#someone please join in with me

[monofazz]

Bee being one of the first cogless miners take, my beloved-

[thunderbottle]

there never was a forest on saint sasha

(anyways listen to myth sides 1 & 2 by the narcissist cookbook)

[starry-bi-sky]

Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)

TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.

(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)

This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.

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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.

....

The kid is a surprise though.

Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.

There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.

The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.

The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.

He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.

A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.

At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.

Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.

Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"

The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."

Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.

"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."

He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.

The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.

"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.

The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.

Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.

The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.

Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."

[the--firevenus]

Love the idea of de-aged Bruce au where he turn to a lil kid but he still possessed the same skills / knowledge he already has (with some minor changes to fit in his new small body) and he's like "oh this great actually, I wish I was doing this when I was 9"

Meanwhile the boys + Alfred was stressed tf out like, "HMM LET'S NOT ACTUALLYYY" (they know Bruce is capable but also they never saw tiny Bruce and wym he's nine? He look like he's 6!? And wym he can jump very high and do the chandelier swing???? NO HE DOESNT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT—)

I think cassandra would be the most chill about it, experiencing cuteness aggression and is enabling Bruce to try trick that would raise Dick and Alfred blood pressure

Bonus point if dami was the second one that's like "?? I don't see why this is a cause of concern, I did more when I was that age" and is the second enabler (actually dragging tiny Bruce ((who now more lenient and child like despite keeping the same knowledge as older Bruce)) to some misadventures that he always wanted to do) (he wanted to be his father best friend.. Someone sedate me actually OTL)

[melit0n]

I swear I've never heard him sing I Wanna Dance With Somebody live up until now!

Credits: @/mrchefhat on tiktok

[stevenrogered]

ONE DAY ↳book > screen 

Of course leaving now would mean that he would never see her again. He wondered if she would mind, and presumed she would: they usually did. But would he mind?

He examined her face as she slept. There was no denying that her face- well, her face was a wonder.

[atoriv-art]

silly fashion swaps

[dwtpsychward]

dream is seriously the mom of the house they call him for help all the time they want to be his favorite and always have him pick their side and hes the only one who can calm them down 😭 he didnt know babysitting would be apart of his work of just trying to code

[thisdayindnphistory]

guys i really think they’re just getting revenge on their fans rn. like all those years of SLOWLY inching towards a hard launch and now they’re millimeters away from it and it’s gonna stay like this for AWHILE. they WANT us to seem absolute batshit crazy to the rest of the world and they love it.

imagine their fans talking to normal people “oh have dan & phil said if they’re together or not yet?” “well no not really but here’s this 20 page long list of everything they’ve said/done recently that is basically saying they’re together” “….oh …. Haha….Ok then….”

[scottishmushroom]

Starting this off with please do not tag or ask Neil***

I need to know if anyone out there has a theory/idea/speculation about the tomatoes in season 2.

This show does nothing without a reason behind it. And ever since my first watch through, I thought the tomatoes randomly falling in 02.01 when Gabriel walks by was so strange. Why do they fall? Why do we have to see them fall and land on the ground? Why does Gabriel notice and seemingly step on one? Is it just filler? What does it mean???

I pretty much let it go and assumed it was just a nice little cinematic detail but then.

One day I’m watching 02.02 during the Job throwback and what do I see?

Tomatoes.

Right as Aziraphale is working out that something is wrong with the kids goats, you can see a bowl of tomatoes sitting on the ground.

Coincidence? Perhaps.

But then I notice when Crawley and Aziraphale are having their dramatic standoff, the bowl of tomatoes is directly in the center of the shot and positioned perfectly between them.

I wish I had a theory to offer you all, but I don’t. All I have is an observation that I just cannot explain. Could it be absolutely nothing? Possibly. But the attention to detail in this show is on another level, and I’d love to hear if anyone else noticed this or has their own theory as to whether the tomatoes mean anything.

Of course I’ve tried diving into the significance of tomatoes (also known as love apples) and I’m not seeing anything that’s standing out to me in regards to our ineffable idiots. Even in the book, there is only a small mention of tomatoes and a footnote that mentions tomatoes/love apples, but neither scene is about our beloved angel and demon duo.

Please share your ideas!

[charlottemadison42]

Clocking Out - a new short story

Crowley was indubitably the hottest guy at the office.

It was unfair. He was tall, he was angular, he was stylish, he was sophisticated; he was symmetrical except where it was cute to be crooked, and he looked young except where it was sexy to show signs of maturity. He dressed to kill and his black hair was always perfect and he wore sunglasses indoors.

Unfortunately, like most hot guys, he came across as a bit of a tool.

But even Aziraphale wouldn’t wish this on a tool. Mary from PR had the poor man cornered at the office Valentine’s Day mixer, and Mary was tipsy, and she was talking, and she was leaning in while Crowley was quite decidedly leaning away.

Aziraphale wasn’t normally one to interfere, but he felt a sort of obligation, both as part of the HR team and as someone who could never seem to find any small talk circles to join. So -- with the resignation of a man who knows that if he doesn’t personally wash the break room dishes, they will remain unwashed -- he approached.

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A Good Omens AU, 12.5k, rated E, complete, no archive warnings apply. Enjoy!

[ghirahimbo]

do you ever just *clenches fist* think about the Ancient Cistern and the stories that inspired it as an extended metaphor for the potential of Link and Ghirahim... and if the criminal from the story's one good deed in life was sparing the life of a spider, then Ghirahim’s was first sparing the life of the gadfly that is Link... and if Link were to throw down a lifeline for him, Ghirahim’s test of salvation might still be whether he selfishly hoards that thread—and Link—for himself, or it might be whether he can accept the mercy that he himself once gave rather than give into the impulse for vengeance that would drag them both down to hell, together,

[sweet-night-mares]

Davrin… Davrin please… DAVRIN PLEASE GIVE THE OTHERS A CHANCE 🫣😮‍💨

[aquamonstra]

Seeing A LOT of people using exclusively she/her pronouns for Taash when BioWare's promo material has used predominantly they/them 😒

Can y'all fuckin TRY please? For one, Taash's voice actor, Jin Maley, is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

And while I understand they might not outright announce Taash is non-binary for us if it's a plot point/character reveal thing (which I understand bc the Qunari are canonically gender essentialist) can we please at least collectively push them in the right direction?? Show them that we want this?? BC I FUCKING NEED THIS.

[ghostiepines]

I really feel like we as a fandom should’ve gave that whole broken lance moment in Decepticon air wayyyyy more attention tbh