#to bee a bat

[princess-of-the-corner]

So. Based on the last few Batman asks. TBAB: Chloé & Damian HATE each other at first. Neither can articulate why, but they do. They fight & squabble, & on at least 1 occasion get into an actual brawl that involves broken bones. Then they go through a harsh experience together, & realize their problem is that "you are a mirror I see myself in, & that makes me uncomfortable". Afterwards, they become EXTREMELY Ride Or Die for each other, & are the true gremlins they've always been destined to be.

I think Damian would have specific beef with Chloé because like.

He's /mostly/ gotten over his whole complex over being Bruce's bio son and therefore heir to everything(both Wayne and Bat). Like he's not looking down on the adopted siblings, is learning that he doesn't have to inherit jack shit yadda yadda.

Then he finds out Bruce has another bio kid who is older than him and therefore gets the rights as heir and he's just SO MAD ABOUT IT

(Like /logically/ he knows better but childhood trauma doesn't get unlearned completely yet so it's his first instinctual response)

[generalluxun]

I think I remember having seen Batman-miraculous posts a little while ago. Now Ironman Chloe. Umm… what have I missed? 😅 Is the fandom playing some crossover game?

Well comics are rife with crossovers in general. People love the characters in ML above all else. The plot... Not so much. Shoving them into new situations to explore comes naturally, and the new universe provides a ready made cast. I don't crossover myself (though I will AU) but I know both of these you are talking about.

Ironman AU is by @andanoire and honestly, it really works. Tony is a jerkass who finds morality in extremis and spend most of the rest of his MCU arc trying clean up after himself or wrestle with his demons.

She also has a straight up re-write like canon but mire coherent for Chloé&Zoé @officialprimadonna worth looking at

The other one is 'To Bee a Bat' by @princess-of-the-corner which us more about canon Chloé ending up getting adopted by the Batfam somewhere in the middle of canon. Batfam is a great crack trope, the ultimate found family. Corner's freeform worldbuilding is always fun to watch/partake in.

[sheepslaps]

the people yearn for turn of the century sonic gijinkas

here are my many inspirations

[jasminebythebay]

Sonic's Team (2024) and Sonic Team (1999-ish?)

[golbiey]

happy long weekend!!! i wanted to compile all of my sonic prints in one post...theyre available on my shop!

[jaewritesfic]

Everlasting Trio Nobody Knows AU DP x DC Part 4

Part 3

(Tim POV! This is a long one 😅)

 Tim almost has it. He's so close to cracking this file he can fucking taste it. He's been fighting this thing for two weeks. It's the most incomprehensible and infuriating code he's ever faced off against, which is fitting considering who gave it to them.

The engineer. THEIR engineer. The engineer they didn't ask for and Tim still isn't sure how they got, and the single biggest mystery in Tim's fucking life right now.

See, a significant amount of Bat gadgets at this point are Tim's brainchildren. He imagines them, he designs them, he workshops and tests them.

A few months ago, he'd had a pouch on his utility belt full of experimental pellets meant for slowing down fleeing vehicles. They were designed to break when run over and the compound inside would expand into durable, sticky foam that would ensnare tires.

He'd tested them in the cave.

He had not been prepared to take one hit to that side and have to frantically divest himself of that pouch before he became Gotham's latest foam based cryptid. 

His family had laughed themselves silly at him even as he broke off in pursuit of the drug runners he'd been fighting.

When Tim had doubled back expecting a mess to clean up and pellets to rework? It had been gone. All of it. The foam, the pellets, the pouch of his utility belt.

A serious problem, because who knows who got their hands on that?

Then it had shown back up.

That is to say, Gordon had called them because he found a pouch with a note labeled ‘for Red Robin’ sitting on the stand of the Bat Signal and didn't dare touch it.

After making sure it wasn't a bomb or some kind of biological weapon, Tim had opened the pouch - his own belt pouch - and found pellets. New pellets. Different pellets.

The note just read, “As funny as that was to watch, I fixed them for you. No more premature sploogage on the job. :3 P.S. here's a recipe for solution to dissolve future intentional discharges.”

They'd been right, too. The new pellets were tested (in case THEY were a bomb or biological weapon) and they'd been just strong enough to safely transport but still break when under the pressure of tires. Even the foam was more effective, and the spray Tim synthesized from that stupid recipe had worked like a dream.

What. The fuck.

This person not only improved his design and came up with a dissolution agent from scratch in days, they'd been watching without him knowing and made off with the original pellets without anyone noticing.

This was either a rogue in the making or someone they wanted on their side, and either way they needed to be found.

So Tim had done the obvious.

He'd put together a lockbox of money for the product they'd been given, loaded it with no less than ten (10) bat trackers and a note thanking their mysterious benefactor and requesting to meet up. He'd exploded a foam pellet on a rooftop and left the box on it in the hopes they'd notice and find it, then hung around far enough to not be seen and close enough to beat feet as soon as the trackers started moving. 

They did not start moving. They all went offline simultaneously. 

Tim has never moved so fast in his life, and yet by the time he got to the rooftop there was a pile of foam and nothing else. Not even a trace of whoever took the lockbox.

The next day, there was a ping of one (1) tracker that led them to a note thanking him for the money, refusing to meet, and asking if they'd considered certain improvements to their grapples with schematics for said designs.

Thus started the most bizarre and infuriating chase through notes, money, helpful designs and disappearing trackers Tim has ever been a part of.

Last time, the engineer had left them a USB stick and a note claiming that since they really wanted to know about him so bad, they could have the information on the USB if they could crack the encryption on the zip file inside.

Obviously they screened heavily for viruses or backdoors, but long story short Tim has been trying to crack the fucking thing for two weeks and refuses to let Oracle help. It's personal. It's a matter of pride. 

He could swear the code itself has actively been sabotaging his attempts to hack it, which is, you know. Impossible. 

Ping!

Tim blinks, looking over at the map on another monitor of the Bat computer. 

“Motherfucker-”

He taps into Duke’s comms. This is the first time this has ever happened during the day shift, he wasn't expecting it.

“Signal! I need you on the roof of the warehouse on the corner of Fifth and Everest - a tracker just came online.”

Another thing that infuriates Tim. You can't just turn Bat trackers on and off. They're activated, and then they either stay active or they're destroyed. They can't be turned off and then reactivated.

And fucking yet.

Duke groans, but his own tracker starts making its way in that direction.

“Dude. He's gonna be long gone by the time I get there. He always is.”

“He can't run from me forever,” Tim insists. “I'm almost in this damn file, and I am going to find him and dangle him off a roof from his ankles for giving us this runaround, so help me God.”

“Uh huh,” Duke deadpans. “Sure you are. I'm almost there, and- oh look! A note. What a surprise!”

Tim hears Duke touch down on the rooftop, eyes on the code on his screen while his brother clears his throat and reads aloud.

“Ahem- ‘Good morning, sunshine!’ - guess that's me - ‘I hear some bats and birds have been murdering tires at an alarming rate with the way they drive their bikes-’”

Tim freezes. He's not listening anymore.

“Signal.”

“‘- and that just can't be good for business. Nobody wants a bald tire ruining a chase. So boy do I have the thing for you-”

“Signal!”

“What?”

“I got it.”

“Huh? Got what?”

“I cracked his file. I got it.”

Tim is staring, wide eyed and full of a mixture of elation and trepidation at the contents of the zip file. It's a single text file titled, ‘Wow! You did it!’

“Oh, shit? Well? What's in it?”

Tim swallows, mouse hovering over the file. He takes a deep breath, then double clicks.

The file opens.

Tim blinks.

“Red Robin? What's in it?”

Tim scrolls slowly down, disbelief and horror dawning across his face. “Oh my God.”

“What? Come on, man, talk to me.”

Tim scrolls further.

“Oh. My God.”

“Red? Red Robin, you're scaring me, man.”

Tim puts his face in his hands. Voice muffled, he responds.

“Duke.”

“...Red? You okay?”

“No.”

“No?”

“It's the entire Bee Movie script.”

Silence reigns for a solid five seconds before Duke breaks and descends into raucous, hysterical laughter.

Even muffled by his own hands, Tim's scream of rage scares the bats in the cave into a tizzy.

Part 5

Masterpost

[rechicken-and-waffles]

Select a Story 💙❤️🩷💚🖤

Happy 20th Anniversary Sonic Heroes!!!

[hayweerc]

🫴The citizens of Bound by Chaos

... So far

[twipsai]

even when apart, it's the same sky we're all under.

[silverequation]

Sonic and Silver have matching Christmas coats

[nightfurylover31]

This is beautiful! Knuckles thinking about his friends, how they’re doing, and the Master Emerald showing those memories to Knuckles. His three core friends, the Chaotix, and even Rouge. Getting involved with them might not have led to a peaceful life, but it is an exciting one. That without meeting all them, he would have led a very lonely life.

This is a sweet sentiment. Rather than thinking that guarding the Master Emerald has hindered his life, he’s grateful for it. Doing so led him to meet Sonic, Tails, everyone. It is more than just a treasure to protect, but his treasure! 🥹

[princess-of-the-corner]

I keep getting conflicted on how Jason and Marinette would interact. To Marinette, hey yeah this is Jason he's your half-sibling who we know just found out about. Want to teach him how to bake? To Jason, this is your civilian half-sister. Do you get close to the only blood related sibling and her family, but put them at risk because of both identities? Oh she's gonna teach you how to bake the perfect croissant, neat.

The only thing I can perfectly see is Marinette claiming that Jason stole her height somehow. Jason affectionately calls her short stack.

Ya know since this au stemmed from TBAB(and I should be tagging them but rip), I think this could kinda be like. A lesson for Mari in how to handle someone with a particular brand of Trauma™?

Like like like

On Mari's end, she just kinda clicks to acceptance real quick. Okay she has a half-sibling she never knew about! And it didn't come from an affair so no issue there! And okay Jason seems to have not had the /best/ life (they probably haven't gone into detail but Jason would mention previous parents and even his relationship with Bruce is kinda rocky at times(reminder that the TBAB!Bats are kinda WFA/Fandom-esque so Jason and Bruce have talked on things and repaired a lot but it's not quite the same).)

But even though she /logically/ gets it, it'd confuse her on why Jason is hesitant instead of matching her energy. After all, she and her parents are Good People™! It's fine!

So she's excitedly trying to do sibling stuff and pushing boundaries and getting upset when he pulls back. (He's not rude, but he is pulling away)

And I have three options for how this is handled:

1.) Jason, having heard what Mari is like from Chloé and being somewhat more mature than either of them, does kinda decide to open up a little and explain why he isn't opening up more. And how that is not Mari's fault but she needs to be patient with people who have trauma and know toxic patterns because it's hard to break out of said patterns.

2.) Chloé, having had her own development and realized that Mari's actions are well-intentioned but can cause harm, pulls her aside to be like 'hey you're fucking up in the same way you fucked up with me'. Which works because this whole thing has also shifted Mari's thoughts on Chloé already

or

3.) Mari asks Zoé for advice on the 'how do you deal with a half-sibling who is determined to push you away?????' and Zoé's advice is patience and try to break through old trauma slowly but offer a support system

[edwardnebula]

i thought i posted this one but apparently not.

[sheepslaps]

i have also done sonic gijinkas did you know that

also the inspo post here woo

[gunnbby]

The least weird part about Sonic lore is that Tails is the only character I can think of that owns a home.

In fact, he owns multiple homes in various parts of the world.

He’s not the second smartest person in the world because he makes machines, it’s because he fucking mastered the realty market at 8 YEARS OLD

[lm-tomatito]

I wasn't able to finish these because my brain got invaded by au thoughts and other things, but I still wanted to share the sketches. I apologize if the colors are too bright, this is how I draw lol

Happy Birthday to Silver the Hedgehog✨

Wish him a happy birthday or I will find you (?)