#memelords ship

[demonic0angel]

Steph/Danny/Cass ♥️

Stephanie sighed as she pointed around the dance floor. “So what about her? She’s pretty cute.”

Cass shook her head. “Seems mean.”

Stephanie nodded. Fair enough. “Okay, what about him? He seems nice.”

“Has a girlfriend.”

“Oh shit? You’re right, oops.” Stephanie scratched her head and looked around the club again, trying to find a person the two of them could proposition for a night of fun.

Her eyes widened as she spotted the perfect person.

Stephanie nudged Cass. She looked up from her drink and tilted her head in question, before Stephanie gestured to a guy on the dance floor, who was rocking a crop top and a pair of low-riding jeans.

“How do you feel about him?”

He was dancing wildly to the beat, jingling his jewelry amidst the flashing lights and Stephanie eyed her girlfriend, who stared for quite a while. Then she turned to Steph and gave a single nod with a small smile.

Stephanie whooped and pumped her fists into the air. “Sweet! Let’s go flirt with him now!”

He wouldn’t know what was coming for him.

[the-scarecrow-of-aus]

Puns and spoilers.

Stephanie Brown aka batgirl aka spoiler, in her civilian guise [currently a now freed hostage from the jokers elaborate scheme to kill the bat]: "is that seat taken?"

Danny Nightingale aka phantom, ex hero, exhausted mechanical engineer [who just embarrassed the hell out of the joker by ruining his plot, disabling his traps, freeing hostages and mocking him as the joker failed to land a single hit on danny]: "uh, that's my lap?"

[lar-mx]

Prompt ???

Doctor (very tired)Danny x Nurse (just as tired) Steph. That's all, do with this what you want.

[proneterror204]

Steph was freaking out. She was pregnant! She had a month long relationship with a guy, they slept together (multiple times), and now she was pregnant.

How long should she keep this from her (adopted))family. They all were detectives but that was usually focused on a case and not her. There was no use hiding this from Alfred or Cass. They would see through her in an instant. Luckily the rest of the family was focused on their own lives, with B being pulled into a JL meeting lead by Constantine. Something about a newly conseived demigod or something she never listens to Constantine, barely anyone does.

She was in the middle of planning her 9 months of pregnancy and lying, when suddenly Batman and Constantine magically teleport into her apartment. " According to the ritual This is the girl whose is pregnant with the demigod" Constantine states while being completly ignored by the two. Steph is staring at Batman who is slightly twitching. "Well shit" she groans.

Another magical ritual later and her previous... Boyfriend? Fling? Her month long, one night stand is standing there in a magic circle. She rushes to speak before her family can, "Danny you jerk! You got me pregnant and didn't even tell me you were a god?!?"

[new-revenant]

DP x DC Prompt that struck my brain in a funny way #12

Steph’s new boyfriend, Danny Fenton, was…weird. Like, he acted mostly like a normal person, but sometimes he does things that should not be possible. At least by normal human standards anyways. Multiple Batfam members have seen him phase through doors, and walls, and furniture, and even more objects. He has definitely frozen things. He’s been seen floating several feet off the ground.

Steph finds this to be super cool. She really wants to know if Danny was a meta, an alien, some sort of supernatural creature, but Danny is saying nothing.

Danny is definitely not hiding his powers as well as he wanted to, and his girlfriend and her sorta family have noticed. Danny really doesn’t want them to find out he’s this half-ghost thing, because what if Steph breaks up with him D:

[raiffeldrakon123]

DP x DC | Prompt #1

𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚍, 𝐃𝐫. 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝚊𝚍𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚎𝚛 "𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝" —𝘐𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 "𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩"— 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚞𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙂𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙢. 𝙷𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖: 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦? 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝚏𝚊𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚒𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚊𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍. 𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎... 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝚂𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙄𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙨, 𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛: 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘢 𝘻𝘰𝘰, 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮, 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦. 𝙷𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚍𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 —𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩— 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚕𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚛-𝚣𝚎𝚛𝚘 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜, 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎. 𝙳𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙐.𝙎. 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚟𝚒𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎.

[zeestarfishalien]

Lingering Souls

CW: Drugs (fear gas being referred to as a drug), Panic Attack (again it’s fear gas)

[Day 2 dpxdc week 2023; Danny Fenton // Full Hazmat AU // Fear Gas]

• MemeLords (Danny Fenton/Stephanie Brown) if you squint.

When the adrenaline hits, Stephanie prepares herself to face the visions of her failures, of people she cares about dying in her arms, or even visions of dying slowly somewhere cold and alone.

What she doesn’t expect is the odd warping of reality where all the shadows move. There’s people, so many people. Most of them have some sort of violent wound on them hanging open but not freshly bleeding. Her eyes can’t accurately judge distances any more as figures seem to loom closer or flick away with the barest hint of movement. There’s a glow from up on the roof ledge above her that attracts her attention even though moving her head makes her stomach turn.

There. Stretching in a blur of shadows and neon green glow, a figure moves. Suddenly all she can hear is heavy breathing filtered through a mask and the sound is so loud. She can’t hear her own breathing. Is she breathing? Panic rises further as she can’t hear her own breathing, feel her chest rise and fall and the breathing gets louder and louder, the figure hasn’t moved yet, watching Scarecrow monologue.

An ice cold hand grips her shoulder without warning but before she can scream, another is pressed against her mouth, silencing her. She can’t see them, but they’re so cold, like her hands that one time she got captured by Mr. Freeze.

“Shhhhh,” the raspy voice murmurs in her ear. “I need you to breathe with me.” Then she hears the exaggerated rattling breath through a filter that’s different from the overwhelming heavy breathing that’s still plaguing her ears.

They’re trying to get her to breathe. She really wasn’t breathing? That thought nearly sends her spiraling into panic all over and the heavy breathing picks up in speed once more.

“Hey, hey…” the raspy voice is soft, soothing even if it sounds like it must hurt its owner’s throat. “Close your eyes, I’ll put your hand on my shoulder so you can feel me breathe.”

She does it, she closes her eyes. She’s not usually one to listen to a stranger’s command but this is not a usual sort of situation. There’s the shifting of what sounds like rubber then her gloved hand is placed on Raspy Voice’s shoulder. She can feel them breathe and she finally drags in a shuddering breath to match their pace after a few moments of fumbling.

The strange breathing plaguing her matches her own shakily drawn breaths and slowly ever so slowly as her adrenaline plateaus, it dawns on her that the breathing matches hers because it is hers. The drugs are altering her sense of reality. She knows this.

She jolts as a crash and a human squawk cuts off Crane’s monologue. She almost opens her eyes, it’s habit. She needs to know what’s going on, but she knows she’ll lose her tenuous grip on her fear if she does.

“We’ve got him,” the voice reassures her. “Just breathe with me. I won’t leave you.”

And she believes them. Something about Cold Hand’s voice cuts through and draws away the drug induced fear. Which logically shouldn’t be possible but far be it from Stephanie to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Crane must have made this strain short acting. She can hear her heartbeat settling back into something resembling a normal pace. It helps that Cold Hands is murmuring reassurances and documenting what is going on so she can relax a little easier. Crane is caught. The material beneath her gloved fingers is odd. She can’t tell the details obviously but it doesn’t sit in her grip the way she’s used to.

“I’m gonna…let me take my hood off before you open your eyes,” Cold Hands says suddenly.

There’s a rustling and a hiss of air being released from closed circulation, more rustling and then a raspy “okay.”

It’s so quietly said that Stephanie almost doesn’t hear it. It still takes another few moments for her to gather the courage to open her eyes again.

She’s looking into a face spiderwebbed with glowing green lines. The lines reach up to their eyes which also glow in that same ominous color. She has to remind herself that it’s the same color as Kori’s eyes, panic is still easily bubbling up.

She notes the black and white hazmat suit, an odd color. Their companion also wears one in the same colors, their mask is still on but their back is turned as they keep watch over Crane and his goonies.

“I’m Phantom, he/him,” Cold Hands, Phantom says obviously trying to pull her attention back to him. She lets him.

“Spoiler, any.”

“Even Neos?” She’s pretty sure he’s only asking to keep her talking, to keep the conversation going.

“Especially Neo-pronouns.”

Phantom’s grin is infectious. She firmly ignores that thought.

“Who’s your twin over there?”

Phantom pauses at that and not the human sort of pause, his entire body goes absolutely still. Stephanie thinks his heart might have even stopped but she’d have to move to check his pulse. After what feels like an eternity (it’s probably not been that long but time gets wiggy when you’re high on mind altering drugs), his gaze flicks away and she knows he’s either debating on whether or not to lie or about what lie to tell.

When he looks back, he meets her gaze steadily (so probably not lying).

“It’s just me,” he says in that low rasp. The other one, the other Phantom turns to look at them even though he shouldn’t have been able to hear the first one’s voice. Maybe they’re connected?

“An illusion?” She asks it just to eliminate unlikely theories.

“No,” Cold Hands Phantom says, confirming her theory. “He’s completely separate from me until we merge back together.”

Well that’s…got to be confusing.

“It is,” he replied.

“Did I say that out loud?”

“Yeah, you’re still pretty out of it.”

“That checks out. Why hazmat? Seems cumbersome and not for fighting villains.” She knows it’s probably rude but figures the guy might cut her some slack since she’s drugged up at the moment. She’s not one to miss an advantage where she can get one.

For his part, Cold Hands Phantom doesn’t look offended. If anything he looks a little bemused and she wonders how many other thoughts she might have said out loud instead of in the privacy of her own mind. That could get embarrassing real fast. It’s better not to think about it for too long or she’ll lose her nerve.

“Do you believe in ghosts?”

The non sequitur throws her addled mind for a bit of a loop and then she has to think about it for a minute. Does she believe in ghosts? She certainly believes that some spirits linger after death and for people to return from the dead, their souls must have been somewhere.

“I believe that our souls can linger, yeah.”

He nods.

“I’m that; a lingering soul. I died in a hazmat suit so that’s what I’m stuck with. At least until I’m dead long enough to change it.”

“Is that why your hands are so flipping cold,” she bursts out.

He laughs. It’s a cracking horrid sounding laugh, but it’s genuine and filled with his amusement.

“Yeah,” he takes a breath to get the few lingering chuckles under control, “that’s part of the reason my hands are so cold.”

“Hmm…seems like it sucks.”

“Which part? The suit or the cold hands?”

“Both, but I was referring to the suit.”

“Sometimes it does but then again, I don’t have to deal with the stares or the patronizing adults nearly so often. The suit itself is just a part of me so it doesn’t get in my way.”

“You doing alright though?” She doesn’t know what makes her ask that. Possibly the drugs? She’s gonna blame the drugs. But even though she didn’t plan to say it, she finds that she really does mean it. Obviously he’s not gonna want sympathy or pity for his death. It’s something he has to deal with every day. But how many people ask him how he’s doing?

“I…” he fumbles. His face contorts, shifting the glowing lichtenburg figures into interesting shapes and contortions. His fingers come up to rake through his unruly white hair as he takes the time to truly think about her question.

“Some days are easier than others,” he finally settles on. “Being here, now? That’s good. I’m doing good.”

“Okay,” she says and sits back tipping her chin up as she closes her eyes. The nausea is getting worse, but also she doesn’t know what else to say or how to look Phantom in the eyes. So instead she focuses on her breathing.

B would want her to try to find out everything she can about Phantom. But respectfully, screw him. She’s still struggling with the drugs and Phantom did nothing but help her through it and tie up Scarecrow and his goons. While she might want to know how he managed to get her over the effects of the drug so fast and with no antidote, she’s just grateful he did it.

She’ll claim that she was too out of it. Alfred won’t let B get on her case over this.

And well…the dead deserve to rest.

Author’s Note: Steph absolutely was saying much of her thoughts aloud. Will we ever know how much? Who can say. Danny didn’t want her to feel embarrassed about it since she couldn’t really help it.

Also Steph using any pronouns is something you won’t even be able to pry out of my cold dead hands. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[frozenhi-chews]

Warrior queen in love with her silly jester

[demonic0angel]

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[stormikitty]

Everyone keeps pairing Danny up with the bat kids and I'm not even a shipper, but.

Pair him up with Steph,

Cowards.

[silverselfshippingchaos]

you know who I don't talk about enough here? c.ommander s.hepard. i'm head over heels.

[lar-mx]

So… she's single?

Steph and Ellie are in the library working on a project together when Steph decides she has to ask now or she won't get a chance with vacation right around the corner.

Before Steph can ask her question, a girl, perhaps a couple of years older than them, greets them before heading to the counter where Barbara is.

steph: (still distracted watching the girl heading to the counter) "I have a crush on your sister." ellie: (proceeds to shudder) that's my mom.- steph: (blinks a couple of times) So… she's single?

[cybertron-after-dark]

what the FUCK happens in cyberverse

Here's a list just off the top of my head, in no particular order. MASSIVE spoilers ahead.

-Wheeljack keeps making party drugs. This is not only accepted but wholly encouraged by the Autobots. He's made the bot equivalent to cocaine so strong it made grimlock physically unable to stop himself from running around the ship at mach 5. This was the basis for an entire episode. He's also made patches that give you a direct link to the Allspark that he passed out at a party specifically to get everyone as fucked up as physically possible. I cannot overemphasize that Optimus make no effort to stop this until things turn destructive on both occasions.

-Soundwave and Shockwave completely fucking hate each other and have a whole rivalry trying to be a better and more useful follower for Megatron than each other.

-Soundwave is a fucking memelord who will play clown music or dramatic riffs to dunk on people from the soundboard he has built into his hardware.

-theres a sort of liminal dimension referred to as Unspace that you can get stuck in and if you are there for too long you will straight up disintegrate. We see this happen to the entire crew aboard the arc from different timelines several times while the main timeline crew we follow tries to escape this fate, thus dooming dozens of other timelines.

-Cheetor is basically Allspark Jesus, and he's tired of all the fighting, so he tries to have Optimus and Megatron settle their differences once and for all. The chosen method for this was making them both play the Newlywed Game. They were both terrible at it, the MegOp Divorce agenda is alive and well.

-the Quintessons invade Cybertron and stick the entire population into a simulation a la The Matrix, which slowly drains their life force until they die. This kills countless unnamed Cybertronians, both Autobot and Decepticon, as well as Hound, who does not get to appear on screen.

-the Quintessons also catch Starscream, rip his face off, and modify him into an Eldritch tentacle beast with his brain attached to two other aliens, and then appoint that amalgamation as the judge that decides the fate of the universe in regards to whether they exterminate all life within it.

-Shockwave commits suicide for Megatron's approval. He launches his spark straight into the Allspark to taint it specifically as a last desperate fuck you to the autobots.

-Soundwave acquired laserbeak by just kind of grabbing a random bird out of the sky.

-Soundblaster is an ex-decepticon that left out of shame. That shame being Soundwave beating his ass in a beatboxing competition so fuckin hard he couldn't show his face around his faction anymore.

-The autobots keep starscream captive and try to get him to take a therapy session with the Arc's AI, and he starts out willing to actually give it a shot but said AI is kind of Stupid and screamer ends up tricking him into letting him escape through an air vent to go wreak havoc instead.

-Starscream also starts a suicide cult with the other Seekers, gains control of Vector Sigma and the Allspark, has the seekers forfeit their sparks to him, thus resulting in a cosmically powered Starscream. He uses that power to "remake" his followers into scraplets that he refers to as, with nothing but love in his tone, his "children."

-Shockwave and Wheeljack are shown to be ex lab partners. Shockwave has an army of drones that look exactly like his altmode that Wheeljack helped program. They are programmed to be able to break out into a coordinated dance number at any given time. Originally this was just to make Wheeljack laugh. Shockwave kept that function in throughout the entire war and initiates it the second there's a truce and Wheeljack asks to see it again.

-Shockwave kidnaps Wheeljack at one point for Science Under Duress purposes and Wheeljack is too invested in all the sweet fuckin tech Shockwave's been making while they were apart to really care that he's being held against his will, and then proceeds to escape without too much issue because he knows Shockwave well enough to know exactly how to disable everything.

-Bumblebee distracts the Decepticons by running in front of their surveillance cameras and shaking his ass in the most underwhelming way imaginable.

-Grimlock is only stupid when he's in his altmode because it takes a lot of power to sustain and he has to sacrifice some of his higher brain functions to keep it manageable. In robot mode he talks like he went to an Ivy League college and knows what champagne tastes like. He throws upscale parties every chance he gets.

-Grimlock also helped start an anticapitalist revolution with Bumblebee when he found an underground society of insect transformers that had a rigid caste system. This was within moments of finding out that the ultra wealthy were hoarding the limited energon reserves for themselves. Grimlock is a comrade and he does not fuck around.

-Skybyte is here and he sounds like Skeletor.

-Windblade and Slipstream are nemeses and somehow it's even more toxic yuri coded than Arcee and airachnid in tfp.

-speaking of Arcee, she's besties with Grimlock. They at one point have a physical fight over who gets to die to protect the other.

-hot rod and soundwave are forced to share leadership over the team of bots and cons that escaped the quintessons' simulation and it's packed with so much homoerotic tension its unreal.

-Maccadam is some kind of lovecraftian war machine that can unfold himself into a whole armory whenever he feels like it. We have no idea what his whole altmode looks like, all we see are the ominous shadows of the weapons on the walls. He uses this specifically as a threat to keep anyone from fighting in his bar bc he's insistent it remain neutral ground. He also can kinda just. See into the future. And casually drops prophecies that get written off as spoonerisms until they turn out to be relevant.

-Optimus Prime has horrific social anxiety that he can kind of power through when he's in a crisis, but the second things are chill and he has to give a speech at a party or something he simply does not know how to function.

-the entire planet of Velocitron gets taken over by cosmic rust and everyone inhabiting it that couldn't escape in time was killed horrifically.

-cosmos is a girl and she hangs out with a dude named Meteorfire who is, for all intents and purposes, just robot Steve Irwin.

-Astrotrain keeps closing doors in people's faces for the funny

-Megatron is killed by a version of himself from an alternate universe that went nuts and starting creating a master race of perfect Decepticons to inhabit Cybertron. Said perfect Decepticons were carbon copies of idw Tarn in all but personality.

-Acidstorm is canonically genderfluid and keeps switching between male and female seeker frames whenever they feel like it

-Kup, who had not been in the show at all until this point, decides to show up and narrate an entire episode like hes giving a political speech.

And, the infamous one we all know and love

-Megatron is a twitch streamer and he livestreams Starscream's fucking funeral. The chat has custom Decepticon emotes.

[proneterror204]

(The batfam member is Stephanie)

Steph: lol danny how are you so funny?!

Danny: I have access to memes across the multiverse.

Steph: huh?

*danny leans over and shows steph his meme collection*

Steph:*scrolls throught Danny's collection* omg memes from an another dimension... Danny do you want to netflix and chill?

Danny: uhh 😳 Does that mean the samething here as it does in my dimension?

Steph: well what does it mean in your dimension?

Batfam Member: How are you so funny? How do you always have something to say?

Danny, sighing: I knew this day would come

Danny: Memes, man. Memes.

Batfam Member: ..memes?

Danny: Yes, memes. I’m constantly referencing memes from my home dimension.

Batfam Member:

Danny:

Batfam Member:

Danny, slinking away into the shadows: Nobody will ever believe you

[olderthannetfic]

The huge wave of new Stranger Things has a kind of subtrend of fics where the author makes a huge deal about how much research they did and what deep cuts all their references to '80s gay and/or metal subcultures are, with extremely varying levels of effectiveness (as per standard for very popular historical setting ships, but I think it's easier for them to hit the uncanny valley for an era when lots of people of my generation were already alive, compared to like historical-era Stucky fic), and I think the biggest cognitive shock out of one of those was when a "let's explore '80s gay culture!" fic also had a character use the phrase "gay panic" to describe recently figuring out he was bi, as if he was already familiar with the modern usage but not any other

--

LOL. Jesusfuckingchrist, writers. Current older queer people hate it when you use that phrase. Less than a decade after Milk's murder, they would not have been using it in this moronic, twee way.

For that matter, you want a dose of ~old queer culture~?

Don't make flailing like a muppet a thing at all.

Fuck that "I'm helpless because too queer" nonsense. When I was A Youth™, I did not see that. Not from my fellow babies and not from the older queer community. Might as well have your characters call themselves "memelords" or talk about fucking horse plinko in your oh-so-historical fic.

The presence of the concept of that panicking in the tumblr sense is itself uncanny valley for me.

[nozoditz]

what your favourite precure season says about you, in no particular order

(or in the order I thought was funny. Please don't take offence to any of the jokes, this is all for fun. I'm making fun of myself too here.)

Max Heart: Whenever the debate starts up about low-combat seasons, no-combat seasons, what counts as low combat, whether you blame broadcast standards and practices, whether certain seasons should even be counted in the franchise, it's always you.

Heartcatch: You used to be new blood. You wore the new-blood badge proudly. Now you're old guard, and you're taking this about as well as you take the cashier at the liquor board store not carding you anymore.

Fresh: Every other redemption arc in the franchise is under a microscope with you people. Whether it was emotional enough. Whether they were sad enough. Whether they were too evil to deserve it or not evil enough to warrant it. Whether they're gay enough with the MC. We get it, you already have the gold standard in front of you!

Mahoutsukai/Mahou Girls/Witchy: You know how people used to turn up their noses at Precure and call it "the magical girl show for yuri fans"? You took that as a recommendation.

Otona/Full Bloom: You people deserve a war medal for how much shipping discourse you have to deal with every day out there. And a drink. [smash cut to the second Otona collab cafe being the first official Precure event with a liquor licence] Well, you got one of those things.

Doki Doki: You either go all in on the "stealth yuri harem show" thing or you have very strong opinions on which specific girl Mana should be with and how much better that girl deserved in general from the writers.

Tropical-Rouge: Memelord. You have watched Monopoly Mermaid Monday every week for years. You have put low-poly images of Kururun in every possible situation. You have substituted Asuka into every meme about characters from other shows being some kid's lesbian awakening. The animation errors are in your blood.

Star Twinkle: You have Opinions about all the times that the plot, setting, characters, merch, and screentime levels pivoted to try and drum up toy sales. I feel for you poor souls. On a meta level, this is the Go-Busters of Precure.

Hirogaru/Soaring Sky: You have a conspiracy board of how Sora/Mashiro is canon and how the staff are clearly suffering and straining to show it without the censors getting on their case. Possibly a literal conspiracy board on the actual wall of your home.

Go! Princess: I have never seen the reverse of "they're not gay, it's just admiration" as strongly as I have with you. You guys have just-friends goggles for Haruka/Kanata welded onto your face so she can end up with whichever other girl(s) you prefer instead. Live your best life.

Futari wa: You are a nostalgia fiend, the world's strongest Nagihono shipper, suffered in that 2010s wave of people complaining about Nagisa being a pessimistic whiner when her developing through that was half the point of the show, and still probably call Hikari useless and/or a third wheel. The first three points are valid, but get over the last one.

Smile: You will not watch anything that is 13 episodes or shorter. To you, people calling for the end of filler are calling for the end of character development, breathing room, and likeable characters and stories. Also you just love how silly it got.

5GoGo: This is basically the same as Smile but you had to walk uphill both ways in the snow for almost six years.

HappinessCharge: You could give an impassioned speech about how so many people had ideas about what this season should be that they never slowed down to appreciate what it is. But you're too chill for that and you just meme about Mars, wedding chicken, and eye lasers.

Healin' Good: You will never forgive COVID or the Olympics.

Splash Star: You originated the "Girly Dragon Ball" meme. There is no way a Splash Star fan isn't out there trying to evangelize their show to people who dismiss the season, series, and genre. It worked for Princess Tutu, you're convinced it's going to work for you.

Hugtto: You have opinions about the ending. You have opinions about which ships are canon and which ships should have been canon. You have opinions on the timeline. For my own safety, I will not get into a conversation with you about any of them.

Wonderful: I know the character work is great. I know the magical girl genre has evolved and Precure doesn't need to set itself apart from the competition when it's at the top of the heap. I know it's teaching kids important lessons. I just feel like you're a little stressed out and maybe you need a vacation.

Yes: You have spent far too long suffering children accusing you of being problematic and probably heterosexual, when I know you just love the stupid antics these girls get up to when every one of them thinks they're the only sensible person in the room and they are dead wrong.

Suite: You would also like the opportunity to punch your depression until it goes away, and I do not blame you.

Kirakira: Either you came here for Akiyuka or you watched all of Yumeiro Patissiere and probably mainline the Food Network.

Delicious-Party: Do you exist? I have never met someone who said their favourite season was Delicious-Party. Are you all congregating in the Tokusatsu Quarry? I can't generalize about people I'm not sure are even there to make jokes about.