#someone please join in with me

[sallowsunshine]

Hufflepuff! MC and Sebastian Headcannons

Sebastian thinks all Hufflepuffs just follow their friends like lost puppies, but after you beat him in that first duel, he's so impressed, he finds himself following you around like a lost puppy.

While Sebastian doesn't play on the Slytherin quidditch team, he goes to every Hufflepuff match to watch you and is surprised by how athletic you are.

Basically, you break every preconceived notion Sebastian had about Hufflepuffs.

You get Sebastian to walk you to the Hufflepuff common room every time you hang out by promising to sneak him some pumpkin pasties from the kitchen.

The librarian LOVES you, even though you constantly sneak into the restricted section with Sebastian but he always covers for you, so she has no idea. She thinks you're a goodie, and your fake innocence drives Sebastian mad. You even try to tell the librarian it was your idea one time, but she doesn't believe you and blames Sebastian for corrupting you.

In the winter, you constantly "forget" your scarf and Sebastian will unravel his own and wrap you up, covering your nose, mumbling about how you'll catch a cold.

[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."

[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

[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!

[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.

[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,

[1800-lemon-boy]

Friendly reminder that Bianca Di Angelo exists and she’s more than just Nicos sister.

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[multiiocular-mushroom]

francis madoka magica crozier

(the witch designs are here and also posted separately with some lore under the tag 'the soul gem passage')

[frankiebirds]

thinking about morgan's relationship with trust vs love. because yes, hotch is right in 2x23 when he says "there are very few people he truly trusts". but the thing that Gets Me about morgan in a way other characters with trust issues don't is that he trusts so slowly but loves so quickly.

he extends insane levels of compassion to strangers. the one that really sticks out to me is when he holds dr. brazier's hand in 2x08. if you need a refresher and don't feel like checking out the linked post: there is a bomb under her car seat that will go off if she gets up or moves wrong, and he crouches by the car holding her hand despite hotch ordering him to back up. importantly, despite having been on the bomb squad and having experience, morgan is not the one disarming the bomb. he has literally no reason to be there. hotch is telling him to leave and he's refusing. he's not risking life and limb to disarm a bomb, he's risking life and limb to hold a frightened woman's hand while she prays. a woman he met about five seconds ago; i really just want to emphasize that morgan isn't doing this because it's his job. hell, he's defying orders. this isn't agent morgan doing a job, this is derek morgan being a person.

derek morgan would die and kill for someone before he trusted them to have his back. im going to be sick.

[torahtot]

you can always tell when someone doesn't have maga men in their life and god it makes me angry.. "if you're nice and compassionate you can be the one woman that makes them realize women aren't mean!" my mom bent over backwards for my dad for 25 fucking years he has plenty of other women kissing his ass and it never changed anything. do you really think that before being radicalized they never knew a single kind woman? they were never friends with a nice girl? alt-right men's problem with women isn't just that they've experienced too many mean women and they need to be shown that women can be nice, it's that they think women are inferior and don't deserve rights and don't understand anything so you can do what you want with them. and it takes a lot more than being nice to show someone that you aren't inferior. this isn't a case of being nice even when it's hard for the sake of deradicalization, it's about spending every fucking interaction with someone trying to get them to see you as a human being with value and a functioning intellect while they just laugh and show you that's never going to happen.

i cannot stress this enough: random women are not just going out and Being Mean to men. ur average guy interacts with plenty of women throughout his life- close women amongst their friends and family, casual interactions etc. most people don't start out being shunned by women, they start out being treated as NORMAL. & when they show their disrespect in normal society, it isn't tolerated, but when they go to alt-right spaces (which they're pushed towards online) they're told they're allowed to be as horrible as they want with no consequences because they're entitled to everything. it isn't "women aren't welcoming and the alt-right is so friendly so i'll become alt-right," it's "women don't let me disrespect them and the alt-right tells me fuck them, do whatever you want, you're entitled to it all" and why would you choose the group where you have to be a normal accountable person when there's a group that will reward you for being a shithead who gives no fucks?

the alt-right can afford to be more friendly and welcoming because they can allow bigotry. this can't work the same way for progressive spaces because we can be as kind & welcoming as possible but at the end of the day we have lines where we have to say "this behavior/speech isn't allowed in this space," and for certain people, that just can't win against a space where you can be as nasty as you want. these posts always end with a disclaimer saying "of course being kind doesnt mean you need to tolerate their bigotries" but what they don't realize and what drives me crazy is that women not tolerating bigotry IS the "women are mean" that radicalized them in the first place. they perceive you pushing back on any bigotry or bullshit as you being a meanie and treating them like they're ontologically evil. the 'kindness' they need to be deradicalized is you letting them walk all over you.

idk what the answer is to deradicalizing them and im sure relationships are part of it but you can be as kind as you want and all it will do is destroy you ime. i cant stand to see people (who have never even successfully deradicalized any man by being nice btw they always speak in hypotheticals and not from experience) double down on telling women to do things that will see no results and only hurt them, especially when any woman who has tried can tell you exactly how it went

[tooberbatch]

this is literally the jankiest venture draw-over ever but i need everyone to hear me out when i say: blackwatch venture.

[ghostdnfie]

this might be another genre of posts that only i understand but. am i the only one who gets annoyed when ppl say they like their faves purely bc they're 'unproblematic' 😭 purity culture hurts my soul bc i see ppl time and time again care way more about the absence of mistakes (i.e. perfection, which mind you is impossible) than actually doing good or trying to improve yourself. and nine out of ten times their faves aren't even 'unproblematic' (or what fits their definition of what they believe to be unproblematic) they have said and done things in the past that were either wrong or hurtful bc newsflash we have all made mistakes or misspoken before. its just that with creators specifically, some were lucky enough not to have their mistakes broadcasted to a huge audience, and some were not.

i just hate the fact that some ccs can say or do smth mistakeningly and they're never seen as redeemable by ppl like this no matter how much they grow and change as ppl, or apologise or make amends, because even though the person they are now is different than the person that made that mistake, in these ppls' eyes they will be tied to that mistake forever, because of the fact that what is put on the internet stays there forever. especially when continually brought up and circled around even many years later. and every time i've seen that happen it's done for malicious intent, not because these ppl actually care about the cc improving as a person.