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[skylersprompts]

DC x DP Prompt *26*

In one moment everything was good. His parents accepted him as Phantom and were actively reworking their theories. In the next moment he felt like his core was about to shatter in millions of little pieces. His parents, sisters and friends died.

The explosion happened, even though it had been a different day, different circumstances and different reason. They wanted to celebrate his death day, to show him that they cared.

He was in so much agony from losing his fright, that he saw them to late. The Guys in White captured him, before he was even able to transform.

He never got an answer to how they knew he was Phantom, because ecto-scum didn't deserve anything.

Danny didn't know how long he had been there, only that they started to get careless. The GiW wanted to transport him to a new facility, but something happened outside and the Van had to stop.

The agents with him left him alone to deal with what ever had coursed the disturbance and he took his chance.

The door was unlocked.

The door was open.

He bolted.

He wasn't able to use his powers at the moment, because of the bracelet that contained them, but there was enough chaos for him to slip away, even locked into his human form.

After a good distance he looked down on himself. He wasn't wearing anything meant for the streets, just a fully covering medical gown.

So he started to look around the ally and he was lucky. In one of the dumpsters was some kind of costume. It seemed like a Halloween costume, but it was better than nothing.

He looked at it and deemed the Robin Costume a good fit and quickly changed in it. He even found the mask and shoes after some digging!

In his full Robin Costume he hurried to get further away. But luck was never on his good side, so it didn't take long for a rough looking agent to find him.

It only took one small shot out of the agents ecto-gun for Danny to crumble to the floor. And a few seconds later he felt fists and insults hitting him.

And maybe it was the lack of sleep, the loneliness, the pain or a combination of everything. But he knew that the only thing he wanted right now, was his Dad to save him and give him one of his world famous bear hugs.

And even though Danny knew that his Dad was gone, he couldn't hold his cries for his Dad in any longer.

"d-DAD!"

It only took a few seconds before the agent was flying away from him and Danny was lifted in the air, swinging up

"Robin, are you oka-? You are not Robi-. Are you okay chum?"

[littlespoonevan]

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[daniclaytcn]

just know if i'm correct about buck and natalia being broken up at the beginning of the season i will never stop making fun of buck for it

[soracities]

a friend of mine, who is turkish and had a bigger bump in her nose, recently got rhinoplasty done and i was so, so, so SO mad at all the men that told her her nose was 'too big' or that she'd be prettier with a smaller nose, once almost clocked a guy for that comment when we were out clubbing, because her nose was SO SOS SOSOSO beautiful and ofc i'm glad she's feeling happy with it now but!!! yeah

There are a lot of plastic surgery procedures whose very concepts make me incredibly angry, but this is genuinely one of the most heartbreaking aspects of it all to me. Distinct nose bridges and strong profiles are one of the most beautiful things on earth to me and the fact that we have an entire industry built on destroying them (and justifying it in such an insidious manner, and no one bats an eyelid to it all) is just.....it really truly does anger me so deeply and because of that I'm just overcome with profound and unspeakable sadness every time I think about it. I remember seeing an artist's impression of the Cheddar Man, the oldest known human remains in Britain, which they reconstructed based on his skull and DNA (I think) and then they found he had descendants still living in that area. And one of them, after literally thousands--thousands--of years, had his nose. Still. I want ethnic rhinoplasty to die a quick but painful death.

[spinnysocks]

kiburi x ushari but specifically doomed kiburi x ushari. more than anyone else in the army they believe with full sincerity that scar's plan HAS to work because they can't succeed without him

[doctorbrown]

MCFLY JULY ‘24 ⸺ 「 25 / 31 * THE HONEYMOONERS 」

[Date Unknown] 1985A Timeline

Five…six…seven…

Thunder booms, rattling Heaven and Earth with its might. Count the seconds between the flash of lightning and the crack of thunder and it'll tell you how far away the storm is.

Two miles, maybe.

It feels like it's right on top of them.

The ground shakes beneath them, rattling her bones so hard she can feel it in her teeth, and rather than run for cover, she turns to George sitting on the grass beside her, pressed up against a rock, and nestles closer.

“It feels like every time we try and do something, there’s a terrible storm.” Lorraine smiles, but it never reaches her eyes. “Our first dance, our honeymoon—don’t you remember?”

Sighing, Lorraine closes her eyes, losing herself to the grainy film reel of memory rolling behind her eyes. Even soaked to the bone, his clothes clinging awkwardly to him, George was a vision—a dream—and his almost pathetic wet puppy-dog expression made her heart soar. “By the time we got to the hotel, we were soaked. You nearly walked into the door; you couldn’t see anything with your hair in your eyes like that! I had to keep brushing your bangs out of your eyes while you carried our bags.”

George smiles, indulging the trip down memory lane with a gentle squeeze to her hand. He’s cold again, Lorraine thinks distantly—he’s been terribly cold lately, as if the sun has refused to touch him, angry with him for some perceived slight against it—but that doesn’t bother her.

She’ll keep warm enough for both of them. Light that fire in her chest and her stomach and stoke it until he leaches every ounce of warmth through her fingers for himself and his cheeks glow with it.

It’s all for him, anyway.

“That was one of the happiest nights of my life. I can’t believe you thought you ruined it just because of a storm. ‘We must be cursed, Lorraine,’ you told me, and I thought that was one of the most ridiculous things I'd ever heard. Even more ridiculous than when you told me about Darth Vader.”

“But that—”

“Really happened, I know. I believed you.”

“Eventually.”

“Eventually.” Lorraine chokes on the laugh she tries to force out. The first drops of rain pelt her cheeks and she uses her free hand to furiously wipe them away, ignoring the stinging sensation on her skin.

“We should go inside—the storm’s coming. You’ll get soaked.”

Lorraine shakes her head furiously, squeezing George’s hand so tight her nails bite deep into her palms, drawing blood. The wind sighs as it whips her messy hair around her head, knowing there is no changing her mind.

“I don’t care about the rain. I like sitting out here with you. It’ll be just like all the other times, won’t it, George?”

Just like all the other times.

Just like last time.

A second wave of burning rain bites at her cheeks and George lets go of her hand to gently drag his thumb across her cheek. Lorraine chokes back another sob, her shoulders trembling with the effort it takes to keep herself composed.

Her cheeks are still burning. The earth smells like petrichor.

The next crack of thunder shatters her composure, leaving her ears ringing. Lorraine’s shaky fingers fumble at her pocket as she curls her fingers around the crystal clear flame protected within, sloshing around in its container.

George never did get wet when it rained.

[songofwizardry]

hey there's a lot of shit out in the world but like. there's also 300k fanfics written as labours of love and exuberant comment threads on art that point out and gush over little details and there's people who spend hours sewing tiny details on their cosplays and there's fragments of poetry that get shared over and over and bring emotions over and over and there's entire communities of people built around 'we loved a story together' or 'we made a story together' and there's people poring over every line in a work and building theories together and there's getting together with your friends to have ridiculous fantasy adventures every week and yeah. there's some good stories here too yknow.

[navree]

If it’s okay to ask, what wrong with Cori Bush?

Oh yeah, totally okay, don't worry about it.

The issue with Cori Bush is kinda similar to the issue that also cost Jamaal Bowman his seat earlier this summer, which is that they're not very good at their jobs. When you are a Representative, when you are a Senator, when you are just any kind of elected official in a legislature, one of the main things that you're there to do is represent the people who voted for you. It's in the fucking name for the House of Representatives. It's not just showing up to hearings or making flashy speeches, you do need to actually do stuff for the people who voted for you, you need to serve their interests not just in a representative capacity but also through material help, and be available for them when they need you. Constituent services are massively important for any elected official, especially when it comes to convincing your constituents to re-elect you.

Bush's constituent services were, apparently, absolutely abysmal. Her office didn't do much in the way of actually helping constituents, she herself was often not returning calls or emails, she didn't show up in the district. There was no effort on her part to do any of the actual parts of the job she has. She's good at putting statements on Twitter and saying shit in speeches (even if it doesn't make sense "AIPAC I'm gonna tear you apart" girl with what power???? come january you are no longer any kind of influence you're just A Person tf are you gonna be able to do) but when it comes to actually doing anything, she's not there. Cori Bush was never actually interested in representing the people of her district, of trying to make life better for them, of helping them, of being there for them as their elected representative, and as such they have decided they no longer want her to represent them. She appears to have run solely because she wanted to raise her national profile, and her time in Congress was almost solely concerned on making herself more important and the face of A Movement. Voters can see that, and voters don't often like that, and like with any other job on the planet, if you're not actually doing it, you're gonna be fired, and thus she was.

Bowman had the same issue around constituent services and self importance, and it's why he lost too. Conversely, AOC has excellent constituent services, she is known in her district for being reachable and for doing a lot of local outreach and for working for her people. It's why she won against Crowley, who wasn't around all that often, and it's why she keeps winning re-election (and also she's chilled out more and stopped the dumb shit in recent years, along with being a good legislator and an excellent person to have in committee hearings). Tlaib also used to be a state rep, and had the experience as well as the knowledge that constituent services are important, and has been very vocal and present in her community as well, so even though AIPAC is spending just as much trying to get her out as they did for Bush, it's not gonna work (sorry to all the people who genuinely think that Evil Jew Money is the great manipulator of the world, go back to Illuminati lizard people theories). Pressley has always had good constituent services too, and while I don't follow Omar enough to know what her's are like, from what I remember from her last primary (which was shockingly close and why she's considered so vulnerable going into next week) her issues are more on the fact that she's not very good at campaigning, as well as her tendency to put her foot in her mouth a lot on contentious social issues (i remember her voting fucking "present" on the armenian genocide recognition and i still find it quite vile).

Bush's voting record is also something I'm not overly fond of, based on where I fall on a lot of stances, but that's less of an issue because 1) no two people hold the exact same opinion on everything and 2) I'm not a constituent so whether or not Cori Bush represents my views on the broader national stage isn't important.

[tardis--dreams]

I'm waiting for some articles that i have to edit and upload but the reporter is Taking His Time so i technically don't have anything to do at work rn but i don't wanna ask if someone can give me something because then i have to do that work and i feel like that's a bit excessive

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

so y'all are trying to tell me that the problem is snow white being black and not whatever those terrifying things claiming to be the seven dwarfs are??

[confinesofmy]

if ain't nobody got me, i know fermented foods got me. just found some kimchi i bought like 5 months ago and have forgotten about 20 times and it's not even gonna expire until this summer.

[monty-glasses-roxy]

I have many an out of context meme to make for Meteors many of which would be spoilers if they weren't out of context (not like spoilers matter anyway I'm not reliant on some big twist or anything) but anyway I have a brainworm that's not specific to literally anything I just like it as a concept.

Tiger Rock... He's an archivist. Loves his books. History in particular. To me.

That is all.

[marshmellowtea]

i'm bored so i'm here lurking but the thought of coming back full time gave me the biggest surge of nausea so lol

[brawlqueen]

the way mizuki just immediately thinks of home being date. it isn't just that, it's iris, it's hitomi, hell, it's even ota . it's aiba, at any age, be it as a partner shared or just a part of the family .

mizuki rationally has so many insecurities about date, she isn't sure if he adopted her a lot out of pity because no one really wanted her, her parents certainly didn't, the pity of the results of the horrible case in which she and date respectively were in different ways in the eye of the storm. the way despite all her doubt about date, there is a faith that's small, and natural to have, because her trust and trauma is so vast it's suffocating her, mizuki doesn't know anything else. her friends she considers family. aiba becomes even more like family from what little crumbs i take from a.ini. she loves her and partnering with her she has learned SO much about different sides. it doesn't diminish aiba and date, it's just there's a new, younger date who needs her too.

but despite all these doubts, these cemented thoughts that she's an afterthought, something pitied, not even in his top three important people . . . someone he just felt obligated to save . . . she loves date. it's why she struggles to even work on at either age, openly saying the word 'dad'. she still has nightmares of his somn.ium, waking up and being pushed away. being told he isn't what she needs, and shoved three times.

she wants to be needed by date. because she needs him. it doesn't have to be perfect, but she wants to know that if she wasn't in his life it would matter.

....she wants to know she matters. that's why post-game she is struggling so so much. i also really just cannot stress that if hit.omi and date are end game then - why did we not get a scene with mizuki also with iris and hitomi and date? to cement they are a family regardless of romantic or not between the adults ?

this is why mizuki route in terms of growth and relational bonds, is canon to me, plotwise it's unsolved, but the growth and relationships should be carried over to be a true resolution route to me.

[wewontbesleeping]

hmm thinking about "i've got a hundred thrown out speeches i almost said to you" in the context not of writing letters addressed to the fire. but of wedding vows. and it's making me sad

[sharkneto]

For Anon who sent me the question about TUA S4 content spoilers but also everyone - Please do not send me info/ask me about production or filming things for S4! Outside of official promos and trailers and whatnot, I do not want to know about it! My goal is to go into S4 as blind as possible. I want to have no expectations so I'm not coloring my watch with what I think is or isn't going to happen.

Am I going to be successful in this endeavour? No. I'll see some spoilers for sure as they pop up on my dash and on Insta and Twitter and whatnot. But I'd like to limit it, if I can. I watched S1 and S2 without a scrap of prior knowledge of the show and had so much fucking fun, and I was relatively successful on avoiding anything too big on S3. I'd like to maintain that with our final go around, if I can.

I have the TUA S4 tag blacklisted right now, and you can do your part, too, by tagging and not asking me about it!

Thank you :)