#oop I made it sad again

[emmedoesntdomath]

SPOT CONLON SPOT CONLON SPOT CONLON SPOT-

I’m not even going to lie to you, this man (92sies) was the reason I first actually got into this fandom.

also- I know next to nothing about uksies’ spot, and while she seems like an absolute badass of a woman whom I would adore, I’m going to stick to what I know, and that’s livesies and 92sies spot. sorry.

(these headcanons are somewhat based in history, mostly not.)

sean ‘spot’ conlon was born and bred in brooklyn, nyc to an irish mother and a spanish father. his first language was spanish (his mother died when he was really little, otherwise it would have gaelic/irish), but he learned english pretty quickly. he became a newsie at nine, and was damn good at it. he rose up the ranks at a speed unheard of, and by the time he was fourteen, he was the king.

here’s the thing about brooklyn politics- they’re messy as shit. in manhattan, leaders aren’t formally elected, they’re just kind of the implied leader. the bronx is the same way, with a little more dispute. so smalls and jack became leaders pretty naturally. queens is more or less a democracy, flushing’s pretty much the same. but brooklyn and harlem? you have to literally fight your way to the top. and once you get there, you have to keep fighting to maintain that power.

so when people say they’re scared of spot conlon? yeah. yeah, they should be.

he rules with an iron fist. there’s no mercy for traitors or rebels. he leads this way for roughly three, four years, gaining hotshot as his second and a motley crew of loyalists behind him. and then- and then hotshot reports of a manhattan newsie working the crowds at the races (and to be clear, brooklyn and manhattan aren’t on great terms)(spot thinks jack’s an idiot and wants nothing to do with him).

suddenly, spot’s got a weakness, and said weakness is now the official ambassador of manhattan (hotshot hates him with a burning passion, and spot kind of respects him for that). and then there’s the strike, and spot steps down a year and a half later, at nineteen- steps down, spot conlon is not FORCED down, thank you very much- and that’s the end of the king of brooklyn.

sean conlon, though.

he still likes the water, and the way the air smells after a particularly hard rain. he sometimes starts speaking in spanish while he sleeps. he isn’t the biggest fan of smoking, but damn, if he doesn’t find it hot when other people do it. he got his nickname because he had freckles on his arms and nose. his best friends are david jacobs and hotshot, but he won’t admit to even liking either of them. he hates when people call him short. he’s never liked girls, but he never really cared much for boys, either, until he met racetrack higgins. he can’t read, but he pretends to when asked, because he’s embarrassed about it.

he joins the army when the war begins, and the war ends without him coming home.

the world and a ptsd-riddled italian boy with curls mourn.

[bunnybird-afk]

One of those "Do you think we're together in every universe?" edits, except it's Hogan with all the different versions of Merlin that he's lost.

[winterequinoxx]

thinking about Tim, Cassie, Bart and Kon bored one day and making a lipsync video to "unsweetened lemonade" with Wonder Girl taking the first verse, Impulse, taking the second and Robin and Superboy taking the third.

just yelling their anger about their situations.

totally not thinking of Cassie and Tim trying to hold it together and crying "we were supposed to last til 93..." in the dark

[dazais-guardian-angel]

With today's entry, I was rather surprised and confused that Johnathan seemed to turn around so quickly from the absolute pit of despair he was in yesterday, having newfound determination and energy when he's seemingly been completely hopeless and inactive for weeks now (and for good reason). Not that I ever thought he'd completely given up, but there's definitely been a slow decline in how descriptive his journal entries have been to reflect his declining mental state (more robotic, less of his actual feelings about things), and today was a sharp contrast; it feels more like the early entries again. I thought, well, his mind is probably just so cracked at this point that he's looped all the way back around to being bold and energetic again, because by now he's desperate enough to throw caution to the wind: he either succeeds doing something extremely reckless to escape, or he fails and meets his end in a far better way than if he just waits for his fate by Dracula's hands.

...But having thought about it and reading other posts, I realized (probably stupidly obvious as it is) that his sudden change in mood probably has to do with what happened to the baby. Despite how scared he's been all this time, yesterday he didn't hesitate for a single second to try to save the baby once he realized from the previous incident what was happening, not thinking about his own life at all. And then he despaired when he couldn't save the child, the first time he's mentioned crying in the book at all, and then he had to witness the mother blaming him for her baby's death, and being killed herself for trying to rescue it. Now, the day after that horrific and heartbreaking failure, he's suddenly more determined than he's been in ages to escape. Maybe that was a turning point for Johnathan, and lit a fire under him... maybe he's clinging to the need to escape not just for himself and the people he loves anymore, but for the vain hope that he can put a stop to Dracula's schemes somehow once he gets out, because he doesn't want to let any more children die :' )

[castielsbees]

was listening to five years by bowie and the lyrics made me think of remus after everything happened on halloween 1981 looking back on a memory from like 1976 when the marauders were still happy and together and alive and now i’m unwell

“Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, what a surprise We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

Five years

Five years

Five vears

Five years”

[unma]

Cats

What's not to love about these lovely creatures? Honestly, growing up I was always a dog person (even despite the fact that I was attacked by one when I was young). But then I realized I wouldn't be able to take care of a dog for, well, a buncha reasons, thought about how it would be to have a cat, and thought, yeah, it would be nice to have one. For so many reasons. The eternally lethargic me could never take care of a dog properly. A cat, though? I probably could.

[mugwot]

hm

[marsbotz]

my new fursona btw. i actually picked a drsign finally. do you love him

[barkingangelbaby]

venting so much i ran out of tags lmao

[littledata]

i'm dumb what does tearaway rockstar mean? like broke off from a group? also i love that you're in love with the idea!

You're not dumb at all! I guess I mean troubled rockstar?

I think there's something interesting there with an Ava who grew up as an orphan then shot to fame. We KNOW Ava loves so deeply and wants so badly to be loved, and I think she'd struggle to recognise which of the people who surround her are looking out for her best interests and which are just there to help themselves?

[ridiasfangirlings]

middle school sarumi when they first moved in together being petty over their shared stuff so they decide to place name tags on their stuff like in that one dexter episode, anyways things escalate and now they have walls and even trash with name tags on, they go on until they run out of things to name tag but then yata plasters a tag on saru's nose and goes "your nose is mine!" this totally ends up in a game of who can place more name tags on the other

I imagine Yata starts this because Fushimi absolutely strikes me as the type who would just grab things out of the fridge or whatever without caring who bought them, like he’ll steal Yata’s blanket because it’s fresh from the dryer (even though Fushimi himself hasn’t bothered to wash his own blanket in weeks) or he’ll drink the last cola in the fridge even though he and Yata agreed to split them and he’s taken more than half. Whenever Yata complains about it Fushimi just shrugs like too bad I got it first. Finally one day Yata can’t take it anymore, he made some extra food for himself to take for lunch at his part time job and he doesn’t want Fushimi snacking on it before Yata can get to it so Yata buys a bunch of name tags stickers and slaps a big ‘Property of Yata Misaki’ on the food.

Fushimi opens the fridge later and sees the name tag, he glances at Yata who gives him this triumphant grin. Fushimi just clicks his tongue without a word but the next day when Yata goes to get a drink there’s a ‘Property of Fushimi Saruhiko’ sticker on all the cola bottles. Yata’s like what the hell and Fushimi just calmly says well money from his coding jobs paid for those so they’re his, right. Yata’s like oh yeah well take this and starts putting stickers on everything he knows he bought. Fushimi leans in beside him and starts putting stickers on things too (imagine Yata tries to be clever and put a Fushimi sticker on the vegetables and Fushimi just peels those right off and switches out for the Yata stickers on the chips instead). 

Soon it’s escalated and there are stickers on the posters along the walls and their beds, they probably both start arguing over who owns the kotatsu because Yata picked it up but Fushimi fixed it. Yata gets annoyed and is like well how about this, you’re my property too as he puts a sticker across Fushimi’s nose. Fushimi snorts that Yata’s such a little kid, even as he puts his own sticker on Yata’s shirt. Yata grins and starts putting stickers in Fushimi’s hair while Fushimi sticks them all over Yata’s face. Soon they’re both lying in a heap and Yata starts laughing, admitting that okay maybe this is silly. Fushimi tries to act all mature like it’s about time you realized that but even he can’t cover the small smile on his face. They end up cleaning all the stickers and agreeing that everything is communal property but Fushimi will be more mindful of Yata’s things when told (and while they throw all the stickers away maybe Fushimi does keep one, slipping that ‘Property of Yata Misaki’ sticker that Yata first put on his nose into his pocket, because no one’s ever wanted him to belong to them before, even if it was a joke)

[twinknote]

you can stim by singing should have known better by sufjan… but watch out!!

[pagesofkenna]

im guilty of this too so i can't really complain, but sometimes it irks me to see people complaining about stories or IPs not being good enough because they're not a completely different thing. like they wanted it to be something else entirely, and it's not, and they think it missed the mark

like specifically right now i'm following a LoZ fan who's been complaining that TOTK could have done X Y or Z and done a character so much better justice and instead it did A B and C and the whole game is a huge disappointment, and on the one hand I can understand their feelings of wanting this character portrayed in a different way but on the other hand.............. thats not the character? thats a different character you made up in your brain. its cool! you should explore that! but the project developers and IP owners dont want to tell the story you have in your head? they're telling a different story. where A B and C happens

[todayisafridaynight]

LIKEWISE I hope you enjoy the upcoming releases too and that the price tag on Gaiden's worth it! I know personally I'll enjoy them regardless lol, the worldwide releases have been Particularly Rough on localization but these have still been some of my favorite games. Sorry in advance for I will be the one saying unnecessary things (as I often am) though </3

Speaking of, I'm glad you're enjoying Kyouen!! Once Again I wish I didn't have Goldfish Memory so I could actually discuss but :) always look forward to your reviews :)

i wouldnt ever say anythin you say is unnecessary when you always have a lot of insight and purpose to what you say ♪(´▽｀)

AND YAYA im really enjoyin kyouen ! you were absolutely right in everyone being petty as hell LMAO im living for it tho (￣y▽￣)

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[justsumtransdude2000]

I understand that the "Imagine if we actually had to pay for gender" is being used in a different light - like, ofc it would be ludicrous to unlock gender (for some people) but I'd like to direct your attention to trans people, who, quite literally do have to pay to 'unlock' gender (not to be debbie downer but sometimes with their lives).