#i think i have a cold

[glow-worms-are-believers]

Return to sender (dc x dp)

There was a box set right in front of his door. That was already pretty unusual, since Danny had just moved in, and and gotten done with boxes and he knew he hadn't had anything delivered here.

"Let's get you inside," Danny muttered as he got his key out of his pocket.

Unlocking the door, he picked it up and made his way in. He set the box down on the small kitchen table before grabbing a knife from the cabinet. He sat down and set to cutting the tape along the opening.

Peeling back the flaps, he took a peek at the contents only to be faced with a mound of yellow and black sparkly tissue paper, with a letter on top.

"What do we have here?" he muttered to himself, as he took the envelope out of the box.

Ripping it open, he got a small greeting card out. It had a yellow smiley face on it with the word "Smile!" printed above it. He flipped it open, and his eyes fixed on the printed text that said "Because today is your day!" Underneath it, written in chicken-scratch was written the following: "Looks like the bat has a new signal. At least mommy and daddy won't know how fast you replaced them!" it was signed with a simple J and yet another smiley face.

Danny frowned. "Weird."

Then, he peeled back the paper to find a taxidermied yellow-and-black bird Danny couldn't recognize, with its wings broken.

"This is definitely not mine," Danny said as he looked at the bird. Hopefully the real owner of this wasn't going to be too disappointed it had been this damaged in transit.

Danny took up the box to look at the delivery address, only to find that while this was for his apartment, the name of the receiver was marked as "Duke Marlon Thomas". It took one quick google search to find a phone number. Danny thanked whoever the sender was for including a middle name as it narrowed the search greatly. Dialling the number, Danny got up to get himself a glass of water. As he got the glass out, the line connected.

"Hello?" he heard a surprisingly young voice say. Well, assuming apparently made an ass of Danny. Maybe taxidermy really did appeal to all ages.

"Hi, my name's Danny. I think I got your package by accident."

"My package?" The guy on the other side asked, perplexdely.

"Yeah, a big box with a bird in it?" Danny answered. "Listen, man I'm sorry, I think the wings broke during transit, I swear it was already like that when I opened it-"

"What bird?" Now the guy sounded even more confused.

Well now, Danny was starting to get confused. "A taxidermied black-and-yellow bird?" Danny sounded out, then he grabbed the note and let his eyes go over it again. "There was a note too, I opened it, sorry about that." Danny winced, before trying for a joke to hopefully get the guy to soften up on him. "Whoever that J- friend is, he's got a weird sense of humour."

"J- friend?" the voice on the other side of the phone said. Guess, the joke hadn't gone over well, because his voice had gone tense.

"Yeah," Danny answered withholding a sigh, damn his curiosity. Opening other people' letters was not only a gross invasion of privacy but also a federal crime. Hopefully the guy wouldn't stay mad too long. "It was signed with the letter J and a smiley face."

"Whoever you are," said the guy, and the urgency in his voice had Danny straightening up. "You need to get out of here right now."

"What-?"

Just then, the door to Danny's apartment was blown open.

"I hope you're ready, birdie," a voice outside sounded, before a spindly man in a purple suit, green hair and sickly-looking skin walked in.

"Because you and me are going to have so much fun."

[satans-knitwear]

I can hear far too many noises at the same time and they are squeezing my eyes 😭

[lilyw-catears]

In my room, straight up sniffing it. And by it, well, let's just say. My nose

[beannary]

Me: how are you doing tonight?

Bean: I’m doing good cuz todays my birthday

Me: HA- AAA- -IRTHDAY!!!!! 🎵Happy birthday~ to you!! 🎶

Thank you!!!!

[mister-mickey]

Tim in the series is so silly like

“Here’s my drawing of California!!”

I am in love with you

[honorofthedepths]

lots of hatred and vitriol in my soul. need to be exorcised i think

[innocentiusxiv]

I need phallo. So I can impregnate jared harris.

[naughtynoodle056]

Pleased to report that eating myself into a food coma last night not only let me sleep through the entire night but also helped me gain my voice back lol

[newtness532]

no more sneezing please 🤧😭

[seyaryminamoto]

If Sokka is the most durable man in Gladiator, then who are the others most durable? Your response to the last ask reminded me of one of the funniest moments in canon imo when Ozai take on AS Aang's attack here. Not sure if the following should be taken into account, but I remember ages ago that Avatar wiki considered this something worth mentioning, so it's probably a more deliberate choice than Sokka's comic relief.

Well, regarding Ozai's resistance being featured in Avatar wiki, it is run by fans primarily, so they get to decide what to feature there and what not to. What's most ironic is they probably have a better grasp of what's going on in canon than some of the people involved in producing canon... :'D but it does feel like a wild thing about Ozai that he could take the Avatar State's planet form (?) fully and I sincerely doubt that the comet was enhancing his resistance in any way... XD

As we can all see based on the ridiculous physique of the man in canon, Ozai is probably a fitness nut and never stops working out. So I think it makes sense for him to be very resistant, even to the point of surviving what you just pointed out... at the same time, I can only wonder if he'd be resistant but whiny, haha. I don't think Ozai has dealt with suffering a lot of physical damage in fights because he's generally not involved in fights to begin with, judging by what little we've seen in canon. Maybe he's got what it takes to resist serious damage, but I can soooo see him complaining about getting hurt the whole time... x'D

Anyway, on to the question!

Renzhi is probably the buffest and most resistant character in Gladiator, I kind of built him on the premise of being a firebender who virtually never runs out of steam. He's had so much fighting experience, he's survived countless wounds... the man's definitely what one would consider a tank in a videogame, haha.

Next... I think probably Mei Xun, actually. Another very experienced character, very strong, very buff, definitely could take a lot of damage without faltering. She's pretty epic that way :D

Honestly, Bumi. I know it feels random but it's kinda not considering he's been in horrific conditions for over ten years and, uh... he's still alive. Dude may have weird judgment, but he's a veeeeery tough one to break, for sure.

Among Azula's guards... I'd say Wuhan, Jianghuo and Qiang are the most resistant ones. The others are a lot more likely to lean on damage output than damage resistance.

Rhone sure as hell was a resistant fucker, half the damage he suffered across the story would have killed anyone else. Even if he's dead now I think he deserves to be part of this list

Lastly... Zhao is going to be quite durable eventually in Gladiator. I'm not going to elaborate on why. I'm sure some people can start guessing :')

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[readings-in-the-dark]

who knew that writing and putting on a mini-musical and having to fuck around trying to get you passport renewed with your new name and needing to find a new place to live because your landlord wants to raise the rent by £500 a month for no reason (which is why you need a fresh passport) and having your parents come to visit you from the other side of the country for your mum's birthday and seeing more people than you've seen all year in the space of two months would make you feel so run down?

[frmulcahy]

Girl help. The aches.

[tallyhoot]

nap time,,

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here