#probably should start a jay lore tag

[dadbodbuck]

Cool mushroom facts, perilous ocean journeys, government fish surveys— I don’t know what you do for a living, but it sounds really cool!

i'm an ecology student! i'm about to go into my last year of undergrad. currently i work for a soil testing lab, but i've also worked for farms, dog care companies, and the state department of conservation. upside is i get a bunch of cool stories and i also get to engage with my special interests 24/7. downside is the pay is so ass you wouldn't BELIEVE they're trying to hire people with advanced degrees. one time i saw a job listing for a bat study that paid $14/hr and wanted applicants to have a master's degree. for those outside my specific part of the US that's the starting pay at mcdonalds. imagine if they made you get a master's degree to work at mcdonalds!!!

[beautyofsorrow]

4, 7, 11, 18 :)

4. Longest period of time it's taken you to write one fic?

HILARIOUS. i still have not finished longing/love. i started it last fall. i would like to finish it before 2023 is over but turns out it's really hard to write shipfic for a ship you don't ship anymore. or at least do not ship in such a way that it vibes with the way you shipped them in the opening chapters. ANYWAY.

mermaids georg, who has twenty-five years of lore and multiple chapters, is a statistical outlier and should not be counted.

um oneshot-wise i'd say the most amount of typing time i've spent on a thing is....a week? two including rest time + revisions? it gets to be bloodshed (/adhd) if i work on something longer than that. which is another reason why i don't do longfic. i will often rotate a fic in my head for months before actually writing it though, which is a crucial part of the revision process. i go through probably 3-7 drafts in my head before i ever type a word, and it's very efficient. thank u ann patchett for affirming this practice.

7. Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?

look. i have built a truly embarrassing amount of una/neera lore. snw 2x02 changed me ok? my ao3 subscribers are not ready for the day i drop that obscenely long oneshot. unfortunately i don't have the energy to write it right now so it just lives in my head rent-free, making noise.

would also love to write the b7 locked tomb au of my dreams but that's never gonna happen because HAHAHAHAHA imagine trying to hold a candle to tamsyn. could not be me.

some day i might go off the self-indulgent rarepair deep end and write jadzia/b'elanna/seven, or REALLY go off and write olivia dunham/seven, but like no one in the world would read a fringe/picard crossover except me so it will probably remain an unwritten mental-stims-only type thing, which is fine because so often those fics are better

11. Share a favourite comment a reader has left you.

"anyway, thank you for the pain. it was very good pain" at the end of a stupendously long comment on my hurt-no-comfort seven/jay fic has got to be the high point of my career. i also laugh daily at the one-liner "i want to put this fic in a blender and watch it dance like a rock." i have no idea what it means but i understand it perfectly. peak comment culture

18. What's your most-used additional tag?

"femslash," closely followed by "friendship," which is how you know i'm an aromantic allosexual dyke

[bracedfangirl]

Calling your soul

Heck yeah here's a weird post Seabound AU fic that has lots of my unique lore and probably none of y'all are gonna understand...

Gonna tag some angst lover mutuals here: @anxiousworm @vlanderzine @rosiehunterwolf @fishybehavior @serpentfever

When Nya first heard the call, she'd written it off as the prayers of sailors about to be taken out by a storm. She hasn't really been paying much attention to people lately, not that she really minds.

Being detatched and just happy with marine life is much more fun anyways.

But then the call returned. Like a shrill, gutted cry, it tore through her very soul, louder than anything else, even the sea. It wasn't really a sound, rather a feeling, but the agonized cry of something desperate and dying is what she could compare it to.

It couldn't have been a creature of the ocean calling for her aid, as it always came from the direction of land. Some part of her thinks it could be coming from one of those people she loved but left behind...

And why? Because every time this call, this cry strikes her, she knows its voice. The cry is coming in an awfully familiar voice, she just can't place where the hell she knows it from, stupid fuzzy memories-

It always stops if she ignores it, but it also always returns, louder and more desperate each time.

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She decides to follow it when it abruptly changes direction.

All this time, it's been coming from the direction of the land, Ninjago... But this one came from the completely opposite direction, so she's decided she's had enough and is going to investigate.

It was also way louder this time, and for some reason she suddenly felt deeply worried, flashes of a blurry face in her mind.

After hours and hours of just going, she reaches land, uninhabited and with an awful, dark vibe that makes her want to flee from near the shores. The cry has long stopped, but she's determined to finding out where it's coming from... Or who it's coming from rather.

Before she could even think about stepping out on land, the cry starts again, much rather sounding like a beg, a call this time.

She can finally pinpoint its location, which is far up on the cliffs of the island, a place that fills her with light by even just thinking about it.

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Nya doesn't even get to react as out of nowhere, a thick beam of light strikes her, ripping her free of the ocean surface.

Whatever it is, it's making her feel heavy and dense, taking away her freedom and carefree state-

Thoughts and memories flood her mind, blinding and loud.

She remembers everything. Every last detail of the fight with Wojira and every last detail of her life. The faces of her family clear up, and she wants to burst out crying because oh FSM she abandoned them-

The familiar voice of the cries echoes in her mind as the world turns dark.

"It's either you forever or me for a lifetime... I'm sorry..."

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When Nya wakes up, she's in a field, covered with weird, golden flowers. Something rubs off as very wrong about that one, but everything is fuzzy again, preventing her from figuring out why.

A large, black dragon is sprawled in the grass in front of her, wingless and heaving. It's covered in glowing green wounds as it wobbily stands up and limps up to her with curious and happy eyes-

Eye. Just one eye... The right eye of the weird dragon is cracked across, blinding it.

"Uh hello?"

It responds with a happy chuff, pushing its nose to nuzzle her. The motion almost knocks Nya over, the now purring shadow like dragon seemingly unaware of its own size.

There's tiny stubs on its neck, and one of them is glowing a beautiful blue, for what Nya doesn't know.

Out of nowhere it pulls away, gaze now sad as the dragon gives a loud whine, nudging her away.

"What? Why do you want me to leave all the sudden, you were cuddling me and everything earlier, who or what even are you?!"

The dragon only responds with a louder whine, backing up before turning away.

"Hey hey come back what the hell is going on-"

Nya really should've expected the world going back to nothing again.

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When Nya next came to, it was to loud crying, and someone warm clutching her tightly.

Blearily opening her eyes she notes that the crying belongs to her brother, who still hasn't noticed her waking up. Everything's still fuzzy to her, but Kai should know what's going on, right?

"Hnnngh whas'goin'on?"

Kai's eyes snap open in shock, and he can only stare, mouth slowly turning to smile with each wheeze. He leans in for a tight hug again, laughy sobs spilling out of him.

"Oh thank FSM Nya I-I thought I lost you too- You can't do that to me ever again sis, you can't-"

"I'll try not to in the future, don't worry."

Behind him, Nya can already see Jay's fainted, all the others, fussing over him as he wakes again in shock.

Nya's gonna have to make this whole deal up to him too won't she-

Wait

Something's not right. Something's missing-

The memory of those cries that wrecked through her soul explodes into her mind, and now she's painfully aware whose voice it was.

Suddenly everything makes sense. The cries, the dragon, the beam of light, everything.

It was Lloyd, of course it was him, Nya's stupidly selfless little brother.

She's suddenly filled with blinding panic, forcing out words so she can chase a particular awful thought from her brain.

"Where's Lloyd? Is he okay? He did all this where is he Kai?"

"We-We don't know... We just saw the light show and everything but then he just disappeared and-"

"It's most likely that his powers burst out and evaporated him..."

Zane's words burn more than anything, and the previously confusing words now echo painfully clear in her mind.

"It's either you forever or me for a lifetime... I'm sorry."

[fisherrprince]

AS LONG AS IM YELLING ABOUT AUS! GUESS WHAT LORE POST I FINISHED

LOUDLY AND OBNOXIOUSLY CLEARS THROAT.

This is a long post about Avatar and Ninjago and it mostly contains story!!! Because some! Of! This! Setup! Is! RIGHT there!!! And I like it very much. I’m sorry it doesn’t have many pictures! I do not control my right hand, but I do control how much I can yap about avatar and ninjago. READMOREではある

Our story begins with Kai and Nya, because they’re dramatic and I love them.

Kai and Nya are siblings, currently traveling on their own around the world with their not-actually-their-uncle-or-grandpa, Garmadon. Because Wu doesn’t get to be Iroh, even though I have to give up Garmadad for it — don’t worry he immediately adopts Lloyd once he meets him.

Kai and Nya used to live in the Fire Nation, emphasis on the used to, because while Kai is a firebender, Nya is a waterbender. She started displaying waterbending abilities at 12, and 12 is not a great age for control. And they could only have gotten the two distinct bending styles from their parents, blacksmiths in the royal courts, so in an act of political trash-fire-ness, Lord Chen finds this out thanks to royal jerkwad Clouse. You Know. Fire Lord Chen.

(Kai challenges him, in a fit of protective anger, to what is supposed to be a clean agni kai, but someone cheats. He actually can’t see all that well out of his right eye, anymore)

And Chen being who he is, he brands them all as traitors, presumably killing their parents, allowing the children only one lifeline to regain their honor (and home, and life, and—), and that’s to find the missing Avatar. You know, the one who’s been gone for a hundred years? Silly, impossible task, meant to get rid of them.

So they do.

Meanwhile, by which I mean a hundred years before this, Lloyd is happy. Really happy! Their temple is sweet and calm and brimming with life, he’s being taught by (his absolute favorite) the monk Wu, and he keeps being happy until he’s told, one day, the whole village is told, actually, that he is supposed to be this great and powerful being. This incredibly godlike human boy, with the power of destruction and creation at his fingertips, and though he doesn’t want to be, the title of Avatar is given to him and most everything else Is taken from him.

He’s scared, now. Mostly.

And you know the story — terrified of the choices made for him, of his own destiny, he traps himself by complete accident for a century, until…

Kai and Nya do find the Avatar. Traveling near the water tribes (dangerous, but theirs is not a fire nation ship)

And he’s… small. Admittedly.

Uuuuunlike his very large flying companion.

(Did I mention flying bison gets swapped with an energy dragon? Wind dragon? Very, very tied between naming the dragon Morro and naming her something less angry. Like Skittles :P)

Lloyd reminds Nya of a puppy. He reminds Kai that their entire lives hinge on bringing back (to his death) bringing (killing) this one, scrawny little kid. It’s so, so easy, and though they’re outwardly nice, they both know what has to be done. Until…

Listen.

Lloyd is made of light. He radiates power, sure, but he radiates confidence and happiness and surety and it will be okay and morning runs along the beach and warming up by the fireplace and… he… has this infuriating ability to shine straight through the cracks made of doubt in your heart.

Kai doesn’t think he can do it, after a while. After seeing how his life got torn apart, after getting one too many cautious smiles and getting into one too many silly and only slightly dangerous situations that end in a hug, of all things, the twins agree. There is no way they’re taking Lloyd back to the Fire Lord.

So they don’t.

The’re different. They’ve traveled, they’ve learned, Garmadon is so proud of their growth he takes them out to the best tea they’ve ever had (which is weird because Lloyd always thought it was just leaf water) and they think that maybe they have a purpose again.

They want to help Lloyd take down Lord Chen.

Along the way, they pick up a lot more stray puppies.

Jay’s not supposed to be in the Earth Kingdom, but there he is! They’d probably kill him if they ever found out he was a Fire Nation refugee, because that whole concept reeks of suspicious. Which is why he hardly ever bends (and when he does, it’s not firebending it’s lightningbending) and keeps his handy-dandy best friend earth bending buddy with him.

And Jay has wanted to do something about *gestures* … all this, for forever. Incredibly nervous and constantly fiddling with some sort of tiny contraption as he is, he’s willing to tag along with the group. He’s the one who convinces Cole, probably the only Earthbending teacher they’re going to find, to come with. Cole is very, very apprehensive, because this is very dangerous, particularly for… actually everyone in the party. This is just very very dangerous. But Cole always wants to help, and after some shenanigans, begins to teach the young Avatar earthbending.

So things are like! Great, right! You got all the elements. Except like… that’s it. That’s basically handing a kid a glock and telling them to murder this one specific dude but giving them no other info. Research would… be nice. Probably.

Lucky for everyone stumbling into this yokai library, Zane is a researcher! And not a teenager, though 20 is barely not-a-teenager territory. He’s been in the library for years real-time, a couple weeks to his perception, but he’s learned so much. And he actually doesn’t super want to leave until he realizes its a very dangerous time-sinky place to be, and he can always come back. Besides, he was always taught to help those who can’t help themselves, and helping save the whole world from the Fire Nation is kind of top of that list, huh! FRIEND: GAINED

(How convenient!)

And the SIX of them go off and have ADVENTURES and TRAVEL and DO ELEMENTAL THINGS and SOMEONE SHOULD BE BUMI BUT IDK WHO, and the mailman is the cabbage seller, and Skylor isn’t Azula even tho I love Azula Skylor is like more of a Mai character, but Pixal is there too, I haven’t figured too much out but anyways Garmadon is Iroh and that’s the only thing you need to know. Lol

[originalhybridloverfics]

Olicity Dialogue Prompt: Oh My God, You’re In Love With Her - Part 2

A/N: I was asked for a followed to this prompt. Here you are! I hope you like it. Thank you to everyone who has liked, reblogged or left a comment. I appreciate every one of them! 

[side note: I’m not an expert on injuries but I hope you’ll let that slide]

Oliver looked up at the clock from beside Felicity’s bed for what felt like the billionth time. Felicity laid asleep in her bed, hook up to some monitors. The reassuring beep of the heart monitor was the only thing keeping him sane. He had been driving her home from their weekly dinner when they were hit by a drunk driver. He had walked away relatively unscathed besides a bumped on the head but Felicity she had gotten the worse of it. She had broken ribs, she had bruising over her body but the thing that had the doctors concerned was her head injury. Luckily, there seemed to be no bleeding of the brain or blood hemorrhaging however head wounds were a touch and go situation. The doctors wouldn’t know the full severity until she regained consciousness. The doctors were being hopeful but the longer she slept he could see the more concerned they became. They never said the words, no, but he could see it in their eyes, the way the nurses looked at him sometimes. A mix of sympathy and pity. It took all his restraint to keep from snapping at them about where they could shove their pity. Fear spike inside his chest when the monitor started beating more rapidly. “Felicity?” Her head turned at the sound of his voice but her eye was still shut however her beautiful features were twisted into a look of pain, a grimace on her lips. “Felicity?” Oliver stood abruptly, standing against the bed, he reached for her hand, taking it in his. A whimper escaped her and her heart rate increased, her chest rising and falling at a fast pace. “Hey, hey, it’s okay, Felicity.” he didn’t know if she could hear him, all he knew was that she was in distress and he would do anything to calm her down. Suddenly, her eyes snapped open, his name escaped her lips on a cry of pain.  "Oliver!" “Hey, I’m right, here.” he soothed, cupping her cheek, locking her eyes with his. Felicity stilled, her heart slowly as she stared at him and he saw a look of relief wash over her. “You’re okay?” Felicity murmured but then her lips pulled into a frown. “You’re hurt.” her hand reached up slowly, ignoring the pain she felt in her side as she gingerly touched the bandage on his temple. “It’s nothing.” he murmured, his eyes shining with emotion as he gently took her hand in his and kissed the tips of her fingers. “I’m just glad you’re okay.” “The last thing I remember was the flash of car headlights. We were in a car accident, weren’t we?” Felicity questioned, her face softening as his lips pressed to her fingers. “Yes, it was a drunk driver. You were hurt more than me.” Oliver wished it was the other way around. He would do anything to take on her injuries to save her from any kind of pain. “But you’re okay?” Felicity pressed, eyes searching his. “Yeah, I’m okay,” he brushed her hair back with his other hand. “Felicity, I..I was so scared you weren’t going to be. I was afraid I was never going to get to tell you the truth.” “The truth?” her nose scrunched in confusion. “The truth about what?” “About how I feel about you,” Oliver answered, his thumb moved softly over her cheek. The sound of the monitor suddenly skipping a beat filled the room. “How you feel about me?” Felicity repeated. “I..I don’t understand.” “I’ve never been good with words or saying how I feel but after tonight I never want to live with the regret of not telling you that I’ve been in love with you for years.” “Oh God,” Felicity’s eyes widened. “Did I die? And this is some kind of weird heaven where you tell me everything I ever dreamed about you telling me?” A surprised laugh escaped Oliver. “No, you didn’t die, thank God, cause I don’t know what I would do without you.” “Then why are you saying this to me?” Felicity whispered. “Because I thought I was going to lose you and I have never felt more regret or been more devastated in my life. I need you to know how much you mean to me. You're not just my best friend. Your everything good and worth fighting for in my life. You have been since the first day you walked into my life. You came into my life when I thought, I believed I had to follow everyone’s expectations of me but you, you help me become who I am today. You encouraged me to be better for myself and not because of anyone else. I never told you how much that meant to me. I am in love with you Felicity and I know I’m probably screwing this up because I’m terrible with words but I need you to know how much you matter to me.” Felicity's heart pounded in her chest, the beat of the monitor echoing in the room. “I..Wow...Oliver..” God, she didn’t know what to say. Oliver shifted on his feet, he didn’t think he had ever seen Felicity speechless and he wasn’t sure if that was a good thing. “Felicity, I understand if this is a lot to take in and you need time but I had to tell you-” “Oliver,” Felicity cut him off, her eyes shining with happiness. “Shut up and kiss me.” Oliver broke out into a grin, a feeling of adoration filling him. “God, I love you.” he cupped her face in his hands leaning down and pressing his lips feather light against hers. Felicity placed her hand over his heart, her other hand cupped his jaw, her nails lightly scraping through his stubble. Oliver groaned, lowly and pressed his mouth more insistent against hers, deepening the kiss, coaxing her mouth open, his tongue sliding against hers, slowly sensuously. Felicity's fingers curled in his shirt and she tugged on the fabric, trying to pull him closer. Oliver broke away, his mouth a breath away from hers as he planted a hand beside her head. “Felicity, we should really stop, you’re hurt and I don’t want to make it worse.” he reminded. Felicity’s lip formed a pout. “But it feels really good to kiss you.” she chased his mouth with her own. Oliver pulled back with another laugh. “I promise as soon as your out of here I’m gonna kiss you so much you’re probably go get sick of me.” “Not possible,” Felicity stated, as she cupped his face and pressed a gentle kiss to his lips. “I love you, too.” Oliver features softened. “Yeah?” Felicity nodded, sweetly, her right hand slid from his jaw making a path to his chest until she could place her palm flat against his heart. “I always have.” Oliver pressed his forehead against hers, just breathing her in. “I promise, I’m not gonna let another day go by that I don’t tell you that I love you.” Felicity smiled softly. “I promise to always say it back.” Oliver nodded, his nose brushing hers as he pressed his mouth to her's softly. He could see his future forming before him. A future where he spent every single day of the rest of his life with his best friend, the love of his life and he had never been happier. 

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[wrestlingisfake]

G1 Supercard preview

This is the big New Japan/Ring of Honor show at Madison Square Garden.  MSG has a special place in wrestling lore, and it’s primarily been WWE/WWF/WWWF/Capitol Wrestling turf since 1957.  The venue’s official promoter briefly dropped Capitol in 1959 (in favor of the team of Kola Kwariani, Pedro Martinez, and Jack Pfefer), but management ultimately reconciled with Vince McMahon, Sr. by December 1960.  There hasn’t been a non-WWE wrestling show in the Garden ever since...until now. 

You can watch it on traditional PPV or stream it with Fite or Honor Club, although I personally recommend streaming with NJPW World.

Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada - This is White’s first defense of the IWGP heavyweight championship, which is essentially the New Japan world title.  Okada won the 2019 New Japan Cup tournament to earn this title shot.

Years ago Okada’s manager Gedo plucked him from obscurity and managed him on a rapid rise to the top, in which Okada quickly captured his first IWGP heavyweight championship.  Okada’s last run with the title lasted 720 days, but that ended nearly a year ago with a loss to Kenny Omega.  Gedo lost confidence in Okada and helped White betray him, starting a bitter rivalry that saw White score a massive upset over Okada in the Tokyo Dome on January 4.  That win affirmed Gedo’s decision to switch horses.  Okada had to claw his way back into title contention by winning the New Japan Cup to prove Gedo wrong.

The wrinkle in this story is that Okada was originally supposed to challenge Kenny Omega, who was supposed to still be champion at this point.  But Omega’s departure in January necessitated a couple of impromptu title changes to move White into his position.  So in a sense, White was never meant to be champion this soon, which has made his meteoric rise to the top even more sensational.  As a result, Okada has a chance to regain his title and get revenge on White and Gedo in one fell swoop.

Okada is easily one of the best wrestlers in the world today, and he knows he has to prove it to a lot of Westerners seeing him for the first time here.  White was really not anyone’s first choice to headline this show, and I think he knows he has to prove he belongs at this level.  I think they can deliver.  I’ve got a good feeling about this one.

The finish could be interesting, because if the original plan was to end a lengthy Kenny Omega title reign, that may not fit well with the goal of pushing White as a sudden success.  If Okada wins, I think that suggests they’re more committed to their original long-term plan than White’s push.  If White retains, that suggests they’ve recently altered the plan, which could lead to other surprises this year.  There’s no way to be sure which will happen, which is great since it eliminates the usual aura of inevitability that Okada brings with him.  I cannot pick a winner here.

Jay Lethal vs. Matt Taven vs. Marty Scurll - Lethal is defending the ROH world championship.  This is a ladder match, so the title belt will be hung above the ring and ladders will be set up at ringside to climb up and get it; the only way to win is to be the first competitor to retrieve the belt.

Lethal has been champion for 280 days.  Taven has been feuding with him for months, claiming to be the “real” world champion based on his belief that he should have won the June 30 four-way match where Lethal captured the title.  Meanwhile, Scurll won the Survival of the Fittest tournament on November 4 to earn the right to challenge for the title; on March 13 he declared his intention to exercise that right at this show, against the winner of Lethal vs. Taven on March 15.  However that match ended in a 60-minute draw, so Lethal is still the champion but now Taven gets to be in the match as well.

Like most big three-way matches, there’s a sense that one participant is crammed in.  Lethal is there because he’s the established champion, Scurll is there because he’s arguably ROH’s hottest star (the only member of the Elite not to leave for AEW), and Taven is there because ROH wants to push him.  They may want Taven to win this match, but they don’t want it enough to take the risk of doing the match without Lethal and Scurll, which tells you they aren’t that serious about him, which undermines his credibility.  (See also: Flair, Charlotte.)  This is not to say Taven doesn’t deserve to be there (he finally impressed me in the time-limit draw), but if ROH really believed in him they wouldn’t be hedging their bets on him.

I expect a title change, but I’m not sure which challenger will end up with the belt.  This is probably going to be very pro-Scurll crowd, and the intrigue of putting the title on a guy everyone expects to go to AEW someday would enhance would should already be a big reaction.  On the other hand, a Taven victory sets up a Taven-Scurll program for a few months, and builds toward the long-term future after Scurll inevitably leaves.  (It’s also possible the crowd will turn out to be more into Taven than anyone might have expected a month ago.)  My gut says ROH should go with Scurll while they still have him, to get him as hot as possible before he puts someone over on his way out.  But I’m not super confident about that.

Tetsuya Naito vs. Kota Ibushi - Ibushi pinned Naito on March 10 during the New Japan Cup tournament, so he’s getting a shot at Naito’s IWGP intercontinental championship.  These guys can really take it up to another gear, and this could easily be the match of the night, if not the whole Wrestlemania weekend.

Naito’s angle these days is that he has a love-hate relationship with the intercontinental title--it keeps coming back to him, even though he thinks it’s worthlesss--but he would like to become the first man to hold it simultaneously with the main heavyweght title, so he has to fight to keep it.  Ibushi, meanwhile, has finally signed a contract (dramatically choosing to stick with New Japan instead of departing for AEW), so his fans are hoping this will eliminate the “free agent” stigma that has kept him out of the booking at the top.  So while neither man necessarily needs this win, a loss would be a significant detour heading into the summer.

I would personally put Ibushi over, because a title run would mean a lot for him, and give Naito something to do (chasing Kota) besides feud with Suzuki-gun.  But I’m not so sure New Japan will go that way.  So it’s another pick-’em at the top of this card, which is pretty nice.

Zack Sabre, Jr. vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi - Sabre is defending the Revolution Pro Wrestling British heavyweight championship.  Rev Pro is a UK promotion that has a working relationship with New Japan, but this appears to be their only involvement with this show.  Tanahashi pinned Sabre to eliminate him in the New Japan Cup, and that would be enough to guarantee a New Japan title match all by itself, but in this case I think the main issue is Sabre’s wounded pride.

If I was Rev Pro, I’d want the prestige of a title change in the US, in the Garden, onto a living legend like Tanahashi.  Even better, It immediately sets up a rematch that would be a perfect main event for New Japan’s London show on August 31.  I’m just not seeing much upside to keeping the belt on Sabre right now, even though it’s at least doable.

Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa vs. PCO & Brody King vs. Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe vs. EVIL & SANADA - The Guerillas of Destiny, Tama and Loa, are defending the IWGP heavyweight tag team championship, and PCO and King are defending the ROH tag team championship.  This is a four-way match, so the first team to score a fall on any opposing team will win the match and both championships.

This match came about after GOD teamed with the Briscoes on February 22, and came to blows after losing the match.  The following night, GOD won the IWGP tag title from Evil/Sanada, and challenged the Briscoes (who then held the ROH tag title) to a title-for-title match.  The Briscoes accepted, but had already committed to defend their title in a match on March 15, against PCO and King, which they lost.  So then the match was billed as GOD vs. PCO/King, and then on March 25 it was officially changed to a four-way for no apparent reason.

This could get crazy.  The Briscoes and PCO/King had a wild and crazy fight last month, and they’ll be looking to top it here.  I think GOD will do their best to keep up with that level of violence.  I don’t know what to expect from Evil and  Sanada if this match breaks down, but they’re certainly not delicate flowers.  In theory you’d expect the New Japan side of things to rein in the chaos, but in practice I think it has to be a Pier 6 brawl to contrast with the more technical contests in the second half of the show.

I have absolutely no idea which of these teams can or should win, or how they’ll deal with either ROH or NJPW losing its tag belts for a few months, or when the double champions will drop one of the titles.  However, since I’m expecting Ospreay to win his double title match for New Japan, it stands to reason an ROH team would win this win this one to even it out a bit.  In that case, the Briscoes feel like the right team to bring home all the gold.

Taiji Ishimori vs. Dragon Lee vs. Bandido - Ishimori is defending the IWGP junior heavyweight championship; the first participant to score a fall on either opponent will be the champion.  There is a decent chance that the champion coming out of this match will hold the title through this year’s Best of the Super Juniors tournament, and defend the championship against the tournament winner at Dominion.

This match came about because Ishimori issued an open challenge to the ROH roster, but CMLL’s Dragon Lee was the first to respond.  Since that technically meant there was still a spot for an ROH guy, Bandido was added to the match.  So it’s basically Ishimori against two luchadors, and we’ll just have to see if it they do a good lucha thing or if Ishimori can force them into his type of match.  I’m expecting Ishimori to retain, although I suppose there’s no pressing reason they can’t do a title change.

Juice Robinson vs. Bully Ray - Bully (better known as Bubba Ray Dudley in ECW and WWE)  issued an open challenge  on March 15 for someone to face him here in a “New York City street fight,” and Juice accepted on March 31.  Juice is the IWGP United States champion, but it’s not yet clear if the title will be on the line--New Japan typically doesn’t book title matches on the fly, but it’s in character for Bully to potentially goad Juice into making it a title match at the last minute.

There was speculation when this open challenge was announced that Bully’s opponent would be Flip Gordon (the man he’s been feuding with for the past year), as a way to bring Flip back after suffering a knee injury on January 13.  Flip was expected to be cleared in time for this show, and he was, but he reinjured the knee on March 24.  Juice appears to be a last-minute replacement, which would be weird since he should have been booked all along.  (What’s the point of having a US champion who doesn’t wrestle at your biggest US show?)

In his preview of this show for the Observer, Dave Meltzer suggested this match could turn into a multi-man tag team match.  If so, I’d expect Bully to seek backup from Shane Taylor and Silas Young, while Robinson would counter with his Lifeblood stablemates Mark Haskins and Tracy Williams.  Those four men will probably get involved no matter what, seeing as there’s no rule to prevent interference.

It would be a pretty big surprise if Bully were to pin Juice and therefore be in line for the US title.  For that reason I think Juice is the clear favorite to win.  That being said, Bully needs something to do until Flip Gordon is back, and Juice is working in both promotions, so I could see this becoming a prolonged feud.

Mayu Iwatani vs. Kelly Klein - Iwatani won ROH’s Women of Honor championship from Klein on February 10, and successfully defended it in a rematch on March 15, but Klein is challenging her a second time for some reason.  I think they’re trying to make it like Klein is a big deal and Iwatani’s wins have been huge upsets, but I barely know these women so none of that is very clear.  I’m assuming Iwatani retains again, hopefully to put an end to the feud.

Rush vs. Dalton Castle - Castle has been doing a “needs to get back on track” storyline, so he was at ringside to watch the Rush-Bandido match on March 15 with the intent of challenging the winner to wrestle him here.  I’m pretty sure the purpose of this is to feed a guy to Rush while also working Castle’s flamboyant entrance onto the show, so look for Rush to go over in little more than a squash.

Will Ospreay vs. Jeff Cobb - Ospreay is the NEVER openweight champion, and Cobb is the ROH television champion; the winner will hold both titles.  This match came about after Ospreay pinned Cobb in a tag team match on February 22.  Both guys are great and I haven’t seen much of them against one another, so I’m looking forward to it.  The one big twist in this thing is that New Japan recently booked Taichi to pin Ospreay in a tag match, obviously to set up a future title match between them, which won’t make as much sense if Ospreay loses his belt before that happens.  So I think that telegraphs an Ospreay win here.  Which is fine with me, since I figured he should win to begin with.

30-man Honor Rumble - This is a pre-show match for everyone who didn’t make it onto the main card.  It’s a gauntlet battle royal, so instead of everybody starting the match at the same time, two men start and everyone else enters one-by-one in timed intervals.  The match cannot end until the last participant enters, but eliminations can occur at any time.  A participant is eliminated upon putting both feet on the floor outside the ring, if and only if they last exited the ring over the top rope.

I’ve never seen one of these in ROH, but I’ve seen New Japan’s version and it’s mainly a comedy match with spots built around guys who rarely interact being unfamiliar with one another’s shticks.  If you’re watching this to see, for example, Minoru Suzuki kicking ass in MSG (and I don’t even know if he’ll be there), you’re probably just going to get his entrance and then he scares Cheeseburger or Colt Cabana and then he’ll get eliminated inside of five minutes.  I don’t think anything is at stake for the winner to receive, and even if there was I’m not sure it would matter who wins.  I’ll just pick Jushin Thunder Liger to win, since I know he’s in it and he’s a cool old dude.

Kagetsu & Hazuki & Jenny Rose vs. Sumie Sakai & Hana Kimura & Stella Grey - This is a late addition to the card, which won’t air live but will be taped to air later.  Kagetsu and Hazuki are from a stable called Oedo Tai in STARDOM, and apparently they recently attacked Sakai and Kimura to set up this match.  The Oedo Tai team picked Rose to team with them here even though she regularly teams (teamed?) with Sakai in ROH.  Grey is apparently Sakai’s new protege so she rounds out the babyface side.  I barely follow any of this, so I think ROH could do a much better job at promoting their own women and their relationship with Stardom.  But I guess this match shows they’re at least trying.  I guess Sakai’s team wins, maybe?

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I probably didn't make it clear but my idea was that newly manifested ghosts are normally weak amd grow more powerful with age, depending on their obsesion and willpower, so for the most ghost power=age and most ghost don't fuck with powerful ghost (and I think especially those who died in Gotham where aproaching the rouges was a death wish).

And new-dieds (you get it like newborns) start manifesting in closest safest area were there is someone willing protect them... Ace didn't have anyone like that being meta in Gotham and whatnot. Ghost in Ghostzone Ghotham left her alone in the park because few used it in life (with polution, pitpocketing, etc.) so when very powerful (and posibly ancient) ghost energy apeared there one day/night the ghost did what they did in life, left it the fuck alone.

And newly died Ace, now Spade, didn't go outside the park because why would she think that there even is anything outside as far as she known park was her afterlife after all she felt only at peace there with batman, with Bruce who treated her not as a weapon or reaserch subject nor as danger, he treated her as a person. He huged her and spending rest of eternity in surroundings of that moment as porcelain statue.

So she waited there on the swing being at peace but also feeling that she should her done more to repay Batman, but alas now she could do nothing. Until she heard someones incoherent thoughts gathering next to her on the swing.

[Side note: ghost manifestation takes time depending on how at peace they were with death people who wanted more but understood that they were dying apeared almost instantly, like Ace. And people who refused to die could take years to fully manifest and without strong enough Guardian nearby they were exposed to the elements which could have drastic efects on them *caugh* jay *caugh*.]

She was shocked but when she looked through convoluted memories she learn that it was (whichever batfamily member died after Jason, I am not that good with comic lore). After checking their memory she knew that Jason got resurected and she cried. finally fate did something good for the man who helped her, but she also knew what state Jason was afterwards and even if chances were slim that this soul returns to the world of the living she will protect it, because finally she has a chance to repay her benefactor. (Repeat how many times someone died from bat familly)

My idea on how Danny would meet her is that as ghost king (because I love ghost king danny) Danny spends a lot of time trying to fix his predecesor fuck-ups and he basicly overworked himself, because 1000s of years of mismanegement and tyrany really trashed the place. Anyway his friends and Jazz needed to find a way to get him away from work, so they divised a simple plan:

They make a pact with ghost gallery to not leave the ghost zone for few weeks in summer because Danny deserves a break (they agree he, Tucker and Technus created an internt network in ghostzone, ghostchild earned the break)

Sam asks Danny to visit Gotham this summer, because it has goth in its name.

Danny obiviously refusess because danger and he has so much work to do

They trick him into doing a royal tour around surroundings of fenton portal from ghost side.

The fact that it includes Ghostham is just coincident

Tour ends in Ghostham and they go sightseeing for a rest of the truce with ghost gallery.

What they did plan was finding a super powerful ghost with less ghost lore than Danny when he started. Some tag along ghosts (maybe Ember and Dessire) and Danny spend a lot of time in the park teaching this poor ghost and when Spade is ready to meet other people she meets the rest of the group cue fluffy bonding maybe some blushing. They all try to make her open up at her own terms.

But they need to leave some day/night but promise to visit often. They do mostly Danny and ghosts but living also visit when they can. Until Spade is ready to leave the park and visit them cue my idea about Danny living situarion being properly explained to her.

Speaking of which my idea has some angst, Drs Fentons love their work more than their kids and when focused on it they forget about everything else Jazz need to do taxes for them since she was 8 kind of neglect. Don't get me wrong Danny still doesn't feel safe in his home but they didn't atacked his human form. Jazz can basicly get a custody over Danny easily if nobody else intervens that is why they need back up.

Also Jason can be a bat that finds them first or they take a detour when they arrived in Gotham to get a rouge ghost only to find Red Hood, spend some quality ghost lessons time with him, and ask him to send Batman a message to got to the park.

Okay. So- I've been reading a lot of Batman X Danny Phantom stuff on this site lately, and I came across a short post that included Batman finding Phantom's grave(it was a corpse au) and mentally comparing Danny to Ace. A girl who wanted to be a child yet who was too powerful and ended up dying with our resident Batdad sitting next to her up until her last moments in a fake world she made for herself in a bid for happiness. (I might be wrong about Ace's personality or motivations cuz I only rly remember Ace because of how she died, so plz bear with me if I'm wrong)

Now, a thing about Ace is that when she died, she was wearing a black/white leotard with a single clover suit on one side. And I've discovered that the Ace of Spades can depressingly enough be represented as death and bad luck.

And so(here's where the DP comes in), I'm introducing a ghost called:

Spade ♤

For her appearance I'm thinking white porcelain like skin for how delicate she felt in her final moments. Maybe inked details all across her like tattoos or like how fancy playing cards have to show how who she WAS wasn't entirely up to her to decide. Her white bobcut hair looks like it was shattered/cut off a larger part and is able to cut those who aren't careful enough, and that there's a crack across the top of her head to showcase as a deathmark that she died from a fatal migraine(maybe?). (The crack doubles as her hairline-) Her eyes being the same rings of yellow and orange(or maybe whatever their inverse counterparts are...) that appeared when she used her powers, but with her black pinprick eyes at the centers. Her actual FACE I'm thinking her eye lashes, lips and eyebrows look painted on in black ink. Cuz, come on. If Danny can hav black eyebrows as Phantom, so can Spade-

Outfit wise, I kinda want to put her in a reverse colored leotard and call it a day, but I ALSO wanna add onto that. Because the thing about her last moments is that Batsy carried her body out of the park where she was staying in her fantasy land in a princess carry, so I'm imagining her in a fancy dress/leotard amalgamation cuz that princess carry might've the last comfort she might've received before her body got buried(or smth along those lines). If this post gets popular, I want art of that leotard/dress amalgamation with playing cards detailing cuz while I draw, I already know I'd butcher the idea 😅

DP plot could just be Danny transversing the Ghost Zone/Infinite Realms for one reason or another and coming across this mad hatter, Alice in Wonderland type lair/area(think the world Ace made Gotham into) where after stumbling through everything in it, he just meets this black and white ghost girl sitting on a isolated swing set. There's only two seats on it, and she's just swinging back and forth on one of them. Danny must figure she's waiting on company and maybe just watches for a while. She'd look just like a statue if not for the fact that she just keeps swinging, and swinging, and swinging, and Danny's getting the idea that this is just another lonely ghost in the zone. Peaceful, and wants to be left alone, but maybe could use a friend. So, Danny sits next to her on the other swing.

Tdlr; Spade and Danny become friends after he stumbles across her lair and started showing her other parts of the zone.

Spade's closest friends are Princess Dora, Youngblood, Klempter, Danielle, and other ghosts among her mental age. But of course, she considers her best friend to be the black and white Phantom who got her out of her lair and living a better afterlife. She wants to pay him back, and sees how badly his afterlife has been treating him (wait- he's not entirely dead?) Scratch that, she wants her friend to live the rest of his half-life as happily as possible. She, personally, is happier in death than in her life, but she doesn't want his remaining life to suck, and who better to introduce him to than the man who made her last moments bearable? Or... should she say the Bat who made it bearable >:3c

Dadadada~! We've arrived at the DC plot!

So, Spade being a frickin overpowered ghost(cuz if she wasn't overpowered enough as a human, you can BET that she's OP as hell after getting ghostly) cows all Danny's usual rogues gallery into leaving his haunt alone until she can get done introducing him to someone who was her father-figure for all of however long he sat with her before she unalived. Danny as Phantom is going along with it cuz why not, free vacation! Sam & Tucker were skeptical, but they can't fault Spade for wanting to introduce her new friend to her old life(?).

The DC timeline is messy, and I only know about Ace because of Justice League Unlimited. The show which has NONE of Batman's sidekicks in it cuz Nightwing was getting enough screen time in Teen Titans. And idk how long Spade spent along in Time Is Weird Here, Infinite Realms, but I rly want her to meet the Batfam and hav this rly heartwarming reunion after Oracle tells Batsy about a disturbance near this one swing-set where reality's getting kinda weird and he just KNOWS-

He knows he's gotten a second chance, and if that means getting blindsided by the fact he and the batfam are highly likely to become an Infinite Realms ghost cuz of the highentened levels of ectoplasm from his new/old child's visits, then so be it. The fact that Phantom's still living under his ghost hunter parents roof actually makes it easier to file for custody if it comes down to it...

(Idk Ace's character & DC's plot enough to flesh out an obsession for Spade that fits with all the other nonsense I've just spat out. If someone wants to try and puzzle smth out, I'll be grateful for the opportunity to read it. This has heavy ship potential, but I'm no writer so I've just put Spade and Danny as friends. But if there's gonna be a name, I wanna try for Mad Ghost, Ghost Hatter, Phantom Card or smth along those lines. For my first dp x dc prompt I've ever written, I'm just hoping Ace as a character gets a little more love as a dead DC character, cuz that shiz made me cry when I first watched it ages ago- XD)

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tagged!

@mikoe24 - this looked interesting, so I stayed up a bit later than intended working on it xD Thanks for the tag, love, and I’ll be having some Mikuni and Misono headcanons for you after my hiatus is up! (which will be a week ahead of time, woohoo!)

Rules: Always post the rules. Answer the questions asked, then write eleven new ones. Tag eleven people to answer your questions as well as the person who tagged you.

Pokki’s Questions

1. Do you have any OCs? If so, what are their name(s)?

I have quite a few, yes. I have an entire next gen cast for Natsume's Book of Friends, for a story I have been working on for two years. It recently hit 100k and I am still dead sure this will never see the light of day, lol. It's so self indulgent. For right now it has the working title of Elegy for the Lost One and it takes place in a future where Natsume disappeared under strange circumstances. Thrillers are what I like writing the most - suspense, the build-up to it, and then the inevitable fall as you start putting the pieces together.

Now to give you the run-down on the OCS, haha. So first up is Shiori, who I decided would be a daughter to Natori and Hiiragi. I am always curious about youkai/human relations and how they work in the Book of Friends universe, and I chose to play around with that using Shiori. She takes after her father a lot - flashy, bold, a real show stopper. But she has her mother's sensibility and loyalty. And since I'm mentioning Natori, I might as well bring up Matoba. I ended up giving him a son that develops an unparalleled obsession with the Book of Friends. Then there's Takahiro, Hiromi and Haruki who are the main cast and the ones that the story focuses on the most. They're the ones trying to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, there's Makoto, who is the would-be inherited of the Book of Friends. She is a relative to Natsume, distantly, through Natsume's cousin (Yuuto, if the drama cds are to be believed~).

Then, for an original story I'm working on, I have a few solid characters so far. Annabel, a steadfast young woman who is independant to a fault and doesn't know to ask others for help. She's thrown into a situation where she has no choice but to lean on others - or in this case, on one person in particular. A mentor, a friend, a guiding hand in a world that seems so foreign even though she's been living in it for years. Suddenly, things fail to make sense. What she thought she knew turns out to be different from the underlying reality. The Lore Keeper, her mentor, is the one to help her through it. For his own reasons, but who doesn't have an ulterior motive or two? His is simply ensuring that the future Keeper is an upstanding one. As you can see, he doesn't have a name yet. But that's both intentional and my own laziness lol. So yeah, choosing names is always the last step for me. Developing their personalities is what I tend to focus on the most when creating an OC. The name always comes last to me.

2. What’s your favorite eye color?

I love blue eyes! They're so pretty. Especially light blue.

3. How would you name your kids? Or, if you don’t want kids, what are your favorite names?

Fun fact: I was actually terrified of having children for a long time. I met someone who changed that for me, but eh. I have not given it much thought. I think naming children should be the act of both parents, something I'd want to talk over with my partner, but as for some of my favorite names ... I like short and sweet, so: Iris and Jay.

4. What’s your favorite quote?

I tend to go with Dr. Seuss a lot, heh, so I'll go with Roald Dahl this time: "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest of men."

5. What’s the last anime you watched?

... it's been a while, uhhh. Dragon Maid probably. :3

6. Do you like cosplays?

I never personally wore any, but I deeply admire those who do. They put a lot of work into every costume and that takes skill, dedication, and sacrificing their own personal time to make it. They have my respect.

7. Do you have a crush on someone? (A real person or a fictional character, it doesn’t matter~)

Well then, just delve right into my deep, dark secrets why don't you? Hmmm, I guess if I'm being honest: I do. It was sort of an "oh shit" moment for me, but identifying the problem is the first step to finding a solution. In this case, getting my heart to agree with my mind that this is Not Allowed.

Fictional-wise ... idk, man. It's hard enough on me having real life crushes. I suppose Lily and Natori would be my type, though.

8. How many siblings do you have?

I have - had - two older half-brothers. It's complicated, too, so nope. I will not be explaining.

9. What would your ideal date be like?

Probably either a candlelit dinner and snuggling on the couch or doing something we both loved together. With my ex, that used to be hiking at the Cliffs, putting our feet in the water and play fighting with said water, and then collapsing together in the sand. It was sweet while it lasted.

10. Do you like your handwriting? Why?

I do, because why not? It's not perfect, but I've been learning that striving for perfection is a fruitless endeavor. It's also the coward's way out.

11. Now, say something positive about yourself!~  c:

Hmmm. Something positive ... my mind always goes blank when asked this sort of question. I guess, it's my persistence? Even when I play the role my own worst critic, I still keep going because sitting idle has never suited me. I have to constantly be doing something. Whether it's writing, reading, etc. If my mind is happy, so am I.

Avi’s Questions

1: What is you’re favorite series and why? (Could be anything from TV shows, books, anime, ect..)

For books, probably ... the Artemis Fowl series? That writing style is one of my favs :'D

For manga, definitely Natsume's Book of Friends. Gorgeous short stories on their own and a sprinkling of plot that's not too much, so it doesn’t take away from each story and they can all stand on their own. I admire that, since I'm primarily a short story writer more often than not.

2: What is your favorite weather and time of day?

My favorite type of weather is rain, no doubt about it. And for time of day ... night. Definitely night. I am a night owl, ha.

3: Favorite Fictional character? Why?

Why must you do this to me?! At the moment, it's Mikuni. Save me.

4: Favorite video game? Why?

The World Ends With You. Lots of reasons, and since they are personal ... I will instead just gush about how much I loved the storyline and the characters, and how I can proudly proclaim that this is one of the few games I have ever completed 100%.

5: What are your hobbies?

Writing, reading, watching anime, video games, fishing, hiking, cooking/baking, and learning new things.

6: If you could pick one fictional world to live in, what world would you pick and why?

Oh gosh, I think the Hunter x Hunter world would be cool, too, but I'd die so quickly ... I'm going to go the safer route and say Tales of the Abyss. Make me one of those NPCs chilling in the background. Just, you know, not in the town that gets completely destroyed (gdi Luke).

7: Favorite animal?

CATS. I have always been a cat person and I will definitely continue to be one looooong into the future.

8: Do you have any pets? If so, what are their names and what are they?

Snow White, my eskimo doggie. And Goldie, my orange and white tabby cat.

9: Do you have any original stories? Tell me something about them!

Since I already talked about my current story alongside the OC question, I'll instead gush about a collab story with a good friend of mine. We've been working on this story for close to ... god, eight years now? It's one of those self indulgent things. It's fun to come home to and work on. It has a super hero setting, wherein she writes the heroes and I write the villains. My alliance is called, wait for it - SASSI. Super Assholes Seeking Suitable Income. They're real particular about the destruction they cause, let me tell ya. It's sort of a goofy series that we put together to hash out why people do the things they do and put a satire spin on it. (The villains are not the only ones we poke fun at, just saying.)

10: If you have any ocs, who was your first? If you don’t have any, who was your first favorite character and why?

Oh wow, that's so long ago. My first OC was a nameless young lady from a story about black cats bringing good omens. I wrote it for English class, because I was interested in myths and old legends in regards to cats. It was around the time I discovered what a Cat Sith is.

11: You have three wishes, what would you wish for?

Is this like one of those genies that twists what we want and we have to be reaaaally careful? You know, Monkey Paw style? If so, then I would hand off the wishes to someone else. They can have them; I'mma strive for what I want with my own dedication and patience. If this is a no strings attached sort of deal, then: 1. for good things to happen to my friends and family, 2. to live by the ocean, and 3. to be able to speak more than one language. As I said, all things I can work towards on my own.

Mikoe's Questions

1. Do you draw? If yes, how many years has it been since you’ve started?

Oh gods, no. I used to be big into drawing animals, but I can't draw people and shit for the life of me. I have a few wolf pictures, still, I think. My spirit animal <3

2. Do you write? If yes, could you copy paste a line from your latest work?

Since I was 11~ And sure, I'll use fanfic: "Do I have to go?" The cat's sleepy yawn gave away its apathy to the whole thing. "Can't I just stay here and nap? You'll be fine on your own."

"Well, they did send us two tickets. It'd be rude if you didn't use it, Kuro. Not to mention," and here Mahiru flicked the cat on the forehead, "I'd kind of die if you didn't come along, you lazy cat. Or did you forget we have a contract?"

3. What is/are your nickname(s)? If you don’t have any, can I give you one?

I joke about having nicknames, because kids call me Apple (or god help me, Cabbage, from A FRIEND UGH), but nah. Not really. You can't really make a nickname out of April, lol. As for receiving a nickname, go for it. Good luck, pffft.

4. When is your birthday? If you’re not comfortable with it, then what is your favorite day of the whole year and why?

August 27th

5. What are the 5 things that never fail to brighten up your day or put a smile on your face?

My pets!!! My friends and family. Really cute pics of animal in general. Reading something sweet. Being out in the fresh air.

6. Why did you join Tumblr?

To reconnect with old friends, mainly. Then I fell into the Servamp fandom, enough said.

7. IOS or Android?

Android.

8. In the scale of 1 to 10, how much do you love yourself?

5, it's half and half.

9. Are you the type who pours the cereal before the milk or the milk before the cereal?

Cereal before the milk xD I don't want to get splashed.

10. How is 2017 treating you so far?

Hmm, to sum up: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My internal thoughts are just incoherent screaming atm.

11. Do you like pigeons? XD

Depends. I like the pretty ones that are small and colorful and land on your fingertips.

My Questions~

1. Where do you see yourself in five years?

2. If you draw and/or write, what programs are your favorite to use?

3. Do you have any phobias?

4. Have you ever traveled? If so, where?

5. Do you have someone you admire or strive to be like?

6. What is your ideal vacation?

7. Do you have a favorite candle scent?

8. What genre is your favorite? (For movies, books, anime/manga, games, etc.)

9. Do you have something you use as a crutch/safety net? Something you couldn't live without?

10. What is a series you used to enjoy as a child? Do you still enjoy it?

11. List five things you want to improve in and make a little time for those things every day.

I tag: @crazyanime3, @stirlingphoenix, @choc0bunnyqueen, @pleasantdreamsart, @saltykarkat, @mikunialicein .... man, it’s hard to pick 11. Anyone else who wishes to do so! And of course, if you’re tagged and do not want to do it, that’s cool too.

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Gaslight.

Status: Complete Word Count: 1.5K Category: One-shot; Family; Humor; Witty Banter; Snarky Siblings; AU-Pseudo* Rating: Teen & Up Characters: Dean, Jane*, Sam Pairings: N/A Warnings: None Author’s Note(s): This is a little vignette that could be a stand-a-lone or an accompaniment to "Supernatural: Revelation”; more post-story Overall Summary: A lively conversation amongst siblings - just your typical morning in the bunker.

When Dean walked into the library, all shuffling slippers and sips of coffee, she began to read aloud.

“They could be careless people, Sam and Dean. They smashed up things and creatures, then retreated back into their bunker or their vast solitude, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the messes they had made…”

He rubbed at his unshaven jaw with his free hand, blinking purposefully more than a few times as he eased into better lighting. Threw a yawn and a head scratch in there somewhere to completely paint the picture. She met his grogginess with sharp eyes, bringing her gaze up and over the top of her reading glasses.

“That's kinda pretty," Dean commented, flopping into a chair across the table from her. Then, after a moment of consideration, he added, "I mean, it's also kinda insulting. But pretty. You write that?"

She grinned. “No. Well. Sort-of.”

That earned her a look.

“The parts about you guys are all me. The pretty belongs to Fitzgerald.”

“Who?”

“You know. Gatsby.”

Dean wrinkled his nose. “Look, I’m not saying I hate Leo, just... I’m not gonna cry if an iceberg happens to--”

And that earned him an exaggerated eye-roll-sigh-combo. He hid a smile behind his cup with the next sip. She wasn’t even in the neighborhood of serious.

“I’ll loan you the book,” she offered. “I’ve got an actual copy somewhere. It’s a quick read, you’ll be done in no time.”

“Bathroom?”

“Not that quick.”

“Who said anything about--”

Dean was blessedly cut off by the sound of the outer door banging shut, followed shortly by the inner door’s built-in alarm system of loud creaks and groans. Then Sam’s sneakered feet were bounding down the staircase. 

“Morning!” he called to them, still in a jog, hanging a right and heading to the kitchen.

“Anyway, I know Fitzgerald.”

“Okay,” she replied absently, pulling her finger across the screen, whipping through the pages in reverse, ready to go back to when Gatsby called on Daisy.

“Yeah, he wrote... aw damn, what was the...”

FLIP. FLIP. SCAN. FLIP.

“...oh, yeah - that case. Benjamin Button.”

Her fingertip screeched to a halt and her narrowed eyes met his. “What?” she shot back, a little more clipped than she’d meant to, but what.

Dean watched as she processed what he’d said, then as she quickly minimized the book window, pulled up a browser and started typing.

“I know I’m right,” he informed her. 

“About what?” Sam asked, coming to sit beside him.

Dean wrinkled his nose. Again. “You stink.”

“Well, so do you,” Sam responded calmly before gulping down more water from the already half-empty bottle in his hand.

“Shut. Up. You’re right,” Jane announced.

“Right about what?” Sam asked. Again.

“Janey doesn’t think I’m well-read,” Dean replied.

“Janey doesn’t think that at all, but she does wish you’d quit being so uppity.”

Sam and Dean both snickered.

“We were talking Fitzgerald and Benjamin Button,” Dean explained.

“No, but really - I know ol’ Scottie wrote lots of stuff, but that just seems... a little random, I guess,” said Jane.

“He’s not reading the classics on the john, if that’s what you’re thinking,” Sam told her, causing Dean and Jane to share raised eyebrows and amused looks.

“Ah, okay, not gonna ask,” Sam stated, but there was a chuckle behind it. “Look in the early 20th century section, should be under... oh... Midwest, I think....” 

He glanced at Dean. 

“I wanna say Iowa,” came his older brother’s response, and he nodded.

“Me, too. Check Iowa first.”

Jane nodded as well, closed down the window she had up and tapped the link that led to their ever-growing virtual file cabinets. 

Lots of lore to be had out there, and no more than a click or three or five away, sure. But there was just something about the rest. Something about the more personal things. 

Being able to take all of it along - their research, Men of Letters case files, John’s and Bobby’s scanned-in handwritten notes, whatever was leftover from the Campbell stash - it was kind’ve a nice little security blanket when motel bedding wasn’t up to snuff.

“Are you watching this? This is me not asking questions and just trusting you,” Jane said in an almost sing-song voice, eyes down, scrolling through an index at lightning speed.

“We noticed,” they replied in near-unison.

“Because you haven’t bothered to share with me what the hell any of this has to do with playboy millionaires or buttoned Benjamins...” 

“Want me to spoil you?” Sam asked.

She immediately set the tablet aside and perched her glasses atop her head. “You have both my adoration and my attention,” Jane answered with a smile.

“See, now why--” 

Dean sat up straighter, looking and speaking to Sam but pointing at Jane. Then he reversed course, pointing at his brother but directing his question towards his sister.

“Why don’t you talk to me like that? It’s just mean, is what it is, and it makes me think you’re--”

“Trying to hurt your feelings?” Jane finished for him, and with nothing less than a nauseated look on her face. “God, don’t say it’s that, I will be so disappointed in you, you have no idea.” 

“She’s kissing my ass so she doesn’t have to dig through the entire 20th century,” Sam advised him, then worked on killing off the rest of his water bottle.

Dean arched an eyebrow at Jane, and she shrugged. 

“It’s a big-ass file, my dude.”

“Yeah but you’re in charge of research. Sammy’s off the bench and--”

Sam made a mild sputtering sound, coughing a little when Dean’s statement hit his ears at the same time those last drops of water hit his throat.

“’Sammy’s off the bench?’” Sam repeated, slowly turning in his seat to stare at Dean.

“You know what I mean.”

Sam’s jaw dropped and then his volume kicked up a notch. “No. No, Dean, I don’t. I don’t know at all what you mean.”

“Oh son of...” Jane muttered under her breath, sliding the glasses back to her nose and the tablet to its original position.

The men bickered, but it didn’t get too far gone because Jane shortly hit pay dirt, and the conversation she began to hold with herself drifted in-and-amongst their own.

“Cross-reference by one 'Winchester, Dean' for 'Benjamin Button', nice,” she commented.

“I've never not been off the bench, so yeah - it's insulting,” Sam was saying.

“Backwards Plague, Iowa, Johnson County..." Jane continued, reading a little louder.

"You shoulda heard what she said about us earlier," Dean was countering.

"Aren't we a little old for that?" Sam asked.

"What?"

"Passing blame along?"

"...people between sixteen and twenty-four were said to be losing weight, then  overall body mass....”

“I'm not passing anything, she said you and I smash crap and then leave the crap lying around."

"...then when they got all the way down to being newborns, this 'plague' stopped and they grew up again." Finished, Jane pulled her glasses back up to her head. "I swear, Iowa is following me."

The fussing was put on pause, both men looking at her with odd expressions.

"Sam, Johnson County - that doesn't happen to be where the... shoot, what were we thinking it was? A bridge or door or whatever? Out in that field, and that man plowed under like a third of his crop to give a bunch of baseball-playing ghosts somewhere to haunt?" she asked.

"Yeah,” Sam confirmed, then looked to Dean. “Back in the ‘80s. They'd terrorized the previous dozen or so owners, of course it was never disclosed. Guy nearly lost his farm, but probably saved his family’s lives."

"Huh," Dean commented. 

"See?" Jane said to him. "I'm the research queen.”

A pause. 

“Queen-consort.” 

Another pause. 

“A duchess-by-marriage, at least."

Sam stood and Dean handed him his empty coffee cup without a word. 

Jane tried and failed to squash a tiny grin at the look on Sam's face, but he didn't seem to care, asking if she'd like him to start the kettle for her. She glanced at her watch. The research mini-break she’d spent partying at Jay’s had gotten away from her, cutting straight through her usual tea time.

“You’re my favorite,” she told Sam with a wink. 

Dean shot her a bird as he pretended to scratch his nose. So Sam thumped his ear. Typical morning.

"I forget, does it say anything else? Did anybody ever find out what was up with that stuff?" Dean asked her as Sam left the room.

"Corn poltergeists," Jane replied. 

They stared at each other in silence for a few moments before she spoke again.

“This is my life.”

“Welcome to the club, kiddo. And I meant the other thing. The Backdoor plague.”

“Backwards plague, and you know it.”

Back on went the glasses.

“Hold on, lemme see... no, I don't think... you know, for heaven's...” Jane brought a flat expression up to meet Dean’s slightly smug one. “No. No resolution that I can see. But I do see it was all written up by an Iowan M-O-L brother: one 'Fitzgerald, Harvey'.”

Dean didn't bother to hide a smirk because, well, why start now?

"I hate you," said Jane.

"You love me," said Dean.

"I know."

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