#jump backwards in time

[onlydigressing]

Salty and Sweet (2/?)

No, I do not know how long each “chapter” will be. I don’t have a plan, so it’s whatever feels right or like a cliffhanger. Not putting too much pressure on myself is the way to go, or my brain will just go lol nope. Go me! If I get my AO3 invite and stuff then I might try arranging it there…

Caleb rushed to his brother’s room. It couldn’t be true… Jonathan hadn’t… No… It couldn’t be… It wouldn’t be fair…

Caleb had hated it when his brother had joined a Wolf Guard pack. It was possibly the worst idea that Jonathan had ever had, which was saying a lot. A Wolf Guard pack… As Crown Prince, Jonathan had had invitations to any pack in the kingdom, and he had to pick one that was actually dangerous. Of course he had…

It wasn’t a surprise. Jonathan had always felt suffocated in the Royal Court, which was only partly due to his nature. A wolf born to run free and all that poetic shit. The Wolf Guard Track sends their members across the continent. It was the perfect kind of pack for a young, reckless wolf.

Still… joining the type of pack that guides people through mystical forests and over treacherous mountain paths is a big jump to make from living in a castle. It’s not like the world was peace free, no matter what the kingdoms would have you believe.

And now look where that got Jonathan. Caleb skidded to a halt outside a door painted to look like the night sky. He wasn’t sure he could do this…

Nevertheless, he pushed the door inward. He couldn’t be a coward, and Jonathan needed him.

[arkieve]

every time i need a pick-me-up i just imagine sirius and regulus fighting like those two siblings from succession and laugh to myself

[obstinaterixatrix]

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that--through some horrible twist of fate--her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive a massive athletic scholarship. Can Molly's crew of ragtag artists succeed in softball without dropping the ball?

The author of the New York Times best-selling Check, Please series, Ngozi Ukazu, returns with debut artist Madeline Rupert to bring an energetic young adult story about authenticity, old vs. new, and college failure. It also poses the question: "Is art school worth it?"

I’ve been a huge fan of sakana since forever, and I like self-contained sports stories (the heated drama is peak, but I can’t stick with something super long) so I knew I’d love this graphic novel. and I was right.

I like the ensemble! The focus is primarily on the main character, but you get the sense they’re doing their own stuff in the periphery. wrangling a bunch of art students is a really funny concept and allows for a lot of personality contrasts.

it’s not a romance, but it does have romantic elements, and the love interest-type character is SO funny. there were several scenes with her that legit got a laugh out of me

super worth it, 100% recommended for a fun time. might give ex-art school students psychic damage

[insignificantstrawberry]

i hope the next ti west/mia goth picture is gonna have Maxine Minx facing her own mortality and visible aging in like. 1999. She’d be 46 at the beginning of the dot com insanity. something about becoming older while contending with newer tech. i dunno. i never want this to end but everything ends kind of thing

[ratatatastic]

the beautiful scenes of men who are getting way too competitive over a children's game part 489

washington capitals @ florida panthers | 11.25.24 (x)

[melancholic-pigeon]

Okay this is the *actual* last comment, for real, but I just found out Spider is now smearing me as a convert and accusing me of being involved with drama I was not involved with because he mistakenly attributed my apologies for his public temper tantrum as being about something unrelated.

THIS IS A FALSE ACCUSATION and I do not appreciate having yet another bit of fake malicious intent falsely ascribed to my actions and* attributing a completely unrelated attack to me.

Also, it's very sad and disappointing whenever a Jew gets mad at a convert because something else is going on in the Jew's life and the convert happens to be in the splash zone and the Jew falls over backwards to smear the convert and invalidate her faith.

Just....the childish aggression is making me so, so sad and disappointed, from someone I used to think very highly of, who is now lying about me and publicly smearing me with false accusations based on a conflict he started because he misinterpreted something I said and I went out of my way to give him the benefit of the doubt when trying to clear up the mistake HE MADE that led him to decide bullying and attacking me for three fucking days was appropriate and okay and that I'm the bad guy for saying it's wildly unprofessional to behave like this in public to a former customer face.

Sorry, but facts, reality, linear time and the truth of what I actually said and did are on my side here, and I will not stand for being smeared and attacked and shat all over because I had the gall to try to kindly resolve his uncalled for, unjustified temper tantrum.

I am also not sorry that I left a side note in the tags that it was also unacceptable for HIM to drag his daughter into a stupid internet slapfight based on his own reading comprehension failure. Because it was and is unacceptable, and she needs to hear that message from someone.

End of story. Keep digging that hole as long as you like, Spider. It's not helping your case and is continuing to make you look progressively worse and more unreasonable, and the only person you have to blame is yourself.

*revised for clarity

[darknessandasong]

i gotta stop playing doors before the bell tolls again

[the-apocrypha]

The real mystery is the people who write their stories out of order. Who scrambled your brains. Who gave you such power over chaos. I can't even skip past an incomplete paragraph without breaking into hives.

[ovviet]

me, every time emily axford gave me emotional damage by connecting to NPCs with a sense of humanity and treating them with respect and dignity:

[malachianderson]

[Before leaving for Vince’s parents’, Chi knocked lightly on Sam and Nikko’s door.]

@joiesamevans​

[technoxenoholic]

i see so many "hey this will help you write if you have adhd" things that are like. they are "more stimulating" by gamifying it somehow. like. making things on your screen move. and i regret to inform y'all that when things on my screen move without my permission it doesn't help me write it doesn't help me focus it actually just makes me murderously violent

[haechannabelle]

my ssri WISHES she released as much serotonin in my brain as watching the dance for bloom bloom by the boyz

[full-pockets]

So there's one shrine that goes over the basics of flurry rush and I think another that goes over shield parry. I don't remember if they were separate shrines or the same.

I feel like they 'widened the window' of time allowed to do flurry rush either in that shrine or in the entirety of the game (haven't used FR outside of the shrine yet), cause I SUCK at it. I managed to get all three flurry rushes on my first try, along with shield parries. I haven't played BotW for over a year maybe and it's not like any other game I play has a timing mechanic in battle like that. I feel like the game was being generous cause it was a tutorial shrine to get the hang of it.

My shield parry is about half/half. Sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't. I used to SP the Guardians before I switched to a bow which I was better with. But FR was always an issue for me. If I got it, it was out of dumb luck somehow.

[thecobaltmonk]

I'm very excited for the day when CR announces they will be using their new TTRPG system for the next campaign, bc that HAS to be where we are headed.

[intertexts]

i should relistwn to that episode....

[starry-bi-sky]

*hits you with more Ras Danyal fanart and runs🏃*

Don’t ask me the context of the RR and Danny one, I saw the pose and wanted to practice drawing duos kfhsh

Haven't forgotten for a second that there's meant to be Flashfam here >:]. I just didn't have a lot of thoughts about him and his interactions with Danny in the au, I've watched s1 and half of s2 of the netflix Flash show and that's about it. I think once Danny kinda 'settles' in Central City (that is, he routinely returns to it the most and stays there for a few weeks at a time messing with the portal gun before going out to get more parts) they have frequent little hangouts/run-ins/what have you. Flash is the first person to learn the mystery boy's 'name' :] and is perhaps the first person Danny officially 'reveals' his powers to (not his ghost form tho, just some of his powers).

(Now, they all knew he was some kind of meta and perhaps knew one or two of his powers or had theories, but Flash is the first person Danny himself actually turns to and goes: 'okay, here is what I can do'. And Flash is both very smug and very touched about it. The kid trusts him!! How can he not??)

("Now can you please tell your little hero friends to get off my back? I appreciate the concern, but I can handle myself. Can tie my own shoelaces and everything.")

Flash asks Danny about his powers (the ones he told him, which I think would probably be invisibility/intangibility/flight because those are have been his most prominently used ones and explains how he's been able to get all over the country faster than he should + his ability to slip away and stuff) and vice versa, Danny asks Flash about his -- he's infinitely curious about how his superspeed works and the stuff he looked up said he can phase through walls? He wants to know the difference between Flash's phasing and his phasing, etc, etc.

I don't know enough about the other speedsters to include Danny interacting with them, unfortunately. Every time Flash spots Danny sitting somewhere in CC while he's running around, he loops back to some food place and grabs something for him to eat, and then drops it off next to him. Otherwise Danny will try and refuse it.

This happens especially if Flash sees him and thinks Danny looks otherwise emaciated/exhausted/or if he's been away from Central City for longer than normal. He has no idea where the kid sleeps, and currently he's not trying to figure it out, it'll break the fragile trust he's built with Danny.

Danny Is An Alternate Version Of Ra's Al Ghul And Flash Already Called Dibs On Adopting Him

Danny In All His Sleep Deprived Slightly Scuffed Up From A Fight Glory Is On His Way To Clockworks Tower To Hopefully Get A Nap And Maybe Some Homework Done When A Natural Portal Opens Up In Front Of Him And Proceeds To Unceremoniously Drop Him In The DC Verse Just Outside Of Central City Before Promptly Closing Leaving A Tired Danny Behind In A Run Down Abandoned Parking Lot.

It's Times Like This When Danny Regrets Putting Off Learning How To Make His Own Portals, Cause Now He Is Very Much Stuck For The Foreseeable Future And He Has No Idea Where Or When He Is. Luckily For Him However Central City Isn't Too Far Away, Unlucky For Him However Is That Once In The City He Realizes This Isn't His Dimension. He's Pretty Sure He'd Remember Something Called The Justice League.

So What Do You Do When Supernatural Bullshit Fails You? You Fall Back On Your Mad Scientist Roots And You Make A Portal Gun. So That's Exactly What Danny Plans To Do.

Unfortunately Staying Alive And Building Questionably Safe Portal Technology Requires Money And Supplies, So He Ends Up Wandering From City To City Doing Odd Jobs/Fixing Up Busted Tech For Cash Or Unwanted Electronics For His "Operation: Get Home" Needs. This Obviously Ends In A Few Superhero Encounter Shenanigans.

Though He Always Ends Up Back Near Central City, Both On The Off Chance The Natural Portal Will Open Up Again And Because Out Of All The Superheroes That Apparently Exist In This Universe The Speedsters Are His Favorite (Red Robin Is Solidly His Second Favorite Ever Since The Gotham Vigilante Gave Him A Large Coffee Filled With Enough Caffeine To Kill A Man).

Unbeknownst To Danny However Is That Every Hero/Vigilante He Has Encountered Has Come To At Least One Of The Following Conclusions; 1. Run Away Meta Who Is In Desperate Need Of A Good Meal/Adoption Bait. 2. Possibly Red Robin/Tim Drake Clone 3. A Good Kid But Could Possibly Be A Future Rouge If Left Unsupervised. 4. Did Bats Get A New Kid And Why Is He Here?

All Flash Knows Is That He Saw The Kid First And Therefore Has Dibs. Suck It Bruce.

Fast-forward A Few Months And Danny Gets Hurt During A Rogue Attack While Trying To Help Some Civilians Get To Safety (Old Hero Habits Die Hard (Ha Die Hard) And All That Jazz) And He Nopes Out Once Everyone Is Safe And When The Paramedics Are Busy With Other People Unaware He Left A Blood Sample Behind.

One DNA Test Brought To You By Paranoid Bat Concerns Of A Possible Red Robin Clone Later And They Find Out That Dannys DNA Matches One Ra's Al Ghul.

They Now Think Danny Is An Escaped Ra's Al Ghul Clone.

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