#or the one to enable the behavior

[painted-bees]

A quick, sketchy little comic about a pair of nerds who are just living and working together, dw abt it.

The early days of Raf and Margie's relationship were full of uncomfy little moments like this lmao A lot of it is just...Margie needing to do a lot of growing up and crash-coursing socialization that she nerver really had the chance to do yet. She's in her early 20's and likes to think that she's a fully fledged adult--but moments like this make it obvious to Raf, especially, that she still has a lot of growing up to do in certain ways.

[celaenaeiln]

Bruce: *losing it* I need to find this killer. I need to stop him now before someone else’s becomes a victim- WHY WONT THIS CAR GO?!

Jason: First, I removed the tires, and second- HAS SOMEONE CALLED DICK YET?!?

Tim: I DID HE SAID HE’S ON HIS WAY

Steph: WELL TELL HIM TO “ON HIS WAY” FASTER! BRUCE IS READY TO BUST OUT OF HERE!

Damian: FATHER STOP THIS UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR, GRAYSON WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED!!

Dick: *rushing in* hey, what’s wrong? What’s wrong, B?

Bruce: Dick! I need to stop this psychopath, he’s going to kill everyone in Gotham.

Tim: YOUR ARM IS IN A SLING, YOUR ANKLE IS SPRAINED, YOU HAVE THREE BROKEN RIBS, A BARELY BANDAGED KNIFE WOUND, INTERNAL BLEEDING- WHO ARE YOU GOING TO STOP IN THIS CONDITION?!

Dick: Okay, I got it. Bruce, open the door.

Bruce: *opening the car door for Dick*

Jason: Oh, ofcourse, he listens to the Golden Boy. Sure guess the rest of us are invisible or shit then.

Dick: *hopping in* *removing the manual brake lever*

Dick: okay, let’s go.

Jason, Tim, Steph, and Damian: what.

Bruce and Dick: *speeding off on tire rims and no breaks into the dark Gotham night*

Jason: WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! WE HAVE TO GO AFTER THEM!!

Steph: Alfred, what happened?!

Alfred: *Wiping down the plate Dick grabbed the last cookie off before zooming away with Bruce* A lifetime of trust and experience, young master Stephanie.

Damian: Pennyworth, did you know this would happen?

Alfred: I’ll be sure to let Master Dick know to bring you along next time.

Damian: tt. Acceptable, I suppose.

Based on this:

Batman and Robin (2011) Issue #23

Batman (2011) Issue #14

[farshootergotme]

Look, I love Alfred as much as the next person. But when there's moments like this:

Outsiders v3 #21

I've gotta really wonder... does he know how bad things can get when Bruce and Dick are arguing?

Because I don't like the implication that he knows things get physical sometimes and that he just leaves them knowing that.

[starmocha]

Sylus waiting for me to finish his series: 🤨

Me: alpha!Zayne in rut ZAYNIE WITH A BREEDING KINK 🥹

[anto-pops]

Hey Anto! Hope you're doing better 💖 This isn't a FF idea or something, just wanted to know your opinion on this ✨

Let's say MC and Sebastian like each other but they don't act/speak about it on their fifth year, MC is too busy with her own eventful life and Sebastian is too focused on curing Anne's curse.

Sebastian relies a lot on MC on their fifth year looking for a cure for Anne, but what about when everything's over? After he killed Solomon, Anne doesn't speak to him, Ranrok is defeated... How do they act around each other? Do they drift apart for a little while before they acknowledge their feelings? or does it make them get even closer?

I can see Ominis struggling coming to terms with what Sebastian did, even if he doesn't turn him in, he might need some time and space, leaving Sebastian alone with MC to deal with it.

I don't see MC struggling as much as Ominis because she really means it when she says that Sebastian's regretting it is enough punishment for him. She could be very supportive of Sebastian after everything, and that could lead to something else in the future.

On the other hand, if they drift apart for awhile before acknowledging their feelings, I can totally see it being Sebastian's fault. Sebastian loves too deeply, he gives it all, he risks it all. And after loosing Anne for going to far for her it might be overwhelming knowing he's developing that kind of strong feelings towards MC. What if there comes a situation where he feels like he's got to burn the world to ashes for her? He knows he'd do it. And it's hard to make peace with the way he loves. It's dangerous, it's overwhelming, it's everywhere in himself. What if he ends up pushing you away the way he did Anne? He wouldn't stand it, not again.

Eventually they could find their happy ending, but not without hardships.

In another line of messy thoughts:

I see the MC who absorbed the repository's magic for herself, because it's her power, being Sebastian's other perfect half. Sebastian's attracted to dark arts, magic is magic, for him there's no such thing as good or bad magic, just magic. Something similar to MC, magic, ancient, repository's magic... All magic, and all hers. There's no need to separate them when it's all the same for her in the end. They have a mutual understanding, they push each other to tests their limits. A true power couple at that. For better or for worse.

And about your Sebastian HC breeding kink, I totally picture him obsessed with how a kid with MC and all her different magics comes out.

This came out longer than intended, shows I have no one to talk about it at home. 🥹

That's okay lovie, you can always share your character takes with me, I LOVE big blocks of text psychoanalyzing our faves 😌

Funny enough, I agree with literally everything you said LOL. Sebastian would probably retreat into himself following the events of his fifth-year, and I think he would feel complicated about MC's forgiveness. Like he'd be grateful obviously, but he'd be simultaneously dealing with the emotional repercussions of his choices.

He killed his uncle.

His sister vanished and basically cut him off.

His best friend definitely doesn't look at him the same anymore.

While his actions were kept secret, the other students look at him funny and keep away from him. They can tell something has changed about him, and it unnerves them.

His whole world got turned upside down– and then BOOM– romantic feelings arise in the midst of all of that ?? He's gonna brood in solitude for a FAT minute.

If MC didn't turn him in but also keeps him at arms length for a while, it would make the entire situation more precarious. Sebastian is wracking his brain trying to figure out what he's feeling while trying to get back into MC's good graces, but he can't decide if it's worth it to do so. After all, everyone he's ever cared about has either died or left him, so why force any of those options on her ? He'll just make the decision himself and keep his feelings to himself.

Buuuut of course that's a bust. Sebastian fails spectacularly at avoiding her, and the easy camaraderie that led to both of them becoming friends in the first place rears its familiar, ugly head. Suddenly they're hanging out again; eating in the Great Hall, studying together in the library, and eventually making weekend trips to Hogsmeade. MC still ventures out into the Highlands and 100% asks Sebastian to accompany her at some point, and after they've killed a bunch of spiders in the bowels of some cave, Sebastian knows he's fucked.

He was never gonna succeed at banishing his feelings for her. Hell– she's perfect. A great fighter, cunning, smart, and scarily forgiving.

To reference your point about MC's magic: Sebastian is abso-fucking-lutely entranced by her abilities. She's like a living, breathing textbook from the Restricted Section that he can't help but want to get his hands on and read. The two of them had just scratched the surface in understanding what Isidora had been up to, and in the event MC absorbed the repository's power for herself ?? Yeah, he's salivating.

Like calls to like. Clearly she isn't inherently against accepting power that might be viewed as 'bad'. She thinks similarly to him. She's the yin to his yang, the Bonnie to his Clyde, etc. Sebastian is grossly smitten, and with enough time to deal with his turbulent emotions and self-loathing, he would embrace the fact that he cares for MC. She'd be in a similar boat, too– slowly coming to enjoy his company before eventually craving it.

The two of them have the potential to do great things if they put their heads together. Whether those things are 'great' in a good or bad way is a matter of opinion, but they wouldn't be able to deny their chemistry for long.

Inevitably, Sebastian and MC are joined at the hip– a power couple that takes Hogwarts by storm and makes their fellow classmates draw pause. No one can cross one without making an enemy of the other, and everyone knows better than to trifle with the Hero of Hogwarts. Her ancient magic is far from a secret at that point (although the repository magic probably is), and Sebastian is still a ruthless dueler and renowned megalomaniac.

Like two peas in a pod. Kindred spirits, indeed 👀💕

[pumpkinnning]

going into the f1 tag and seeing that people are going "the f1 twitter account saying that 'Max has only a few penalty points left before he might get a race ban' sounds like a threat". hello ??? they're just sharing a fact that might impact the season ??? they do that regularly for all drivers when they start getting close to a ban ??? unprecedented levels of persecution complex here. your driver is the one ramming into people on track and he's the one being threatened uwu pookie ? i sincerely hope for your own sake you don't apply that sort of logic to people's behavior irl bc damn that is worrying

[aquamarineprncss]

heard someone else say this and haven’t stopped thinking about it, but in regards to learned helplessness people love to say “i tried my best” or “i am trying!” then sink back into their couch, on their computer, not making any effort beyond saying they’re trying. these are also the same people who are enablers in the name of “you’re trying your best!” when frankly, you know and they know you’re not.

do you know how damaging it is to tell someone they’re doing their best when they are bed rotting, or too depressed to brush their teeth or shower regularly, or wanting to kill themselves? tough love IS love, let people feel what they need to, but then show up for them by telling them to try harder. it might make you a villain in their eyes, they might talk shit on you, but when they actually do get up and start living again… they will look back and appreciate that you were pushing them to be better.

in my own personal experience there are two types of people you can befriend. people who enable you to continue to be depressed, miserable, upset, tell you how everyone is SO mean and judgmental and out to get you. then there is the person who will tell you they love and support you always and forever, but you need to do something, anything, other than what you are currently doing.

[necrotic-nephilim]

Hear me out, dead dove alfred x dick

YES YOU GET IT. YOU SO GET IT.

i am *begging* for more Alfred inclusion in Batcest on my hands and knees. i'm a Tim/Alfred truther, but Dick/Alfred is so fun. there's always this default characterization in the Batfam that Alfred is good and this pillar of support and the Grandfather who everyone trusts and leans on. and that is boring to me. (also not really canon imo, Alfred condones and acts on a lot of shitty behavior-) but it's fun to play with as a subversion. when someone like Dick gets taken in by Bruce, he barely registers the kindly butler. and of course he bonds with Alfred eventually, but it's a wholesome bond. Dick will always be fighting with Bruce about something, which makes Alfred the respite. the one who helps with homework, stitches him up after patrol, talks to him about his problems, etc. so to make Alfred the more predatory, fucked up one? that's fun. it's fun bc Dick wouldn't *expect* it.

like. it'd start just small and slow enough that Dick is questioning if this is wrong or not. Alfred has seen him naked in just about every position to stitch those awkward to reach places, so if Alfred walks into Dick's room when he's naked or goes into the bathroom when he's showering well, it's a little weird but boundaries are weird in general for all of them. if Alfred's touch lingers when he's stitching up Dick, he positions Dick in compromising ways, well he's the medical expert and Dick trusts him.

and then when it tips over into overtly sexual it get so fun bc. it's not like Dick can tell Bruce. Alfred is basically Bruce's father and entire support system, Dick doesn't want to take that from him. and when Alfred touches him he uses all the grooming tactics. telling Dick he's mature for his age, he's not like other teenagers, he's so pretty, eh can be trusted with important things, all of it laid on thick. Dick's been canonically groomed, so it's clearly a tactic that works well on him, esp from someone he'd already trust like Alfred.

i just think that Alfred being so willing to agree with Bruce adopting all these teenagers he clearly has no emotional capacity to take care of. is something we could take advantage of in a dead dove way. a reasonable adult would object to this. but making Alfred groom them is fun. and like i said in my dom/sub headcanon post, i think for Alfred it's all a mental game. he's never going to "force" any one to do anything. he talks Dick into it. sure, Alfred can fight and he's not defenseless or frail, but he likes not *needing* to get physical or exert strength. bc if he talks Dick into it, then it's far more questionable if it "counts" as grooming, to Dick. bc Dick agreed to all of this and it's *Alfred*, he could've easily fought him off. it's a very fun mind game and to me, the most fun part about including Alfred in Batcest as the morally questionable one.

[hislittleraincloud]

PHW, PHW, PHW...

Whoa shit! —

This one here continues to behave like an unhinged narcissist, bitching a sweet girl into submission over the T-Shirt Debacle and then continuing to badger her about me with her cudgel of performative feminism.

Of course it's fucking EIE.

And ofc she's a narcissist. Only narcissists crash out whenever someone makes fun of them. The worst types (the malignant and/or histrionic ones) love to use whatever is in their arsenal to deflect attention from their shitty behavior.

She literally made the (best) meme come true, even though I'm the ass who implied she'd show up if people kept talking about Percy and Jenna together in any capacity. She won't confront me directly since she's blocked me, so she picked on the sweetest Wednesday fan instead.

Oh waaaaah, the #cancelpercy queen got butthurt. Time to "BTW!"

First thing's first: That she wrote that I'm "clearly sexually obsessed with" Ortega is such sweet projection from her when she hangs out with bitches who do this shit here

I'm on my phone and can't upload the numerous, numerous examples of that whole fucking troupe of gooning fucktards that make up the Twitter Bitches.

I really think this projection is wild. Has she seen this blog? Has anyone who continually accuses me of being like them seen this blog? I'm not sure they have. I think they're drawing the conclusion that I'm like them because they love to read and sometimes write wlw Ortegoon and can't separate fiction from reality. It's all that fucking y/n bullshit and the projection of their shit onto Wednesday/Enid and/or Jenna/Emma that makes them believe that I write what I write because I'm stuck on her like they are.

I dunno how many times I need to say it:

I like older men. Me gustan los hombres mayores. M'agraden els homes grans. Eu gosto de homens mais velhos. J'aime les hommes plus âges. Sono attratta dagli uomini più grandi. Jag tycker om äldre män. Ich mag ältere Männer. мені подобаються чоловіки старшого віку. мне нравятся мужчины постарше.

(Apologies to my Ukrainian ficwife and any Russians reading, if I fucked those up 💀)

I did say that I like younger women in my bio too, but the way the lot have been raised online isn't appealing to me, especially when the 25 to 30-year-olds are still acting like they're toddlers. If I was 15 or 16 today, I still would have written Satisfying Afterburn and Under Virgin Circumstances...because it's mostly from the characters' eye/psyche, and the main characters happen to be (not-exactly-average) adolescent girls. I have a unique perspective though, since I'm now an older man, but these bitches forget about the 🏳️‍⚧️ part all the goddamn time. Yes, I'm a man, but we're not the type of man who can entrap a girl into motherhood or be trapped into fatherhood with one simple mistake (something that nearly happened to me when I was fucking an idiot peer at 14).

Anyway, back to the stupid fuck who can't seem to extract her fist from Percy's ass: I'm respectful to those who deserve it, and 30-something y/o women (or men) who spend their lives cultivating entire social media accounts dedicated towards ensuring that no one forgets how much they hate a certain actor AND pissing on said actor's supporters (fans, stans, and others...I am an "other" and always have been) do not deserve anyone's respect or grace. Which of these fucking stans does? They all ignore what Jenna and Emma say about their work relationship and characters; they can't keep fiction and reality separate.

(ETA, fell asleep...narcolepsy sucks but so does writing more than half a dozen things at once.)

Ultimately I want all of you fucking crazy stans who do this kind of thing with Ortega to understand that you are abnormal. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, none of us in the Potter fandom would have ever dreamt of harassing Emma Watson like this because we weren't entitled little cunts who arrogantly believed that anything in fandom, or anything that we felt about her life was relevant to what she had to do IRL. We kept fandom to fandom, save for the stupid broad who confronted the Phelps Twins with Fred/George Weasleycest at a con, which we heavily condemned. We knew fandom wasn't supposed to encroach into an actor's life like that. So why in fuck's name do these fucks do it? Did we have fandom wars like this? Sure, we had lots of them, but never was it an argument that devolved into what Watson or any other actor was wearing or who they were possibly dating at the time, despite that we all knew of her (mutual) crush on Tom Felton; no one tried to interfere with that.

But then came the fucking Twihards and their relentless harassment of Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart, because those kids (and moms 💀) couldn't separate fiction from reality either. Perhaps that's where it started; obsessive, entitled fuckers who thought it would be cool to send death threats to both at one point because they didn't feel like they were getting what they wanted/what they felt was right with "Robsten" (which WAS an actual thing, mind, unlike Wenclair), and to send out racist memes about FKA Twigs (who Rob started dating at one point). They didn't like any of it and the Twistans acted upon their feelings, which everyone realizes ten years later was fucking wrong. Fanshipping made that mistake with them and it's making the same kind of mistake over again with the Wednesday fandom and Jenna Ortega, starting in January 2023.

Fan culture can lead to great friends and great enemies. This crossover invasion of privacy shit has been bad for over a decade, yet the Jenna and Emma stans are relentlessly warped in the brains and can't learn from fan history. I wish I could chalk it up to kids being kids, but y'all aren't kids (though to me, some of you really are 👴🏽). They're all mostly in their 20s. EIE/inzayn isn't a child either at 30+, but unironically acts like one, much like all of her little Twitter Twat friends who swoon over the endless amount of modeling pics/sessions Ortega is crapping out. This fucking fandom isn't even a playground where "kids" can play unbothered, it's a daycare from Hell with endless crying/screaming about things that are out of our control and older kids punching at the smaller ones.

The above is the near equivalent to a clique of kids talking (obviously truthful) shit about their bully only to have their bully overhear and be compelled to unleash their insane Hell upon them. EIE didn't have to respond, but she did, and in the process further exposed herself for the bad faith actor that she is, bitching at someone who was genuinely trying to reverse course and apologize for something she said. That coy, bilious shit isn't going to change at her age. The nasty is ingrained, and you either meet it with equal aplomb or ignore it.

[dragonnarrative-writes]

hi! hope your week is going well. for the wip game, i am a big fan of slasher handler, but i’m also intrigued by being gaz’s ex. your choice, but if there’s anything you want to share for either 👀🧡

For the WIP Ask Game!

Oh. Oh. Oh. Being Gaz's ex is... a helluva project. It's an exploration of the end of a relationship when no-one is "winning." I wanted to explore another side of Golden Boy Gaz, where his dogged determination to do right in the world has a negative impact on his relationships.

The main character is Autumn, who has filed for a divorce that Gaz refuses to sign off on, and I'm waffling between writing it from a first person/reader POV or third person.

This first part takes place with Gaz in the hospital after an injury. Autumn is still his emergency contact. I'm skipping ahead a bit, but I think this short exchange really showcases the energy I'm going for.

“Who are you texting?”

“Ron,” you answer without looking up from your phone.

“Does Ron know that you’re married?”

When you set your phone down, Kyle, Price, and Soap are looking at you with hard expressions. Simon’s out, picking up lunch. If Kyle was going to spring a guilt trap, now would be the time.

You'd tell him that Ron is your cousin Veronica, who’s allowed you to move into her apartment since you started your new job, if he’d just asked. A part of you reflexively thinks about his pain levels, if he’s due another round of pills. That part is quickly squashed by the knowledge that he knows to ring the nurse if his pain gets to bad, instead of taking it out on you.

So you go low. “Did Crystal know you were engaged?”

The next section hurt my feelings when I wrote it, so I'm putting it under the cut.

CW: Discussions of infidelity, relationship turmoil, inattentive partner

Autumn isn't leaving Gaz because he cheated, by the way. That happened once before they got married and once after. They almost called off the wedding, the first time, but they did premarital counseling and things were "resolved." The second time happened a year into their marriage. With a second round of counseling, Gaz really seemed to get his act together. Autumn went into individual counseling to work on trust, anxiety about his job, her expectations of the relationship, and general maintenance. And there weren't any issues with infidelity ever again. In fact, she once offered to open the relationship, with rules, and he declined.

She's divorcing him because her eyes are brown.

The issue in their relationship, as I see it, isn't that Gaz did something really bad. It's that he and Price have the same affliction that makes them not recognize that they don't actually see their partners as whole beings. Two years after they got married, Autumn realized that Gaz didn't really care about her as much as either of them thought. He got her birthday wrong (switched the month and day). He forgot their anniversary after he cheated. He bought her apology flowers, an arrangement which contained flowers she was allergic to.

And when she bought colored contacts on a whim, he didn't make any comment until she prompted him.

"Hey, does anything about me look different?" She asks, three days into wearing the contacts.

"I've been trying something new with my eyes, but I'm not sure if it's that noticeable."

"I dunno, lovie, you look stunnin' as always."

"Nothing seems different to you?"

And he looked at her, really looked at her, for a minute. "You know I've always loved your green eyes."

And that was the beginning of the end.

[normalgirlayanoaishi]

suprised shiromi/ayano doesnt seem to be a ship at all i think itd be fun

[118diazs-a]

if i see one more person say that helena didn't take chris she's just being a loving grandmother i'm going to kick a man

[wimbledon2008]

https://www.tumblr.com/wimbledon2008/758490690828288000/forget-sending-chris-away-on-miscellaneous?source=share

Buck would be trying not to have a panic attack the first time Eddie suggests having sex while Christopher is home (even with the bedroom door locked).

me reading this ask:

sorry to take you to suplex city like this but buck is a grown man with a canonically adventurous sex life who is deeply in love with a single father with whom he wants to have beautiful baby-making sex with at all times. so no, he's not going to do that

also buck, like eddie, respects christopher's independence. he's a teen boy who doesn't need constant supervision and he isn't an idiot, so he's not going to go barging into his dads' bedroom when the door is closed anyway lol

[fudanshiatlas]

i can make aus for my ocs

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

i know its probably been done to death but i love the concept of the shivering isles as only a realm of "madness" insofar as no one in tamriel has a concept of what neurodiversity or mental illness is lmao

[ladynicte]

Something something Andrew is addicted to Ashley so he keeps enabling all her bad traits something something codependency is a two way street