#in which green batman pines and regrets

[laurelwinchester]

Fic: As We Were (Arrow)

HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY, @missourielephant 

welcome to the universe where oliver broods alone in the dark a lot and says ''alexa play white flag by dido'' like seven times a night. meanwhile laurel's just vibing with her family. i like it here. it's soft. thank you for requesting this fic, it was a lot of fun to write. :)))

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Title: As We Were Fandom(s): Arrow Pairing: Laurel Lance/Joanna de la Vega, past Laurel Lance/Oliver Queen Summary: ''We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we no longer are. As we will one day not be at all.''. In the aftermath of his return, Oliver struggles to come to terms with his new place, or lack thereof, in Laurel's life, how much his baby sister has changed, and the city's resident vigilante - who does not seem to be a fan of the Hood's particularly bloody methods.

[comebeonetwothree]

Blog #8: Country Roads

07/13/2021

Currently driving through roads where pro-life billboards are placed in front of graveyards… we are officially on the road back home.

Traveling fast but seeing the most we have while covering 1,500 miles and two time zones in the last week. 900 miles to go. We jumped from Portland to northern and southern Montana then all the way through to Chicago… our last stop ;(

We met some really nice people out here- the kind of people that want to take time out of their day to interact with you. People actually smile at you and mean it when they say “have a good day.”

There were a lot of experiences this week that were indescribable. All senses were at full throttle from sleeping in the heart of Portland to camping in National Parks.

Being our last stretch of the trip, it has been hard to not feel sad when we are closing such a big chapter of our life. It’s a weird feeling of being sad but also still being so excited for the next stop. I hope the excitement doesn’t end.

Who

Who is ready to rumble…

In Portland we got to meet up with Maya’s cousin, Michael and his daughter Thea. He moved out there 13 years ago and never looked back.

He was telling us he did a similar trip with his college buddies back in the day and fell in love with the city, so moved there shortly after the trip.

Sounds fun, might fuck around and move…

Batman was ready to rumble, and fumble and everything in between. While whitewater rafting in Glacier National Park, we had the pleasure of riding with Batman The Guide. Batman, because you can’t change who you are but if you can always choose Batman.

He had been living in Montana for 17 years after moving from Oregon. He had previously worked in the park as a shuttle bus driver and recently switched over to a whitewater rafting instructor.

He was a funny fucking dude; the whole crew was super hyped but he had a comedic sense that made it an entertaining day.

While on the water, we were joking around and splashing the neighboring rafts, an independent rafter said they will bomb us with beers if we splash them. One of the other people on the boat yelled back, “Are they full beers?” and they responded by launching three full miller lite beers at our raft.

At the end of our tour, Batman gave us the three beers then we dedicated those three beers to him with a funnel.

More Friends!!! Its wild how many people we got to see throughout this trip. Hitting Yellowstone National Park, we met up with Mayas friends from home: Cole, Jamie and Declan.

They were just starting their cross-country trip from Nyack, NY, hitting the Northern route to the southern, vs our trip ending in the North. Funny coincident.

We camped out with them for two nights… it was too beautiful to just stay one night, so we pushed back our trip to badlands and stayed the extra night.

We were all out at this joint called Buffalo Bar, it had a great outdoor area with corn hole, ring toss and puppiesss. There is something so fulfilling in petting random dogs with a beer in your hand.

This one dog I was petting had an exceptional owner who was traveling him across states to bring him home. I spoke with the owner for quite a while, she was so friendly about letting me pet her dog. She really was doing it all, back at home she has three kids and two other dogs.

When people hear about our travels, their reactions usually make us realize how cool it is to have the opportunity to do a trip like this.

Many times they wish they did the same when they were our age, *cough, cough, go travel right now, cough, cough.*

This woman explained how she jumped right into working out of school and has always regretted it. Her children were already teenagers so I told her she should get out there and do it. Traveling her new dog home was a great start to the on-the-go lifestyle, she seemed to be enjoying it.

I later found out she picked up our tables tab… thank you Jennifer, you have a heart of gold and a generous soul. She explained her hopes that her kids will one day get out there and see the world like she always wished, and we were accomplishing. It was a pass it forward request, when I am able to cover the bill of a lovely traveling stranger. I hope I cross paths with this family eventually and pay it forward for her children that may travel.

What

What a reality…

The National Park pass is something you buy and are given access to all the national parks in the US. We got one in the beginning of the trip knowing we would be reaching quite a few parks. Unfortunately, we lost it after just seeing the Grand canyon.

It fell in a black hole… the area where your dashboard and windshield meet. Remember this when you put shit on the dashboard. It can slide right down to its death, the only way to get the shit out is by taking off the windshield.

Those passes are irreplaceable, of course.

In badlands, we posted up around 10 p.m. in our hammocks. It was a new experience for us, we thought hey its our last time camping, lets try it a new way. 

We set our hammocks up underneath this podium and slept there. It was perfect for a quick and easy set up/clean up. There was a solid amount of people around us, so we weren't too worried about getting attacked by coyotes again. 

Where

When driving to Portland we drove through the Redwood National Forest. This made me realize how long this Earth has been around.

Trees take a while to grow, and these trees were as thick as three full grown pine trees and as tall as two stacked on top of each other.

Neck breaking tall.

After crossing through, we hit the upper west coast and traveled on route 101 until we hit Portland. It was filled with jaw dropping views, so much so I woke Mary and Maya up every 5 minutes to show them the views. Most times it was the same view as before, just with a new massive rock to look at.

It was a relatively foggy day, so we couldn’t see certain lookout points, but there was something so majestic about the fog within the forests and hanging on the coast.

There were points where you cross over a bridge and there was nothing around you, just white. It appeared as being stuck in a dream or driving my bitchass to heaven.

Arriving in Portland, we stayed at a place in ChinaTown. It was so cute and located on top of a great deli, Charlie’s Deli.

We checked out a bunch of shops and stores while in Portland. While we were walking around, this coffee shop had the sweetest workers. They enjoyed interacting with their customers and weren’t just looking to take your money.

Portland is filled with mockingly friendly people, they weren’t mocking anyone though, they were just that fucking friendly. They actually want to converse with people... what a concept.

For dinner we went to this food truck pod place, which is about 15 different food trucks serving food, with a communal sitting area to eat the food.

We met up with Maya’s cousin there for a drink and to catch up.

Hitting Glacier National Park, we started our camping excursion. We started off sleeping in our car since we arrived late to our campground after driving 10 hours to get there. It was pretty comfortable and with the knowledge of bear attacks in the area, it was a secure place to sleep.

While in Glacier, we decided to go whitewater rafting, a whole new way of seeing the parks. It was so dope, the rapids were on the weak side since the heat waves.

After rafting, we found a great lake front public access point where we hung our hammocks up and took a nice long nap.

There are lakes EVERYWHERE here in Montana and great fishing! Let’s travel and fish all over Montana, okay? Cool.

We waited until 5 p.m. when the park lets you in without a pass, to do a sunset hike in the park. We took Going-to-the-sun road to the highline hike, where we got to see some wild animals!

In the parking lot we got to see a horned sheep (looks like a ram) and more mountain goats!! We saw three full grown goats and one baby goat.

This horned sheep actually stormed at us and we had to jump into our car. The people that parked in the spot before us left their cheetos on the ground. This guy was hungry as fuck I guess. Relentless to say the least. 

This National Park is my new favorite spot-on Earth. Spread my ashes here. Moseying through the park was a full body experience.

All your senses are involved, the smells of the forest are beyond refreshing. The touch of the crisp air brings goosebumps to your skin, and the taste of wind in your face emphasizes the overload of oxygen in that area.

There are no commercialized areas for hours outside the park. Just a fuck ton of trees.

The sounds of different birds chirping harmonizes in your ears with the wind blowing and the rocks falling below you. Your sight is spiked the highest out of the senses. These views seemed so unreal they appeared fake. When you finally touch the grounds around you, you realize how really unreal this land is.

Heading to Yellowstone the following day brought a similar element of nostalgia. We camped right outside the park, on the state border lines of Wyoming and Idaho.

Our friends we stayed with luckily still had their national park pass, so we all took our car and got into the park early that next morning. We got to see some bison! Fun Fact: Bison and Buffalos are actually the same thing.

There were so many beautiful trees and hot springs throughout the park. So many cool colors to see. We also watched Old Faithful blow her hole!!

Getting to Badlands eventually, we got a campground directly in the park. Since we got there later than five it was free. We posted up our hammocks for our last night camping on the trip ;( when we woke up, the views were so cool.

Badlands is a shit ton of clay forming giant sandcastle hills all over. But there is so much green for a desert it was an interesting combination.

When

When can we shower…

We have completed so much of the drive home its wild. We stayed in an apartment for the first two nights in Portland and then spent the rest of the week camping.

We hit our record of days without a shower… 5 full ass days. I’m so proud of Mary and Maya, they really can’t stand being dirty.

When driving long ass 10 hour plus drives for a week you find yourself enjoying nothingness. Head empty is such a vibe after jamming to music and listening to murder mystery podcasts for hours on end.

Our music ranges widely, depending on crashing periods. Whenever Mary is driving, she is either blasting screamo edm music or 2000s pop music.

Maya plays some bomb bops; I really don’t know any of the songs, but it has opened my mind to all these new artists!!

I personally love the murder mystery podcasts, there were a few times I had to change it though because it got too spooky. In the case of this week, we were driving to camp in Montana and a murder mystery came on about the Montana Child Killer… dope.

Why

I have ruled out ever living in a city. From the driving on busy ass streets to the dirty smells everywhere, I will happily reside somewhere in the country. Where? Still have no idea… Why? Because there are so many pros and cons to all these places we saw.

I guess i'll just have to come back out here!

I’m really thinking somewhere up north on the west coast. The west coast will forever hold my heart, but I really don’t have the money or the ability to live in a city out there. Maybe one day with a bombass money making job.

Coming back to the East has made me realize how much nicer people are out west and how much slower of a pace it is.

How

How are we coming up on our last spot…

We are hitting our last stop… Chicago. Shoutout to my cousin for going to school here and letting us use and abuse his apartment! Hehe just kidding we will take care of it for ya, Owen!

It feels so strange to be this close to New York. Our license plates being from New York is no longer that cool.

I’m going to miss people peeping our plates and asking us about our travels and/or wishing us luck!

Thanks everyone throughout, we are almost accomplished with this chapter!

[taffysannotatedsonichu]

Sonichu 8 Page 35

Caption: Later, in the CWCville Mayor’s Office.

ALLISON AMBER: *sigh* Sign that, deny this, approve that… I shouldn’t have left Hollywood.

MAGI-CHAN: You have the Crystals.

WILD: Yes.

WILD: Legendary Crystals, hear my call, reveal your powers from my arms’ hallowed halls.

PATTI-CHAN: Well, with my master in possession of two of the Crystals, there is only one left for us to collect. Come back soon, master.

Allison Amber, who was mentioned in Sonichu 7 but has made no proper appearances since Sonichu 6, is for the first time shown in her capacity as interim mayor. Although this section was written months after the end of Sonichu 7, in the comic’s timeline, Chris just fell into the Time Void yesterday evening. I like to think that Allison is catching up on months and months of mayoral work that Chris had been ignoring to go out and creep on girls or shout curses at Mary Lee Walsh.

Allison lets it slip here that she regrets leaving her (we’re meant to assume) high paying and glamorous lifestyle from Hollywood to go and work for CWC, and no one can blame her. This might be Chandler realizing that he never gave a good enough reason that Allison would want to leave Hollywood to work a low paying government job, but alas she never storms out telling Sonichu “CWCville is YOUR problem now”, never to return to Chris’s little fantasy world ever again. That’s how I would have handled her character arc at least.

Allison has a picture of Batman behind her desk for some reason. The CWCki has some fun theories on what that might be referencing -

”Family Guy, which features Batman star Adam West as the fictional Mayor of the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island

Lucius Fox, an assistant that does all his superior's work while he is out stalking criminals; in Sonichu, Allison does all of Chris's work while he is out stalking girls.

Hell, we never do find out who her boyfriend is. Maybe he's Batman. Stupider things have happened in this comic.”

I like to think her boyfriend is Batman.

We also catch up on Patti and Crystal for the first time since Sonichu 6, and tragically, Crystal seems to have lost her face in the Dark Mirror Hole. Or maybe she’s sleeping, I don’t know.

With the indigo Sonichu Ball secure, this puts the Electric Hedgehog crew back up to four out of seven. If Chris hadn’t been an idiot and fell into the Time Void, we would be at six. And given how easily they get the green ball, Bubbles just goes down and grabs it from the bottom of the ocean, the EHP’s were probably feeling pretty sheepish that they left two of these balls with a moron when they could have had the entire set if only they’d let Sonichu or Magi-Chan hold them when they traveled through time.

Both Crystal’s mirror and the thing holding the Sonichu Balls are surrounded by green lines, probably representing Patti’s magic, a retcon of when in Sonichu 6 her magic was represented by cyan (though green makes more sense given her color scheme).

In the last line of the episode proper, Patti wistfully pines for her master’s return in a blatant plea for sympathy from Chris’s now entirely troll audience. Chris clearly doesn’t know what to do when he’s not the center of attention, heck he even gave himself another cameo in this issue because he loves his self-insert character so much. To an extent, this can be viewed also as a plea to the trolls to stop bothering him and let him write the story he wants to write, which is about him being awesome with his amazing original idea Sonichu and beating up all the JERKS that frustrate him in real life.

The End title card here signifies the end of the TV Y7 version, which only was the numbered 35 pages long. The epilogue has its own The End card.

[starsinursa]

Supernatural Survey

I was tagged by my devastatingly beautiful friend here, @sprinkleofhappinessuniverse! Thank you, lovely! 

1. What season did you start watching Supernatural? I never watched Supernatural until 2015, and actually, the very first episode I ever saw was The French Mistake... so I guess I started with season 6! Then I immediately went back and started with season 1, though. 

Aaand putting the rest under a cut because this survey is long as hell.  😄

2. Who was the first character you fell in love with? Dean, 100%. It was a combination of those green eyes (dear sweet Jesus those green eyes) and his humor. I admired that someone who had such a terrifying and bloody life spent hunting monsters could still keep his sense of humor and be so full of love for his family and delight in the little things in life, like pie and good music.

3. Who was a character that you hated at first but grew to love? Probably Rowena. Let’s be honest, she really wasn’t very nice to the boys or Crowley or anyone in the beginning, and at the end... well, she still wasn’t always nice, but I really grew to appreciate her motives and why she did the things she did and to sympathize with her. Plus, she’s pretty fabulous with her hair and her accent.

4. Which character would you most want to be in a long-term relationship with? Ummm, Dean, is that even a question? :D We would watch classic and/ or nerdy television together all the time, like Back to the Future and Star Trek, and terrible soap operas, and rock out with the windows down in the Impala, and go LARPing on the weekends, and eat pie and burgers together, and read Vonnegut and The Odyssey, and totally explore his panty!kink together. Oh, Dean, honey... the things I would do to you...

5. If you could go on a date with just one character, which one would you choose? The obvious answer to that question is, of course, Dean.

6. What would you do on that date? Put out. Ahahaha, just kidding. Not really. Probably just hit up a bar where we could grab a drink and a burger and get to know each other, and then maybe go cruisin’ on some country Kansas roads so he could show off the Impala and we could star-gaze. Or depending on the time of year, I would totally drag him to the RenFest in Kansas City.

7. Which character would you most want to be like? Honestly, I wish I could be more like Garth. He’s so sweet and optimistic and sees everything through rose-colored glasses. 

8. Which character would you most want to see brought back from the dead? I’m not gonna say Cas (because he IS coming back, dammit), so I’d love to see Bobby (our real Bobby, not the new AU Bobby) or Charlie or even Kevin. Probably especially Charlie though, I loved the teasing brother/ sister dynamic they had going.

9. Which character would you most like to punch? I wouldn’t say ‘no’ to punching Metatron. And also Gordon Walker, he was a d-bag. I probably would’ve clocked Bela a couple of times too, to be honest.

10. Who is your absolute favorite character? Dean. Very closely followed by Cas, and then closely followed by Sam.

11. Which “Big Bad” do you think was the worst? I really enjoyed Lucifer’s original arc, honestly. Classic Mark Pellegrino was the best, and the seals being broken, and poor Sam fighting with the knowledge that he was supposed to be Lucifer’s vessel, and just... yeah. It was good stuff, all of it.

12. Which character are you most like? Hmm... probably Donna Hanscum. :D I’m a sucker for a good donut, and I’ve got my insecurities, but I like to think that I can also be tough and come through when it matters. And I like to help people and I work in a very people-oriented field (although it’s definitely nothing like being a cop).

13. What death hit you the hardest? Bobby’s. :( Especially that whole ‘I raised two boys and they turned out great’ shit. C’mon, now... *ugly tears* Bobby, no...

14. What season finale hit you the hardest? Season 9. Dean getting stabbed, Sam regretting what he’d said about not caring, Dean telling Sam he was proud of them... just, ugh. My bleeding heart. And then THE DEMON EYES YEAAAH.

15. What are your ten all-time favorite episodes? Tall Tales, Bad Day at Black Rock, Mystery Spot, Changing Channels, Lazarus Rising, Yellow Fever, What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?, LARP and the Real Girl, Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets, Stuck in the Middle (With You)

16. What’s been your favorite season? Probably season 12. Season 12 has ROCKED (mostly). 

17. Who is your favorite angel? Castiel, duh! ;) He’s only the most devastatingly handsome, quirkiest, sweetest, downright adorable, and occasionally fucking badass angel in the garrison. And then Gabriel, because he’s a frickin’ hoot.

18. Who is your favorite demon? Crowley counts, right? (Or...counted? Ugh...). I, uh...never really liked Ruby. Or Meg.

19. Who’s your favorite evil character? Probably Lucifer. He’s just a really interesting character with a lot of idiosyncrasies, and Mark Pellegrino does a great job with him.

20. Do you have any Supernatural ships? I am Destiel trash, I am 100% living in the dumpster. I also liked Bobby x Ellen, Sam x Eileen, and Gabriel x Kali.

21. Who’s your favorite supporting actor? Probably Osric Chau, because he seems like an absolute delight in real life. 😄

22. What’s your favorite quote from the show? Oh man, there’s just too many. Maybe “I’ll interrogate the cat” (me too, Cas, me too) or “I will shoot you bitches” (I love when Dean is just done) or “You can’t spell subtext with S-E-X”.  

23. If you could cast one famous actor in an episode of SPN, who would you choose? I’d love to see Keanu Reeves play something, to be honest! He would be awesome! And then all of my favorite actors would be on the screen together!

24. If you could write your own episode, what kind of creatures would you like to see included? I need to see a selkie already, goddammit. GIMME SOME OF THAT IRISH MYTHOLOGY, I NEED MY SEAL MERMAIDS.

25. Who’s your favorite girl that Dean’s hooked up with? I really liked Cassie, I thought she was sweet. 

26. Who’s your favorite girl that Sam’s hooked up with? Probably Sara, she was pretty chill and bad-ass. Plus, cultured taste in art!

27. What are some of your favorite convention moments? Basically everything I’ve seen that happened at Jibcon this year.

28. If you were going to guest star (or be a recurring guest star) on SPN, how would you want your character to be described? Oh lordy... I would be a nervous wreck. Tell ya what, just let me be that sorry sucker who dies in the first 30 seconds of the episode. Then I can truthfully say that I acted in a Supernatural episode, maybe get to meet the boys, and then duck out and let better actors take my place. 😄 If not, I’d love to play a goofy comedy role that crops up now and again, like the Ghost-facers or something.

29. What do you hope to see in the next season? CAS BEING BACK, THANKS. Also lots of pining!Dean. Like, I need to see ALL of the pining!Dean, or I will be very disgruntled. I’m also really hoping we get to see some more alternate universes, that would be fascinating... and I definitely wouldn’t see ‘no’ to seeing a glimpse of endverse! again! How cool and heartbreaking would that be?

30. - 40. If you had to choose…

Bobby or John? Bobby

Bela or Ruby? Bela 

Jess or Madison? Madison

Jo or Lisa? Jo

Charlie or Kevin? Charlie (but I miss Kevin too ;( )

Balthazar or Ash? Balthazar (dear god those v-necks though)

Cas or Crowley? Cas, absolutely (sorry Crowley, I love ya, but I love my angel boy more)

Ben or Claire? Claire 

Jody or Donna? Jody... I love Donna and I’m similar to her, but Jody is such a bamf! 

Sam or Dean? Dean!

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