#raven x daniel

[kibellah]

tagged by @cryptcombat and @dekarios for this super cute picrew, tysm 🫶🫶

raven x ric pre-HB | raven x daniel when she returns - fallen hero if

florence x daeran - p: wotr | ellie x dante - remember you will die if

tagging: @aztarion @rosymorns @pollard-zero @kirnet

@nightwardenminthara @nsewell @gonesoft-ish

@druidgroves @lavampira @astrovagrant @agentnatesewell and anyone else who'd like to do this <3

[moorswanderer]

as i was looking at his face, i felt something that i had never felt before in my life. it was fuzzy and tingly feeling… as if i was witnessing the birth of a new world.

[ravensmadreads]

Unhinged totally unasked for thots about Riding Pedro Boys

Authors Note: So this came from me chugging entirely too many energy drinks and then projectile vomiting in Taylors inbox. I'd like to warn you that: English isn't my first language, I have never written smut before, I'm not a real writer, and also I'm trash goblin levels of unhinged about this. That being said; Enjoy and uhh. Forgive me Fandom

JAVIER PEÑA

Javier Pena doesn't let you do it.

Don't @ me LISTEN! (YES I STARTED OFF WITH A CONTROVERSIAL THOT FUCKING BITE ME.)

That man does not have the time, or the patience, or the good sense (the sense is at the other end) to let you ride. He needs the control okay? And sometimes it's not even about the control ! It's the frustration. It piles and piles and piles until he snaps. He needs to do. He will bend you over and work his frustration away until he has had enough and you let him because he needs it. (And lets be real he makes it worth your while every single time)

BUT. When he finally fucking retires, and gets a ranch, and breaths air not tinged with the smells of death, cigarettes and guns for the first time in however many years, and maybe drinks some fucking water, he takes you out on a date. He fumbles through the entire thing, panics because he thinks he blew it, still manages to get you home, gets ridden for the first time in like 6 years, and can't walk straight for an entire day and stammers every time someone asks him why.

JAVIER GUTIERREZ

Javi G loves it. He loves watching you. Gets all puppy dog wide eyed (remember the pool scene face??? Thats it.) and you have to really focus because his look of straight up wonder and awe and bright eyed eagerness makes you want to cry. He's panting like he's running a marathon, running his big hands EVERYWHERE he can reach. He makes you feel worshipped and adored and so very very loved. Thanks you after. For being so amazing, and so wonderful to him, and thanks the universe that he found you. Cause he's sap. You definitely cry after.

JOEL MILLER

(Watch me be controversial again) Joel is fucking tired okay? He has old man bones and creaky joints and his back is achy. Patrol was agony, Jesse wouldn't shut up the entire time, and Tommy was giving him shit, and he has no energy to drill anyone into the mattress (as much as we all want him to). He's just plain tired. He likes you on top. Likes it slow (like a roast chicken on a sunday slow). Enjoys the gradual build up, likes to lean back, watch with half open eyes as you take your time. Wants to indulge in something beautiful at the end of the world, and that something is you. He makes sexy grunting noises, mutters a whole lot of praise ~and filth~ and just y'know. Savours it. 🫠🫠🫠 savours you. 🫠

DIETER BRAVO

Dieter is a maniac. (Leave him alone he has adhd!!) He can't still still for the life of him so you best believe he changes positions 6 times and the only way you're getting to ride is if you're also putting some weight elsewhere. To hold him down! You squeeze his neck once and he MELTS. INSTANTLY. Loses all sense. Starts babbling and whimpering and making extremely pathetic noises. Will definitely buck up and whine. PRAISES YOU. BEGGING. LOUD NOISES.

MAX PHILLIPS

Max is a heathen. He just likes watching you bounce. That's it. That's the post :p

MARCUS PIKE

Marcus P is a romantic. He will be doing the whole "lean forward and try to get kisses in between" while also "moaning and maintaining eye contact" and he's holding you so tight , squeezing your sides and also muttering declarations of love. About how he wants a life with you, and a family, and a home, and a future. How he's going to "make you so happy baby, I promise I will, I swear to you". Doesn't let you off for from on top of him for atleast a half hour after; kissing all over your face and rubbing your back and petting your hair "I meant all of it sweetheart. I want all of you." shsbzgwgsvsg ilovehimsomuch and I've only ever seen gifsets of this man what is wrong with me

MARCUS MORENO

Marcus M is A MENACE. He wears his stupid glasses, and has his stupid shirt off, while he does stupid taxes/meeting plans in bed. You keep throwing side glances and getting increasingly wound up and he just has this gentle smirk but he's mostly ignoring you. You sidle up to him and maybe start kissing his jaw, laying gentle pecks down his neck, and he's still fukcungh working "Baby. I need to finish this. I'm sorry, you need to wait." But that smirk is still there and it's driving you crazy and maybe you keep kissing until you reach his *coughs* and then you're working on getting him interested. You can still hear the fucking pen scratching though and so you go deeper, and he raises an eyebrow. "be good now honey" You're settling in his lap and he has you sitting there until he has finished his paperwork with you whimpering and trying not to squirm because you want to be good you really do and you know he'll make it so much better but he feels so good and when he's finally finally done you get to move but you're so wound up you can't pull yourself together enough to find a rhythm and you're nearly in tears and he has to grip your sides and murmur instructions in your ear and help you until you're satisfied and just when you think he's done, and about to flip you over, he adjusts his grip and starts moving from underneath you until you're crying and he's finished ~which doesnt happen until you've come 2 more times~

DAVE YORK

Dave. Oh my gosh Dave. Dave is a strict dom if ever there was one. With him it's a punishment. He'll tell you to hold off until he's done which is freaking impossible with how deep he gets, and how he likes to warm up his hands on your butt while you're trying desperately to hold onto that last thread of control. He is muttering absolute filth, holding your arms behind your back with one hand while the other is either laying smack after smack or rubbing you furiously all the while he's got the smuggest look. "Don't you dare baby. Be a good girl now. Listen and obey for once". But you can't because he's not fair and he knows it. And when you do finally fall apart he's clenching his teeth trying to hold back himself and his hands are holding you up as you gasp his name like it's the only word you know. He's running his hands down your back and kissing you softly and helping you catch your breath and when you finally get your heart to stop pounding and look up at him, he's watching you with this dangerously soft smile and he goes "oh you're in for it now aren't you honey?" and kisses your forehead while you try not to whimper.

FRANKIE MORALES

Frankie is a soft boy. He loves it. Craves it. He loves giving up control. Wants you to tie him up and have your way until he has no thoughts left in that pretty little head. He is swearing like an absolute sailor the entire time, calling you ma'am, begging to be released so he can kiss you and touch you, absolutely nearly breaks the head board once he was so desperate. Wants to be edged but also is the biggest WIMP about it. Will pout and swear and beg and plead but then want you to deny him again. Will definitely be mumbling absolute nonsense once you're done. Needs all the aftercare. Blushes pink when he gets it. Wraps himself around you like a HUGE koala bear after. ~and returns the edging favour 3 times over when he gets in his Captain Francisco Morales Mood~

JACK DANIELS

BONUS TWO I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT and tumblr won't let me put gifs for:

Jack makes every single cowboy joke known to man. You have to put your hand on his mouth to get him to shut the hell up. His eyes get all glassy when you do. He puts his hat on top of your head and busies himself in your neck (dual benefits: A. He shuts up and B. HICKIES) will definitely drag you on top of him in his Bronco (he likes to show off) will pull up on the side of the road almost 70% of the times you drive together. Bites you over your clothes. Loves the way you grab desperately at this leather jacket. Definitely makes you bend over and 'clean up the mess sugar' before driving like the hounds of hell are after him all the way back home and doing it all over again because "we gotta make you a mama now love"

PERO TOVAR

Pero got married after he came back and retired as a sell sword. His wife is a soft but sassy thing who's a little (read: not at all, she returns his snark twice over) intimidated by him but also thinks he's a good man because he saved her village from raiders. She has seen him grumble and snark at but then also share his food with the orphans who works at the village inn. She's inexperienced (let me live my victorian life) and he doesn't really think he deserves her but also he's not so much an idiot to say no to someone like her. She's the village "healer" and he met her when he got stabbed by one of the raiders (arm wound: not serious.) He has to teach her. She gets shy and flustered, which is a total 180 from her sassy self, and Pero loves it. She makes the most amazing sounds that have him thinking that maybe he did something right in his life to end up in her arms. She wants to please her new husband and asks her married friends for advice and they tell her about this new position. So she asks him, stuttering and tripping over words, if she could try something she heard about? From a friend? She straddles him and Pero loses his mind. He's closing his eyes and clenching his jaw so hard and she's whimpering in the most DELICIOUS way and he's trying so hard to hold back and let her take her pace and she's so worried "am I not doing it right?" Pero has to take 3 deep breaths before he's centred enough to answer and then he helps her. Puts his hands on her hips to guide her. Puts one of her hands on his shoulder "steady now pequenita" and puts the other low on her belly and presses in so she can feel him. Loves the way she cries out. Bends forward to leave little marks everywhere he can reach. She's scrambling at his chest, leaving nail marks he loves, and finally grabbing his hair and pulling until he groans. And when they're both done and sated and sweaty he kisses her, looks her in the eye and winks. "I'm going to have to go thank your friend now, mi esposa."

DIN DJARIN

Din and you dont have time. The razor crest is finally in hyperspace, you got shot at for the 50th time in 2 weeks, (because Murphys Law seems to be the only law Mando never breaks), you're exhausted, sweaty, and the giggly green monster of chaos only made you chase him down from the top of a weapons cabinet twice before he finally decided to take a nap. You're frustrated, and in desperate need of a shower, and a nap, but also you can't get the image of Mando fighting out of your head. Before you know it, the hormones have taken over and you're attacking him in the pilot seat. The bucket is off (I refuse to look at my own reflection in the tin cans helmet while we do the do), he's got you arching into him, your shirt is half torn from the top because Din refuses to wait for "so many fucking buttons Meshla" the gloved hand is squeezing the back of your neck, his mouth is on your chest, his other hand (you only managed to get one glove off) is splayed out on your back. You're riding him like you're trying to break him and his thigh holster? thing (do i look like i can figure out what they're called?) is digging marks into your skin but you're too turned on to care. It's frantic, it's messy, you're PRAYING the tiny green menace stays asleep as you do your best to muffle your sounds. The refresher isn't big enough for a round two, (you still do your best), and your legs feel like jelly, when you finally pass out; curled up on top of the human space heater while he hums Mando'a in your ear.

*****

TAGGING: @chronically-ghosted (you are a menace but ily)

@fuckyeahdindjarin (here I go trying that writing thing again, stop me pls)

[demonic0angel]

(Prompt: Jazz is going to have a girl night out party with Steph, Carrie Kelley, Cass, Babs, Dani, Sam, Starfire, Raven, and Harley Quinn at the Wayne Manor alone since the boys were too busy to enjoying their night "funs")

Jazz sighed, “I thought this was going to be a sleepover?”

“It is,” Dani, Sam, Steph, and Carrie chorused with broad grins, before high fiving each other gleefully. Jazz stared at them in silence and then turned to look at the rest of the group for common sense. Both Barbara and Raven shrugged while Kori just smiled.

Harley waved a hand carelessly. “It is a sleepover! Don’t worry too much about it, my little apprentice! We’ll be okay!”

“… we’re summoning Raven’s dad to beat him up and blow him up with explosives,” Jazz pointed out slowly.

“Just relax,” Sam said, as she passed Raven the human blood they swiped from the Batcave for emergencies. “If anything goes wrong, we’ll call Danny.”

Dani muttered to herself, “It’s not fair that he gets to have a sleepover with the rest of the boys.”

Barbara grinned when she heard that and ruffled her hair, saying, “Don’t worry about it, kiddo. We’re going to have so much more fun than they are.”

Steph nodded. “Yep! After this, we’ll rub the fact that we beat up a demon god in their faces!”

Jazz looked up at the sky for help. “Y’know, normal people would just use ouija boards to summon ghosts at sleepovers, not summoning circles to summon demons.”

Cass patted her back. Kori giggled and persuaded softly, “It’ll be fine, Jazz! Let’s relax and have fun! We shall pummel Raven’s dad so hard that he never even looks in her direction again!”

Raven looked at Jazz with wide eyes, clearly trying to win her over. Jazz stared at her for a long moment, as both Harley and Dani joined in the puppy eyes before Jazz gave up and sighed.

“Pandora help us,” she groaned before then helping them write down the sigils.

[bet-on-me-13]

My Dad can beat up your dad

Imagine if Ellie joined the Teen Titans (Cartoon Version)

When Trigon attacks, everybody is freaking out because how are they going to stop him? Raven is a kid, there are no other magic users around, and the Justice League is off world (idk what the canon reason is)

But Ellie is strangely calm

She mentions that her dad may be able to help, or at least be able to hold him back long enough for them to get help

Robin: How is your Dad going to stop THAT!

Ellie: Well, you know how I'm half ghost?

BB: Yeah?

Ellie: Ans you know how that one time the ghost we fought called me "Princess"?

Cyborg: yeah...

Ellie: Well the thing is, they weren't lying. My dad is the King of a Dimension called the Infinite Realms, and while he is young for a King he is still powerful.

So she calls in her dad, who is sporting the classic Ghost King Redesign, and he goes to hold Trigon back as the team comes up with a plan.

I don't like the "Insanely OP Danny" stuff too much, so for this let's just say that Danny can grow in size to be comparable to Trigon, and they have a Giant Kaiju battle in the middle of Jump City. He doesn't win, but he manages to hold on long enough for Raven to finish the Job

Also i really want Danny to start doting on Ellie, like really excited that he gets to meet his daughters friends and all that. He even pulls out some embarrassing Baby Photos from that time Ellie was reverted to her actual age.

Once he hears about Raven being Trigons daughter, he adopts her on the spot.

Raven suddenly has a new Dad, Sister, Brother (reformed dan), Aunt, Grandma and Grandpa (good parents jack and maddie) and maybe a new mom (Sam? Val? 3rd person?)

Basically I just wanted a "Kaiju Danny vs Kaiju Trigon" fight

[danieldoodles]

From enemies to frenemies to besties. You'd love it, you know it.

[stormandforge]

Reminder that Forge isn't on this variant cover because he's busy having a face-off with his 2 exes

(X-Force #6 variant cover by Carlos Gomez.)

(main cover by Stephen Segovia)

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

[windsweptinred]

I realised the other day I'd done an accompanying piece of art for all my fics save Metamorphosis. Ofcourse this immediately needed to be rectified! It's been an absolute joy to return to this AU. I'm going to have to go back and revisit it someday with a sequel or a series of one shots. There's just so much left to play with!

[ibrithir-was-here]

Been a stressful sort of last two weeks and not over yet, but did some self indulgent rough Sandman doodles to chill out before bed. Danny boy and Cori 2 gettin all the cuddles x)

[amageish]

Thinking way too hard about the queer possibilities of X-Men ‘97

When X-Men ‘97 was first announced, I’ll admit I was kind of ambivelent to the entire project... It felt very nostalgia-focused and was just less interesting to me then an all-new X-Men cartoon that could do its own thing without being burdened with established canon...

...and then I listened to the X-Men 60 Uncanny Years event earlier this year and hearing the executive producer of the series discuss what the X-Men meant to him as a kid as a gay black man in Florida basically changed my mind about the entire project. Now I’m excited for it!

The X-Men are so fucking queer. Even ignoring the ways that the mutant metaphor have been used to discuss queer issues before queer issues could be discussed textually, Marvel’s merry mutants just have... so many queer members and even more when you expand the list to include sub-textual and intended queerness.

So, with all that in mind, I did a little thinking and decided to take some guesses about who could make for queer representation in '97... Let’s dive in!

Part One: The Comic Canon Gays

Let’s start with the characters who are explicitly no-subtext-required queer in the comic books themselves. These are a few of the characters Marvel uses in Pride events and generally parades around every June.

Northstar

Jean-Paul Beaubier may seem like the vanilla ice cream of this rainbow sundae, but there’s far more going on with this character then the “Marvel’s first explicitly gay superhero” title that he is so often boiled down to. A French-Canadian superstar athlete, he’s lived never being entirely sure if his skiing career success was a result of his talent or his mutant abilities.

While his depiction in X-Men The Animated Series just had him be painfully French-Canadian with an on-the-nose accent and French exclamations, there’s a mean catty gay under the surface that is just waiting to be unleashed. They could also adapt his famous wedding arc, wherein he married his husband Kyle Jinadu...

Also he hates cops, so y’know... Maybe Marvel did nail the queer experience on their first try?

Iceman

Bobby Drake is arguably the most famous queer character at Marvel. A member of the original five X-Men, he was famously confirmed as gay when his teenage self was transported to the present and, with some unsolicited help from a teenage Jean Grey, questioned why his older self remaining closeted, even in a world that was (comparatively at least) accepting of queer desire.

In the original show, he showed unrequited interest in Polaris, as he had in the comics before his coming-out. This reboot could potentially give a more grounded and less fantastical take on coming-out then what he had in the comics... or maybe time travel will be involved again - who knows really!

Prodigy

David Allyene, aka Prodigy, is one of the most notable bi men at Marvel with one of the most distinctive coming-out stories. His mutant powers cause him to instantly learn things that other people know, hence the name Prodigy, and, through his powers, he also learned his own sexuality. How’s that for a crazy journey of self-discovery.

Prodigy is a newer character who did not appear in the original animated series at all, so there’s no continuity concerns there...

Mystique and Destiny

Destiny, also known as Irene Adler, met her lover Mystique when he was presenting as male and operating as a consulting detective in Victorian London.

Yeah uh. This is implying what you think it is.

The two of them have been lovers for centuries now, though both took other partners at different points during their relationship. Their love is something special though and together they raised Rogue as a child - as well as maybe sired Nightcrawler together? That was once intended to be Nightcrawler’s origin, but it was famously scrapped due to Marvel editorial not wanting to depict a child that is a product of a queer relationship at the time... but now this November a new comic will explore the “true” origin of Nightcrawler, so maybe Mystique/Destiny having a biological child is back on the table!

Mystique was, of course, in the original series. I’m not sure the actual odds of her relationship with Irene being acknowledged in ‘97 - partially just because I imagine Marvel would be concerned about backlash to queer villains... but also they’re adorable and good to me so I’d like them!

Captain Britain and Askani

Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers are two incredibly complicated characters to summarize. Rachel is the time-displaced daughter of Scott and Jean from a hypothetical alternate feature, while Betsy Braddock spent like 30 years of her publication history trapped in the body of Kwannon, a Japanese assassin. While these two characters are some of Marvel’s most actively in-your-face unquestionably queer characters - the last Betsy story had a surprising amount of implied sex for only five issues - they’ve never really had a chance to shine in a multimedia way (well, at least not with Betsy in her own body and not being merged with Kwannon).

In the original show, Rachel cameoed briefly as a prisoner of Apocalypse while Pyslocke appeared without being named - assumedly they didn’t want to bother explaining the body-swap storyline. Personally, if they were to be in the show, I’d suggest that Betsy should be introduced as having inherited her brother’s title of Captain Britain, with Pyslocke of the original show being revealed to have been Kwannon in her own body all along...

Part Two: The New Mutants

There’s so many queer New Mutants that I’m just giving them their own category here... plus, with Sunspot being in the main cast, I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the time got (Sun)spotlighted as well!

Note that the sapphics of the first generation of New Mutants can also be mixed and matched when it comes to shipping. I present them based on the pairings that are currently canon/teased in the present comics, but Dani/Xuan, Xuan/Kitty, Kitty/Rahcel, etc. are all valid too and could be within the cards for the show.

Karma & Galura

The first explicit lesbian of the X-Men line, Xuân Cao Mạnh is a refugee of the Vietnam Boat Crisis, a thing which makes no sense when you consider that she is still canonically like 20-something years old in 2023. Her coming-out was a much lower-key affair then Jean-Paul’s, with her friends just casually running into her at the Exploding Person festival (i.e., Burning Man) with a shaved pink haircut and already travelling with her two “girlfriends”.

After the musical festival, she proceeded to fall in love with her roommate Kitty Pryde and then her co-worker Dani Moonstar, both of which were never (textually) requited. Recently, she’s started dating the winged mutant Galura and finally gotten to do stuff like “kiss a woman on-panel regularly” after two decades of being a lesbian denied a girlfriend...

She has cameoed in X-Men ‘92-related media with a design that is truly terrible IMO, but I think she could be rebooted and appear in this series in her full glory... especially after the New Mutants movie left her out entirely!

Mirage and Wolfsbane

Introduced in the original New Mutants run, Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair share a unique telepathic connection, helpfully described as them being “soul-mates.” The Comic Book Code prohibited depictions of queer people, but uh. This first run is incredibly not subtle, even as Rahne nominally has interest her male teammate Cannonball.

Unfortunately, post-Claremont, their relationship was more or less abandoned for a few decades (coinciding with a massive downward spiral in Rahne content in general) climaxing with Rahne being killed off entirely in an allegory for transphobic violence... Thankfully, she recovered from her death and has recently been written by a non-binary author and now a trans author, both of whom have leaned back into the idea that these “soul-mates” may, in fact, have romantic feelings for each other.

Oh, also they were explicitly gay in the movie. So. Good for them for that!

Magik and Shadowkat

Another classic pair of X-Men “roommates,” Illyana Rasputina and Kate Pryde are another Claremont-created “soul-mate” duo - albeit without the telepathic bond. After decades of queer-coding, both were able to do queer-adjacent things explicitly for the first time in the Krakoa era, with Illyana asking a group of people of various gender presentations to make out with her and Kate kissing a tattoo artist who looks suspiciously like her bestie on-panel.

Pryde famously lost the spot of “Teen X-Men PoV character” to Jubilee in the show, but maybe X-Men ‘97 could give her a second chance... plus Illyana is one of the most popular X-Men characters not given a full spotlight in the original show, in spite of her more or less being an A-list X-Men in 2023. I don’t know if Marvel is brave enough to make this one canon, but I do think these two are two of the most obviously missing characters from the ‘97 line-up.

Escapade

Shela Sexton, aka Escapade, is a transgender sapphic who debuted in Marvel Pride last year and has since then had a starring role in the most recent New Mutants series. She has the incredibly unique power of the ability to “steal” things from people - including everything from stealing physical objects like their wallet to stealing abstract concepts like their emotional or physical state. Her character also generally has embodied the intersectional approach to mutant identity which has become more and more prevalent in the modern era - her mutant identity and trans identity are both important to her character, but neither are allegories for the other.

I think she’s probably too new to be added to the X-Men ‘97 cast pragmatically, but maybe they could have snuck in a cameo at the last minute? Idk. I figured I’d include her on the list.

Part Three: Let’s Get Wild!

Okay. Fuck it. Let’s talk about some comic book justifications that could be used to queer up the actual main cast from the original classic X-Men The Animated Series.

Jubilee

Jubilation Lee, the teen PoV lead of the X-Men, has been written as queer a handful of times, but never explicitly in 616. Most notably, she was gay in an AU Runaways story (written by N.D. Stevenson), where she dated a bisexual version of Pixie as well as an ice-powered sapphic named Frostbite. Monet also had a crush on her in the X-Men ‘92 animation-inspired comic book series. In terms of 616 content, her relationship with Laura Kinney has often been read in a sapphic way, especially in Liu’s X-23 series where Laura notably breaks up with her boyfriend only for Jubilee to be waiting back at her apartment to go out with her.

Storm

Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, famously has had a subtextual Sapphic fling with the bundle of chaos that is Yukio. They two met for the first time when Ororo went to Japan and their time together was almost immediately followed by her famous punk Storm era, which is very queer when you consider that context. Yukio was also later made explicitly queer in Fox’s Deadpool 2 movie, though the movie character doesn’t share much of the personality and thrill-seeking antics of her comic book counterpart...

Storm is the central protagonist of the original Claremont Uncanny X-Men and will be central to the ‘97 series as well. It’d be really bold to confirm her as queer, but I’d say this is the kind of move that would be worth it if they want this to stand out among X-Men adaptations.

Wolverine, Phoenix, and Cyclops

Finally, Jean Grey, Scott Summers, and Logan were implied to have been in a poly relationship throughout most of the Krakoa era - though they have fallen on hard times recently in the run-up to Fall of X.

I’ll be blunt: I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Marvel corporate would approve this being textual... but I’m willing to be proven wrong, I guess!

WHEW. Okay. That’s my list. This is nowhere near definitive of course - I didn’t discuss Shatterstar’s bisexuality, Deadpool’s pansexuality, Gwenpool’s aroace identity, et al - but also basically every X-Men character is either textually queer or could be justified as being queer based on comic book lore. This entire brand has a queer poly energy that even the straightest writers weren’t able to fully shake off of it... so, while this is my list, they could really do anything they wanted (and that Mickey Mouse lets them do, at least)... We’ll see what happens!

[PS: In light of the strike and the general shitty way that megacorporations in entertainment have been treating their workers for years now, I’d be remissed if I made this post and didn’t encourage people to consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund as well!]

[hannamarins]

THAT'S SO RAVEN (2003-2007)  ~  2x13: Radio Heads

[kibellah]

anyways i think the contrast at the end of retribution with ortega saying your name versus daniel is insane

ortega ^^^^

daniel ^^^^

does this happen on other paths and i just don't remember....why are these two the specific ones contrasted here

[moorswanderer]

what’s the shiniest thing you’ve ever seen?

you. to be exact, your eyes. you charmed me with these eyes and stole my name.

[tournament-of-x]

Ok regardless how the rest of the tourney goes down, that top 8/9 would be an incredible X-Men team. Mystique and Destiny as the matriarchs, then Rogue, Beto, Dani, Xuân, Gambit, Wolverine, and Magik?? Are you kidding? Dream line up

Oh, agreed 100%. Fantastic combination of abilities and personalities.

[immacaria]

Fluffbruary: February 2 - Memory

  Tags: Retired!Dream AU; Established Relationship; Living Together; Fluff; Suicide TW; Orpheus gets a body and a will to live; Daniel Hall is Dream of the Endless; I have shamelessly stole one of CJ's ideas and Dream is now a baker; He throws flour at Matthew's face when he is being insufferable; Hob's memories; Hob's POV  

  Hob is laying down, eyes staring at the ceiling and he thinks. He thinks about time where all he has now would be just a hopeful wish, a dream to make the reality less painful. A home, enough food, a comfortable bed, somewhere warm to curl up at night and the person he loved between his arms.

  Dream - No, Morpheus - sleeps soundly next to him, curled up and wearing one of Hob's sweaters. His hands are closed next to his face, not unlike a cat, and Hob has to fight the urge of squeezing his face and waking him up.

  The last time he did that Morpheus woke up so pissed and offended, Hob only had nightmares for a week. Not that he minded, he got friends with most of the nightmares. Doesn't mean his students weren't worried with the growing dark circles under his eyes.

  Anyway, he thinks, shaking his head, and smiles. They are together now, they have time.

  When Morpheus appeared at his home, a head without a body on his arm, Matthew sneezing on his shoulder and the three of them soaking wet, Hob's first instinct was to close the door at their faces. He didn't, but the instinct was there. Instead, he let them in and brought towels and tea to them.

  Turned out that the head was Dream's son - Or rather the head of his son - Orpheus and they were there in the last try, a last bet to see if Orpheus could find a will to live again. Hob didn't know how to help with that. He knew the myth, of course, he knew what happened and why the boy didn't want to live anymore.

  By Mary's tits, he understood why he didn't want to live anymore.

  After Eleanor and Robyn, during those horrible, horrible eighty years, Hob had thought of giving up more than once. A simple ask was all that it took for it all to end. A simple plea and he would meet his beloved and their children again.

  But he thought of his Stranger, his beautiful and immortal Stranger, all alone in the world again, without anyone to share a drink and understand what he went through. He thought back to their shared nights, the smiles he slowly began to conquer and the amused looks. He thought back to their last meeting and how he had to stay alive and do better.

  The boy in front of him had nothing to hold on too. His love was dead, his life had ended and he was now nothing but a head sitting in the living room of a stranger with a towel around his head and drinking tea by a straw. There was nothing he could hold on to, not in that situation.

  "You are the son of Dream, right? You can live in the Dreaming, can't you?" Hob said, his heart breaking at the thought of his friend losing a son like he had.

  "I think so, yes." Orpheus said, looking to the side to see his father nodding slowly.

  "Then go live there. That place has so many beautiful things to see, so many exciting things to be done. You could wish for a body there, walk around without having anyone carrying you around. You could sing and entertain little dreamers and you could live again," he had been kneeling in front of him at that point, eyes gone frantic as words tumbled out of his mouth. "There's so much to live for, Orpheus. So many songs to hear, so many tales to be told, so many landscapes to see. On every corner, every second, every breath you take, there's a reason to be alive still."

  "Your loved one is dead and, believe me, I understand the pain. I too have lost someone I deeply cared about more than once in my whole life. I have buried too many lovers and I had to bury my only son once. I know the grief you are feeling deep inside your bones. I know the feeling of wanting to be dead and not being able to," he was crying now, tears rolling down his face as Eleanor's laugh filled his mind and Robyn's smile shone along it. "It would be so easy, wouldn't it? To ask for death? For this all to end? It would be too easy, but would it be fair with your love? Would she agree with it?"

  "No, she wouldn't," Orpheus had said, looking down while Hob stared at him.

  "I won't let you choke on that lasso around your neck and nor will your father. We will find things to fill your time, we will find something for you to hold on to. There's so much out there, young Orpheus, there's so much to live for. You can't give up just now, even if you want to. Can you promise that? Can you promise us you will try? Just this one more time?"

  "What's your name?" Orpheus said, eyes shining with unshed tears and Hob had smiled, sniffing as he said:

  "Hob. You can call me Hob."

  "Then, I promise, Hope, I will try just this one more time. I will try to see the beauty of life again," he whispered and Hob nodded, getting up.

  "That's all I can ask of you."

  And he did try. There were bad days in the beginning where nor him nor Dream seemed to be good, seemed to have enough patience or courage to do what was sometimes necessary, but they tried anyway and now, every time Hob visits the Dreaming, Orpheus is there waiting, with a body to his own  and playing with Matthew and others citizens of the Dreaming.

 Both him and Morpheus are healing, slowly, but surely and that is all Hob could ask of them. Sniffing a little, he turns around, looking at Morpheus sleeping next to him, too much like a cat, and smiles. Years have passed since that day and Morpheus is no longer an Endless, just a simple immortal being, even if some of his powers stayed with him after he stepped away from his position.

  He now works at the New Inn, baking for it and telling stories every Wednesday for anyone that would like to hear - More than one adult started crying during those and so has Hob. There is also a book into the making that he does not let him see and little sculptures now fill every inch of their home. Because that is what it is now, their home.

  Sometimes, Orpheus and Daniel come to visit, just to see how they have been going and drink tea. Sometimes Matthew comes along and he laughs at how much of an old couple they look like. More than once he has received a handful of flour at his face for that.

  But every day Hob sees himself amazed with the fact that this is his life now. That he gets to have this every day of his life and no one will take this away from him. He has two sons now, because no matter what Orpheus and Daniel say they are his children, and he is married to his Stranger, the same one that ran away when Hob as much as dared to call him a friend.

  Now he calls him 'beloved', 'duck', 'dove', 'love', 'honey' or anything else that he wants to because they are married and Morpheus is not going to leave him anytime soon again.

  So he takes a deep breath and turns around, pulling Morpheus against him. He doesn't need to get up in a few hours and his bed is warm and comfortable. The outside world can wait a few more hours while he sleeps next to his husband.