#with: axel

[virtueofsanityx]

closed for: @floorgazing (axel) with: willow plot: "when did you get this?"

"this one's new." fingers trail up axel's arm, dancing like graceful little butterflies as she traced the scar that crawled up his arm and disappeared into the sleeve of his shirt. in the low light of the room, she might have missed it, if keen observation wasn't the name of her entire game. the club was packed, but the low hum of the music and the sounds of fighting somewhere behind them doesn't raise willow's voice as her body invades axel's personal space.

anything, she knew in her head, to get just a little bit closer to him. she wonders if she comes off as pathetic as she feels, throwing herself at him in a way she never would with a simple mark. willow seduces with the best of them. this isn't that. this is clunky and awkward. this is... a crush. one that never plans to disappear, it would seem. maybe she just needs to get him out of her system. but she doesn't want that, either.

"where did it come from? when did you get it?" it's intentional when she leans in, close enough to let her lips brush his ear while she whispers, fingers still delicately tracing the raised line of skin, in an almost hypnotic, rhythmic pattern. she wants him to want her, too. another problem. are their moments normal? are they things that friends simply experience? she isn't sure. she hasn't had a real crush since she was a teenager. makes the job harder. "how many more fights do you have tonight? i want to take you out to celebrate when you win."

[spocks-husband]

In Bruce's phone, he keeps the contact photos for all his kids as their baby pictures (or the closest approximation that he has).

Dick's is a photo of him when he'd first designed his Robin costumes, smiling ear to ear as he proudly showed off his first hand-sewn prototype.

Jason's is a picture Alfred got of the boy sitting on Bruce's shoulders while they went over a case.

Tim is him fast asleep in the middle of taking notes on his first real mission (he wanted to impress Bruce really bad).

Damian is a polaroid he got from Talia of him when he was about a year old, teething on a mango seed as he sat on the floor of his mother's room.

Cass is entirely blacked out except for her big bright eyes that can be seen in the darkness-- Bruce thinks it's the cutest photo ever.

Even Babs has hers set to a photo of her with her first computer, grinning happy as she probably hacked into a federal database somewhere. He got that photo from Jim.

Likewise, of course, Alfred's (very bareboned) smartphone that he barely uses has Bruce's contact set with a photo of him playing in the snow as a little boy.

[bigweldindustries]

going through the hades 2 stuff and im sorry but i just have to ramble a second because look at Hephaestus

he's not just a wheelchair user but also an amputee. an above knee amputee. wheelchair users are already next to nonexistant in video games but amputees exist in this really...disheartening? spot where they're pretty much just reduced to "person with a cybernetic limb" - it's always just somewhere from "just a cool visual design" to flat out "superpower". I can't think of a video game amputee that is actually disabled by their limb differences - I'm all for futuristic worlds where prosthetics and other disability aids are far advanced from what they are now, but that's not really what's implied by these designs. They're just... Cool designs that in no way reflect on the real-world experience of being an amputee.

Look at Hephaestus, though. Look at that prosthetic. Whilst stylised it very much looks like it functions like common mechanical knees - knee bends when thigh is lifted, knee straightens when thigh is lowered. He's a wheelchair user as well as a prosthetic user - every prosthetic user I know is also a wheelchair user as a prosthetic is not usable in every occasion and also cause exhaustion and pain if used constantly.

Whilst we can't see much of his wheelchair the position he's sat in and the wheels very much evoke active wheelchair to me - this carries on to very specifically the thickness of his arms. Whilst a lot of Hades designs are muscular Hephaestus has very noticeably thick arms - which makes sense, as active wheelchairs require a lot of arm strength.

Just overall this design is making me want to cry - he's not just an actual wheelchair user in a video game, he's a realistic depiction of an amputee, a disability usually brushed over in order to give a character a fun design quirk and nothing else. He's fat and he's hot and he's a realistic depiction of an above knee amputee. Oh my god. Oh my god?

[thecollectibles]

White Snake by Axel Sauerwald

[cherooshi]

The Sass Squad

[skulsakz]

done by malezas777 (instagram)

song tattooed is axel f - crazy frog

[vesto4ka]

some traditional art...

I like to use bright colors. 👉👈💖

[kafeicreme]

Autumn, another excuse to draw new clothes and orange colors

[vietsoul]

Axel Rockham & Siren Santiago Fuego, 2024 - Hot House

[sopuu]

the stones are in order

[virtueofsanityx]

closed for: @floorgazing with: giovanni rossi plot: oh shit, is that dad vibes?

gio is ill equiped to be a comforting presence. he's brash and sarcastic, he's a little bit too blunt most of the time, he's been compared to gordon ramsey more often than he's been praised for his humanitarianism, but there's a soft spot in his heart for people, a reason why he cooks is to feed people, because fed people are happy, and deep down, making people happy matters. it doesn't mean he's weak, or that he lets employees get over on him, and he's certainly been called a dick both to his face and behind his back.

but gio cares about people.

it's why when the knock on his door at 2 am wakes him up, he doesn't ignore it. it's why, when axel is the one standing there on the other side of the door, he's immediately ushering him inside, dragging him to the kitchen and sitting him down at the table. it's why his frying pan is out and on the stove immediately and he's cracking eggs into it without even stopping to ask questions. it's why he has a breakfast plate nearly done before he turns to look at the kid with an expression of mixed frustration and worry.

"wanna tell me what happened, or are we doing the 'm'fine, gio, just had a rough night' schtick?" his approximate impression of axel is terrible at best, but it gets his point across, and he sets the plate down before sitting across the table, his fingers steepling in front of him. "you're lucky i just changed the sheets in your room this morning, you know. get to sleep on clean bedding." his room, not the guest room, because gio's already come to think of that space as axel's space. already considered the different ways he can offer axel the room without it feeling strange or uncomfortable for the kid. he's an entire adult man, he doesn't need gio babying him.

that doesn't stop gio from wanting to, at least a little bit.

"eat. you look like you need to eat. i'm not gonna bother asking if i should take you to a doctor, since i know you'll say no, but i can feed you and toss you in the shower and get you to bed, so..." a hand waves flippantly toward the plate, and he leans back in that seat finally. "plus, if you don't eat, i'll assume you hate my food, and as a chef, i don't think there's any higher insult than that."

[spocks-husband]

Mainly because when he started adopting kids he just sort of figured 'this is just what you do with children' since it's how he was raised and then felt weird not doing it with the rest after Dick and Jason, all the Batkids have random super obnoxious rich kid skills that Bruce either taught them or sent them to classes for. Obviously they all know how to fence, that's pretty common knowledge-- but they're all also fluent in French and Latin (plus varying degrees of Arabic and Ancient Greek), very well familiar with dining and event etiquette for any possible situation (mostly by Alfred's doing), well versed in classical literature and mythology, capable with at least one instrument (piano for most of them-- though Dick plays the flute!), and quite comfortable writing in cursive to the point where for almost all of them it's their natural handwriting, just like Bruce.

This usually isn't an issue... Except for that time when, early in his crimelord career, Jason sent a threatening note reading--

I will find you 🩷✨

--to a gang leader in his territory, which... Didn't have its intended effect. He used magazine cutouts to write his threatening notes from then on.

[wiavi]

[thecollectibles]

Tea Time by Axel Sauerwald

[willgrahamscock]

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