#this is NOT a ship thing

[autumn-foxfire]

Part of the closeted besties series probably

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"I'm going with you."

Ran glared at Shinichi, her mouth set in a straight line and daring him to argue.

Of course, because her friend was a stubborn brat, he turned back to argue with her. "Ran, this is for your own protection-"

Before he could even finish his sentance, her leg kicked up and swung towards his neck with deadly precision. He didn't even have the chance to flinch as she stopped her foot from connecting with his throat, only years of intense training making it so the fabric of her laces just grazed the skin on his neck.

Shinichi's face was pale.

Ran continued to glare at him, "How are you supposed to protect me if you can't even dodge my kick?" she asked before she lowered her leg back onto the ground, "Out of the two of us, Shinichi, I'm the one who knows how to defend themselves, so don't tell me leaving me behind is for my own protection."

She was angry at him but underneath that anger was a hurt that was clawing at her chest to get out. She bit her lip and clenched her fists.

"Why... why do you no longer trust me?" she whispered. This wasn't the first time he had told Ran to stay behind. In fact, it was becoming more and more common for him to run off without her, telling her to wait for him as if she was just a hindrance. She didn't know what she had done to make him feel that way.

Shinichi looked stricken and his mouth opened and closed as he tried to answer, but no words left his throat.

"Am I really that unreliable?" Ran continued, all the self-doubt that had been plaguing her since this behaviour of his had started bubbling to the surface, "Do I really just get in your way."

"No!" Shinichi shouted, "It's not-Ran, I-" he was still struggling to form the words, to explain himself. "I just... I don't want you to get hurt," he finally admitted in a small voice, "You're my best friend, Ran, and I could never forgive myself if you got hurt because you helped me chase criminals."

Ran's anger flared up again, "And you don't think I feel the same way?!" she snapped, "You think I want my best friend to confront dangerous people alone?! That I wouldn't hate myself if I wasn't there to protect you?!"

It made her sick at the sight of Shinichi looking so startled, so goddamn confused that someone actually cared about his safety. Tears began to gather in her eyes.

"I love you, Shinichi, you're my best friend," she whispered, "Please, let me protect you too."

It wasn't often Shinichi cried. He often saved his tears for when his emotions were too overwhelming for him and right now they were gathering at the corners of his eyes. He was still too prideful to let them fall, especially in public, so Ran wrapped her arms around his shoulders and pulled his head down to her own, so he could blink them away into her jacket.

"I'm sorry, Ran," he whispered and she tightened her grip on him.

"You better be," she said, "No more of that protect me nonsense, we protect each other, you hear me?"

Shinichi nodded against her neck and Ran continued to hold him as relief and happiness swelled inside her knowing she had gotten her friend back.

[seepingfrommyskin]

trying to put together a little deep dive/analysis on kefka and tina's dynamic that i've been thinking about for a WHILE i'm so excited

[kstarlitchaotics]

You know the scene when Bruce is removing the Kryptonite from Clark's chest and they're being sassy at each other as Bruce is saving Clark's life that's the kind of friendship I would like to see in the new DCU if ever

General observation

[sabertoothwalrus]

good dynamic: character who’s too deeply rooted to a fault + character who’s never been able to form roots anywhere before

[river-flower58]

Miromabby in a nutshell

[tiredandoptimistic]

Nothing hits like "romantic couple and a third guy who's not dating either of them but is definitely a part of this dynamic"

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[peri-bytes]

bongs at croydon

[just-prompt-things]

best trope and you can fight me over it (i abuse this so hard with my ocs)

[starbuck]

is this ship popular because it’s legitimately compelling or is it popular because it’s the easiest to decontextualize and write college roommate AUs about?

[staruie]

where my fellow monster fuckers at 👅👅👅👅👅👅

[ambivalent-amphibian]

/neutral

[greenglowinspooks]

Hey guys. DCxDP where Danny is tormenting Damian on social media for literally no reason because it’s funny

Danny, Sam and Tucker are scrolling through Bruce Wayne’s Twitter account for whatever reason (trying to find an announcement from the company, trying to find a stupid tweet, etc) and accidentally find a picture of Damian.

Cue everyone freaking out, because they look almost (aside from Damian being a bit darker than Danny) identical.

Even better, Danny is wearing a (much cheaper) near identical version of the outfit that Damian is wearing in the picture.

The group stages a quick picture in the same poses as Damian’s (Tucker, playing Bruce, is on a step stool) and post it in a reply.

They think nothing of it, find whatever they were looking for, and move on.

Except… Danny continues doing it. For months. People start following him on Twitter. The GiW have visited his house twice now because he keeps breaking through the media blackout to post (before being turned away due to lack of warrant).

Damian is not amused (Jon absolutely is, but this isn’t about him). He’s in deep Twitter beef with this random scrawny white boy for responding to every single photo of him with his own poorly done copy. He doesn’t even have an account, but he’s still finding ways to argue with Danny. He’s gone viral for blinking threats to Danny in Morse code during an interview.

The worst part is, this can’t possibly be a clone, so Damian isn’t allowed to attack him physically. Danny is fifteen, three years older than Damian. He’s not related in any way to Ra’s Al Ghul, or anyone who might have cloned Damian before. They just look remarkably alike.

Danny goes viral when, after a clip of Damian fleeing a rogue is posted to twitter, he responds with his own clip of him fleeing a ghost (probably Vlad). It’s clearly a genuine emergency, but Danny still put in the effort to move in the exact same pattern that Damian did (aside from a few quick dodges to avoid ecto blasts).

Damian is enraged.

He’s got to put an end to this somehow.

And so, he steals one of B’s private jets, and takes a quick flight to bumfuck nowhere, Illinois.

[parientou]

Lunch time visit 😌