#the og story

[aesethewitch]

When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.

Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.

So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.

Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.

One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.

It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."

The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.

Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.

It missed my lilac by inches.

The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.

I think next year, I'll see flowers.

[stargirl230]

you’re my hero!

bnha doomed yuri was not on my 2024 bingo card

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[noodles-and-tea]

Some good ol’ ACD Holmes and Watson

[ghost-town-story]

what would be your characters' email signature? please be creative.

I am unfortunately the most boring person ever with my email signatures, but! a creative attempt shall be made (for my OG kiddos, bc I'll at least make it easy on myself and choose the characters from our world lol)

Will: Jared would set Will's with the intention to poke fun at him, except Will can't figure out how to change it so he's stuck with it. Brain is blanking on what it would be exactly, other than "Wolf Boy" in place of Will's name.

Jared: Changes his at least once a month, usually. Tames it down for school/work stuff, but anything else is signed off like those emails people send to their profs when they're hella sick.

Finn: Boring, most of the time. Signs off emails to Melody with a line from a poem, often something romantic after they start dating. Signs off emails to Jared with some variation of "Don't burn down any buildings."

Melody: The same as Finn, but substitute the poetry for song lyrics.

[t4tails]

"superheroes are an inherently fascist idea" "no, theyre inherently antifascist. they were made by jewish people" this may seem crazy but i dont think a genre can be inherently anything

[mikuyuuss]

“You'll see my face in every place

But you can't catch me now”

[watermeringue]

[aspiring-house-husband]

puppy needs a muzzle. 

not that he’s a danger, no. sweet thing couldn’t hurt a fly if he tried. no, it’s a comfort to him. like a blanket draped over his head to dull his senses and put him back where he belongs. a reminder that good dogs don’t speak and good boys listen. 

a promise that he’ll get what he needs, and he won’t have to ask for it. 

so he cuddles on the couch and he helps make dinner and he watches a movie, all with his gag. just to keep his head blissfully empty. and his cock rock hard. 

good boys listen. good boys get what they want. good boys get their wrists tied down and cocks sucked after they’ve spent all day behaving in their muzzle. after all, a good boy gets his reward. and if he behaves while he gets his cock sucked, then a very good pet gets to pin down his owner and breed them full and dripping. 

if he’s good. he usually is. 

[elizaisdunn]

autistic man (sherlock) said he likes thomas the tank engine and I said oh i’m sure

[tremendously-crazy]

Wait???

Watson literally traveled NEARLY SIX HUNDRED MILES IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS just to see Holmes and make sure he was okay.

GET YOURSELF A MAN LIKE JOHN WATSON

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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[bluerosefox]

Summoning the Summoner

Another summoning/long lost family au but with twist!

So Damian and his class are at Gotham museum for a small field trip for a school project. Thing is none of them knew until it was too late that the new museum curator was part of a cult that had plans to kidnap and sacrifice this class of kids for some ancient god/deity/spirit.

Damian barely manages to send a message to one of his brothers and to the cave before being knocked out when he sees his classmates dropping from knocknout gas.

When he wakes up the preparations for the sacrifice are almost ready. Damian being the most prominent person in the class is going to be the one chosen first. He is then taken to the alter and it begins after the whole villain speech. Damian does manage to get out of his bindings and tries to fight back, does lead them on a merry little chase to get more time for his family to come, nothing to Robiny though, but is forcibly restrained again.

Just as they bring Damian back to the alter none of them notice, or rather, care that Damian was bleeding from getting hit when they recaptured him. None of them notice when the blood dropped from his chin onto the summoning circle because the Batclan (any) just dropped into the room.

They did notice however when the summoning circle started glowing beneath them however.

And none of the cultists had time to finish the summoning chant.

Meaning the summoning circle was not under their control.

And before any of them could do anything, they are all ripped away from the Mortal Realm and everyone, Damian, his class, the cultists, and the Batfam in the room are pulled into the Infinite Realms.

They are no longer in the warehouse they were about to be sacrificed in but in a throne room. Surrounded by glowing floating people and some don't even look human.

And sitting on the throne was a teenager with a shoulder wrapped cape made of stars and galaxies, a crown of ice, stars, and aurora borealis lights shifting in between them, about Damian's age, with white hair and glowing green eyes who looked rather shocked.

The reason? Both him and Damian shared the same face.

-x-x-

Danny was annoyed as heck.

Ever since his crowning it was like every magic user from legendary to mediocre got a notice that a new Infinite Realms King had been crowned and that gave them the go ahead and try to freaking Summon him!

Luckily refusing a summons was well within Danny's Ghost King rights, he's King now he does what he wants (Sam's wise words), and the only summonings Danny answered were his friends and family (Dani is such a troll with it though, butttttt it does get him out of those annoying meetings sometimes and they get to hang out wherever she decided to stop at), sometimes he'd answer the odd teenage morons just to scare them (it's always fun)

Although there were a few summonings outside of that, that he had answered. Thankfully he could sense what kind of summoner was summoning him and intent was always a huge thing. And those that didn't feel like insane fruitloops well... Danny's curiosity often took over.

So imagine his annoyance when he felt another summon happening in the middle of a meeting with his council. But also imagine his surprise when the normally tight demands on the summoning wasn't there...

That meant...

Oh Danny was going to have a lot of fun with this.

This meant they summoning but don't have control on which way the summoning was going to go. Meaning, Danny could reverse summon them to him instead.

With a wide grin he instantly waved his hand and the meeting room shifted to his throne room, might as well pull out all the stops and play the "Big Bag Ghost King"

He could see his council (and good friends and allies) raise their eyebrows at him or tilt their heads but could also sense the attempted summonings power of him and knew he had something planned.

With a short laugh, Danny raised his hand, grasped on the invisible summoning line, and pulled.

Now he was expecting a good amount of people, the summoning felt large so that normally meant cultists but he was expecting so many! Heck some looked to be teenagers his age, and a few oddly dressed people besides the cultists! Oh boy did that mean sacrifices?! Well he'll be happy to put those cultists in their place if that was the case.

But first, find the summoner. Separate them from the group and -

Oh... why... why does he have Danny's face?!

Danny took a quick look at the normally invisible to everyone but him Summoning line and almost choked when he saw it was a sibling line, a blood sibling line.

[tagzpite]

chimera odysseus!!!!

[ghost-town-story]

You ever just have moments where weird coincidences happen and you just sit there like “huh. that’s uh. some timing.”

(context below the cut bc uh. rambles)

So yesterday I got to thinking about things and the gist of it is I decided I’m going to change some characters’ backgrounds. Specifically, Maria is now half black, specifically Caribbean black for reasons that ultimately boil down to that’s my fam yo.

So, obviously, that waterfalls down to her kids and grandkids, which means I have a bit of character redesigning to do. nbd. I decided to go picrew hunting tonight to redesign Jazz, Hayden, and Nick specifically bc they (Jazz n Hayden at least) already had picrews made, and I would like those updated at least for my own mental images of them.

Now, as I’m making those picrews, I decided to hop over to facebook to pull up a pic of my uncle because, again, part of the reason why Maria is specifically Caribbean black is so I have a very quick reference system of “are these features reasonable for these kids?”

The first post I see on fb is from my aunt. Apparently yesterday was my other uncle’s birthday, and my grandpa’s was earlier this week (and before anybody questions why I didn’t know this before, they’re both gone, and I never really knew either). And now I’m sitting here like “huh. that’s uh. some timing. deciding to change my characters’ family to more reflect my own the same day/week as some of their birthdays.”

idk man. I’m just gonna go back to making these picrews now that I’ve gotten the refs I wanted

[krazieka2]

I've played the Fire Emblem Husbando Dating Simulator Games

[batcavescolony]

Jason *dying his hair black*: you know I started dying my hair before Robin.

Dick: yeah why?

Jason: their's like five red heads in Gotham and I knew as a kid for a fact that one was Ivy and one was Riddler. Then I became Robin to find out the other was Batgirl/Barbra and finally Kate Batman's cousin who's now Batwoman-

Dick: Yeah Red Heads in Gotham are either heroes or villains

Jason: -yeah so I didn't want to draw attention to myself.

Dick: ...Jay?

Jason: what?

Dick: I don't think it worked you've been a hero, villain and now anti-hero.

Jason: ...

Dick:

Jason *slams down color brush*: FUCK