#spy battle

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[peskysaku]

VOTE FOR HARRY! We’re so close!

Spy Tournament: Semi-finals

[zarla-s]

I love it when a group of Heavies being silly has a few Medics hanging around healing them, like they're just enjoying their husbands' antics (when they aren't being silly themselves). It's cute!

[patreon]

[theeminentlyimpractical]

honestly not nearly enough of the garashir canon posts are specifically telling rick berman to suck it.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

"You oughta be more careful, boy"

Did I forget about Engie's gunslinger? Abso-fucking-lutely

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who's Hotter?" Battle of the Raven-haired Beauties

[dimpletheheck]

First time drawing pyro🪓🔥

Omg pookie bear...

I love this little freak sm

Step aside, you wannabe artists- Pyro is the next Da Vinci

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Thunderball (1965)

[stumblegrounds]

OUR CONTESTANTS THIS WEEK ARE AS FOLLOWS;

LITTLE CAESAR FROM REAL LIFE 1 KILL; HIT GIRL

STEVEN [AFTER NOT SURVIVING] FROM STEVEN UNIVERSE 1 KILL; THE [WET] HEAVY

CAESAR SALAD FROM LUNCH 1 KILL; SABER

WARIO FROM WARIO 1 KILL; [SIX FOOT EIGHT] GEORGE WASHINGTON

UNCLE MACHETE FROM SPY KIDS 1 KILL; CAESAR ZEPPELI

JUNE EGBERT FROM HOMESTUCK 1 KILL; PEARL HOUZUKI

KNIVES CHAU FROM SCOTT PILGRIM 1 KILL; EDWARD "CAESAR" SALLOW

LAIOS TOUDEN FROM DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON 2 KILLS; DRACULA, DONKEY

MILLIONS KNIVES FROM TRIGUN: STAMPEDE 1 KILL; GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR

MARINA IDA FROM SPLATOON 1 KILL: CHILCHUCK TIMS

CHECK THE RULES AND CHOOSE THEIR FATES.

[ahleecollaborations]

So like we all know that most of the side characters in HP weren’t fully fleshed out and left a lot of questions (especially pivotal side characters) and this is for a LOT of reasons. Mainly cause the series is in Harry’s POV.

This gives Fanfic writers so much wiggle room to develop those characters and I love it!

So today I wanna talk about Percy Weasley and a thought I had that was spurned on by some recent HC from other mutuals on here.

So we’re all coming to the conclusion Percy would straight up do something illegal, get away with and never be suspected (only by Arthur cause he KNOWS his son) 10000%

This is my theory about canon book Percy (not fanfic) just by what little we know.

Recap: he was a described as straight laced, worked in the ministry as the right hand to the Minister (high freaking up in the food chain), ambitious, and he “turned against his family” before “coming home” and fighting alongside his family in the battle of Hogwarts.

But what if he didn’t? Didn’t turn against his family all along?

What if he too (like Snape) was a spy in the ministry?

He’s seen as so rigid and straight laced that he’d never be suspected as being defiant. So what if he used that and his ambitious and cunning mind to be the inside right hand of the Minister of Magic?

Parallel to Snape’s role as Nose-less lunatic’s right hand and covert spy.

And the only one to ever know to ever suspect… was his father.

Because Arthur was his handler/contact to the Order?

As another ministry employee, Arthur would be able to talk to Percy no questions asked. And as his father he’d only be okay with his child being a spy and keeping it a secret from his wife if he could watch out for him.

[rockingego]

You ever spend too much time on a shitpost and then wonder why you did that

[sni4ffer]

SPY VS SPY VS SPY

[inamindfarfaraway]

Okay, but for all the debate you could have about who's the better spy, it would be funnier to pick Owen.

MAJOR SPIES ARE FOREVER (Owen's show) SPOILERS

His story is that he was one of the best spies in the world... until he got badly injured on a mission because of the recklessness of Curt, his partner - both professional and romantic, secretly because it was the 1960s - and then Curt - again, his boyfriend, the love of his life - left him for dead assuming he already was. And because Curt had insisted on blowing the building up, he was probably injured more by the explosion and debris. So he's in a really bad state, physically and mentally.

And he concludes from this hugely traumatic experience that the current system of having spies, who are flawed, fallible, unpredictable individuals, be the only thing between the masses and various evil and/or destructive forces is kind of stupid and bad and just gets more people hurt than it helps. He becomes utterly disillusioned with the intelligence organizations and their ideals. They betrayed him. Curt betrayed him. So he betrays them right back. He joins a developing evil crime syndicate and plots to take over the world with advanved survellaince technology that will make spies the people, as a concept, obsolete. The internet, essentially. He wants to make the internet in the 60s run exclusively by bad guys and obliterate privacy. He does a lot of awful things in a new identity, including copious amounts of murder, aiding Nazis and torturing Curt who believes that he's dead, all so that "there won't be any [intelligence] agencies" anymore.

He. Hates. Spies, at least in their traditional form. He scorns and looks down on everyone else in this poll.

Please, please vote for this dead love interest/messy tragic villain because he would hate to win. He does not want to be competing, he has much better things to do, and it would rub salt in his wounds to be celebrated specifically as a servant of the institution he not only disowned, but actively strives to kill. And what is Tumblr good for if not torturing fictional characters?

Spy Tournament: Round 3

[ragnarokhound]

For the au ask game!

OKAY I wanted specifically to get to the pokemon au from the ask you sent, it's been cooking a bit so it's time to see what comes out of the oven, so... @azol-otl ty for the ask!

Crossover au's are all about the fused worldbuilding for me and speculating on how characters from universe A would fit into universe B heehee hoohoo - and for Batfam especially it's fun to think about the equivalent of their roles as vigilantes! What kind of people have the same level of celebrity, the same sideways seeking of justice?

Naturally this leads you to the gym leaders because a) it's the most fun and b) they are like. Quasi-law enforcement/educators/professional athletes depending on how you try to translate the innate child's perspective on the pokemon universe into something that makes sense as an adult lol ilu pokemon. [insert 'compels me though' gif here]

SO with this in mind, here's 5 fun facts (that are mostly backstory lmao) from a jaytim pokemon au I would write

I'm deeply ill about pokemon so this one goes under the cut lol:

Jason Todd used to be the Champion. He won the role after Dick Grayson quit a year or two before (Dick had been getting older and chafing under the League rules - meaning he'd been chafing under how Bruce ran the League) and was a fierce competitor who didn't believe in going easy on anyone. His Houndoom was a force to be reckoned with, and despite running a mostly Dark-type team, his Honchkrow cleaned up anyone thinking their Fighting-types could sweep. He looked after the League and Gotham with a cocky, self-assured attitude and the win record to back it up. .

Jason disappeared suddenly at the age of 15. Many assumed him dead, after a Rocket (Or whatever Gotham themed gang name we want to go with lol could be Team Joker) bombing in the area he'd last been seen, but he's officially declared missing. Bruce Wayne took back the duties of interim Champion as he once did for Dick Grayson, but he's not quite the mentor he once was. It's obvious he's grieving, and that he doesn't want to mentor any more twelve year olds. Dick signed up to be a Gym Leader shortly after this, returning from his trip about a year early to help out in the chaos following Jason's disappearance. .

Enter Tim Drake. Tim's gym challenge wasn't all that interesting in the circuit at first; he had a rocky start and had to retake a few gym challenges. He wasn't exactly sweeping on his first try every time like Jason had done. He didn't have the meteoric rise that caught the Champion's attention early, didn't get one-on-one mentorship or face-to-face meetings, cautionary advice and congratulations all rolled into one from Bruce Wayne himself - but Tim had patience and grit, and he paid attention. He was gunning for the Championship, and it wasn't just so he could prove himself. Team Rocket/Joker was still out there, and Bruce needed all the help he could get. He was always better for Gotham when he had a Robin. .

Dick had been nicknamed Robin for his all-Flying-type team and especially his Natu-then-Xatu; Jason followed up with his Murkrow-then-Honchkrow; Tim's Rookidee was one among many (Robin-esque pokemon were popularized by Dick and the trend remains through Tim's day) so he wasn't considered a possible Robin successor until it was a Corvisquire and he was about to face Dick Grayson himself, a badge away from Victory Road. By then, Tim and his team were a well-oiled machine (he runs mostly Steel-types lol but also Normal-types for the unexpected adaptability and the 'underestimate my rattata i dare you it's in the top peRCENTAGE--' of it all. FEAR.), and his loss-record had all but frozen while his win-record ticked higher and higher. .

Shit finally goes down about three years after Tim has become Champion and all but bullied Bruce into mentoring him (he basically said 'if you don't watch me, i'll go find Team Rocket/Joker on my own' and triggers all of Bruce's child endangerment traumas simultaneously) and the mysterious Rocket/Joker leader Red Hood shows up, bringing the gang out of the shadows in pursuit of a hidden agenda. Identity shenanigans and "wait is that a Houndoom? But he's only been using Ghost-types, it CAN'T be..." and heel-face turns abound. .

(BONUS FACT: Something something, Jason went into deep cover with Looker or whoever he is, that Interpol guy from X & Y (WAIT. LOOKER MIGHT ACTUALLY BE TALIA AL GHUL IN THIS AU HOHOHO), infiltrating the Rocket/Joker gang and going public as Red Hood is the first step in the last phase of the sting. Cue a million tense Jaytim interactions in which Tim is legitimately trying to take Red Hood down and Jason desperately tries to shake him so that he doesn't do anything that forces Jason to blow his cover. There is at least one 'tugged into a tight space to hide them both from the actual bad guys, "wait, did you just HELP me...?" "Think whatever you want, babybird"' interaction because I am a slut for the first sprinkles of a redemption arc that is rife with UST fufufu)

[cayteecat]

whiteboard tiiiime agaain

[less-undertale]

D A R K