#or a stable person

[kavehayati]

Maybe I’ve been going about this the wrong way

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

[freefallintothevoid]

Nightwing is not a retired crashout. He's just a crashout on hold.

He, like any good eldest sibling with Eldest Daughter Syndrome, is letting all his younger siblings have a turn at crashing out. Anyone with Batman as their parent/parental figure deserves to. It's practically tradition at this point.

Sure, he didn't expect Bruce to keep adopting more and more, but okay fine. He likes having lots of brothers and sisters. He likes being a big brother. Once the flow of new siblings stops and they've all gotten it out of their systems, first chance he gets Nightwing is going to finally allow himself his second run of things. He's just waiting.

Bruce keeps adopting, partially because he can't help it, and partially because he'd rather deal with a dozen regular Bat Children going through the typical teenage rebellion phase than Dick Grayson experiencing a crashout literally years in the making. If he stops adopting he knows what will happen. At this point he's spent too long holding it off to hope the inevitable fallout can be contained.

Teenage Dick Grayson crashing out was bad enough. Adult Dick Grayson has been gearing up more or less for over a decade.

No one will be prepared, except maybe Jason, who has been gleefully waiting for the older brother he remembers to make a comeback since he first showed up as Red Hood, Tim, who is ankle deep into the beginnings of a villain arc at any given moment and spent most of his pre-robin years photographing everything that happened the first time, and Harley Quinn, a licensed psychologist specializing in crazy who has been watching the warning signs build up like an unstable jenga tower for years.

[dclovesdanny]

DcxDp prompts

Dan/Danny/Dani additions 1/5

Danny is adoption bait to the Gotham rogues.

Danny only went to Gotham university because it had a lot of ambient ectoplasm and he could fast track to the arrow space department in Wayne enterprises if he worked hard enough. He didn’t need adopting, he was already 19 years old and had a (strained, very distant) relationship with his parents. When he moved to Gotham, he expected to have to deal with people wanting to make him a new Wayne, not with all of the Gotham rogues immediately trying to adopt him.

So what if he defended Killer Croc from some asshole cops, accidentally exposing his fangs and had a conversation about being dehumanized with him that led to them having dinner on Wednesdays?

So what if he got into a serious conversation about the green gas effect and pollution (Sam had taught him well) with Poison Ivy that result in him coming over for dinner and Harley Quinn declaring him a ‘sweetheart’?

So what if he directed Frostbitw to help Mr. Freeze and now Nora invited him over for brunch on Sundays?

So what if he had a wonderful conversation with the Riddler in which they traded space themed riddles which lead to Riddler seeking him out sometimes for a game?

So what if he helped Mr. cobble pot by making him intangible when some people were driving by in about splash mud on him and he now had a part time job there as a bouncer?

So what if Grundy played tag with him every other Thursday and called him Little Death and offered to eat his chemical engineering teacher who gave him a low grade because he didn’t follow safety precautions?

This didn’t mean he was adoption bait. Shut up Sam.

[shaniacsboogara]

liking dnd is so funny because yeah you play the actual game sometimes but mostly you just think about the game and watch other people play the game and slowly go insane thinking about how much you wish you could play the game and hoping that buying more shiny rocks will fix everything

[schizorrs]

it got worse, i dont know what to do with myself anymore.

[toiletepaperroll]

blah blah blah put kimi antonelli in the williams and move carlos to mercedes blah blah blah

YOURE ALL WRONG

put kimi antonelli in the williams of ALEX ALBON and move alex up to mercedes.

brocedes 2.0 except theyre nice to each other and they care about each other and its not really brocedes even though theyre besties since childhood and in silver mercs.

because galex would be nice to each other. anti-brocedes. the opposite of brocedes would happen to them i think. and that would just destroy brocedes because that means for them that nico and lewis just did not have to do all that shit and were more willing to sacrifice themselves and their love for each other than race wins and it was all for nothing in the end.

it would be fun i think. loscar should do it too but they should unlock some secret third ending (im delusional abt logan sargeant redemption arc with cadillac. IT WILL HAPPEN PEOPLE) because loscar is just like, some other beast all together.

[jellynotbees]

I decided to give lamb a nickname! I realized for like 95% of the story they won’t be using their actual name (and would react poorly to anyone using it) so I needed Something for Narinder to call them because he’s kinda nosy and wouldn’t believe they had forgotten their name at this point

This will tie into a future comic :)

[stardustravens]

There are only two possible explanations for this line:

Fitz mystically sensed that he and Carson share a disdain for fancy clothing

Gay

[troubldteenz]

Toxic Yaoi💔

[kacievvbbbb]

This is so shanks coded to me. Like he just keeps losing people and he never learns how to deal with it. So much so that he becomes the abandoning parent. He literally knows nothing else all he has as a frame of reference is all the adult figures in his life leaving him and telling him it is for the best. So why exactly wouldn’t he believe that the best way to love someone is by letting go?

He does it to Luffy, he does it to Uta and in some ways he does it to Buggy and Mihawk too. Because he never just asks them to stay. He lets Buggy run out of his life even though it was pretty obvious that Buggy wanted Shanks to fight for this to take a stand a real one on a conviction for once and he…doesn’t, he just lets buggy leave.

And then he hitches his wagon to the most flighty (dude is literally a bird motif 😭) mother fucker he can find. he lets Mihawk wander in and out of his life as he pleases regardless of what is best for either of them. Because maybe Mihawk has nothing better to do 👀. Maybe he would say yes now if Shanks asks. but Shanks would rather die than ask, would cut off his other arm before he even attempted to “clip Mihawk’s wings”

And that’s like the truth of it. Shanks has been abandoned by every person that has ever loved him besides his crew and he knows they will never leave him. But Maybe he just wants someone to stay not because they call him captain.

[varpusvaras]

I know some people aren't fans of really domestic jayroy, but for me it's getting even more desirable, especially because of what happens in Gotham War.

Because I know nothing more ironically comical than Jason being actually very capable of just living a normal domestic life, and it's purely because the people he is living that life with are people who are not constantly antagonizing him.

[raincamp]

its so humiliating having to admit to people that sometimes my only motivation for doing something is for validation or attention

[junipersxlies]

Sad reality for most of us girl

[anghraine]

I was re-watching The Search For Spock for reasons and damn, I'm kind of fascinated by the brief interactions between Kirk and Sarek.

Sarek does not even consider that Spock might have mind-melded with anyone but Kirk before dying; he just assumes Kirk is carting around Spock's katra but making some baffling choices around it, and when he realizes Kirk doesn't have it, he assumes there was no mind-meld at all. (This is partly because Kirk was the last person who interacted with Spock, but even once Sarek knows Kirk wasn't there at the right time, he doesn't consider that Spock might have passed his katra to someone who was there.)

Kirk responds to the assumption that of course it was him by saying, "Sir, your son meant more to me than you can know" (I feel like Sarek does know, in fact). Kirk adds that he'd have died if it meant Spock would live, he just doesn't know wtf Sarek is talking about.

The sole explanation for why Spock didn't meld with Kirk before dying is that Kirk didn't happen to be in the same room at the time. There's this awful soft anguish to Kirk's explanation: "We were separated...he couldn't touch me..."

The mind-meld with Sarek is weird and uncomfortable (which I actually like them to be—let Vulcans be weird!). The camera continually focusing on Sarek's mouth doesn't help, though.

However, this meld doesn't seem as ... encompassing as the Kirk-Spock ones (I mean, one would hope not, but still). Sarek just summarizes Kirk's memories and repeats some specific statements of Spock's as he's rifling through Kirk's memories, rather than speaking Kirk's own thoughts as Spock did; Kirk's independent confirmations that Sarek is correctly seeing his memories come from Kirk's own mouth, not Sarek's.

Unusually, Kirk opens his eyes halfway through the meld as he gets to relive this latest trauma, and he's obviously on the verge of tears but holds back. The way the camera focuses on his eyes specifically is fantastic, actually—the lighting mingles with the hazel of his eyes in a kind of unsettling way and you just see the stunned grief in them.

At one point, Kirk just longingly/miserably murmurs "Spock..." as he's reliving their last moments together. Via Spock's father.

Presumably(????) they didn't literally mean Sarek to be Kirk's father-in-law, and yet their dynamic just feels so much like tense in-laws who previously didn't talk much or approve of each other dealing awkwardly with shared loss, and then teaming up against any threats to the welfare of the person they both love.

Once Kirk understands what the hell Sarek is even talking about, he's the one who is absolutely certain Spock would have passed on his katra when Sarek gives up hope. Sarek promptly realizes that Kirk's understanding of Spock is correct, though he didn't see it himself until Kirk points it out, and still has no idea how this would have worked out. It's Kirk, again, who comes up with the most obvious explanation.

Instead of going through the camera recordings himself, Kirk asks Sarek to please wait so they can go through them together.

One of the snippets from the recording that shows up as Kirk is rewinding to the right spot is past!Kirk screaming and being held back as Spock is dying. Sarek isn't even judgmental about it. (ngl I ... suspect the Sarek-Kirk relationship is going to be a lot better once things settle down later.)

Kirk acknowledges that carrying this out will be difficult and Sarek says, "you will find a way." Kirk just responds, "I will. I swear."

Then towards the end of the film, as the Klingon ship approaches Vulcan, Sarek responds to the announcement of their arrival with "Tell them ... tell Kirk we'll be ready." Again, Sarek seems to believe that Spock's relationship to Kirk specifically is exceptional and unlike his other friendships. Sarek is the one who tells post-ritual Spock about his closeness to Kirk in particular and that Kirk went back for him. (This is also reinforced by Spock recognizing Kirk's face alone, and recalling his name specifically.)

By the time the ritual is over, Sarek knows that Kirk's own son died in the process of recovering Spock. When Kirk says he did what he had to do, Sarek asks, "But at what cost?" Kirk just says he'd have lost his soul if he hadn't tried and Sarek accepts this.

[kelocitta]

You're not glossing over the suffering and trauma the Scavengers have been put through at the hands of Artificer or having them all be ok with it just because they felt sorry about it like so many AUs like to do right?

Who said anything about them feeling sorry about it 🤔Artificer has a lot of issues but if they were justified is not one of them they're grade A hater

On a more serious note: It depends. I don't like the 'genocidal maniac' style of characterization so they're pretty far from that, so if you consider anything less than that sympathetic you're not gonna find it here. They have a brain and a goal so their destruction is/was a little more targeted and less of a wildfire. They harm a lot of people in the process, and they don't particularly have any qualms with that ('Sometimes you get caught in the crossfire, get over it or punch back' mindset) but they aren't a killer for fun or a sadist or anything like that. As for what others think of them... What they did was still pretty awful, but I imagine its not something a lot of people know about. Or at least don't know that Artificer specifically did it. Not exactly something they're advertising and they also pretty much live in a toxic swamp away from the people who would be most suspicious.