#witness to a murder

[lifewithaview]

Nathan Page and Essie Davis in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012) Death at Victoria Dock

S1E4

As his employees strike, a businessman asks Phryne to find his missing teenage daughter. Outside a shot rings out, and Phryne finds herself cradling a dying man. Soon, her investigations uncover forbidden love, religious iconography, and anarchists...

*The date on the newspaper Dot hands Phryne is August 26, 1928.

[i-love-you-just-the-same]

going to a singles meetup and mistakeningly thinking simon riley is there for the same reason.

to be fair, he was sitting at one of the tables being used for dates. however, that was because the event staff were too intimidated to ask him to move. they assumed no one would approach him, but unlucky for them you did.

simon doesnt know what's going on around him with all these stupid couples- that's probably why this pretty bird is sitting across from him. no other seats. it doesn't explain why you're asking him all these questions about himself, though. mutters through it, thinking he's going to scare you off. simon's surprised when you respond with interest and seem charmed by his aloofness, not put off.

eventually he puts down his phone (ignoring johnny's stream of tiktoks) and starts being more receptive. offers to buy you another coffee or fruity little drink from the barista up front. compliments you for being so dressed up just to get coffee. he's surprised at his own interest in someone beyond work, let alone their cat's names. simon's ready to ask you for your number when a bell rings from the other side of the room.

he's confused (and disappointed) when you get up with your clipboard and tell him you hope to see him soon. where are you going? why are you leaving him to sit with that guy over there? simon pouts for a second before deciding he's not going to take this shit. he's imprinted on you like a stray animal.

he then takes stock of all the clipboarded couples.

simon steals a clipboard by startling an organizer. ranks you as his one and only pick. proceeds to scare any other man you talk to into giving you up.

pleasantly happy to discover you ranked him number one as well- but you're confused when a staff member said there wasn't a simon riley on file. good thing he was there to remind him of their mistake. he fucking blushes when you smile at him to ask for his number.

come on bird, there's a tjmaxx and a courthouse down the road. he'll buy you flowers while you pick out your pretty white dress.

[naturecalls111]

unorthodox murder mystery

[glow-worms-are-believers]

Witness Protection

There’s a dead guy in the alley and it’s not Danny. 

Ok, technically there are two dead guys in the alley but honestly, Danny feels like they’re way past semantics.

Because, once again, there is a dead man in the alley. 

Danny is fairly sure the guy’s been murdered. The bloody mess that is the guy's chest is a pretty good indicator, but the bloody knife that's still stuck in the guy’s guts is really what makes it for the teen.

Danny might be freaking out a little bit. Because, while he is used to dead people, they’re never this newly deceased, or for that matter, this gruesomely murdered.

Before his breath can quicken too much, Danny makes himself take a deep breath. 

Say what you want about Danny, but he hasn’t spent his high-school career moonlighting as a teenage vigilante without learning a thing or two about staving off a panic attack. Feeling more calm, Danny focuses back on the issue at hand.

I should call the police, says something in the back of his head that sounds like Jazz.

If I call in the murder I’ll be on the suspect list, retorts some other part of his brain he’s choosing to call the Sam part.

No advice from an imaginary Tuck though. Even in his own mind he can’t imagine a Tucker that hasn’t already passed out cold at the sight of a dead guy. 

Which, fair. Danny is kinda considering the option, as he’s feeling a little faint himself. It is way past time he got out of here. At least he's figured out just how to do it.

Anonymous tips are a wonderful thing, made all the more wonderful by the presence of payphones in Gotham.Danny is officially handing this off to the proper authorities.

Boy is he glad he doesn’t have to be involved anymore.

A few streets over, a hooded figure rounds a corner, their breath coming fast  as they clench their bloody fists agitadely. There wasn’t supposed to be anyone there, and yet. This is an unexpected setback.

The hooded figure leans back against the alley wall to catch their breath. Nothing to do about it but fix it. And as these things go, this is an easy mistake to fix. The face of the black-haired blue-eyed hurdle floats to the front of their mind. 

It should be child’s play.

[eerivee]

They are ready for a masquerade!!!

[feelingthedisaster]

i'd like to think that if andreil ever had to lie to the cops about the others whereabouts, their alibies will match without planning it or giving it second thoughts. they just know eachother like that

[kisasan]

Shigaraki after seeing all of Izuku's memories with kacchan:

[poirott]

Crossover → Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings visit Miss Marple

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Captain Arthur Hastings, Geraldine McEwan as Jane Marple

Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989 - 2013) | Agatha Christie’s Marple (2004 - 2013)

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

I want to put Arthur Lester in Ace Attorney and watch these sad saps try to defend the absolutely diabolical amount of bizarre crimes he's comitted

[seraphont]

What's your favorite joke headcanon for your AU or the show in general?

For the AU I have Thad be an unwilling fly on the wall. my guy is always in the wrong place at the right time, an unfortunate witness to everyone’s drama, I giggle just thinking about it.

For canon: Cyn designing the DD’s to look hot is so funny to me. like girl was looking through fashion magazines and had a Pinterest inspo board for her oc’s

[vypridae]

ok so alastor when he first fell and also what if al met angel when ANGEL first fell

[waxn-wane]

It's kind of crazy to me that I've never seen art or writing that has the students of Weston speculating about how close the transfer student and the new housemaster are.

They don't even interact by much, and yet it's so clear they have something going on between them. The thing is, the students don't know what exactly, so all they can do is speculate.

It's not rare for students to visit the housemaster for lessons at the end of the day, but Phantomhive does it on the daily. This could be explained away by saying "ah well, that's how Phantomhive gets to have good grades all the time, he's diligent and tutors with Master Michaelis"

(I do like the detail that the lessons they're covering are lessons he and Sebastian have had back in the manor)

Schoolboys can be quite the gossips

"Have you ever noticed how different they act around each other? They arrived around the same time too."

"I once heard Phantomhive call the housemaster 'Sebastian' near the powder rooms. That's against the rules, right? We can't even call each other by our first names."

"One time, I wanted to ask the professor for an extension on an assignment. It was pretty late too so I didn't want to make too much noise. When I peeked in his office to check if he was there, I saw Phantomhive sitting on the Housemaster's chair?? Master Michaelis was putting Phantomhive's coat on a rack, and the guy started loosening his own tie! Then he started demanding the professor for something sweet. That was kind of unlike him, shouting like that. This is off, way off.

I think Master Michaelis saw me so I ran back to the dorms. The next day, he gave me an extension and I didn't even get to ask!"

Like,, how scandalous, they're not even doing anything in private aside from what's canon, but the house is side eyeing them and whispering. I'm ravenous for this content, plspls (if anyone has seen something like this pls point me to it 🙏🙏)

[melissa-titanium]

monstrous nightmare httyd tongue...

[telecommunikate]

neil saying pecco doesn't have a saturday problem because he hasn't gotten close to marc on sundays either

[racke7]

De-aged and injured Danny

Danny is found out by his parents. They don't take it well.

Clockwork is very upset about this, because he'd gambled on almost-certain odds of them being chill about it. So now he has to run damage-control before this very unlikely time-line goes even further off the deep end.

Unfortunately, Danny needs to be in the living world, not the Infinite Realms. Which means that Clockwork needs to put Danny somewhere safe. Somewhere where nobody will find him.

And double-unfortunately, the only place that remotely fits this bill is to contact Lady Gotham.

City-spirits aren't... super-reliable. They're Neverborns who very very rarely consider "humanoid shapes" worth figuring out. So they just kind of... exist. An ectoplasmic presence that's undeniable, but also extremely difficult to have a conversation with.

Thankfully, Lady Gotham is (for all of her... quirks) generally very hero-aligned. Which is why she's the best one to ask for sanctuary for Danny.

Danny who Clockwork de-aged as a way to "limit his injuries" of being vivisected.

Lady Gotham agrees, but she only has one "safe place" to put him. And her Knight is a little bit too paranoid for her to just dump an injured child in his lair, without causing more trouble than it's worth.

But it's hardly a difficult thing, to arrange a few things, and place Danny in a spot where his injuries will cause her Knight to hurry to his aid.

Such as... in a room filled with medical equipment, right next door to where Joker has just lost a fight with Batman.

Things escalate somewhat when Batman finds him and makes some assumptions about what Joker has been up to. Tempers run a bit high, someone loses a few extra teeth, someone else has to physically drag Bruce off Joker's body before he beats him to death, and the Joker considers the whole thing a grand old laugh (he has no idea what's going on, but it sure pissed off Batty, and that's always a treat).

Of course, the Batfam has to actually investigate the scene, evacuate Danny, give Danny medical aid, and then also ask Danny about what happened.

Danny wakes up and is very confused about a lot of things.

He's no longer being vivisected. Great. Love that part.

He's somewhere he doesn't recognize (the Batcave). Could be good, could be bad. At least the bed is pretty nice?

He's very small. This feels like a personal attack. He might not have gotten a good growth-spurt yet, but taking away what he had is cruel and unusual.

And there's a weirdo in an... armored bat-costume? Who isn't setting off his ghost-sense? What the hell kind of "normal" person wears something like that?

Still, Danny does answer the questions that Batman asks him, because... well, there's a green post-it-note in his pocket that says he shouldn't lie.

So Danny tells Batman about his parents cutting him up "for science". And Batman hears that the Joker somehow managed to hire two mad scientists who (upon the tiniest bit of suggestion from the Joker, who'd definitely seen the similarities between Danny and Jason and thought it would be a "funny prank") had leapt at the opportunity to vivisect their own son.

This is definitely worrying, because from the phrasing, they'd been "wanting to do it for a long time". And considering Danny's slow heartbeat and low body-temperature? They'd been wanting to do it because he was a meta.

So, somewhere out there (the Bats had found no trace of the two) were two deranged lunatics who wanted to cut open metas to "see how they worked".

Batman does the very reasonable thing and actually contacts the rest of the Justice League with their descriptions, just in case they'd managed to leave Gotham before the Bats had tracked them down.

[as-dreamers-do]

when Ame and Eursulon see Suvi having her breakdown and Ame's response is "Suvi!" and Eursulon's is "Sky!" 10/10 subtle character moment no notes all respect