in mind, this is my opinion. Before the New 52 and the Rebirth series, both characters were very much considered part of the Batfam, with Stephanie as Spoiler and Cassandra Cain as Batgirl when first meeting.

Admittedly, I know more of Stephanie’s debut in comics then I do Cassandra’s, but I know how she got involved and why. As the daughter of David Cain, Cass was raised to be an assassin, a perfect fighting and killing machine while her father never saw fit to teach Cass other much needed social, educational aspects of the human psyche. Such as reading, writing and speech. She didn’t want to kill anymore, escaping and making her way to find Batman - whom she idolized. Bruce saw himself in Cass in a number of ways, adopted her and put her under the tutelage of Babs as Batgirl. Cass can read the human body to learn intent, which is fascinating and given her backstory, she’s a bamf character. She is a powerhouse that not many can stand up too besides a select few. When people try to compare others to her, it can be a tad bit unfair. Stephanie garnered fans because she is a hopeful character who overcomes her circumstances and stands up to her father, who leads a life of crime. Cass and Steph both have this in common, both having crappy father figures and becoming ‘vigilantes’ in order to fight their fathers, or to fight people like them. While there is some leeway in the context of their purpose and how, they have a lot of similarities like this. They didn’t start off liking each other - I felt that way when reading their first few interactions. Eventually, in the comics, overtime, these two begin to respect, like each other, trust each other and depend on the other in surprising ways. Stephanie begins teaching Cass, who hadn’t revealed this to any of the others, to read and write (She learned how to speak through some magical happenings). Cass began teaching Stephanie some of her martial arts. Steph began a lot of her crime fighting career with street fighting, self-defense and gymnastics abilities under her belt. They became, for all intents and purposes, a partnership of two friends who helped the other where the other lacked, steadily getting better and supporting the other until DC writers decided to do the Gang Wars and the like, but we’ll skip over that and get to the part where Cass gives Stephanie the Batgirl uniform. Supposedly under Bruce’s orders, but I think Cass wouldn’t have done it if she didn’t think Stephanie could do it, thus lending her support. Okay, so New-52, neither of these beautiful ladies are to be found aside from Eternal Crisis where they’re friends and kicking ass. Scrap that and we have Rebirth. Okay, I have a lot of issues and frustrations from before 52 for both characters because I think the writers could have done way better for both girls as a whole. Though, I admit I was enthralled with Cass’s story of fighting her mother, Shiva. Cried when events happened and she saw Stephanie’s ghost, making a small heart-breaking reunion. The writer of Cass was upset with how Stephanie died in war games, “It’s my characters first friend and I had to help plan her death.” Not the exact quote, but it was to that effect. Now to Rebirth, which I’m hopeful with. The writers are actually doing more for the girls even though I have mostly seen them only in the Detective Comics where a villain (not saying who) showed the girls their pre-52 versions, hoping to show the girls they weren’t at their full potential and were “lesser versions”, together these girls kicked the guy’s ass and showed him that they didn’t have to be Batgirl and Black Bat to be heroes. Now, I admit, I feel like the comics are all still in the Batboys favors when it comes to stories, love interests and the whole miles. However, it is an improvement and I feel like the fanbase for both characters has grown as a result, still. However, I’m not sure about the friendship that once was between these two. They have worked on a team, Batman’s squad in case the worst happened in Gotham, alongside Tim Drake (as Robin), Batwoman, Luke Fox and Clayface. So I think there is plenty of potential for these two to do team-ups with just them given that Tim Drake wants to go off to Ivy school and there is some tension between Batman and some members due to figuring out ideologies and not agreeing with what is always right and wrong.

Perfectly reasonable (I love the exploration of motives, I do). So why not Orphan and Spoiler as a dynamic duo partnership when not teaming up with the others? Of course, perhaps this needs more time for the girls to develop that same level of trust and loyalty in the end, but the bases is there, more so than in previous versions where they’re both the outsiders of the Batfam (or the quasi-team folks while not entirely being Bats). Of course, this would depend entirely on the writers (I’m not at all current with Detective comics right now (I know, I suck, I’m writing a piece without being current)) and whether they want to build up that bond again. I don’t know if the same tactics of how they built their friendship up will work as previous, but as a teammate there are new dynamics to bring about this bond and build that same trust and loyalty. This is something I just think needs to be thought about, given that I’ve seen arguments for solo comics for either girl. I would rather see a comic series with just them, just them learning and growing in the superhero community given their roots. I feel like they balance each other out and provide something positive for the other, which I feel both girls need. I’d love to hear other’s thoughts on this or even something that could be added. If you don’t agree, that is perfectly fine too, but please don’t bash in the thread. THANKS FOR READING MY RAMBLING!

#Stephanie Brown #Cassandra Cain #orphan #spoiler #DC comics #comics #detective comics #dc comic ideas #batgirls #cass and steph bf4eva #steph and cass

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theotherscarmanthewoman · 8 years ago

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Season 2 Episode 6: ‘LONDON...What A Dump’ (and other stories)

Back at the saucer, the rebels attack one of the Robomen (oh I think it’s Noah from The Ark In Space again…didn’t he die already?) and Tyler and some other guy carry the Doctor off the robotising table. The rebels are freeing prisoners, and it’s chaos. Outside, David, Babs, and Susan are crouching like bosses, and David beckons a balaclava-wearing Jenny over. Because Jenny is oldschool. He tells her to take the ladyfolk back to HQ, while he tries to get to the saucer alone. Jenny, obviously, protests, because this is idiotic, and tries to rally the other women by telling them their friends are in there. Which Babs didn’t know, because Susan was keeping it from her. BAD SUSAN. Pausing only to confirm her Space Daughter’s very uncool behaviour, Babs decides she can be an idiot, too, and launches herself towards the saucer. And because she is a Bamf and because the Bae is in trouble, Babs has to physically fight Susan off in order to do…whatever she’s about to do. Because she has no plan. But it matters not, for apparently Ian’s ‘BARBARAAAAAAA!!!’ reflex is reciprocated, which means that their mutual homing instinct will keep them from all harm, and anyway she has a Science Grenade. The rebels are fighting tooth and nail, and lobbing smoky bombs all over the shop, and the prisoners (including the Doctor) are fleeing the saucer. I think I said this about the last episode, but this must have been bedlam to film. And the way it’s cut does give you this sense of a fast enough to be exciting/slow enough to be grim guerrilla battle, what with Daleks firing and people dying and smoke everywhere and Science Stink Bombs going off. Then this happens:

You may see your Space Bae across a crowded room.

OH MY PRECIOUS DARLINGS. The delighted, derpy look Babs throws Ian’s way before bowling another excellent overarm #likeagirl is gorgeous. Ian flees back inside the saucer as a Dalek glides past, and the rebels scatter and retreat. Back on the saucer, it’s established that most of the rebels have either been captured or killed, and the survivors are being hunted down and murdered. Grim times. Ian, fortunately, has survived this purge by the simple expedient of hiding under the floor. I bet Ian is excellent at sardines. AND OH TRICKSY FALSE CAMERA SHOTS, we go back immediately to an apparently lifeless Babs lying on a slab while an unseen woman sobs in the background. IS SHE DEADED? No, just out for the count. Phew. And she’s being tended by the brusque but supportive Jenny. As soon as she can speak, she’s badgering Tyler, but Jenny tells her ‘not now’, and a grimly exhausted Tyler informs Dortmun that his bombs were fucking useless. MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE TESTED THEM, DORTMUN, YOU HUBRISTIC ASSHAT. So all the rebels are probably dead, but Babs cares only about Ian and the Doctor, because of course. Tyler tells her they *nearly* got the old man out. Outraged Babs is outraged. Anyway, Tyler reckons they all need to get the hell out of London because they’ve attacked a Dalek saucer and revenge is surely a-brewing. Dortmun says they should stay and work on the bomb; Tyler points out he’ll only have ‘one man’ and ‘these two’ (thanks) to use it for him. Jenny agrees they need to scarper, but Babs worries what will happen if Susan comes back and doesn’t know where they are; Jenny says there are codes; Babs points out Susan doesn’t know them. Which leads me to ask where in fact Susan is and why Jenny (who was last with her) abandoned her in the fray. Bad parenting from everyone. Tyler goes off to look for more survivors; Babs wants to go with him, but he tells her no because he wants to move about alone. Which is honest, to be fair. She reminds him to look for her fam, with increasing desperation. Character development digression: this antsy, trigger-happy, hungry-for-action, would-do-anything-for-the-Space-Fam Babs we get to see in this serial makes so much sense when you think about it in terms of her character arc. The first season for Barbara was all about coming to terms with being a time traveller, and forging that post-Aztecs relationship with the Doctor. This season, we’ve not yet had a(n?) historical adventure, and of course the previous serial was one in which Babs (in the uncut, less stupid version of Planet of Giants, at least) had to come to terms with what it means to acknowledge something worth dying for in amongst the absurdity of being home, when home was made strange and dangerous. Now she’s back in London, but in a post-apolcalyptic, Dalek-filled future London, and it’s illuminating to see her juggling that capacity for action she discovered on Skaro the first time she donned a pair of Excellent Thal Trousers and that sense of being in the right place at the wrong time. Essentially she’s applying the Doctor’s ‘at least we can stop being carried away with the flood’ model of time travel from The Reign of Terror to her own future, but without that sense of overwhelming responsibility she gets when she’s in her own past. She doesn’t know what’s going to happen, so she can act, in a way, irresponsibly. Of course, Babs continues to have a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong, but there are times when being freed from the context in which those morals make sense makes her think less before she acts, especially where non-human-looking aliens are concerned (see her willingness to murder the mind-controlling snail brains in a previous Terry Nation script because they looked horrible). Which culminates in her shooting poor old Sandy in the next serial, much to Vicki’s chagrin, at which point she has to dial it back. Anyway, Jenny is apparently willing to leave one of the cowering, shell-shocked rebels still at the base behind, and Dortmun is going to move to the other London base (across one of the bridges!) so he can keep working on the bomb. Babs says they’ll go with him. Then this happens:

‘You needn’t stay if you don’t want to,’ she adds coolly. BURN. Jenny, cowed by Barbara’s (selective) moral compass (I notice she didn’t object to leaving the shell-shocked guy to be killed by the Daleks when they inevitably revenge-attack the rebel base) decides she will join the running-across-London party. Babs asks Dortmun whether she thinks her Space Fam will be there; he replies breezily in the affirmative. I love how Dortmun and Barbara both have their own kind of monomania, and how Jenny fits into this. I said before how you could read Jenny as a kind of potential future Barbara, which is to say a woman who has lost her family to the Daleks and who has channelled her remaining energies into survival-orientated badassery. And we know Babs is more than capable of living the Dalek-smashing life, and being excellent at it, but at what cost to her moral identity? I think Jenny and Barbara end up responding to one another so well because there’s some mutual recognition there. Back on the saucer, the Dalek Supreme is ordering the fire-bombing of London. Yikes. The saucer flies over the city like a wobbly milk bottle top (beaut) accompanied by ‘[w]hatever Special Effects think a flying saucer sounds like’ (thanks, Infotext!). Ian, apparently sensing that he is alone, crawls out of the his hidey-hole in the floor and bumps into Craddock!Roboman, who instantly tries to robotise him. With the help of the prisoner RoboCraddock is escorting, Ian gets the helmet off him and he sparks out. Ian and his new chum, whose name is Larry, instantly hit it off (said chum is heading to the mines to look for his brother and has stowed away), and they throw RoboCraddock out of the rubbish chute. They go back to hiding in the floor. Also Ian is adorable at meeting new people. Meanwhile, Susan and David are running down a corridor thingie and dive behind a shrub. It’s not a million miles away from the French & Saunders LOTR spoof where Frodo evades the Nazgul by hiding behind a large twig. They are being chased by a Dalek, who gives up on them, but then rather horribly murders someone offscreen as David buries Susan’s head in his biceps. Then a beautiful scene happens:

SUSAN: If only we could go to the ship and get away from here. DAVID: Well, I couldn't go anyway. SUSAN: David, David, perhaps you could. I could ask Grandfather. I'm sure he'd let you come. We could go to a place that had never even heard of Daleks.   DAVID: And what happens if there's something unpleasant in the new place?   SUSAN: We'll move on somewhere.   DAVID: No, Susan, that's not for me.   SUSAN: Why not?   DAVID: Look, things aren't made better by running away.   SUSAN: Well, it's suicide to stay here.   DAVID: This is my planet! I just can't run off and see what it's like on Venus!   SUSAN: I never felt there was any time or place that I belonged to. I've never had any real identity. DAVID: One day you will. There will come a time when you're forced to stop travelling, and you'll arrive somewhere.

Pausing only to chuckle immoderately at the fact that this is essentially that scene from The Sound of Music where Revered Mother tells Maria she can’t use the convent to run away from her problems and that she has to go back and face them (which I suppose makes the Tardis the convent), HURRAH FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. (Also, Terry Nation I take my hat off to you for the incisive poetry of that last line—and you’ll arrive somewhere. Perfect analysis is perfect.) I still think she and David are wrong for each other in the long term, because it’s clear just how childish Susan still is from this exchange, and I still think it’s criminal that what happens to Susan is less a case of having ‘arrived somewhere’ than having been ‘forced to stop travelling’, but I love that we get to meet someone who is conscious of being invested in their time/place and who actually calls the Gallifreyans out on their ‘don’t get swept away with the flood’ attitude to life. (David may be patronising as hell, but it pains me to say he’s also right.) If Susan had then gone on for another couple of serials in which she could have dealt with being challenged like this and then had some proper barneys with her Grandfather, it would have been so much more satisfying. Susan is learning that home isn’t just about belonging and identity, it’s also about accepting responsibility. And it’s particularly galling that the Doctor, who makes the decision to ground Susan apparently for her own good, never learns that all-important lesson that every little Time Lord has to stop running one day.

Ermahgerd serxhual ternshern.

(Disclaimer: there is, as I have mentioned before, something beautiful in the Doctor’s ‘our lives are important’ philosophy, and I have waxed lyrical about it elsewhere, but there’s also the flip side of that philosophy which is what I’m dealing with above. And I am aware that we have just had that serial where, in its uncut and unstupid version, Babs and the Doctor decide to take a stand instead of running. In short, it’s nowhere near as simple a trajectory as I’m making out, but this is just one way of looking at it.) Anyway, the sudden sexual tension that ensues is shattered by a noise, and Susan is back to being bossed about and told to hide as David bumps into a rebel called Baker…WHO IS DRAGGING THE DOCTOR ALONG! He’s groggy as hell, and Susan immediately begins cuddling him. Baker’s off to Cornwall alone because of reasons, and Susan says she has to stay in London. David gives Baker a hip flask (because booze will presumably help), and everyone wishes everyone else luck. Then Baker walks right into a Dalek patrol and is killed. Shit. BUT ENOUGH OF THAT, FOR NOW IT IS TIME FOR BABS AND JENNY TO RUN ACROSS LONDON WITH A WHEELCHAIR WHILE DALEKS TRUNDLE ABOUT ALL OVER WESTMINSTER. THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR HOW AWESOME THIS ENTIRE SEQUENCE IS AND HOW MUCH I LOVE THE LOCATION SHOOTING IN THIS SERIAL SO HERE ARE SOME GIFS.

Also, enormous kudos to Jacqueline Hill and Ann Davies for doing all that sprinting at arse o’clock in the morning. Also, DRUMS. So they arrive at the Transport Museum, and there are those fabulous ‘VETOED’ signs everywhere (seriously, find me a better post-apocalyptic London and I will be a monkey’s aunty) and Babs is quizzing Dortmun about various plot points. Basically, the bomb was meant to eat away the Dalekanium shells, but they’re not mining for Dalekanium, and nobody really know’s what they’re digging for, they just dig-dig-dig-a-dig-dig. Jenny explains that the VETOED signs mean some of the resistance have moved off to the south coast, and that she doesn’t blame them, and that they were very lucky to get across London unseen. Babs is making tea, because of course, and OH I retract everything I said about Babs being increasingly irresponsible because then this happens:

JENNY: We haven't got a chance in London, the way things are building up. BARBARA: Well, what can we do? Where can we go? Anyway, what's the point in running away all the time?   JENNY: I'm not running, I'm surviving, that's all.

And this is what I meant when I said you could also read Jenny as a pre-Barbara Doctor as well as being a post-apocalyptic Babs. And Barbara, like David (and Ian, actually) is very much a ‘fight the world you’re in’ sort of character this week. And OH this scene just gets better and better. Babs wishes the Doctor were here, and so does Dortmun, because of Science, and it transpires she’s been asking herself ‘what would the Doctor do?’ and has come to the conclusion that he would 100% go straight to where the trouble is head for the mine. I know she’s wrong because he’s recovering from his brush with robotisation, but boy does she know him well. Then Jenny pipes up and reveals her ignorance of the Rules of Doctor Who by suggesting that the Doctor may not in fact be alive (and upsets Babs in the process):

Well, he sort of does, narratively speaking. Dortmun, in a rare moment of sensitivity, sends Jenny outside to keep watch, and tells Babs that she’s not callous really, she’s just dealing with fighting the Daleks in her own way. Which is what I love about Jenny: she’s flawed, and it’s not gendered. Anyhoo, Dortmun wants Babs to find the Doctor and give him his notes. Something is afoot, because he wants Babs to keep hold of them for him. Babs says she’s not leaving him, and he says they should head for the mine, and that she should ‘round up’ Jenny. Charming. Clearly Babs and Jenny are having a heart to heart out there, because Dortmun has time to pick up his sticks and wheel himself offscreen. Enter Babs and Jenny, who wonder where he’s gone, hope he wouldn’t be so stupid as to go outside, and notice he’s left his notes behind. Oh and he is that stupid. He’s wheeled himself outdoors and is yelling for the Daleks who face him across the rubble. He gets up, staggers forwards, and is exterminated as he lobs the new improved bomb…which still doesn’t seem to have worked. Jenny freaks out and tries to run to him, but Babs pulls her back (apparently Jacqueline Hill assured Ann Davies she could go for broke because she would properly restrain her—thank you, special features!) and they hide, badly, behind a milk float. Enter a Dalek, who, in a rare moment of comic relief, attempts to interrogate a headless dummy, calling it ‘subcultural’. Ouch.

*poke*

But seriously, how does the Dalek not spot them? Back in the ruins, Susan is helping the Doctor to walk again, and talks about the numbness wearing off, which is sort of funny but not funny-ha-ha because of the whole ‘Billy suffered temporary paralysis when an extra dropped him earlier in the filming’ incident. Anyway, the Doctor attempts to reassert his authority over the situation, telling Susan he essentially gives zero fucks about what David says because he’s in charge and they should go back to the Tardis. Susan disagrees. Then this happens:

DOCTOR: Do you question my authority, child?   SUSAN: No, Grandfather, it's not that at all. It's just that David says—  DOCTOR: You seem to place more reliance on that young man's word than mine, don't you? SUSAN: Oh, Grandfather, it's not that. It's simply that he lives in this time. He understands the situation.

Urgh that Susan isn’t just sticking up for herself but rather substituting one man’s authority for another, but I do like that what seems to be bugging her most is the question of time, and respecting the authority of those who live in whatever happens to be the here and now. More conflict on this theme, please, and while we’re at it perhaps more of this in Doctor Who in general in order to combat the Doctor’s ongoing Gallifreyan Saviour complex (albeit one somewhat mitigated by Capaldi’s recent ‘I am an idiot’ epiphany). But then something gorgeous happens: the Doctor listens to Susan. In a hilarious little buttering-up-the-grandfather-in-law scene, a breathless David arrives to inform them of Daleks being, well, everywhere, and asks the Doctor’s advice as ‘the senior member of the party’. I will never not appreciate how much William Hartnell relishes playing the Doctor when he’s being vain. The Doctor essentially tells David they should do exactly what Susan says David says they should do, but makes out like it’s his idea, and then makes a point of being faux gracious to David by saying it’s only a suggestion and David should think it out for himself. Susan’s face is a picture as she tells him she thinks that’s a very good idea, and humours him with a cuddle. Boy has she outgrown him. I live for this dynamic. Well done, everyone.

Meanwhile, Ian and his new chum Larry are having the chats underneath the floor tiles. Larry tells Ian his brother Phil reckons if they can find out what the Daleks are up to, they might be able to beat them, which Ian thinks makes sense. Larry’s brother also thinks the Daleks want the magnetic core of Earth. Which makes less sense. Anyway, the Daleks have landed and are disembarking (WHEEEEEEE!) with the Robomen behind them, and Ian and Larry take the opportunity to get out of their hidey-hole. (Iffy camera shot is iffy.) Larry, who is the most cheery, adorable chappie ever, suggests they exit via the rubbish chute. Ian asks what’s out there; a gleeful Larry tells him he has no idea, and goes first. I love Larry. Back in the outdoor ruiny bits, Susan reckons they ought to wait just five minutes more before moving, which is convenient, because some Robomen have just arrived…TO LAY A LARGE TICKING BOMB RIGHT BY THEM. OH RUDDY CRIPES WILL THE GALLIFREYANS AND THEIR WOULD-BE NEW RECRUIT TO THE FAM BE EXPLODERATED? WHAT WILL BABS AND JENNY DO NOW? WILL IAN AND LARRY HAVE MADCAP ADVENTURES IN THE DALEK MINES? WILL THE SPACE FAM EVER BE REUNITED? Summary (as applicable to this episode)

Does it pass the Bechdel test? With flying colours. Is the gaze problematic? Nope. Is/are the woman companion(s) dressed 'for the Dads'? Nope. Save the girl or save the world? Whose decision is it? N/A. Does a woman fall over/twist her ankle (whilst running from peril)? Nope. And there's a lot of running. Does a woman wander off alone for the sole dramatic purpose of getting into trouble so she can be rescued later? Nope. Is/are the woman companion(s) captured? Nope. Does the Doctor/a man companion/any other man have to rescue the woman companion(s) from peril? Nope, this week the men still need rescuing. Is a woman placed under threat of actual bodily harm? Well, there is a lot of fighting and running and everyone being in peril, but there are no women being gratuitously menaced this week. Does a woman have to deal with a sexual predator? Nope. Is/are the woman companion's/s' first/only reaction(s) to peril gratuitous screaming? No. Does a woman faint at the sight of peril/horror or generally lose consciousness (discounting normal sleep)? Nope. Does a woman companion go into hysterics over something reasonably minor? No. Though Susan does have to bury her face in David's biceps when she hears an extra being murdered by Daleks. Which isn't minor, but still, face-burying.

Is a woman 'spared' the ordeal of having to do/witness something unpleasant by a man who makes a decision on her behalf/keeps her deliberately ignorant? YES. And Susan is complicit, which infuriates me. Why on Earth didn't they tell Barbara that Ian and the Doctor were at the heliport? What did they think she was going to do? Have a fit of the vapours and find herself incapable of bowling overarm? Also Dortmun. Does a woman suffer in silence (to further the plot)? Nope. Does a man automatically disbelieve or belittle something a woman (companion) says happened to her? No, but there's plenty of general ridiculing of Susan from the Doctor when she dares to spout the views of a man other than him. Does a man talk over a woman or talk about a woman as though she isn't there? Dortmun talks over Jenny when she starts talking about how the Doctor could well be dead.

Does the woman companion have to be calmed/comforted by the Doctor/a man companion/a man? Yup. Susan.

Is a woman the first/only person to be (most gratuitously) menaced by the episode's antagonist(s)? Nope.

Is a man shamed into doing/not doing something because the alternative is a woman doing/not doing something? A little bit when Tyler pours cold water on Dortmun's continued bomb-making plans.

Does the woman companion come up with a plan? Not strictly speaking, no.

Does the woman companion do something stupid/banal/weird which inspires a man to be a Man with a Plan? No.

Does a woman come up with a theory and is it ridiculed by the Doctor/a man? Not exactly, as Susan is in fact coming up with David's theory, but it is still ridiculed by the Doctor. This is all in the service of making it look like Susan's ready to fly the nest, and the Doctor is clearly meant to be in the wrong, but still, it's there.

Does a woman call the Doctor out on his bullshit? Yes. Susan. But then she fluffs him up.

Does a woman get to be a badass? And how.

Is the young, strong, straight, white male lead the person most often in control of the situation? Nope.

Is there past/future/alien sexism? Yup. David tells Jenny to take the women back to base while he goes to raid the saucer.

Does a 'present'-day character call anybody out on past/future/alien sexism? Jenny responds to all this nonsense by trying to rally Barbara and Susan by spilling the beans about who's imprisoned in the saucer. Does an past/future/alien person have the hots for a woman companion and is it reciprocated? David and Susan have definite sexual tension.

Did a woman write/direct/produce this episode? No/No/Yes.

Verdict God I love this episode. Those location shots. The Babs and Jenny Show. Guerrilla warfare. Character development chats. Ian, bless him, has very little to do and is mostly being cute making friends on flying saucers, and the Doctor is out for the count for a lot of the time, but Babs and Susan get a decent outing, and there's plenty of action to be had. I don't hate David quite as much this week, even though he has his moments of being a dick. His conversation with Susan in which she starts to rethink her Gallifreyan Saviour Complex is a highlight, even if it's just a thinly-veiled excuse to get them to make goo-goo eyes at each other. Next week I think may be the one with the truck, which is obviously one of my all-time favourite moments, so let's hope there's as much to chew over in the non-truck-related scenes as there was this week. Also, it's good to be back.

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wrenwritesometimes · 8 years ago

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I Love Myself Because...

This is funny, because I really really don't, but hey!! My literal favorite blogger tagged me and asdfghjkl, ya know?

The second writing challenge I ever partook in was the lovely and beautiful @percussiongirl2017’s Barely Legal Challenge and I'm glad I've followed her since! 😊

I'm doing this on @wrenwritesometimes, even though @percussiongirl2017 tagged my @i-stare-sometimes blog… cuz people I know IRL and don't know I write or get tagged in shit follow that one.. XD

Anyway:

I Love Myself Because Rules - Post a selfie and list five to ten reasons you love yourself. Then tag 10 people who need to know how much they love themselves because honestly, we all need a reminder sometimes.

(((My first “selfie” posted publicly online!!1! Yay?? ((It's taken by fellow band member, but it was in selfie mode, so like. Bite me. 😘)) Dressed all snazzy ((if you could tell.. at all?)) for a band festival.)))

1. I guess you could say that I'm funny. Therefore I guess I should love my humor... 50% of the time.

2. I love that I love the things I love. Certain fandoms have brought me closer to myself and others. 👍🏻

3. I love that I put myself down on behalf of others... Sounds horrible, I know, but I would literally rather shove my own foot in my mouth than watch other people get ridiculed for that shit. I'm used to it, I guess, so why not?

4. I love myself because my hair is fucking so soft, Iain't even gonna fucking lie… it's the softest thing I've ever touched.

5. I love myself for my role in band. I love my band environment. So fucking much. Was in leadership for trailer this year and I felt like a BAMF. A stressed bamf, but a bamf regardless.

6. I love myself for my taste in music. It's all over the damn place, but… it's some good shit.

7. I love myself for how I am with kids? Strangely enough? I love interacting with babs and making them feel like they're my whole world. Backfires sometimes, but sometimes it's wORTH it.

8. I love myself because myself because I think I should trust my pet. Pet is my pal.

9. I love myself because even throughout all the shit that my brain has put me through, I don't let that keep me down and I try to laugh and shake it off.

10. I love myself for the friends I keep. Some are bad, some are toxic, some are groundbreakingly amazing. We need diversity in these aspects of social life, so that we can recognize an unstable and unhealthy relationship. I've dropped the ball a few times, but like… it's made me who I am.

And I guess that's okay.

I’mma tag, even though they don't hafta do this:

@imnoaingeal, @theimpossibleg1rl, @livelovelike555, @ghoulishfigure, @notnaturalanahi, @deepdarkfandom, @imamotherfuckingstar-lord

That's all I gots... 🤣

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ao3feed-lokiangst · 5 years ago

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Infixity War

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZBlwzm

by TheMSKProject

Words: 1370, Chapters: 1/13, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, Other

Characters: Madeline Grimmwell (Marvel MSK), Sarah Ridgeback (Marvel MSK), Catherine Sweadner (Marvel MSK), Stephen Strange, Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Thanos (Marvel), Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff, Vision (Marvel), Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Nick Fury (mentioned), Peter Parker, T'Challa (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel), Shuri (Marvel), Wong (Marvel), Peter Quill, Gamora (Marvel), Mantis (Marvel), Drax the Destroyer, Groot (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Black Dwarf, Eitri (Marvel), Taneleer Tivan, Heimdall (Marvel), Odin and Frigga (Mentioned)

Relationships: Loki (Marvel)/Original Female Character(s), Loki (Marvel)/Sarah Ridgeback (Marvel MSK), Stephen Strange/Original Female Character(s), Stephen Strange/Madeline Grimmwell (Marvel MSK), Thor (Marvel)/Original Female Character(s), Thor (Marvel)/Catherine Sweadner (Marvel MSK), One Sided Thor (Marvel)/Original Female Character(s)

Additional Tags: Asgard has been poofed, But Stephen says NOPE, Thanos be thwarted, Maddie Sarah and Cate be the meddling kids, GET IT, Scooby Doo - Freeform, I'm clever dangit, Infinity War, Fix-It, Written just after the release of Infinity War, Therefore some folks are missing, but it's fine, imagine them there, write things, go nuts, we have Valkyrie end up with Carol Danvers off screen, Go Ham, Carol Danvers never mentioned though, sowwee, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Loki (Marvel) Needs a Hug, Thor (Marvel) is a Good Bro, Thor (Marvel) is Not Stupid, Protective Thor (Marvel), Thor is a bit of a lovesick pup, Poor bab, Fire Powers, Magic, Action, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Thanos get WREKED, Arguing, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Unresolved Tension, LOTS O UNRESOLVED SHITE, Character Development, Loki gets respect he deserves, Protective Loki (Marvel), BAMF Loki (Marvel), Oblivious Stephen Strange, How Do I Tag, Too many characters like holy gahhhhhhhhh, War, Sam Wilson makes bird puns, Bucky Barnes & Sam Wilson Friendship, Steve Rogers beta male, Not Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie) Compliant, Because it and its sequel were what the team likes to call, STEAMING HOT GARBAGE, anyway, Those films suck, they dont exist, take this instead, we love you, We care, they dont

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZBlwzm

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #loki #loki fanfic #loki fanfiction #marvel cinematic universe #angst

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ao3feed-buckybarnes · 5 years ago

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Infixity War

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZBlwzm

by TheMSKProject

Words: 1370, Chapters: 1/13, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, Other

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZBlwzm

#bucky #IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #bucky barnes #james barnes #the winter soldier #james barnes

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swimmingferret · 7 years ago

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Well since you seem to be on a Jojo spiel, why don't you rate your fave Jojo to least fave?

🌟 Number 1- Giorno!

Giorno is my fave! A lot of people whine that he’s ‘boring’ but that seems to be with the original translation being rly bad (not Duwang levels bad, but still fairly bad) and the new translation fixes a lot of the crappy dialogue and writing. Tho why do people think ‘reserved’ is ‘boring’. Like just because Giogio isn’t loosing his shit constantly doesn’t make him boring. Also I love his stand? It reminds me of dryads and whatnot- I know it’s technically a nod towards the Pillerman/Kars, what with his dad being a vampire but I rly like Gold Experience and how Giorno weaponizes it. Like he murders Melone by turning the remains of his Stand into a venomous snake which kills him and he fucks up Diavolo completely.

Vento Aureo is also one of my fave arcs and has a lot of nifty fights and Stands running around (I like Nero and Diavolo/Doppio) and I think it really was a turning point in Araki going ‘How to give Stands fairly stupid/mundane sounding abilities but their users are smart enough to use it effectively in combat’ and that then became a strong theme throughout the constitutive Jojo adventures. It was a nice change from DIU and SDC where the Stand rule was like ‘My Stand can punch you hard and I win’ even if I complain about how convoluted some Stand powers are.

I also feel like Giorno is such a perfect mix of his dads- he’s got Jonathan’s loyalty and determination but also enough of Dio’s sheer ruthlessness to even it out.

But yeah, he’s my fave.

🌟Number 2- Jonathan!

He’s so sweet and lovely and giant. I love him. He just wanted a nice life with his sweet wife and friends. And also his dog RIP Danny.

I also didn’t actually realize how short Phantom Blood was compared to the other Jojo animes tho- like damn, only 9 episodes? Got enough angst in there tho, like yeah let me see Erina’s tearful goodbye and Jonathan saving his wife and restraining Dio in his dying moments. Also I love how fucking strong that boy is, like especially in EOH all the Jojo’s are like ‘wtf bro ur so goddamn tough’ but he’s such a darling marshmallow

Jonathan basically;

🌟Number 3- Josuke!

Another good boy, if not a bit more burnt and ragged. Also his Stand is pink and blue, like cotton candy. DIU is also an arc where...not a lot of people die despite it being around a serial killer (but damn did Araki make up that for that in the next arc lmfao).

He and Okuyasu are also sugar sweet which is better- those ‘i’m a rough delinquent but actually very sweet inside’ types are a fave cliche of mine lol

Also I love his hair? I imagine it would smell nice, since you get get that scented hair gel and I’d imagine Josuke would be the kind of person to buy that.

🌟 Number 4- Jolyne.

I loved Stone Ocean tbh even if a few parts pissed me off. I liked how durable and fucking ass kickery Jolyne was and how her Stand power sounded stupid af- wow I can turn into string - but she’s intelligent enough to weaponize it sufficiency enough to actually kick ass- and remember when she got shot and acted quickly enough to use her string as a pseudo-bullet proof vest? And Jotaro was like ??? when he stopped time and saw that she’d already done that by the time he activated Star. Also I love how the villain was a Priest- anime theme I’ll never get tired of is the Nun/Priests/Old People Are The Scariest Of Them All

I just...kinda wish she wasn’t so tom-boyish? She’s the only girl Jojo so far (thanks Araki :/) but she definitely acts like One Of The Boys and is the most crass and sexually deviant of the lot which is kinda...meh, for me. I know having a woman character act like that is out of the norm in manga however, and her arc around having a useless father is also important narrative wise since in Japan absentee/neglectful fathers is a cultural issue.

Her sweetness towards Emporior helped, but yeah that’s my main skeeve with her but I can understand it from Araki’s point of view so I can...endure so to speak lol

🌟Number 5- Gappy.

Jojolion is a narrative on crack and it’s like Araki’s just gone wild.

Tho why doesn’t Gappy have a ten-pointed star as his birthmark? Since he’s a fusion of two people with the star.

I don’t like how his name is the same as Josuke’s tho. :/ It’s kinda lame tbh and seens like...overly heavy handed in ‘HEY THIS IS AN ALT WORLD. NOT TOO SURE?? LOOK HE’S GOT THE SAME NAME AS ANOTHER JOJO’ like god araki we get it

Tbh these last three are more like ‘which jojos do u dislike more of them’ lmfao

🌟Number 6- Johnny.

I mean, he’s bitter, violent and cries all the time which is Relatable™ tbh

He and Gyro are great together and after Araki’s little spiel about how you can totally write love between men I was fairly bitter with Johnny getting the ‘Straight married 10 yrs down the line and has a kid’ bullshit :/ like wow thanks.

Oh and why didn’t anyone ever go ‘why the fuck did you just shoot me with your fingernails, what the fuck is wrong with you’ to Johnny ‘cause like if someone DID shoot me with their fingernail I would utterly loose my shit cause that is just disgusting

I’m still mad over SBR tho and am of the opinion Johnny should’ve died and Diego should’ve lived so....

The end was also a mad cop-out and I get fed up with the ‘This disabled person gets magically cured and everything is wonderful’. I saw that treatment with Babs in DC Comics despite how BAMF she was even in a wheelchair which pissed me off and then Johnny gets the magical jesus cure which also pissed me off. Of course he didn’t fear jesus enough and fucked up later like sheesh boy didn’t the Steel Ball Run teach you anything??? Gyro didn’t die for that

🌟Number 7- Jotaro

I liked him in SDC since he was basically ‘I fucking hate this, fuck all of you, I want to go home’ the entire time and only went through with it to save his mum.

Also him calling Holly a bitch and her just being like ‘:D lmfao what a sweet lil ruffian my son is!! i love him’ always make me loose my shit because it was hilarious and then he went and got in a death fight with a vampire to save her

But then he just wouldn’t go away- he was in DIU and then Stone Ocean and it’s like god fuck off Jotaro you had your arc, go away. And then there was all the bullshit in EOH where he magically saved everyone with yet another Ass Pull and I got fed up with him and also in Stone Ocean it turned out he’s a shitty spouse and negligent father- I never understood men who marry and have kids and then just completely ignore them, like don’t fucking marry/spawn if you’re just gonna be a shitty person to them??? Oh yeah, I know it’s a ‘oh I can’t explain Stands’ thing with Jotaro but still it’s a completely shitty thing to do to the family, to neglect them ‘for their own good’ so that’s why he’s right down the bottom- a mixture of shilling and being a shit family man. You’d figure he would’ve learned from his own dead-beat father but I guess not :/

🌟Number 8- Joseph

This bitch cheated on his wife, so fuck him.

#jojos bizarre adventure #kinda ranty at the end but whatever #Anonymous

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