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and i know that you mean so well;
but i am not a vessel for your good intent!
("Tongues and Teeth," - The Crane Wives)
my serotonin got jetpack bursted into the stratosphere with this blurb by OP. Your brain is so juicy and moist and wrinkly OP. Godspeed. I'm not even into DC but the whole "Burnt out and neglected, and now a bunch of people driven by guilt guilt guilt want me back so they can feel less guilty?" just made the racoon in me rub its hands menacingly hoho
Just imagine not even living your best life; just a shadow in the lives of the illustrious Waynes, a ghost in a castle, visible only to the loyal servant and the occasional curious paparazzi who shrugs and looks away--after all, there was no mention of you in any occasion: must be the kid of in-house staff. How nice of Brucie Wayne to allow even the children of in-house staff the opportunity to study at such a high-end college! (The reporters chortle and snicker at your barely-passing marks, sighing at such a wasted opportunity. Oh well. And then they move on to the tabloid topic of the week, after the strutting socialites and the rich and the arrested Rogues.)
You gather things.
You gather pieces of a cracked dream, a single plastic teacup you had brought into the cavernous mansion the day you held Alfred's old, gnarled hand. Ears ringing and slippers still stained with your parent's blood as they were gunned down before your very eyes. You gather your things, what made you before you were "Wayne," so to say. Your mother's old cigarette box, smuggled from the crime scene, your one memento of the woman who you could not forget but never forgive.
A juxtaposition of love and hate, forever crucified. The image of the Virgin Mary inside the tin box seems to be a mockery of faith, across from her image lying cheap cigarettes.
You gather test papers, all barely passing and with more reds than blacks, and grind them up into strips with the shredder you had brought; just one time the black card Wayne had given you, and it left the bitterest, sourest aftertaste in your mouth. They burn so cozily on the school Bunsen burners, especially when sprayed with alcohol, immediately immolating like timelapse sparkler videos. You gather your name before the Incident, you cherish it, and you repeat the syllables in the dead of night, spilling past your mouth. Even if it was the name of a child-abusing monster, it was still yours, and it was still of use.
And use it, you would.
While they go and be a family, you work to begin yours.
You gather funds: it's easy to take on odd jobs when people do not suspect you. You tuck away that black card at the bottom of your study table drawers, forgotten there like scribbled-out pages of an essay, an unfinished drawing, and leftover candy wrappers. It's a bit-by-bit work, but you know the Waynes wouldn't even see it happening. Your brothers and sisters (an absurdly alien concept, as they don't even acknowledge you exist ninety-five percent of the time) are prodigies paraded around at every event. You are the unseen ghost flitting through their shadows.
Graduation comes and goes. It's laughably easy to falsify having lost your social security number and other documents--Gotham is that much of a shithole, you suppose. The man in the cowl notwithstanding. His efforts are admirable, but weak. Recidivism is common in this place, as if there were some sort of pull that incited the people in Gotham to cruelty, to madness.
It's absurdly Lovecraftian, in its own way.
You are not even living your best life, and yet you are free. Alfred knows; he always knows. If you are The Ghost, then the aged butler is a man one step between the doors of death, and he sees you every time you move. Your room is empty, and he raises an eyebrow at your satchel: all your items already stored elsewhere or given away.
("I suppose this was a long time coming, Little Master."
Tap tap tap. Footsteps on marble floors, setting sun.
You shrug. "Eh. The Waynes gave me a roof and education. It's all good."
You grunt. "Well, people change. Like you know, how kids being gifted stop being gifted when they grow older." You say, instead of 'Well, if a child doesn't get any praise or attention if they do good and probably even less if they were bad, why even bother?')
A pause. "Your academics were not so lackluster when you were younger."
You promise to try and stay in touch. (You crossed your fingers behind your back.) You leave, sunset on your face.
The nap you had in a dingy hotel with far too many odd stains and not enough locks you could put on was the soundest you've ever slept in years.
Freedom smells like summer air and the last rays of sun, followed by the cold blue hour.
It takes three months for an out-of-state college to accept you. It's far from Gotham. It has a dormitory. Excellent. While you were indeed a mediocre academic student, you had banked everything on band scholarships.
Who knew more than a hundred clarinet players had unclaimed scholarships yearly? Packing up your small life in bags, you take a train upwards to another state.
(Meanwhile, in Gotham, there is an odd sense of unease as Bruce Wayne stops by an inconspicuous door. It's relatively clean, as expected of his manor, but the worn out brass on the handle suggests that someone had lived there before. He opens the door. Steps in. A bed, a dresser, a study table. Bare bones.
The unease intensifies. But who?)
Someone had lived in here, yes.
#yandere batfam#YEAHOOOOOOO#wrote this instead of sleeping#FUCKING HELL#I HAVE WORK TOMORROW#dc x reader#yandere batfam x reader#anyways hmmmmmmm#my crack scenario here is reader moves into gravity falls and becomes honorary pines because you KNOW the pines are all about that found fa#reader becomes the new Mystery Shack employee; shenanigans ensue and they heal bit by bit with Pines Exposure Therapy#Meanwhile Bruce in Gotham is getting the most deadpan scathing commentary from Alfred he's received in years. One child he had forgotten;#a child who had become so skilled in hiding and pretending that even /he; BATMAN/ did not pick up on them. Even /Damian/ hasn't#and dude is a born and bred apex assassin which says a LOT about reader's skills. Dick is all wincey and guilty and hand-wringy#probs rooting around the room for clues and evidence of what kind of person this mystery sibling was again.
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OK but I really love how unhinged Neil comes off in other people's POV cause looking back at the first three novels he was so damn weird
Take what happened in Colombia
Imagine what Andrew was thinking
Holy crap this binder WTF?!?! OK he's sus as hell I've gotta test him, I'm gonna mess with the tags when I refold his clothes but like...I doubt even he's THAT crazy
*Neil barges in and starts shouting in FRENCH*
OK so he IS that crazy (and French?!)
OK I'm gonna spike his drink and get some answers in a minute just gonna leave him with Aaron and Nicky for a sec while I satisfy my Gay panic this runaway has inspired in me with Roland and then I'll just...WTF DID HE JUST PAY A GUY TO KNOCK HIM OUT?!
OK I'm gonna pick up some breakfast and when I get back to the house I can interrogate the....OK ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME THIS DUBIOUS TWINK CRAWLED OUT OF THE BATHROOM WINDOW?!
OK so he's not around let's get back to Palmetto he probably got a ride from one of the upperclassmen
OK he didn't...did he run away? I guess that makes some sens... OK wait he HITCHHIKED?! THE FUCK?!
OK THIS ASSHOLE SPEAKS GERMAN TOO?!
OK he's on the run from the mob...there are a lot of holes in this story but at this point I'm gonna take his word for it that he's isn't a danger to my people cause I don't have the energy to continue to pursue this anymore. This fucking guy is more unhinged than what I was prepared to deal with this weekend.
#aftg#all for the game#tsc#the sunshine court#neil josten#andrew minyard#andrew was more tired than Neil was after that weekend 🤣#you won the batttle kind of andrew but neil won that war#not to shade nicky and aaron but wingus and dingus were not the ones you should have left neil with TWICE#also its cracker dust not truth serum it was a weird plan to start with and nicky and aaron were more high and more drunk than neil was#they were not the ones who should have been left in charge#also by letting neil out of sight for all those hours he hitchhiked let him come up with a plausible lie#that held up until BALTIMORE#like my dude you had the binder you should have hid it and threatened to burn a page wverytime neil lied#cause if the money was from riko paying neil to be a mole he would NOT want it burned#and what hes gonna go to the cops about his ill gotten cash and fake ids? you could have had him andrew#ps i imagine neil saying all of this to Andrew when that first time in Colombia is ever brought up#just critiquing his methods#andrew isnt one for regret but neil picking holes in his plan and pointing out what HE would have done makes him feel pretty damn close#he probably finds it annoyingly attractive too tho
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detwinkifying and girldadding characters is my passion + paimon redesign as well
#my art#genshin impact#genshin fanart#genshin redesign#gi#gi traveler#gi aether#gi paimon#genshin impact aether#genshin impact paimon#aether#paimon#goin back to my roots for this one#picked the game up again after 3 years cus of my cousin and got absolutely jumoscared by the twinks dude#i had to do SOMETHING about it
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new ride kamens dropped, rui, who is definitely a horobi homage; another cool choice, but at the same time, kinda wish it was someone else 'cuz now we got two zero-one homages with hayate's jin, when the trend had been one rider for each season until him, and people started claiming that takahashi must be playing favorites
aw, I was actually pretty jazzed to see it was Horobi! I think it opens up some interesting possibilities if it isn't only one-per after all, and I'm excited to see if there's gonna be something with him and Hayate or not. plus I just really like his design
(also, not to be all cynical, but. this exists because of a corporate trend-hop with a franchise that is already sorta notorious for executive meddling. I would be...let's say very surprised if Takahashi had that level of control over what riders were included, versus being handed a list to work off of that the execs had already determined would appeal to their target demographic. c'mon.)
#art#ride kamens#like idk maybe he could make suggestions or pick out of a larger pool or something#but absolutely zero chance he had any kind of final say without needing a billion exec approvals and revisions and finalizations#that is simply not how this kind of sausage gets made#(i still have the conspiracy theory that taiten was supposed to be zangetsu instead of woz) (he basically IS takatora come on)#ah well i am very curious about what this means for the rest of these dudes!#we've still got five reveals left and possibly more guys in the future after the game starts#i am looking forward to tomorrow because it will bring us both hat-boy and wolf/fox/somekindofanimal-boy#extremely pleased that these have been combined into one character#it's the little things that make me happy
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With the new episode today - I finally finished the Downtown leg of the uberhood challenge! With baby number 4 on the way, we're halfway through the story. It's certainly been a wild ride so far 😜
#uberhood challenge#the kids are never in the thumbnails lmao#lilith has a teenage son now... time flies#i didn't plan this out with halloween in mind specifically but when i realised what month i knew she had to pick a vampire dude
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"evan, i find you adorable". adorable as in able to be adored. as in capable of being adored. as in i find you worthy of adoration. adorable, from the latin adorare (to worship) to adorabilis (in the sense 'worthy of divine worship') to the current day adorable. as in maybe if we had made it to the movies or if eddie didn't show up, i could've showed you just how much i want to worship you. as in i look at you and there is a font of adoration in my heart for you. adorable as in i flew into a hurricane with you and yet this date is a thousand times more thrilling than that. adorable as in there is a person in your building who saw me jump up and down like a little kid in the lobby after i had kissed you for the first time. adorable as in i kissed you and immediately thought fuck i could do this forever if he lets me. adorable as in i want to press kisses to your birthmark. adorable as in i spent the entirety of the days leading up to our date wondering about you, if you liked your coffee with two sugars or one. if you liked storms or if the lightning strike had put you off on them all together. if you liked cats or dogs or if you were the kind of weirdo who liked goats instead. if you thought about the kiss as often as i did. if your stomach tangled into twisted knots as saturday drew closer. if you would be agreeable to sitting in my lap. if you would blush as prettily as you did the day i kissed you. if your world also realigned when our lips met. if our orbits had matched up now that we flew into a hurricane together. if the gravitational pull between us had finally been too strong for either of us to resist that night in your loft. or maybe, more simply, adorable as in, "evan, i find you adorable."
#SOMEBODY SEDATE ME#what is this#i heard that line and was like how can i wax poetry about this#tommy kinard the man that you are#like it was just an interesting line to me. it literally keeps me up at night#and then tommy immediately following it up with 'i just dont think you're ready yet'#because it's true!!! idt buck was ready for the restaurant and maybe if buck had told tommy this was his first 'dude date'#they could've picked a more secluded spot and maybe then the movies could've still happened and they could've sat in the back#as some stupid movie plays onscreen but buck would ever so carefully tangle his hands with tommy's bigger ones and tommy would#squeeze them once and buck would be so nervous he wouldn't be able to look at tommy and would stare resolutely ahead at the movie he#doesn't care about but the whole time he'd be thinking about the way tommy holds him so gently but eddie did happen and buck is freaking ou#so tommy steps back and tells evan 'i dont think youre ready' w/ the implication being call me when you are and he puts the ball back in#evan's court. and maybe tommy thinks that's the end of it. it takes people years to be ready. hell it took him years to be ready except#beautiful brave evan calls him less than a week later and says 'maybe i'm not ready but if there's anyone i'd like to find out w/ it'd be y#i need to be sedated#911 abc#evan buckley#tommy kinard#bucktommy#buck x tommy#911 spoilers#911 season 7
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Im not much of an alcohol fan but I’ve liked cruisers before, whats your opinion on them?
Don’t think I’ve tried one before, one second. He grabs a bottle and takes a sip or two. You’re not sure where he got it from.
It’s alright. A little sweet for my liking, though. Here, you want the rest? He passes you the bottle. It’s raspberry flavored.
#asks#vicky-sarah-arts#chilchuck#chilchuck tims#chilchuck dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#ooc: had to look it up cause i’m from the states#that sounds soooo good dude#i love flavored vodka 💖#if you ever see deep eddies in your local store pick some up it’s my personal favorite#lemon is best but their other flavors are also sooo good#the peach and lemon in peach jello for jello shots is like#god tier to me#with some whipped cream#10/10 highly recommend
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Chloe: From now on, we will be using code names. You can address me as "Eagle One."
Chloe: Rachel, code name: "Been There, Done That."
Chloe: Max is "Currently Doing That."
Chloe: Steph is "It Happened Once in a Dream."
Chloe: Mikey, code name: "If I Had To Pick a Dude."
Chloe: Kate is... "Eagle Two."
Kate: Oh, thank God.
(Later)
Chloe: This is "Eagle One." "Been There, Done That" is leaving the stage. "I'd Be Lying If I Said I Hadn't Thought About It" (Victoria) is in position.
#submitted by @marksider89#source: Parks and Recreation#i never heard 'if i had to pick a dude' and 'i'd be lying if i said i hadn't thought about it' before XD#also kate's way too innocent for all this and even chloe knows it#i'm curious tho... what mission are they going on?#thanks for the submission!!!#chloe price#rachel amber#max caulfield#steph gingrich#mikey north#kate marsh#victoria chase#amberprice#pricefield#pricerich#chaseprice#life is memes#life is strange#life is strange before the storm#incorrect quotes#omg the tags on this one
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carry him around like a ragdoll thx
#the stanley parable#tsp#tspud#crows art#wilts like a dying plant#idk idk man i just need to post funny scribbles or i will explode /neg#i dont remember when i drew these but uuhhh hope it is silly enough#i think i had more to go with it but dont have the time to finish them#anyway stanley hates being picked up he's always been the tall dude#tall dudes hate that right? being picked up?#idk idk um. silly#the narrator#stanley
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average zoraxis board meeting i think
#ieytd#i expect you to die#i was thinking abt their canon heights its tearing me apart dude#hivemind#the fabricator#roxana prism#commander solaris#john juniper#like to think solly lost her eye in the death engine. and that feefee also had an eye injury on their opposite eye#something something. an eye for an eye. or whatever#i picked up a pen (art)#crackpost
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Me listening to TMA/TMAGP: man Alex is good at making me hurt!
Me as I progress through RQG: OH, Alex is the WORST, actually!
#I’m literally#like I’ve literally had to take WEEK LONG BREAKS to cope with this shit#now I was anticipating these deaths (cause I got spoilers early on it’s fine tho)#so I should be okay to keep chugging along#but FUCK dude#we respect his craft fr fr#Alex. Alex can I please shake your hand. pick your brain. pledge my loyalty?#rqg#tma#alexander j newall#captain's log
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rb and put in tags the name of the stuffed toy(s) you sleep with
#i have quite a few on my bed but i sleep with jevil because hes the softest#kinger has a big cardboard plate in his head; spamton is verr spikey and caine has so many cardboard panels to help him keep his shape that#he is actively uncomfortable to sleep with akjhkhadfs#i love them all dearly tho#i like learning about things like this its interesting to realise that everyone around you has a life and memories and specific objects tha#mean a lot to them and why they mean so much to them#just every now and then i have the realisation that “heck everyone in the world is also living”#like that dude who you accidentally bumped on the way to co op. he has a life. he has a family. he went to school and he has friends#he woke up that morning and brushed his teeth and picked and outfit. maybe took his kids to school if he has any#he also had a chain of events that led him to that exact moment when you bumped into him#then you walk away and never see each other again. you go on with your day and keep going with your life and he does the same#woah i got very deep in the tags#reblog and put in tags#idk what to tag this with
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Friendly reminder that the Indigo Disk would not reach the level of soap opera digest without our chaotic good problematic king Drayton stirring the pot of an angsty onion lord one leg at a time
#thank you Drayton#lmao#this was a thought I just had and I went “yeah you know what that's a Tumblr post right there”#like comment and subscribe for more shower thoughts with dipplinduo#drayton pokemon#drayton being iconic#kieran pokemon#indigo disk#no but seriously it was so dramatic in the funniest of ways#my dude was ready to pick bones at the cafeteria#memes
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A rare day has come, goobers. Teri has drawn some proper, honest to God fan art.
SURPRISE! IT’S OJV STYLE EVERYONE!!! ♡⸜(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)⸝♡
If you know me then you know I am a slut harlot whore for these two and the Situations their loving mother puts them in. They are THE Super Best Boyfriends and they make my heart so, so incredibly happy
Conveniently I’m posting this just in time for a fresh bedtime story to have dropped! You should absolutely go read it right here!
And hey! If you want some more consider reading other works by Riley (aka @1moreoffkeyanthem) on her ao3!
Love you queen thank you for keeping the Style girlies (gn) fed your hard work does not go unappreciated!!! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧
#I had a lot of fun doing these!!!#picking apart descriptions and interpreting them in my silly little style#handsome prince Stan is so lovely#and ethereal Kyle is *chefs kiss*#I fear even that I leaned too much into elven traits for him#but damn is he pretty#just two painfully hot dudes staring longingly into one anothers’ eyes#true love isn’t dead it lives on in OJV style#once again I scream it from the rooftops#if you arent reading pce what are you even doing#South Park#fanfiction#fanart#digital art#procreate#sp style#asteria’s art
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People are mad larian won’t let them kiss that crusty bitch boy Gortash meanwhile I’m over here like “some more romance greetings for Wyll please?”
Please? His romance scenes are really cute and sweet but maybe something other than ‘well met’ would be nice when he’s had his tongue down my drows throat for the 30th time in a day?! PLEASE?!
Even just him saying ‘hello you’ ?!?! PLEASE?!
#No I won’t apologise for bullying Gortash and y’all are weird for liking him#that’s coming from a Raphael fan too#the dude looks like he smells like stale piss#neither young or handsome he’s crusty and musty#bane had hundreds of twinks to choose from and he picked that#Wyll bg3
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Can we talk about The Dying Swan moment in Coda? As someone who was once a very serious ballerina, I need to talk about the Dying Swan. Here's your context --
CHAKOTAY: Harry's clarinet solo was okay. I could have done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the Dying Swan. JANEWAY: I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure you, it was the hit of the Beginning Ballet class.
Have you seen The Dying Swan? It is dramatic.
Here, take a minute:
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First of all, this dance is much too advanced for a six-year-old, even if they’re doing it in demi pointe. (Six-year-olds emphatically should not be in pointe shoes btw.) The dance is almost entirely bourees and arm movements done to very subtle musical cues, not the foundational ballet moves typically taught in Beginning Ballet.
This is a very vulnerable, dramatic dance that is effective because of its subtleties. The performer would need to embody that vulnerability in some way for a convincing performance. It's short, but it's a solo piece -- all eyes on you. I mean, it was choreographed for a prima ballerina, BUT THAT'S NOT MY POINT
Can you imagine our unflappable Captain Janeway willingly getting in front of her crew to do this ballet? I get that it’s thematically relevant to the plot of Coda, but since Janeway is only vulnerable in front of her crew when it means putting herself in harm’s way, it seems like a wild decision. She tends to hold herself apart from her crew, maintaining the professional distance of the captain. Further, when she does any creative pursuit, it is almost always in private, since her sister was the artist in the family and she was the scientist. As a captain, she commands Voyager in a much different way than she would as a dancer with this piece. I'm not saying she never shows vulnerability because she definitely does, but not necessarily in this way. Then when she talks about it with Chakotay, she just casually brushes it off with a laugh like no big deal.
There’s also the question of costume – would she have gone full tutu? Done it in her Starfleet uniform? An impeccable yet flow-y white suit? She does get into costume and command a performance in Bride of Chaotica!, but Coda is still kind of early days for our captain. Arachnia aligns more with what we know about Janeway's character.
Granted, it is Chakotay laying down these complements about her dancing ability and he is clearly biased. To be fair, Neelix does too before they leave in the shuttle. If she did this dance and performed it poorly or amazingly, I feel like the crew would look at her a bit differently afterwards.
Canonically she did The Dying Swan, but I certainly have trouble picturing it happening.
#does everyone let it slide because she gets mind killed a bunch of times and attends her own funeral?#this throw away line has been living rent free in my mind for months now#coda is also a ballet term fun fact#star trek voyager#coda#Captain Janeway#this death doesn't mean anything though because no one else is saved so not janeway self-sacrificing goals#yes yes they probably just picked the first artistic performance with death in the title cause it's thematically relevant#i've thought about it much more than a normal person probably should#No one said I was a good ballerina but I did it for a long time#may or may not have filmed a video about this in my cosplay for a different platform#maybe have been sitting on it cause of editing and weird dudes being into me like why no#also let tuvok read his poetry i bet it's great#alien grim reaper dad is a great concept very creepy bring him back for more angst#just a little insane about the dying swan don't mind me#also insane about coda and voyager and janeway in general ok you got me#meta#I was falling asleep on the couch but then I had to rant about coda I’m sorry
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