#this mess speaks

[prlssprfctn]

Jason Todd arrives to the Gotham after being brought back alive for the first time, and while building up his career as Red Hood, visits Harvey Dent in the Arkham. They talk in a surprising peace, discuss this and this, and Jason even shares some of his insane ass lore, because, honestly, who is going to believe Harvey Dent?

And no one doesn't.

But there is a problem. The next time Bruce Wayne visits Harvey, Harvey randomly drops a bomb on him by saying that he is so, so glad that their Jaylad is back, and he grew up so much, looks so much like Bruce now! He even tries to assure him that, you see, yeah, Jason was dead, but he crawled out of his grave, and then, the Lazarus Pit fixed him!

Bruce thinks Harvey finally had reached the end of his line. Like, low-key, the last stage of insanity.

Harvey: God, he is still so well-mannered. I feel so pleased that he came to visit old me first, though. I always thought I was his favourite over you.

Bruce, laughing awkwardly, while asking the medics to add some new medicine to Harvey: Ahaha, yeah, that sounds like our Jaylad.

Harvey: Super happy for him, seriously. I mean, look at him, getting himself a new career as a Red Hood. That's our son. Feel a little bit bitter that he is into Al Ghuls family now, but that's fine.

Bruce, frowning, because Harvey isn't supposed to know about Al Ghuls and their connection to Lazarus Pit or about Red Hood: Uh, had J-Jason said something else to you?

Harvey: Oh, damn, we spoke for the whole night. He was pissed at you, though. Like, for the Tim guy, whoever he is.

Bruce, turning to the doctors: ...Maybe, uh, give me the same pills you gave him. I feel like I need it, too.

[partfae]

there’s something so special to me about the casual intimacy (both physical and emotional) of the stark family. robb carrying bran to his horse. bran holding robb’s hand to comfort him. jon ruffling arya’s hair and pushing her around and her laughing and pushing him right back. ned hugging sansa and arya in front of the entire king’s court. they’re always thinking about each other and missing each other. the kids cry and fight and play and are kids, and ned and catelyn are kind to one another, and it’s beautiful. it’s so warm, so human, in contrast with the coldness of other familial relationships in the book.

[hinamie]

itakugi sillies fr the soul

[phantomrose96]

Making this a random PSA since I’d never heard about this until I encountered it:

When you close on a house, you will receive scare-mail from scammers that use a lot of alarming language and look like they’re from your bank. These are scams.

Mortgage information is public information. So these scammers will have access to your name, your address, and the name of the bank your mortgage is with.

They love to send vague letters that explain nothing but make it SOUND like you’re in trouble if you don’t call them

And if you they can’t win you over with scare tactics, they’ve attached a not-a-check to maybe make you think they’ll give you money.

I blurred out my personal info but actually I WILL include the phone number, in the hopes that people who receive a letter like this and Google the number might see this info. Scam number is 1 800 916 8689

So if you see this kind of letter, or your parents, or grandparents, or loved ones, it’s a scam.

I told Patches she can eat it

[doesephs]

huzzah! time to kidnap neil’s jordans! oh wait…is that NOOOOO NOT THE WHITE CROCD BODYGUARD

[dennisboobs]

IDC IDCCCC,,,,,,,,,,,,,, THEY SHOWED UP FOR HIM

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

i genuinely don't think any episode of a kids show can compare to how political the banned moon girl and devil dinosaur episode is, especially not one that has as much reach as like, a MARVEL project. this episode has a trans girl explicitly say that she is being targeted BECAUSE she's trans & that she will likely be in the future because of people like the villain of the week who will always see her existence as breaking a set of unwritten rules. it tells kids that sometimes following the rules will get you nowhere if they're written by someone who hates you, and that the best thing you can do is break the system that creates those rules & support the transfems in your community so they don't have to fight alone, because THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!

it also shows the villain as someone who tries her best to seem reasonable, good natured, and even feminist until the topic of trans girls comes up. it says that even though someone might be nice to you, they can be an absolute MONSTER around people they think don't belong, and has a character explicitly call her behavior discrimination. it was absolutely an episode written with a lot of heart & had a lot of thought put into it as well as being fun to watch. i hope it gets watched by a lot of people despite the ban because i think it must have taken a lot of fighting just for it to have made it as far as it did

[dumpster-fire-rats]

[signorcerullo]

Dear Bonnie, I’m a coward. I should be saying this to your face, not writing this letter, but I know if I do you’ll talk me out of running away from all my problems. You’re gonna make me face a future without Elena and you’re gonna help make me the best man I could possibly be, the same way she did. And I’m absolutely terrified of failing you both. So, I’m leaving. Because I’d rather let you down once, than let you down for the rest of your life. And I hope it’s the happiest life. Because you, Bonnie Bennett, are an amazing woman, a mediocre crossword puzzle player and my best friend. 

With great love and respect, Damon.

[mostly-natm]

Man incapable of love (his heart does not beat) gives and receives so much love.

[mari-lair]

damn, having an accent that can give someone a massive headache sounds like a recipe towards being selectively mute. i wonder if he learned sign language at all.

Usually yes, but the researcher is terrified of forgetting how to talk, so they will always default to trying to speak when they have something they really want to communicate or are forced into a social situation, no matter how hard it is to talk in Vauguardian and keep his accent down.

Thankfully they worked on it enough that while his accent stands out and can still make people have some difficulty understanding his vauguardian words, it doesn't cause headaches. It's just strange in a way that makes people confused or intrigued. (Siffrin is paranoid it will cause headaches if they aren't careful though)

Overall, I would say they are more chatty than the traveler (?) when they are nervous they can run away or (when their vauguardian vocabulary grows) start rambling, and when he is alone they always talk to themselves in their native tongue to not forget the forgotten language. He does that A LOT ----> it is terrifyingly easy to forget how to speak the forgotten language.

[dreamsteddie]

After the events of season four in a world where Vecna dies a minute earlier, Eddie lives, and Max gets away with a broken arm and some vision loss, Nancy and Steve start spending a lot of time together.

Everyone assumes that since Nancy and Johnathan broke it off not long after they reunited, having found themselves on different paths, the two of them were naturally drifting back together. Some of the kids are even betting among themselves on whether or not they're actually already back together and trying to keep in on the down low while everyone heals.

What really happened was that Nancy showed up on Steve's doorstep one day and asked if she could come in. She was nervous and it showed in the way she pinched her brow and rubbed her intex finger over her thumb nail but still made direct, almost aggressive eye contact with the man in front of her. Steve was worried that she was, indeed, here to confess which...wouldn't have been the worst thing, just not the right thing.

Instead what she says, directly and to the point despite her nerves, is that she's sorry if she led him on during their last time in the Upsidedown. She tells him that while she did feel a remnant of that old flame between them, it was ultimately a flicker in comparison to the forest fire of complicated emotions building up inside her for someone completely new. Someone completely unexpected. She looks genuinely mournful for having to tell him this, but all Steve can really feel is relief.

Steve had felt it too, and for a moment there it had really felt like their time had finally come. It felt like all the hurting and the fighting and the miscommunications and the missed chances were all leading them to this climactic moment during their last stand where they could begin their epic love story all over again. But then suddenly all he could think about between the blood and fear was eyes deep and dark like the forest floor after a long rain and the fleeting feeling of cool silver on his sore shoulders. He tells her that it's ok because he found someone new and unexpected too.

After that night they find a new kind of kinship that they always reached for but never could attain with all the history between them. They start meeting up as often as they can for late-night talks. Once Steve returns from his work at the shelter and visiting Eddie in the hospital and Nancy's parents come back to relieve her of babysitting duties while they help rebuild the town they meet at Steve's house. They avoid the back patio at all costs, instead deciding to set up lawn chairs out front to face the empty street, all of Steve's neighbors having fled with the first tremors.

They drink and talk for hours about all the mistakes they made, apologizing for all the ways they hurt each other in their youth in the days when they knew how to hurt but not how to heal. They talk about the life they could have had if things had been different. They talk about jobs and white picket fences and children and all the ways they would have been happy but not content. It should be awkward, and sad, and uncomfortable. And it is. But more than that it's cathartic, and by the end they are closer than they've ever been and fully ready to move onto the next phases of their lives as close friends.

They also spend quite a bit of time after the heaviest topics have run their course trying to help each other woo their respective crushes. Robin came out to the group not long after Will returned. She decided that it was time for her to claim the "most coveted of all Queer positions, Steve. The Queer Mentor!" and that being in the closet with their friends was antithetical to her cause. Steve argued that he was her first pupil already, but she claimed that his gay crisis was so minuscule that it hardly deserved the name. He came out a fully formed bisexual man. Steve wasn't 100% sure about Eddie, but there were enough rumors about him that he felt comfortable at least shooting his shot. Eddie was a good guy and he was so happy when Robin came to his room to share her coming out with him since he'd missed the bigger announcement.

All that is to say that they were both ready and willing to start pursuing their respective targets. They made game plans and tried to come up with date-but-not-really-a-date ideas for them to test the waters.

Meanwhile, Eddie and Robin both separately decide that they need to help push Nancy and Steve into the relationship everyone sees on the horizon. Steve is and always will be Robin's number one and she knows better than anybody how hung up he was on Nancy for literal years. She knows they hang out just the two of them and despite Steve dodging her attempts to figure out what it is they meet up about if they're not already together, she's pretty sure they're just taking things slow. The fact that her tummy feels all warm whenever Nancy Wheeler walks into the room is inconsequential to her far greater goal of Make Steve Happy. It sure would help if she would stop looking up at Robin from beneath her lashes like that though. Those eyes are killer.

Eddie, on the other hand, has felt some kind of way about Steve for the entirety of their not-quite acquaintance. It began with a sweet crush in grade school that developed into spiteful teenage lust and then back into a less sweet but much more robust crush following the not-so-end of the world. But all of those feelings are null and void in the face of the rapidly approaching epilogue of Steve and Nancy's epic si-fy/fantasy romance. He saw the way they looked at each other on their journey and he meant it when he said what Nancy had done jumping in that lake was a show of love. It feels almost poetic that he ended up doing the same thing, just a little too late to really matter. But despite the way Steve's visits seem to soothe the ache in his bones better than any opioid or cold compress, Eddie is going to do his damnedest to lead those two sheep in the right direction. It would be a heck of a lot easier if Steve could pick a shirt to wear in his own damn size, though. Those arms really were begging for release.

[midnigtartist]

And if I draw this as the moonweaver @ mollymauk,,,

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

There was no reason for Buck to be involved with the Diaz situation. No reason at all. Literally speaking, Buck has no reason to be there. Not his kid. Not his marriage. Not his parents. Etc.

And yet there was every reason for him to be there. That's his child. That's his partner. Frankly I think Chris would've asked to live with Buck and not his grandparents if Buck wasn't so close to Eddie and their lives weren't so intertwined (Chris wants to get as far away from his dad as he can right now).

Buck had no reason to be there. But Buck is family. So of course he was there.

[fruitycircus]

woke up to the news of medic's full legal name reveal while i'm not calling him that as herbert ludwig is no friend of mine, im charmed. he's a herb. good for him

[sentientsky]

The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book Depiction of Gay Yearning by Neil Gaiman