#Some of the souls can be someone who the JL lost

[phoenixcatch7]

Cap marvel headcanons I Will integrate into a fic one day but also have Zero basis in canon to my knowledge (this ended up being LONG):

The living lightning is an ancient force akin to the speed force, and the 'true' guardian of magic, being possibly the first 'magical creature' ever created.

The rock of eternity only recently became based on earth, in the past several thousand years, with the planet's deities acting as mountains in the rain cycle - funnels to safely channel the magic back into the Champion. It's a fully symbiotic relationship that benefits the planet and its people immensely.

This means previously the rock has been based on alien planets. Previous champions are ancient aliens, many from species that no longer exist, either because the species died out or evolved into something unrecognisable.

The champion of magic may have inspired the oua (?), the creators and high council of the green lanterns. Ooh maybe an oua was selected as champion, which is how they learned of it!

The living lightning, when not in a mortal vessel, rests in the heart of the Rock in a large brazier, with a smoke lid of white edged with gold in a familiar pattern. It is tradition, or perhaps instinct, for a Champion to light the brazier whenever they visit the Rock. It will be lit for as long as the visit lasts, and be extinguished the next time they come.

Should it choose to take form, the living lightning resembles a washed out combination of each of its previous Champions. Its form is solid and clear, strong and made for battle, but distinctly uncanny. It doesn't leave its brazier, nor speak.

The 'ideal form' of a hero varies all the time, doesn't it? Especially if you're a kid still growing and learning about yourself and the world. Headcanon cap ever so subtly changes features sometimes. Gradually. Height and build changes sometimes. One of the league members has noticed but they really can't prove it to themselves and it's driving them crazy. Billy has no idea.

On that topic, the 'ideal form' also includes the clothes, right? The red costume? If Billy transforms with the intent of doing something outside his normal hero things (ie, attending a celebration), the outfit has every reason and ability to change to reflect that! Everyone expecting cap to show up in his normal gear and ready to throw a formal suit at him to wiggle on over his costume and he shows up in a red and gold set with a little one shoulder cape like 'yeah I have no idea either'.

Cap marvel Is An Adult. Billy isn't, but cap is in every single way that someone could count. This is probably canon but in some fics I think the jl forgets lol. It's still the same soul, just, with an adult filter instead of a kid one. However that filter manifests.

Not sure this is canon too, but the idea of the mind/soul/whatever of cap manifesting as this great impossible mass. A storm, or a tiger, or a barrier of lightning. This giant, untouchable, dormant mass of power and implied Danger™. Again, Billy has no idea. J'onn is eying warily from a very safe distance.

His wiki practically waxes poetic about his abilities and skills in strategy, mathematics, nigh precognition from ability to spot and manipulate patterns. Captain marvel is unbeatable at chess. Batman has lost to him. Billy cannot do fractions and it drives him up the WALL.

The champion, and ONLY the champion, can share his powers. If shazam wants a second champion he has to give a new set wholesale or convince the champion to share. Similarly, those patroned by the champion cannot transform unless the champion is also transformed. Because otherwise that would be too easy for Billy lol.

Every time Billy asks, tawky gives a different canon origin story. Billy has no idea which is true.

Billy's parents died accidentally freeing Adam on their expedition. Probably crushed by rubble :(. The wizard is the only one who knows and really isn't inclined to share, and Adam either hasn't connected the dots or never really noticed they were there.

Cap and Billy love each other, regardless of whatever version their whole thing is. They're the only reason the other remembers self care and that kind of self love, even if he's not sure he deserves it, makes a world of difference with how they portray themselves to the world.

Cap doesn't need to breathe to speak but he never remembers that and has repeatedly choked in water and space. Superman empathises but tries not to find it funny after the third time it happens.

Billy has showed the wizard memes.

The wizard internally refers to Billy as the 'sassy, lost child'. He has a pointy hat like any good wizard but refuses to wear one since Billy keeps asking him to, pretty please.

Cap once won an arm wrestle with superman by pretending to lick his hand. He didn't. Billy would have.

Cap marvel CANONICALLY bites but after the first time he regulates his jaw strength. Thankfully it was Black Adam so no one lost a hand. He had him in a headlock so who's fault was it really.

Ebenezer doesn't have a strong opinion on cap marvel either way. Billy thinks that's almost worse.

The living lightning isn't lightning. It was around before lightning. It is living, however. It is that 'living' that forms the main consciousness of the Champion form, in this case Marvel. Its not sentient or sapient itself, that's the vessel, but it is the building blocks of it.

In dc (again no idea if this has any basis in canon) magic is the fifth state of matter, above plasma. Yes this interferes incredibly with quantum physics and theoretical science. No the magic users don't know how it works either. No they will not help you they have their own research (into the exact same thing) to do.

If the Rock is obliterated cap marvel will die (along with pretty much everything else but irrelevant). However, if he manages to save the brazier, he will continue on. Magic as a whole deal won't be very happy and aeons of magical knowledge and history and artifacts will be lost, but cap will live and can rebuild from the ashes. The brazier is Heavy but enough super strength can move it if you don't mind bringing a chunk of floor. And the rock is so weakened it's literally falling apart but those are the right circumstances anyway so.

#We should be able to put multiple read mores in posts #I had more headcanons than I thought #If anyone has anything proving/disproving any of these PLEASE let me know :D #I'm still pretty new here and I don't know a lot of the canon material #Wish we could get post checks from others without having to @ them I'm not RUDE #but fr if anyone wants to whip out their reading glasses and comically large Well Actually book of references please do #dc comics #captain marvel #dc captain marvel #billy batson #shazam #headcanon #long post #I REPEAT LONG POST #also blanket permission for anyone to use these if they give you Ideas #I really want to write a fic where the jl (mainly superbat) help cap with saving the Rock and fail #But at the last second he swaps to desperately trying to rescue the brazier but his powers failing and he can't move it he's in tears #And superman has to haul it out while someone else carries an inconsolable cap #And when they get outside to safety they're like 'so what's the deal with this over literally everything else in there' and poor Billy just #Has had possibly the worst day of his life his powers fading just tries to scrabble into the brazier (he needs help and its uncomfortable #for everyone involved) and curls up like goodNIGHT and pulls his cape over his shoulders which turns to stone and he dissolves #To sleep and recharge and now the jl is stuck with the source of all magic which is big and heavy and has their unconscious teammate in. #And also it can't leave earth so no watchtower to put it! Very angst hurt comfort identity reveal methinks. HEA ofc #So.... Yeah

[ive-tumbled-down-a-rabbit-hole]

Hot Showers

This gets a little more risqué (nudity mentioned but that's it really) toward the end of the fic than I typically (or ever tbh) have written (from my point of view) so you've been warned. Probably "teen plus" as a result. (I'm not great at warnings/tags so sorry).

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Marinette giggled as she and Roy tinkered with the shower head and box. Their plan was fool proof, no flaws what's so ever. Jason would run out the scalding hot shower straight into Roy’s safe arms and they’d fall in love, then kiss and live happily ever after. That’s how it goes right?

As much as it pained her, to yet again fall for someone who wasn't interested in her, she wouldn't let herself get in the way of his happiness. Roy was her best friend. He deserved happiness. Even if his happiness was with Jason and not her. She got why he loved Jay. Jay was perfect for Roy with his leather, ruggedness, and wicked dark humour. Roy would always be her best buddy with Jay a close second.

It was inevitable that she’d fall for Roy. How could she not fall for the goofball of a roommate. He was charming, caring, chaotic and smart. His humour matched hers as well as he also adored Jagged. He dealt with the admin mistake amazingly as she ended up being placed in the male dorms. She doesn't really regret using Marin instead of Nettie on the forms to shrink her name to fit as she'd never have met the crazy man next to her.

Ok, that might be a slight stretch of the truth given they both had taken the same university course. But she'd never have guaranteed that they'd have worked together.

Also, his looks were nothing to be scoffed at… she's never forgotten bumping (literally) into his toned chest, damp hair and piercing green eyes as he walked out of the bathroom in first year.

She really was a sucker for green eyed Adonises who put her as 'just a good friend'.

"Wha'd'ja think? The mechanism seems ok? It's a little sticky though."

Roy's voice broke through Marinette's musings, giggles and reminiscing of topless moments, knowing he will never be hers. Stealing Roy's hat Marinette to place it on her own head to keep her overgrown fringe out her eyes (she really needed to cut it) she stuck her tongue out to focus on the mechanism Roy referred to.

"Can you grab me a nail file and tweezers Roy? I have an idea on getting it to move smoothly."

Handing Marinette the tools requested, Roy wrapped himself around his roommate, resting his head over her shoulder to watch her tinker with the contraption.

Marinette groaned inside her mind. It was times like this that made it so much harder adoring Roy and not acting on it with his sweet oblivious behaviour.

"It'll work right? This plan is fool proof, right?"

"Yeah yeah, the contraption is perfect. Look, I got it to work without sticking now."

"Nets!! That's not what I meant." Roy hugged her closer, "Course the fucking thing will work. It has us working on it. This stuff is a breeze. I meant, like, Jay will come running into my arms and I can declare my feelings."

"Roy… I love you…" Marinette grimaced internally stating that. Roy will never take her seriously or the true depth it meant with how often she said it, but at least she got to say how she felt even if it was never returned. "I'm $h1t at knowing whether it will work. My dating history and setting up is appalling. I never told the guy in lycée that I liked him. The girls set up loads of ridiculous situations for me to fail at. The only major success I had was setting Al's up with Nino by trapping them in a cage. This fits in with the crazy plans perfectly and it's you. You're not a coward plus how could Jay hate you?"

"Love ya too Nets. Thanks for the prep talk. I can do this. Jay will love it… afterwards."

"As this part is finished, do you want to assemble it together?"

"Yeah yeah, I get ya hint. Get the giant to put the shower together. I got this you little Pixie."

Marinette flipped him off as he let go of her allowing her to stand up and move away from him.

"I'm going to the gym. That way at least I can have a shower without issues. When's Jay over? I can grab take out on the way home."

"In an hour, I think. Have I told you I love ya Nets? Pizza and beer night!!"

"Not enough Roy, not enough… and for that I'm grabbing Chinese"

She stuck her tongue out at Roy and dashed into her room to grab her gym kit.

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As Jason lounged on the sofa, Roy attempted to watch the trash film he selected nursing the beer he was drinking. There was a reason he let Marinette chose films. She seemed to have an endless knowledge of them and about the directors. Though she said she was just reciting information she’s heard over the years from an obsessed friend and would be in the same boat as him otherwise.

Roy was struggling to keep his cool without Marinette around. He was so close to Jason, he could smell Jason's aftershave and something distractedly Jason. It was sending his mind into over drive. The plan was all set up ready and he just needed to wait. He didn’t like the waiting and now his nerves were all over the place like his mind with how Jason kept looking over at him.

“So what madness were you and Nets working on today?"

Jason’s deep voice caused Roy to jump and his attention to scatter.

"What?! No madness. We've had a quiet day. Nothing dangerous at all."

"Bullshit Roy. Nets tools are still in the living room. They'd be in her room if she wasn't working on something and *you* would have joined in. You're practically joined at the hip."

‘$h1t!’ ran through Roy’s head at Jason’s observation, very little escaped the 'not a bat' attention. "Errr….", Roy eloquently replied. He could hear Marinette’s scolding in the back of his head at his lack of words and distraction technique.

Jason threw a pillow at him, which Roy manages to catch. He resisted the urge to bury his face in the pillow, to look at Jason. Roy felt his ears start to heat up under Jason’s all knowing stare.

"Harper, you're a $h1t liar. I really haven't a clue how Nets hasn't figured you out yet."

Before Jason could continue grilling Roy about his latest project, a loud thumping of what sounded like someone kicking the door.

“Foood!! Nets is home!!” Roy cried jumping over the sofa to let his saviour in, ignoring Jason shaking his head at his behaviour. He finally got what she meant with the nerves she felt before each of her friends' crazy plans. He couldn’t do it. He couldn’t tell his friend about how he fantasised about his thighs. His arms. How he loved and hated the showers at JL post mission. How when they sparred, that one shifted move and it could turn into something... something more.

Roy dragged Nets into the building and manoeuvred her to the kitchen neglecting to help by taking some the tower of food out her hand focusing complete to the panic ringing in his head. “Help me... he’s so fucking cute today.” Roy whispers into her ear.

His roommate and best Wing Girl looked at him with a sigh. “Chill Roy, just chill! The more you work yourself up the worse it’ll be. Forget the future. Focus on food so we can put phase one into action yeah!?”

Roy smiled. He could do this. This was why he adored his Pixie companion. She really was perfect friend. He dragged her into a hug with relief that she was here rushing through him, chuckling at her antics to escape his grasp.

“Grab the plates and make yourself useful instead of smothering me Roy. Jay! You gonna help too?!”

As the three navigated the small kitchen dishing up food. Every time Jason’s hand brushed his, Roy felt his heart flutter. Heat rushed through his body. His nerves were fried by the time they all were seated, from Jason’s heated touch and the desire for more contrasted with Marinette’s soothing balm calming his soul.

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Jason tried to focus on the food in front of him, but fu©k, it was hard especially with having a few drinks with Roy before Marinette turned up. He might have been harbouring a minor, not so big, little (HUGE) crush on Roy’s roommate and keeping it in check was hard, especially with alcohol. She was hot! Especially with the loose crop top and joggers she was wearing from her post workout. The hint of her abs and wet hair dampening the white top gave him all the wrong ideas. Her morbid humour match is his dark one and her love for rock music sold it for him. Roy was a strong man to be able to resist her, that is if he was resisting… with how Roy draped and snuggled close to her it was hard to tell.

Jason’s issue was he wasn’t sure if Roy was overprotective and physical close of Nets due to seeing her as a little sister or there was something more was under lying. He’d seen the pair try to hide their blushes. Their cosiness and whispered conversations. The fact Roy was often tactile with him made it harder to work out as maybe that was just Roy with his best friend's. With his attempts to find out Roy’s affections, it felt like getting a straight answer from B was easier. Roy always responded with lots vague responses and misdirection.

It was driving him insane, Jason desperately wanted to know where Roy stood so he knew whether it was green to maybe… possibly… make a move on Nets… without violence form Roy.

Lost in his own musings as Nets and Roy chatted animatedly about a potential 'illegal' modification to their bikes Jason didn't notice the downpour of beer which flew his way.

"WHAT THE FU¢K NETS?!?!!"

Jason jumped out of his seat as beer drained down his top onto his jeans. Roy rushed to pat him dry with napkins he'd grabbed, red faced to match his hair as he pat down the beer from Jason's head. Nets looked at him with her soulful doe eyes that peered out partially hidden by her lashes and overgrown fringe.

"$h1t!! Mon dieu!! I'm *so so* sorry Jay!"

With a pout and sorryful expression she looked up at him, melting his anger with her innocent look.

"It was an accident. I really didn't mean for that to happen. Are you ok? Did ya want a shower?? I'm *sure* Roy has some spare clothes he can loan you?"

She spoke with such a saccharine voice that shivers went down Jason's spine and whatever anger that remained disappeared.

"Errr, Yeah! Look, I'll, I'll go grab some spare clothes and towel for ya Jay."

Roy gulped as he exited the room to get the items leaving Jason suddenly feeling flustered, standing in wet clothes that clang to his body, with only Marinette left in the room.

"I'll just, I'll go be in the bathroom if Roy asks."

Marinette sent him a beguiling smile as he wanders out the room.

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Screams echo the apartment as Jason dashes out the bathroom flames licking behind him as he runs towards Roy who had grabbed a fire extinguisher and covers him in the water before panicking as saw the shower curtain was still alight.

"Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!! Nets! NETS!!! THE BATHROOM IS ON FIRE!!"

Marinette quickly comes into the hallway to find Jason naked, Roy hopping foot to foot holding the fire extinguisher and not doing anything. Grabbing the item off the flapping man and ignoring the nakedness of the other, Marinette tackled the flames and quickly put them out. Thankfully it wasn't as bad as she thought and easy to get under control. Before turning to Roy and Jason raising her eyebrow at the pair while chucking a towel at Jason.

"You b@$t@rd!! What in hell?! what you thinking Roy?!?! What was that?!"

"I'd call it a hot shower … "

Marinette gave Roy a pointed look at that comment.

"A hot shower Roy?! Where was the shower bit!"

"I might have forgotten to reattach the water element…"

"Might?!?! Might?!?!"

Jason felt the green fire in him growing as he stepped closer and closer to Roy. His friend was a madman. He was bonkers. He was going to kill him. Whether the him being Roy or himself he wasn't sure.

Roy suddenly grabbed Jason's shoulders, dragging him closer and kissed him. Roy poured all his affections into a heated kiss, hoping Jason would understand what he was trying to say. Jason paused in shock. That… that wasn't what he was expecting. His eyes blew wide as he processed what was happening. He saw Marinette give a bittersweet smile at the pair before she turned and left them to it as she re-entered the living room. His attention snapped back to Roy as he quickly let go to step back.

"Ummm, I like you… a lot… this was an attempt to ummm well… kick start telling you maybe…"

Roy's face was flushed vibrant red. Partly due to finally kissing his crush, partly from admitting his feelings and a lot due to remembering Jason before the kiss was angry and likely to kill him for the flamethrower shower and that he had kissed him unasked plus on top of that Jason was still in the hallway in only a towel.

"You like me?!?! Me?!?! What about Nets?!?! I thought you liked her … how can you not like her. She's a walking goddess?"

"Yeah I like you, like really like you…why wouldn't I? and Nets well, I love her too, but you're you Jay. I've liked you since forever."

Jason stared at his friend semi gormlessly, blinking slowly, as he tried to understand what was happening. His friend. His best friend. Who had just tried to kill him via fire. Had just said he liked him. Liked him more than a best friend. Roy had just kissed him. Given it was mostly one side, it still managed to be a decent kiss. Roy said he loved Nets, but from what he said it implied he loved him, HIM, more.

Did he like Roy like that? Jason knew he liked Nets but Roy was something he never considered...

"I err.. $h1t I fu¢ked this up. Forget it. I made this awkward. We can stay mates Jay….this never happened 'i can't believe I let Nets talk me into this'"

Jason grabbed Roy face in both hands and kissed him back heatedly, surprising Roy causing an ‘eeeps’ to escape his mouth. Especially as Jason now had his towel in his hand at Roy's face, not around his waist and his tongue requested to entry to his mouth. A second later Roy melted into Jason’s grasp, memorising the feeling he’d longed for. Moments later came too soon for Roy’s liking, as they slowly broke away to breathe again, Jason stared deeply into Roy’s eyes.

"Do you like like Nets? Be honest with me Roy!"

"I guess…"

"Not guess. Yes or no?"

"Yea…"

"Awesome. Ditto. I never considered you in the equation before. Always Nets but maybe… maybe do you think… did you want…?"

It was Roy's turn to look at Jason like he was the madman. Maybe he was mad, he was standing in his hallway, after almost being burnt, naked. He contemplated what Jason was trying to say and his eyes glimmered in understanding finally. God damn bats being as clear as mud with their emotions.

"Yeah," Roy whispered out, "yeah that sounds good. Shall we go ask her?"

Grabbing Jason's hand, the pair walked back into the living space to find Marinette tidying the mess they had made earlier. She looked up and squawked at the sight of Jason still wearing nothing as she threw a cushion at him.

"Clothes, Jason, clothes!!! Oh kwami's help me!"

Her face was brilliant red as she gazed up at the ceiling to avoid looking at the muscular men before her.

"Cack! One mo, Roy!"

Jason ran out of the room to put something on… anything… other than the towel which was lying on the floor in the hallway.

"So it went well then Roy?"

"Yeah Nets it went good."

"I'm so happy for you. I knew he couldn't resist you. So proud you did it. However unconventionally."

"About that…"

Marinette paused and finally looked at Roy standing awkward in their home. She tilted her head in confusion as to what Roy was worried about as he nervously fiddles with his cap. She walked up to him and brought him to the sofa to sit down.

"Talk to me Roy. What's wrong? I'd thought you'd be happy. This is what you wanted right? I didn't push you into something you weren't ready for, did I? Oh god I did, didn't I! I'm so sorry Roy. I'll take the blame. Don't worry we can fix this."

"What no!!! That's not it Nets. Promise."

Jason finally rejoined them, wearing a pair of Roy's shorts and a t-shirt that was a size too tight. Which left nothing to the imagination causing a flustered look dance across Roy's face.

"Nets," Jason sat beside her, and not Roy, adding to her confusion. "Can you answer this honestly this question? Please..." Marinette slowly nodded hesitantly, shifting to look at Jason, unsure what was happening with her friends. Jason gently took her hand and asked, "Do you like like Roy?"

The new blush that rushed to her face answered the question really, but Jason waited for the woman to regain her senses and answer him. Ducking behind her hair Marinette nodded at Jason. Roy hand darted up, before his mind had caught up, too tucked some of her hair behind her ear.

"Oh Nets… I'm an idiot. A major idiot."

Roy pulled her close to rest his forehead against hers, leaving Jason stroking the back of her hand.

"Nets, I adore you too." He kissed the tip of her nose, "Can you answer my question now. Do you feel the same way about Jay?"

"Wha…" she pulled away from Roy to look at the men before her, glancing between them like they were insane.

"I like you, Nets. God's know I like you, since I met you and your sadistic humour at Roy's misfortune. But I think l like Roy too. Roy well, the dense tool says he likes me, but I've seen the looks he's given you too. I'm pretty sure the feelings were mutual, just he never entertained it."

"Thanks Jay!" Roy grumbled before grabbing Marinette's other hand and kissed her fingers. "Did you wanna try with us?"

Roy looked at her earnestly. Hoping. Wishing she said yes. Her large, pretty eyes gazed into his, then to Jays. Slowly she licked her lips before opening her mouth.

"Just so I'm clear. You both want to date each other. But you also want to date me??"

Roy beamed at her, "Yes!" He leant forward and gently kissed her lips, savouring the taste compared to his heated, frantic outpouring with Jason.

"Dude! She didn't say yes. She just clarified what you were saying!" Jason exclaimed facepalming at his ?boyfriends? enthusiasm.

Roy quickly pulled back, "Oh, ooops!", only to witness Marinette looking up at Jason with wide eyes as if asking a silent question from him to nod in response. Carefully, as if uncertain of what will happen, Marinette kisses Jason slowly, easing into it before retreating. Shyly, as if she hadn't just kissed the pair, she smiles coyly at them.

"This wasn't the outcome I was expecting from this evening, but, I'd quite like to give it a go."

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[emma-d-klutz]

IF I were to write a Maribat fic

It would be mostly a played for comedy and drama take on “Marinette picked up this whole Bat thing way too quickly.”

Like, post Miracle Queen, Marinette is just overtaken with so much guilt about Master Fu and is also desperate for a new mentor to be a replacement and a distraction from the blame she puts on herself and the burden of being the new Guardian. She is absolutely sure she is not ready to be in charge.

She calls Damian and asks for an audience with Batman. Damian is like, “Oh, isn’t this the girl who kicked me out of Paris? What was it you said? ‘No Gothamites in my city.’ Isn’t that what you said? Didn’t you say you can’t have our “type” of vigilante in Paris, because we’re too, what was it, overemotional? Is this that girl who is on my com right now? The one who rejected joining the Teen Titans? That’s you? You want me to TALK to my FATHER? I would barely ask him a favor for someone I actually LIKE.” Except then she kind of blows up at him and tells him the situation, and Damian gets real quiet and listens, and he feels a little sick because he’s remembering the Ric Grayson situation and also Alfred’s most recent death, which he ALSO blames himself for, so like... they got shit in common. He says he’ll talk to Batman about a video call.

Cut to three months later, Marinette has just THROWN HERSELF into being Batman’s disciple. She calls him Master. She practices fighting day and night out of the suit, and IN the suit she uses her powers for training and is often seen sprinting for miles or scaling the Eiffel Tower with only her upper body strength. She comes to school covered in bruises and with the darkest circles under her eyes, and her friends are WORRIED, they really are, but she’s like 80% less bubbly then usual, so no one is really confronting her and are just silently wondering what the heck happened. Most people assume that this has something to do with her taking Adrien and Kagami being an official couple really hard. 

For fashion design, well. Marinette has gotten really into armor lately.... huh.  (It’s because the Batfam encourages her to not rely on a magic suit that can turn off at the worse time, and she is convinced she must be prepared to be Ladybug at any and all times. If anything, she’s lamenting that she doesn’t know how to make weapons.) (She got a grappling hook styled like a yo yo as a present from Master Bat.) 

She texts Kagami out of the blue one day like,  >>Hey. Come over. I am in the process of making my masterwork >>Oh and bring a sword >>A sharpened one, not a training sword And Kagami comes over to see a twitchy (”ok that’s pretty normal”) super serious (”well that’s not. she’s usually so flighty and indecisive”) Marinette. And in the place where there was once an Adrian shrine and stalking schedule is now what seems to be a Hawkmoth shrine and stalking schedule. Marinette brings out what looks sort of like shiny silk with jewels woven in, and Kagami’s assumption is corrected. No. It’s a polymerized titanium she synthesized herself with light elemental defense crystals woven in by hand. Marinette is very proud. It’s a prototype. She plans on making a material that can be beautiful formalwear and as stab-proof as any kevlar. But it’s still a prototype so Kagami can you pretty please do some slashing and stabbing on it pretty please? See she wants it to be really good before giving it to her other Sword Friend, because Dami is a really harsh judge, and her motivation just won’t be able to take it if she gets notes from him this early on in the process. Kagami is actually really on board and helpful in this venture. 

She does like indirectly ask Marinette if she’s heartbroken of if she’s with Luka or what have you, and Marinette just gets really harsh and says she has other priorities. She also makes some grandiose proclamation that neither of them are good enough for Adrien, because Adrien is pure goodness, he’s kindness and forgiveness personified, and it’s just... it’s just... it would be really clear to anyone who has ever heard Batman wax poetic about Superman where she is getting this highkey cringe behavior.

She’s on video calls with Batman all the time. They definitely have a conversation that goes something like this:

“I am certain the mean girl from my school is working for my main supervillain.” “Good. You can find him through her.” “Yess! I have been looking forward to the chance. I am going to interrogate her.” “Ladybug, no.” “I am going to tie her up with my yoyo and dangle her over the highest skyscraper in Paris and tell her I’ll drop her if she doesn’t tell me the identity and location of Hawkmoth.” “Befriend her at school and track her movements.” “Ok but wouldn’t it be quicker to dangle her off a building?” “You’re letting your emotions about someone from your civilian life interfere with your judgement and letting yourself act hastily and with negligence, which is exactly how you lost your first mentor.” “Ah....... you’re right. I’m sorry, Master. I won’t be reckless.” “Good. Tap her cell phone.”

As for Chat Noir, he is FREAKED OUT by her change and all the secrets she’s keeping now. And her behavior towards him has REALLY changed. Well not too much, but it’s noticeable in a way that unnerves him sometimes. Like she’s become a super serious workaholic, but she’s also insanely protective of him, to the point where he feels a bit resentful that he’s not being treated as a competent partner. He’s really trying to get Ladybug to talk out what she’s going through, and he’s anxious all the time that she’s on the cusp of becoming akumatized. Honestly, he’s not wrong on that part. He knows that this is all because she blames herself for Master Fu, and he is also aware that she is spending much more time in contact with that Robin from Gotham who they met once or twice, and he knows she’s keeping some secrets, but NO he is not aware for at least half of the story that she is being remotely trained by Batman. She’s telling him to shut up a lot more and bossing him around more and seems to know way more about Hawkmoth’s movements than him and it feels like he’s out of the loop, but she’s also, like, often spewing out how important he is to her as her partner and keeps giving him handmade pastries and saying, “An army crawls on its stomache,” so like honestly wtf mixed signals much

Batman agreed to mentor her temporarily and has been trying to find someone else from JL to take over, preferably Wonder Woman or Flash, because he agrees with Ladybug’s assessment that to be a hero in Paris it is necessary to have weaponized optimism, or Zatanna or Shazaam, because they could train Ladybug in her magic hopefully. He is told several times that it would be easier to get her mentorship if she agreed to join Teen Titans or Young Justice, which of course they all know, so thanks, but Ladybug would def refuse to leave Paris and her partner, so her joining YJ isn’t really up for discussion. 

Flash said that she’s great but that, “She’s SUCH a Bat,” and that clearly she’s so attached to him that she should just stay one of his. Batman asserts that she is only being like this because she is desperate for a mentor, and if someone else took her on, she’d probably/hopefully change again just as fast. Flash says he isn’t so sure, and that at this delicate point in time, being handed off to someone else might, like, retraumatize her or smth. 

Ladybug literally started breaking fingers interrogating someone.

It is on camera.

The LadyBlog is in SHOCK.

No one knows what to do.

Even Hawkmoth sees the video footage and is like, “Jeez, am I... Mayura, are we in over our heads here? Did we break the teen hero? Is this our fault?”

Anyway, those are all my favorite ideas of the ones I’ve daydreamed so far. There is also stuff about how she interacts with the other members of the Batfam and that she uses the Horse Miraculous to travel to Gotham to be trained in hand-to-hand and also to just sob for hours and scream at things because she CAN’T let her emotions out like that in Paris and the bafflement of the Batkids like “you... came to GOTHAM... to NOT repress your emotions. um, k.” And Cass loves her and thinks she is Baby Sister and if someone is mean to baby sister in front of her she will stare into your soul until you are quiet ect ect many ideas. 

The reason this is an IF and not a WHEN:

dudes I have no plot

#maribat #miraculous ladybug #miraculous au #marinette #marinette dupen chang #maribat au #maribat fic idea #fic ideas #marinette and damian #marinette and batman #batgirl marinette #batfam #batfam crossover #miraculous ladybug crossover #mlb #miracle queen #post miracle queen #kagami #lila rossi #damian wayne

[mattelektras]

jessie ngl i didn't think you were the type who liked live action remakes of comics. did you rlly like zsjl? i would never watch it but i've seen wonder woman snap necks and batman dropping the f word and threatening to kill joker i am at a lost dkfjskfs

i mean. i dislike what they’ve become and how whole comics franchises now revolve around what’s happened in a movie w no like. Soul or whatever. but there are some which are just kind of fun idk and sometimes the high of seeing a team like the jl in live action w the amazing score this movie has etc etc. like sometimes it gets me i wish it didn’t but it does. i’m not tired of dc movies yet they haven’t bombarded me w empty content with underwhelming resolutions for 10+ years yet

and in this case, it’s the movie they all thought they were making like. a lot of peoples’ work got absolutely massacred in whedon’s version and whilst i enjoyed it for what it was at the time because i was under the impression that was all we were ever gonna get, it was very clear when it switched between the two different directors. honestly on top of that, knowing how badly ray fisher was treated through the whole thing when he loves being cyborg SO MUCH, i’d watch it for him alone because his acting is really fucking good in this and no one got a chance to give him the credit he deserved the first time. like i’m not finished with the movie yet but it’s ray’s movie n it’s cyborg’s movie imo.

and i know people complain about there being murders and it’s Gritty Realism or whatever but is that the worst mischaracterisation in all of superhero adaptation when wendy’s sitting right there??? they’re all still fundamentally the same characters, n like i said earlier, the context of the setting makes for changes in characters. people think batman’s kicking people in the throat every day and hadn’t ever killed anyone??? u think a middle aged man in serious need of some therapy aside from dressing like a bad DOESNT say fuck???? people look past much bigger things in movies they think are way better than this one

it’s not a perfect jl adaptation but i’ve never expected that from any adaptation of anything ever but there’s a lot of character stuff in this one that there isn’t in others and as someone who favours comics because they can do so much more with character than just with Big Fight Scene Loud Noises, i do appreciate it for that

#q & a #anonymous #i have problems w the dceu there are some shitty people in charge. but the actual content gets a bad rap from people #because they either want it to be a marvel movie or they brand it as dark and edgy #u could say the same thing about captain america comics vs movies #but no like. generally ur right. i don’t think cinema is a medium that could ever do comics any real justice. it’s a limiting form #but there are some things u can just enjoy for what they are 🤷🏼‍♀️ i DO allow fun sometimes #if u fill out several forms first #jl spoilers

[three--rings]

MDZS/GDC Chapter Summaries

So back...a while ago I made a post about things MDZS fandom really needs.  And from that post someone made a fantastic Guide to Chinese/pinyin terms.  And now I have my own contribution, a list of every chapter of the Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation novel along with summaries of what happens when.  

Because I know as a writer I often want to look at a particular scene in canon to refresh my memory or check something, but it’s nearly impossible to remember what happens when due to the different chronologies in each version of the story.

So I spent the last couple weeks listening to the audio drama and skimming the novel and making notes.  Hopefully they are useful and understandable to more than just myself, but you can definitely see my prejudices.  Like entire chapters where it’s basically just “people talk...plot”  versus deep detail on Wangxian scenes.  Anyway, here it is, I hope it helps.

1: Prologue – Short description of WWX’s death and 13 years after. 2: Reincarnation – WWX comes back in MXY’s body 3: Aggression Part 1 – WWX meets Lan disciples, Madame Mo, checks out some flags 4: Aggression Part 2 – Mo ZiYuan dies, so do some other people 5: Aggression Part 3 – WWX figures it out, raises some corpses, LWJ arrives, WWX steals a donkey 6: Arrogance Part 1 – WWX arrives at Dafan mountain, hears about people who lost their souls 7: Arrogance Part 2 – Meets Jin Ling, Jiang Cheng, and then Lan Sect arrives 8: Arrogance Part 3 – Backstory of everyone, WWX sees ghost and learns about goddess temple 9: Arrogance Part 4 – Goddess temple, statue comes to life, WWX summons Wen Ning 10: Arrogance Part 5 – WWX plays flute for Wen Ning, LWJ grabs him, Jiang Cheng uses zidian, LWJ claims WWX

11: Refinement Part 1 – Cloud Recesses entry, meet LXC, see LWJ in spring 12: Refinement Part 2 – Running from spring, joining LWJ in bed, frozen on top of him 13: Refinement Part 3- FLASHBACK – coming to Gusu as student, sneaking over the wall and caught by LWJ, class with LQR 14: Refinement part 4 – Thrown out of class, JC and NHS talking, caught cheating and has to copy 15: Refinement part 5- WWX and LWJ in library—porn book destroyed 16: Refinement part 6 – Caiyi Town, water ghoul hunting 17: Refinement part 7 – More ghouls, waterborne abyss, loquat girl 18: Refinement part 8 – Drunk WWX woken by LWJ for punishment, cold spring scene, rabbit gift, fight with JZX, return to Yunmeng- END FLASHBACK 19: Contentment part 1 – First morning after, talking to juniors, arm suppression 20: Contentment part 2 – LWJ and WWX travel, meet Jin Ling and Fairy, hear about Man-eating Castle 21: Contentment part 3 – Xinglu Ridge, find Fairy, get to Castle/Tomb 22: Contentment part 4: - Find saber coffins, Inquiry, find Jin Ling in wall 23: Malice part 1 – Split up, JL and WWX convo, Jiang Cheng captures WWX 24: Malice part 2 – WWX and JC convo, Jin Ling frees WWX, info about childhood 25: Malice part 3 – LWJ back, carries him, meet with NHS 26: Malice part 4 – NHS explains about saber tomb 27: Malice part 5 – Play rest together to calm arm, return and get legs from tomb 28: Dew part 1 – LWJ and WWX talk, teasing, go to wine shop for rumors about Chang Clan 29: Dew part 2 – More about Chang Clan and Xue Yang, XXC, etc 30: Dew part 3 – Moreabout XY and LLJ sect, cemetery with teleporting gravedigger, find torso, LWJ gets drunk, WWX calls WN and removes nails 31: Dew part 4 – Drunk LWJ, jealous of WN, cleans LWJ face, asks questions, “Mine” 32: Dew part 5 – Morning after teasing, kids playing Sunshot 33: Grasses part 1 – Yi City arrival, meet up with juniors 34: Grasses part 2 – Corpses attack, juniors poisoned, LWJ fights gravedigger, enter house 35: Grasses part 3 – WWX making congee, discover old lady is living corpse, see A-Qing 36: Grasses part 4 – Looking out window, bringing “XXC” inside 37: Grasses part 5 – Song Lan attacks, inquiry, Xue Yang revealed, convo 38: Grasses part 6 – LWJ arrives, fights XY, WWX leaves with juniors, begins EMPATHY on A-Qing 39: Grasses part 7 – A-Q meets XXC, finds XY injured, until she sees XXC kill villager 40: Grasses part 8 – Stories from XXC and XY, meeting Song Lan, killed by XY, A-Q tells XXC 41: Grasses part 9 – Confrontation XXC and XY, XXC kills self, A-Qing runs, is found by XY, EMPATHY ends. 42: Grasses part 10 – WWX and LWJ confront XY, fight, gravedigger teleports away, revive Song Lan and talk with him, begin traveling 43: Allure part 1- Drunk LWJ #2! Wen Ning visits, convo, LWJ wakes, ties hands with ribbon, shows Juniors 44: Allure part 2 – Go upstairs, WWX bites LWJ, play chase for bites/kisses, Kiss, LWJ knocks himself out 45: Allure part 3 – Morning after, WWX talks to Jin Ling, garden of damsel of annual blossoms, ask juniors about ribbon, FLASHBACK to archery contest, pulling the ribbon 46: Guile part 1 – headless body put together, LXC arrives, identify body, talk about JGY 47: Guile part 2 – Discussion Conference Koi Tower – WWX teaches JL fighting, Paperman spying, Qin Su confronting JGY, secret room, NMJ’s head 48: Guile part 3 – EMPATHY begins – NMJ meets Meng Yao, then sends him to Jin sect, catches him murdering, is captured by Wen Ruohan 49: Guile part 4-  Scene in palace, MY kills WR, escape, meet LXC, victory banquet with everyone, LXC teaching JGY guqin,  NMJ and NHS argue, Xue Yang argument, burning NHS’s things 50: Guile part 5 – NMJ qi deviation, END EMPATHY – escape JGY back to body, LWJ and WWX confront JGY, Qin Su dies, WWX revealed, runs, stabbed by JY 51: Courage part 1 – FLASHBACK – Lotus Pier family, sent to Qishan, Wen Chao takes swords, sent to cave 52: Courage part 2 – WWX and LWJ and MianMian, find cave, stand up for MianMian, take Wen chao hostage 53: Courage part 3 – Beast attacks, Wens flee, everyone swims out, LWJ and WWX stuck behind and injured. 54: Courage part 4 – Treating wounds, stripping, biting  ;P 55: Courage part 5 – Talk Xuanwu, talk about Cloud Recesses, Make Plan, Kill Xuanwu, WWX fever, SONG 56: Poisons part 1-  WWX wakes in Lotus Pier, family scene, WWX and JC scene 57: Poisons part 2- WLJ arrives, WWX whipped, Madame Yu slaps WLJ 58: Poisons part 3 – Wen Zhuliu arrives, fight,  WWX and JC put on boat, go back, see Wen Ning 59: Poisons part 4 -  Overhear WC and WLJ, WWX and JC fight, JC returns, Wen Ning helps rescue, FLASHBACK to meeting Wen Ning 60: Poisons part 5 – Supervision office, meet Wen Qing, JC wakes, put back to sleep, WWX tells JC about plan to get golden core back, Wen Chao captures WWX, throws into Burial Mound 61: Evil part 1 – WLJ and WC fear WWX, Sunshot progress, JC and LWJ find destroyed supervision office, find WZL and WC, WWX arrives 62: Evil part 2 – WWX torments WZL and WC, LWJ and JC reunion, LWJ and WWX argue, first “Come back to Gusu”, LWJ leaves 63: Tenderness part 1 – FLASHBACK ENDS -WWX calls to LZ in his sleep “I’ll go with you”, wakes after being stabbed by JL, talk with LXC about song, find evil score 64: Tenderness part 2 – LWJ, WWX, LXC work out how song works, LXC tells WWX about their mother, LWJ arrives with alcohol 65: Tenderness part 3 – WWX finds flower bookmark, JGY arrives and they spy on conversation, LWJ and WWX leave for Burial Mound, scene with rabbits, 66: Tenderness part 4 – WWX rides donkey, thinks about his childhood, learns LWJ wrote song, stop at house and hear wife call husband “Er-gege”, lying on each other in hay 67: Tenderness part 5 – Wen Ning scares off couple, find corpses and bury, talk about Yiling and fantasizes about living together after retirement, arrive at Burial Mound 68: Tenderness part 6 – WWX and Wen Ning remember and mourn, corpses chase them up the hill, find juniors tied up and arguing, free them, argue, JC arrives with group of cultivators who want to kill WWX. 69: Departure part 1 – FLASHBACK – Phoenix Mountain Hunt – Flower throwing, WWX shooting blindfolded, Blindfolded kiss in the tree, WWX finds LWJ punching tree, come across JZX and JYL, memories of their falling out during Sunshot, WWX confronts JZX, Big Argument 70: Departure part 2 – Argument continues, LXC and JGY arrive, more arguing, 71: Departure part 3 – Yunmeng, LWJ meets WWX and ghost girls, WWX and JC talk about responsibilities, JYL and WWX “three years old”, memories of when WWX arrived at Jiang Sect, WWX runs into Wen Qing 72: Recklessness part 1 – LWJ tells LXC he wants to take someone back to Gusu, banquet interrupted by WWX to demand Wen Ning, argue with everyone, go to Qiongqi Path, raise Wen Ning, kill inspectors, leave with Wen remnants 73: Recklessness part 2 – JC meets with sect leaders about WWX, MianMian leaves Jin sect, JC goes to Burial Mound, talks with WWC, fight duel 74: Distance part 1 – WWX at Burial Mound, LWJ in Yiling meets Wen Yuan, get food, learns JYL getting married, get Talisman warning, rides Bichen with LWJ 75: Distance part 2 – WWX calms Wen Ning, takes LWJ to his cave, pretends to faint to avoid Wen Qing, LWJ leaves, WWX goes back with WY has dinner with Wens, drinks, meets JC and JYL in Yiling to see wedding dress 76: Nightfall part one – WWX buys gift while listening to gossip, he and WN travel to Lanling, ambush by Jin XiZun, JiZiXuan arrives and is killed, WWX loses it, wakes up in cave, gets mad at WN, cries 77: Nightfall part 2 – WQ paralyzes WWX and she and WN say goodbye to turn themselves in, WWX is freed and goes to Koi Tower, sees JYL, runs, overhears gossip and scares people, heads to Nightless City 78: Nightfall part 3 – LWJ finds scared people, chases WWX, Conference of sects, WWX argues with them, is attacked and he calls corpses, LWJ arrives, WWX hears JYL, talks to her and JC, JYL killed, uses tiger seal 79: Loyalty part 1 – FLASHBACK ENDS – Argument with cultivators in Burial Mounds continues, fight corpses, spiritual powers gone, retreat behind array, talk about cause, Su She silenced 80: Loyalty part 2 – Uncover SS’s plot, SS pulls sword and is exposed 81: Loyalty part 3 – SS destroys array and teleports out, fight corpses, then second wave comes, WWX paints attraction talisman on himself, tells everyone else to escape 82: Loyalty part 4 – Corpses advance, everyone escapes, Jrs return, bloody corpses rise and fight, WN recognizes, corpses fall to dust, Fang MengChen still angry, WWX tells him off, everyone leaves 83: Loyalty part 5 – Group goes to Lotus Pier, WWX invites self along, everyone takes boats, WN gets on LSZ’s boat, they talk, Jin Ling interrupts, fights with LSZ, WWX and LWJ hear 84: Loyalty part 6 – JL starts crying, JC arrives, WWX is accused, infighting, WWX collapses, LWJ carries him inside cabin, juniors get awkward and leave, LWJ holds WWX who grabs his ribbon, arrive at Lotus Pier, LSZ and WN talk 85: Loyalty part 7 -  Arrive Lotus Pier, JC meets with women, Women tell story about JGS’s death 86: Loyalty part 8 – Madam Qin’s maid tells her story about JGY, cultivators discuss it, WWX and LWJ go eat and explore, WWX climbs tree 87: Loyalty part 9 – WWX jumps from tree and is caught, visit ancestral hall, kneel, confronted by JC 88: Loyalty part 10 – JC accuses WWX and LWJ of being couple, they fight, WWX collapses, WN interferes and reveals golden core 89: Loyalty part 11 – WN explains about core, LWJ and WN carry WWX to boat, talk about A-Yuan and WWX’s core removal 90: Longing part 1 -  WWX and LWJ in boat talking, WWX thinking about his feelings, steal lotus seeds 91: Longing part 2 – eat lotus, arrive Yunping City, visit Temple, go to inn, memories of WWX sneaking into LWJ’s bed and trying to strip him, settling into room. 92: Longing part 3 – WWX naps, hears gossip about JC, gets LWJ drunk, touches his face and stares, then LWJ bites him 93: Longing part 4 – LWJ stabs floor, gives WWX his money, drags him outside, steals chickens, jujubes 94: Longing part 5 – LWJ takes gifts back, then carves name in wall, dog makes WWX jump into his arms, return, WWX draws bath, naked LWJ, LWJ bath 95: Longing part 6 – WWX bathing LWJ, traces whip scars, etc, ahem, you guys know, aka SEX, “Thank you”, LWJ pushes away 96: Longing part 7 – aftermath of drunken sex, WWX and LWJ misunderstandings, inn owner discovers water, move to two separate rooms 97: Longing part 8 – WWX leaves inn, finds graffiti and WN, they talk, go “looking for trouble” 98: Hatred part 1 – Guanyin Temple, see JGY and LXC inside, send WN to get LWJ, Fairy and JL arrive, JL and WWX caught 99: Hatred part 2 – JGY threatens, everyone talks, LXC is most concerned about the state of his Wangxian ship, JGY and LXC are shocked by WWX’s obliviousness, tell WWX what LWJ did, about scars, and tells him off.  WWX tries to run back to LWJ, LWJ arrives, JGY gets wire around his neck 100: Hatred part 3 – LWJ seals his power, WWX confesses and escapes to LWJ, everyone goes inside the Temple, Wangxian confession, Su She arrives with NHS, SS rants, LWJ smiles, JC arrives 101: Hatred part 4 – JC enter, WWX and LWJ hug, JC fights, JGY talks distracting JC about WWX, distracts and stabs him 102: Hatred part 5 – JC and JL talk to WWX and LWJ, talk about golden core, argue, LWJ shoves JC, JC rants, cries. 103: Hatred part 6 – JC apologizes, WWX says to leave it in the past, NHS wakes, coffin is dug up, JGY poisoned, WWX talks about mastermind 104: Hatred part 7 – SS exposed for curse, JGY says WWX destined to die young, JC rages at him, JGY blames JC, WWX accuses of NMJ’s murder, corpses attack, LXC and LWJ attack 105: Hatred part 8 – WWX does empathy on ghoul, sees 14 yr Meng Yao and his mom, JGY admits to starting the fire and burning the brothel, JGY and LXC talk 106: Hatred part 9 – JGY reveals threatening letter, claims he had no choice etc, explains his actions, attacks Jin Ling with string, Wen Ning breaks door in with NMJ, LWJ cuts off JGY arm. 107 Concealment part 1 – JGY bleeds, WN explains, NMJ smashes stuff,  JC and JL feel bad for WN, WWX whistles NMJ to the coffin,  NHS is stabbed, SS slices at NMJ 108: Concealment part 2 – SS dies, JC gives WWX his flute, NMJ sealed in coffin, NHS gets JGY stabbed, and JGY accuses him, leads LXC to coffin, then pushes him away, NMJ kills him 109: Concealment part 3 – LWJ seals tomb with statue, LXC questions NHS, WWX accuses NHS, explains how it happened 110: Concealment part 4 -  Questions, Jiang and Lan sects arrive with juniors, LSZ looks at chenqing, JL cries, WWX and LWJ sneak out, JC revelation about getting caught 111: Wangxian part 1 – LWJ and WWX with lil apple, LSZ catches up, reveals identity, group hug, WN and LSZ leave together, WWX and LWJ talk (thank you and sorry), kiss, memory of phoenix mountain, tells LWJ it was his first kiss, sex in the grass, explanation of burn scar, more sex 112: Wangxian part 2 – 3 months later, WWX and LWJ role-playing while night-hunting, WWX tries to get LWJ to call him Gege, ties up with forehead ribbon, interrupted by MianMian and child, talk to MianMian and her husband, LWJ is jealous,  WWX teases about his money pouch, LWJ says they are married 113: Wangxian part 3 – WWX and LWJ stop at inn, overhear rumors about JGY, news that LXC is in seclusion, leave on Lil Apple, WWX talks about his mom, talk about name for song, The End

Holy crap you guys.  *pants*  anyway enjoy, share, whatev! And in case you feel like it, I do have a Ko-fi.

ETA: Now on AO3 also.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mdzs reference #should I post this to ao3 too #probably #long post #if you're on mobile at least #please signal boost

[selfcallednowhere]

March 3, 2018 San Francisco, CA

This was my second time being at the Fillmore, after an Apollo 18 show a couple of years ago. It's a really awesome venue! I just love all things historic, and it really is just a cool venue even aside from that--I especially love the beautiful chandeliers (so does Flans, but I'll get to that).

So I was hoping they were actually gonna change the setlist this time after having the exact same one the previous two nights, and there are few songs that could've made me more excited than what they opened with: "Everything Right is Wrong Again"!!! Seeing the songs I have lyric tattoos from is always so intense for me. I've seen the other one, "Ana Ng," quite a few times, but this was only the third time I'd seen this one, and it was a majorly big deal. So that was the show highlight right off the bat!

After the song was over Flans said it was a sold out show, and that selling it out had "changed our whole self-image" and now they were "strutting around all arrogant and sticking our fingers into other people's chests." Then he said they were playing two sets and he wanted us to hold our applause for the second set (he actually said "second show," but he clearly meant to say "second set") and "treat us like any other opener" and feel free to do things like catch up on our emails.

Then he asked John how his day was (I love that he usually asks him this, because I'm always curious). John said that he'd slept for most of it, and Flans said he had too but he'd been trying to keep it a secret. Then he said it was part of his "two-part program: sleep all day, then drink an insane amount of coffee."

Then they had some whole long conversation about this self-help guru I don't really know named Tony Robbins. Flans said he'd just watched some Netflix documentary about him, which he expected to be some sort of exposé but was actually "a Trojan horse for him." John said he makes you not believe in self-help and think "I'll help myself, thank you very much." Then he said that his act has gotten a lot more obscene and he's now saying things like "How do you fucking feel?" whereas before he was more "G-rated." Then Flans said he'll yell at someone who "looks like someone's grandmother 'What the fuck is wrong with you?'" John said we should watch this documentary, and Flans said we should set a timer and just watch it for ten minutes.

Then Flans said they were going to be playing "new songs, old songs, and songs we barely know how to play." People cheered, and he said, "Those are our favorites too." Then he said they have a new album and it's really good. John: "We were holding the vial of good and someone jostled our elbow." Then Flans said they're "chuffed" about how good it is.

After "I Left My Body" and "Damn Good Times" (both great as per usual), Flans said the previous song had featured "the psychedelic experience of Dan Miller," and that the Fillmore is "no stranger to endless guitar sounds." Then he said that he didn't have "enough weird guitar sounds" on the next song, and John said that "the stakes are higher" cos it's the Fillmore.

Next they played "Mrs. Bluebeard"--John did not break his sad little streak of screwing up the lyrics every single time I've seen it, siiiiiiiiigh.

After "Your Racist Friend," they played "I Palindrome I," which was another delightful surprise and show highlight for sure--I've only seen it a handful of times, and it's such a good song.

Then, John picked up the contra-alto clarinet.

JF: This is the contra-alto clarinet. The signal for political revolution! JL: Cells, awaken! JF: If not here, when? If not now, where? Maybe I'm harping on this too much. *long pause*

Then they played "All Time What." Afterwards, Flans said that Dan had provided "an adult portion of high notes" on that song.

At the Fillmore they have a person walking around carrying a tray over their head bringing people drinks so they don't have to leave their spot to go to the bar. So the girl who was doing it this time was walking up near the stage (she was nice, I chatted with her a bit at the second show) and Flans said, "It would be interesting if that person didn't work here. There's not enough mustache wax in the world to top that. Not enough top hats in the world to mustache wax that."

Then they played "Bangs" and "Hearing Aid." They're doing an interesting cacophony of sound at the end of the latter, and it's good with Curt's trumpet too. That song is one of the ones I rank lowest on Flood (I don't hate it or anything, just not particularly into it), but it's still been rather enjoyable live somehow (I've been having that experience with quite a few songs that are currently in the set, actually).

Then Flans said that he's seen some movie called Last Waltz (another pop culture reference that was entirely lost on me) like 14 times, so when they play here he imagines an announcer announcing Neil Diamond. Then he asked if they could turn the chandeliers on "at a low volume." Then he said that there was going to be a "Neil Diamond/Van Morrison cage match--only one pantsuit will survive." Then John said that they've played a bunch of shows here before but he can't remember the chandeliers ever being turned on before, and Flans said you have to play a sold-out show to make it happen. They were very pretty, once they were on!

Then they played "The Mesopotamians." I've been burned out on this song live for quite some time, just cos I've seen it a million times, so I was pleasantly surprised when I actually enjoyed it this time.

Next they did the back-to-back thing that I was loving so much at the other shows of "When the Lights Come On" followed by "Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes." GOD, I cannot even handle how good it is seeing two songs as amazing as those two back-to-back like that.

After that, Flans was describing the chandeliers as jellyfish, which was really silly. He said he wished he'd taken some psychedelic drugs to appreciate them more.

JF: There's some commercial on cable TV for some memory tablet that says "Includes an active ingredient found in jellyfish." Because jellyfish remember everything. GUY IN AUDIENCE: IT'S THE STINGER! JF: Yeh, I guess if you're stung by a jellyfish you won't forget it. JL: And neither will the jellyfish. JF: There has to be a German word for that sort of dream logic...This next song features the whole band. JL: The word "features" is being taffy-pulled to mean "includes." JF: It includes an ingredient found in jellyfish.

The song was "This Microphone," which I have been enjoying live (though I think there are several other songs from the album that would be even more suited to a live setting which they haven't yet played for some reason). Afterwards, Flans said they should play it again because there had been some sort of sound coming off the amp during it (I didn't hear anything). He said it reminded him of playing at the 9:30 Club, "where the PA liked to jam with us." Then a couple of crew guys came out to set up new amps, and Flans seemed pretty upset by them having to do this in the middle of the show. He said that one of them was "on the lam from the FBI" and that the other (Jon Carter, one of the very few crew members I can recognize just because he's been working with them forever) is from Vermont and is "made of pure maple syrup."

Flans said they only had a couple more songs to get through before the break between sets. John suggested they take the break now cos of the technical difficulties, but Flans didn't want to for some reason.

To kill time they started talking about Tony Robbins again. Flans said, "He doesn't have an asterisk, but I think he's icing," and that "his head and body are huge. He's going to join the Marvel team." John said he would be saying "How do you fucking feel now?," and Flans said he would be saying "Admit it, Hulk, your mom never loved you!" Then they were asking if the amp was working now and were apparently told that it had been working for several minutes. John: "They're waiting for us!"

So then they played "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal," and as usual I was completely rocking out. And then they played "Birdhouse in Your Soul," and I was thinking that I didn't know if I could handle rocking out to that one when I'd already rocked out so hard to the previous one. But rock out I did!

The second set started the usual way: the "Last Wave" video, then the Quiet Storm section beginning with "Older." John was doing the amusing/creepy pointing as he sang it thing again.

Afterwards, Flans said this section of the show features electronic drums, trumpet, and his "haunted mic chip," followed by some silly sounds.

They played "I Like Fun," then Flans introduced "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" in a way I haven't heard him do it before. He said that these are "contentious times, troubling times" and this next song is an election song from 1840 and is  "mean-spirited and super-hostile," so we should take this as evidence that things being that way now isn't new and "things get better, then they get shittier again, but that doesn't mean it's over." I thought this was an interesting way of thinking of it, and I wonder if it was part of the motivation for them bringing the song into the set.

So they played the song, and then John introduced "James K. Polk" in the same way he has been (with some variation)--by saying that this song is from WAY IN THE FUTURE of 1844, where there are "flying driverless beards" and "electric buggy whips."

After they finished, they bowed, and when they stood all the way up again John said he should finish the bow by playing a flourish on his accordion. I know he was just being silly, but I actually thought that would be cool.

Then they were joking again about the "haunted mic stand." John: "When they got home they found that the mic stand was attached to the car handle somehow!"

Then Flans said their next song was going to be from 1848, and sang the silly "Zachary Taylor has a tail" song he made up the night before. Then he said their next song was from 1852, but neither of them could remember who was president then. Someone yelled that it was Pierce. Flans said he couldn't think of anything to make up about him, and John said he was one in a string of crappy presidents. Flans asked him how, and he said he did things that were contributing factors to the start of the Civil War (I was as always quite excited to hear him showing off his intellect). Then he said his son died in a train wreck so they weren't really allowed to make fun of him, which led to some silence and nervous laughter. Flans: "I think we should take a moment of silence for how badly we're managing this part of the show. It's gone completely off the rails." (Perhaps not the best choice of words in light of what was just said...)

Then they played MY THEME SONG, and it was incredibly special and moving and emotional for me just like every other time I've seen it.

After "Istanbul," Flans started introducing "Bills, Bills, Bills." Once again he was talking about "Tubthumping" first, and some people were cheering, presumably thinking they were going to play that one instead. "For those of you not applauding, don't worry, we're not going to play that song. Because it is a song that, once heard, cannot be unheard."

After "Particle Man" and "The Famous Polka," Flans introduced "Wicked Little Critta" by saying, "Though we're from New York City, we have deep origins in New England. Haunted, cranky, emotionally unavailable New England."

Afterwards, Flans said the next song features Dan on acoustic guitar. John: "It features the word 'feature' as well." Then Flans said Marty only plays kick drum for the whole song, and they tried to talk him into playing other things but he refused.

At some point the chandeliers had turned off, and Flans was saying he wanted them to come on again. People started chanting "Jellyfish! Jellyfish!" I saw Flans saying it too, but I didn't hear him say it at the beginning and I wasn't looking at him right then, so I'm not sure if he was actually the one who started it or if it just started spontaneously in the crowd and then he picked up on it. Then he said that whoever was in charge probably wasn't going to listen because "they might think the band Jellyfish is reuniting." Then: "It's clear someone is on their break." But then they did come on and everyone cheered.

After "Number Three" and "Answer," Flans introduced "Man, It's So Loud in Here" by saying that a few months ago they'd done a Mink Car show. "We played all the songs we know how to play. We left out the ones we don't know how to play, cos we thought that might be socially awkward."

Next was "Twisting" (rocked my face off, as always), and then it was time for band intros. Flans introduced Curt, Dan, and Danny, then he said, "Well, that just about does it!" John was really amused. But then of course he did actually introduce Marty after that, he was just pretending to have forgotten him to be funny.

They closed out the main set with "Doctor Worm," which was superfun as usual.

When they came back for the first encore, they had the house lights on.

JL: Now you know how it feels for us. JF: Confess! I want to do a special long-distance dedication to the guy flipping double birds. I know where you're coming from. I just keep it inside.

Then Flans was saying that in the dressing room they have a poster from some time the Black Crowes (man, this show was just full of pop culture references that went entirely over my head) played five nights in a row, which makes it seem like not such a big deal for them to do two.

The first encore was the same as the previous two nights: "Dead" followed by "Don't Let's Start." Even though it was no longer a surprise at this point, I was still ecstatic to see them playing two of my all-time favorite songs back-to-back.

When they were backstage again between the first encore and the second, I was trying to figure out what the second encore might be. At the previous two shows it was "Doctor Worm," but they'd already played that one so that couldn't be it this time. I decided that I'd love it if it was "No One Knows My Plan," cos I really wanted to conga again.

So they came back and Flans said, "We just have one more song. It's a dance party. We're done thinking, it's time to start dancing." And then they played "The Guitar," which yeh makes a great closer and normally I would've been perfectly contented with it, but since the idea had come into my head minutes before I'd just really had my heart set on "No One Knows My Plan," and Flans's "just one more song" absolutely ruled the possibility out.

But then! But then!! They surprised me by ACTUALLY PLAYING IT!!! I was SO EXCITED. Congaing during that song is seriously THE MOST FUN FUCKING THING EVER. The first two times I got to do it the people in front of me jumped out halfway through the song and I couldn't see where I could get in again, but this time I got to do it for the whole song, and it was so fun. Towards the end two parts of the line were passing by each other and we just all started high-fiving as we went by each other, and I was thinking that we knew how to have a real good time as opposed to all the people who were just standing around watching and MISSIN' OUT. A truly fantastic ending to a fantastic show!

The all-important JL wardrobe report: the same long-sleeved black shirt as the night before for the main set, but a black-and-white stripey t-shirt for the encores.

#tmbg #show reviews

[noirbriar]

MDZS x FF10 AU. HIT ME! ₍₍◞(ಠ益ಠ)◟₎₎ *screams this as I do the Boogie*

*throws hula hoop on self**hula hoop drops*MDZS x FF10 AUOkay, I know some fellow MDZS writers been doing this AU but let’s give it a shot! Not an exact copy of FFX/X-2 so pardon me if its not what you expect.And a skewed timeline because my goldfish brain don’t remember the exact timeline.With actual MDZS universe locations of course.-Zanarkand = Lotus Pier-Mt Gagazet = Yiling-Bevelle = Lanling Jin-Macalania = Gusu (fight me.Macalania Woods yo.Cold Spring yes Y E S?)-Guadosalam = Qishan (sacked.Also the resting place of souls)-Djose = Qinghe Nie-Besaid Island = Dafan Shan *Note: Part Reincarnation AU-Replacing Auron’s scene is difficult, but I’m sticking to MXY for two reasons.MXY brings WWX out of the dream. And is also the ones who knows the truth of the final Aeons. So here, we have an OP magic user instead of a warrior. Where in a moment of reality distortion in form of a tsunami and a dark monster, MXY grabs a 15 year old WWX and tells him no one can’t dream forever, and the world needs his help before the tsunami hits them.-So we have a young WWX who gets washed up on the shores near Dafan Shan where he sees in the water looking like MXY. With 2 boys beside him.Apparently they thought he was drowning. ( WWX : I can swim damn well TYVM! ) Confused, he wanders up the shores to with the two warriors LJY and LSZ. He learns that they are here on Dafan Shan accompanying their summoner on a pilgrimage to stop the Stygian Demon that has terrorised everyone for years.( I’m so original hur.No.)The great sects have produced summoners for years, dedicated to stopping demonic spirits and go on pilgrimage to save people.Recent years have seen summoners dying before they can stop the Stygian Demon, a mindless fiend that was once a dark summoner’s lost Dark Aeon, which he used to stop Qishan Wen summoners in the Summoners War.-LSZ tells WWX they are waiting for their summoner to receive the Aeon’s blessing.Where they suddenly find a bunch of fiends attacking the village. The 3 of them do their best to fend off the fiends.One of which is WN, the unsent turned wild Aeon, the ghost general. Before a guqin sound echoes and clears the village of evil with a dragon looking Aeon beside him.-Let us welcome the man who always brings his own BGM into the scene.-WWX is surprised to see the face of his ( ex-husband *gets smacked* ) old acquaintance.That LWJ is the summoner who have decided to go meet his death by going to destroy the Stygian Demon.He doesn’t really remember much, but he just wants to go back to Lotus Pier.And that MXY must have brought him back to stop the Stygian Demon.So young thoughtless WWX ( whom LJY suspects and declares he has head trauma, because Lotus Pier is nothing but ruins. ) decides to join them and this older man with LWJ’s face on their pilgrimage.-While collecting Aeons, fending off attacks by people who don’t support the sects, Jinling and his guardian, tiny Fairy, trying to prove themselves.WN appears occasionally to attack the party.A wild purple man, Sect Leader Jiang who just has issues with LWJ and WWX. Sect leader Jiang is suspicious of WWX.- On the way to Qinghe, NHS asks of them if they find the unsent of NMJ to let him know.-In Qishan, they find out from the unsent soul of one angry NMJ that something is wrong with Lanling Jin-Along the way, they head to a ceremonial party by Lanling Jin.They find out that Lanling Jin was the one sending summoners to die, in hopes to control the Stygian Demon.JGY reveal that WWX is actually the soul of the dark summoner from 1000 years ago ( yes LWJ waited that long, fight me ) who made the Stygian Demon Aeon after they dispelled the appearance MXY had given WWX.JGY says they have been suspicious since WWX’s appearance had summoned the Wen fiend WN, at Lanling.They suspect WN wanting to rejoin his old master.-WWX goes into shock, and pieces of memories coming to him that aren’t his own? However, LWJ holds onto him saying he believes WWX regardless.The party flees with the aid of Jin Ling who says, even if he feels a certain hate towards WWX,he feels WWX is not as everyone says he is. WN finds the party and they realise WN was just trying to stop them from coming near Lanling. Jin Ling then joins their party officially.-They flee to Gusu, where LWJ and WWX share a kiss and a moment.LWJ says WWX reminds him of a precious memory that he holds dear ever since he was born.-They know something isn’t right and they will stop JGY from taking the Dark Aeon.Although LXC still refuses to fully believe JGY is sending people to die for his own plans. LXC joins them towards the ruins of Lotus Pier.-Before Lotus Pier, they pass through Yiling, where Yunmeng Jiang had relocated for years, awaiting summoners and ultimately, for the return of WWX the dark High Summoner.-JC has long been plagued by dreams and memories of a lost family and a fallen brother. Now that WWX in his true 15 year old appearance has triggered him and the two clash but not before LWJ steps in to protect WWX.WN appears and clashes with JC, and the unsent Aeon who have regained consciousness reveals to JC that 1000 years ago, he would have died in the Summoners War with Qishan if not for WWX.-A loud rumble tells them that they are running out of time and either JGY gets them first of the Stygian Demon will destroy the world.- Here, WWX sees the Fayth, the dreaming Wen remnants. He remembers.As MXY said, he needs to end this dream. No one can dream forever.- At the ruins of Lotus Pier, LWJ heads in to receive the final Aeon but WWX stops him.He refuses to let LWJ die. There, they find the unsent soul of JYL guarding the place, the Dream Lotus Pier. ( Yes I made JYL Yunalesca ) WWX finally breaks down when he sees JYL who is trapped in the dream he has made, but at the same time this is just a memory of JYL corrupted by years of unsent summoners.-After defeating JYL’s memory…WWX regains his true Yiling Patriarch form.While they needed to find another way to defeat the Dark Aeon the party gets captured by Lanling Jin who takes them up and into the Stygian Demon’s core.-LSZ,LJY, JL,JC holds off the army while LXC defeats his corrupted sworn brother with the unsent of NMJ who has become an Aeon.They are afterall in the core where unsent souls gather.-WWX and LWJ heads in deeper into the dream where with the aid of the unsent and Aeons, they defeat the Stygian Demon and disperses the Fayth.-With the Fayth gone, the dream ends and as an unsent himself, WWX gets ready to send himself along with souls.He gets stopped by LWJ who refuses to let him go. -Turns out 1000 years ago, WWX made the Fayth,the dream,in his grief and despair that ended up consumed and guarded by the Stygian Demon. Along with that, the memories of those who know him will remain and always be attached to the souls that remain each time they are reborn. As long as they dream and remember, WWX and his dream will exist.Now that the cycle has stopped, once they die, WWX’s memory too will fade forever.-LWJ as stubborn and tells WWX he refuses to forget and to let his beloved disappear again.He couldn’t protect him 1000 years ago when the Sects wanted him dead when he lost control of his power and Aeons.He started this pilgrimage (and to die) not just to save the commonfolk but because he want to find him.-WWX tells LWJ rather than to die, to live for him instead.He reaches up and kisses High Summoner Hanguang Jun for the last time and fades into a million pyreflies. Someday they will meet again in a dream.-LWJ keeps his promise and quietly sings their song each night, with every sending he does.Wishing.Hoping.Waiting.-13 years later, someone sings in reply.IM TIRED OF TYPING. BUT I AM MAKING GOOD USE OF MY WORKING HOURS QAQ

#mdzs #FFX AU #FFX #modaozushi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #SEND HELP #WHAT HAVE I DONE #ANON #IM SORRY IF THIS ISNT WHAT YOU WANTED

[lassoedtruths-a]

Have you ever noticed that ( DIANA PRINCE ) from the ( DC UNIVERSE ) looks a lot like ( GAL GADOT )? But ( SHE ) also goes by ( WONDER WOMAN ). Having the ability of ( DIVINE EMPOWERMENT & WEAPONRY ) sure makes them a force to be reckoned with. They’re known to be ( PASSIONATE, ) but also ( RECKLESS, ) and they’re ( FIVE THOUSAND+ ) years old.

hello, hello! i’m gia and i love diana with my whole Heart n Soul. my intro for her is pretty basic so brownie points to you if you’re able to get through lmao. lmk if you’d like to plot with either di or arthur and i’ll def shoot you a message either here or on d.iscord !!!! 

as far as wonder woman goes in telling her origin story, i’ll be keeping that canon canon

she met steve when he quite frankly crash landed on themyscira, told the amazon’s about the war to end all wars and diana insisted that taking down what was so obviously ares was the duties of the amazons

and that if they weren’t going to go, at the least, she had to, to defeat him once and for all. in doing that not only did she put an end to the threat that was ares but she lost someone near and dear to her, steve trevor

steve did mean a lot to her. he is ultimately the foundation of her belief system ??? he taught her SO MUCH in their time together and although it’s been ages since then, diana still holds it very close to her heart. needless to say, shit talk steve and she’ll break ur jaw. just look at what she did to bruce in jl :~)

i’m also keeping it canon that diana stepped away from man’s world until bvs. she was so concrete in her belief that once ares was dead, that meant men could live among one another peacefully but then ww2 happened. the atomic bomb. the cold war. vietnam. it all kept happening and diana didn’t understand why. she didn’t understand why mankind couldn’t live in harmony. it hurt her to realize that ares wasn’t the sole influence of the hatred that brought on wars, but it was man itself.

soooo, she didn’t pop back up until bvs happened. diana’s reluctance to put more of her friends/colleagues on the front lines after having lost steve to it is still very much alive and well to this day and it hurts my heart tbqh. 

diana became a founding member of the justice league, alongside batman and superman who she now considers her closest friends and allies. though something as simple as an attraction to bruce spiraled into something great, and after years of will they/won’t they, bruce and diana are recently, and happily engaged :~) (this was plotted beforehand with cris!)  

as far as how i plan on playing diana, she’s a big ol’ softie. a badass with a great ass. bi icon. i also lowkey took the “A BABY!!!” thing from ww and RAN with it. diana loves babies, loves kids, loves grown ass adults and will mother any and everyone if they give her the chance. so if you’re in need of a mom, hit my line !!!!!!

diana has years and years of amazonian combat training beneath her belt as well as expert weaponry and divinity given her demi-god status

i’m also uglie and have done diana’s natal chart in the past and diana is a fucking aries THROUGH AND THROUGH. she shares a majority of the positive and negative traits of an aries, the most notable being that she’s OPTIMISTIC, energetic, courageous and incisive. however she also heavily portrays some of the negative qualities of an aries, for instance - she’s incredibly IMPULSIVE, confrontational and at times can be rather stubborn (not in an arrogant way, more so just set in her beliefs).

diana has a tendency to think with her heart before her head and though sometimes it can be a good thing, there are rare times where it’s the exact opposite. she’s aware of this quality and often beats herself up about it but there’s something inside of her that wills her toward what she thinks is right.  

#assembleintro #woop woop

[batboys-and-other-messes]

Undercover Mission Headcanon (Tim Drake)

Requested: Yes Request: Can I please request a head canon about a summer vacation undercover mission w/ Tim?

A/N: I had so much trouble with this bc I started it in 6 different ways and this was so vague that I had to cry. This is the first outcome that I actually liked and that wasn’t completely NSFW (I have a dirty mind, shush)

Special thanks to @sassyshoulderangel319 for inspiring me!

Warning: There is one sentence in brackets that’s NSFW but other than that it's pretty okay. Tagged: @icequeen206

[You wanna be tagged in my next piece? Just shoot me a message or ask!]

Someone should’ve warned Tim that spending two weeks on the beach on a mission with his crush would be the bane of his existence

It was of utmost importance for the mission for you to get your information discretely. Your target wasn’t allowed to know they were being observed. Once you had it, the JL would take care of the rest

Bruce send Tim, and Diana requested of you to go bc it seemed the least suspicious

Tim got a sunburn just thinking about the sun. Like Gotham is foggy and dark and his porcelain skin is safe there (from the sun. thugs and villains excepted) but not on the freaking beach in summer

Usually, Tim is very concentrated during missions. He’s a very work-driven person and he takes failure very hard and personal

BUT

He became a stuttering mess when you held his hand and how could he concentrate on anything else but your hand in his and his palms are starting to sweat and is he holding your hand too loosely? Too tight? Does he come off too strong? Is he pushing this? What are you thinking?? Do you know?? Does he even know?

“Tim, we’re supposed to act like a couple or else our cover is blown”

“Yeah, sure.”

Mind reader halfway through the globe can hear his internal screaming

Besides the fact that you have a crush on this nerd too, seeing him blush and pretend like he isn’t dying inside is honest to god fascinating, to say the least

Look at him. Mr. I-have-an-IQ-of-142 struggling to form a thought.

Its so adoringly cute that you consider breaking character just to leave and get some air

Even though you’re literally outside already

But you were dense too. You just thought he was awkward around girls in general and not bc he liked YOU

Physical contact came easily to you as Diana was your mentor and a hand on your shoulder, parental-like teasing and hugs were normal for both of you. You were naturally a very touchy person and Diana only encouraged this.

Tim was too touch-starved to survive this

He was doomed from the beginning

Months ago, you once touched his shoulder. It was skin on skin contact and he was thinking about it for three weeks, over-analyzing every single micro-second of it. How the hell was he supposed to leave this country alive with the amount of touching you two had to do?

Especially since its freakishly hot (weather wise) and you two were wearing limited clothing anyways.

Don’t get me wrong, he absolutely loves it but feels really bad for enjoying it so much bc you’re playing a role, right?

Right?

Of course he pretends like everything is cool and his soul hasn’t left already. But he can’t hide the blushing and the sweaty hands. OR the fumbling.

So he started to concentrate harder on the case just so he can at least keep his sanity and he doesn’t make you uncomfortable with his stupid thoughts.

Tim, bless his heart, tried to keep this from getting awkward. Especially for you.

TRIED

The target you’re following around liked to eat at expensive restaurants at the beach while doing their business and/or waiting for whoever they were always waiting for, which meant one thing – DELICIOUS FOOD!

Tim was honestly so fascinated of how excited you got over trying new food that he made a mental note of taking you out to a restaurant he really liked once this was over

He avoided looking into your eyes for the rest of the day once he realized what he was thinking.

Also, did someone say BIKINI and ICED TEA ON THE BEACH?!

You would be laying on a towel, pretending to enjoy the sun while tanning as you listened to the target on the phone next to you, arguing with someone.

Tim would hide in the shadows, sitting and pretending to read a book while secretly trying to decipher the codewords the target is using. These numbers were obviously coordinated, right?

(The real reason why Tim wanted to be the one in the shadows was bc the moment he saw you in your bikini he popped a boner then and there, and he needed some time to gather himself)

Overnight you two would have to alternate between one person being awake while the other got some sleep just so you wouldn’t miss it if the target woke up during the night

Tim wouldn’t get much sleep during this anyways. Not only bc of the high stress and pressure that was on you two to get results but also bc he couldn’t stop thinking about you and your presence.

Did someone say whipped?

Also: Lots of talking while observing.

It can be a very boring job to sit around, pretend to be something you’re not while waiting for the target to speak so you two started to talk about the most random topics.

You even started to play some little games like looking at people talk and lip-synching ridiculous conversations. Tim once lost it so hard when the man's lips perfectly synched with your words that he was close to crying with laughter.

I also have this mental image of you two being so engrossed in talking one time during a stakeout that you two got over-excited and talked a little too loud and the target got a little suspicious as to what two teenagers were doing at the beach after sunset?

You didn’t even turn around. You noticed in the way Tim tensed up that you two have been spotted.

You flung yourself at Tim, kissing him, only to hide the device in his hand between your bodies.

It took him 48 seconds to understand what was happening before he played along.

48 awful seconds where your lips were against his and he just… didn’t move

You thought he had a stroke

He did too

When he finally deepened the kiss you mentally sighed in relief

You two forgot about the target until you heard their voice through your comms. The mic you had placed on the target registered them talking to someone in a whole other location. They had left and you hadn’t even noticed.

You were too busy making out

Professionals

Finally, after 8 whole days, you finally had the information you needed

The target dropped it under their breath while Tim pretended to be a barkeeper, mixing their cocktail.

You immediately passed the information to Bruce, who then told you that you two should immediately return. Diana complimented you two via the comms like a proud mother-hen while Bruce just ended the call.

You and Tim looked at each other once the call ended.

It was obvious that you two wanted to go home but you just wanted to scream out that you didn’t want to go back to the awkward distancing thing you two were doing before that.

Surprisingly it was Tim who broke the silence

“Now that this is done… Would you mind if I take you to a real date? I mean- Not that this wasn’t real- I mean it was part of the mission and you know. If you don’t want to, that’s totally okay it’s just that I like you and I should’ve probably waited to ask you that once we’re back in Gotham because it’s easier to say no then and the journey back is going to be super awkward now and I didn’t mean to put you on the spot but-“

“I would love to go on a date with you.” You interrupted him with a smile before he would short-circuit.

Anyone who claims this nerd isn’t also one of the bravest people on this earth deserved to be slapped

When you two returned, absentmindedly holding hands while talking about something, Diana smiled at Bruce like she had just won the lottery.

Bruce has been seen passing Dick ten bucks in the background.

Like Bruce, how could you lose that one?

#my writing #tim drake #tim drake headcanon #tim drake imagine #tim drake x reader #tim drake fluff #red robin headcanon #batboy x reader #batboy headcanon #batboy imagine

[hwoodunlocked]

THE SIDONAI MARIE INTERVIEW [ PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ⏤ 5,000 VIEWS ]  [UNCENSORED]

JL: Hey everybody I’m Jason Lee and welcome to Hollywood Unlocked. Today we have Sidonai with us to talk her music, her love life and more. Say hello Sidonai so tell the audience a little something about yourself.

SM: Wassup everybody! I’m Sidonai Marie, a new rap artsit off of Deleon’s king label. What else? Um, I’m 24-years-old and originally from the Bay but I’ve also spent some years in Sacramento. You all might be familiar with my song Icy girl or even know me from instagram.

JL: That’s interesting I actually Know Aros and when he told me. His Father signed you to his label I was thinking he must have forgotten you dated his son SIlas. Why would he willingly sign you, but We know Silas is know to bring every girl he is with around his family just break their hearts later. But before we get into the music. Why did you and Silas break up? 

SM: Simple. He messed around with a old friend. We dated for about 8 months officially but I knew him prior to dating, we had mutual friends so that’s what really brought us to even speaking. You know normally I like mines a little taller, but he was cool. I introduced him to a bird and Ion’ know who made the first move but they ended up messing around on my birthday. So being grown about the shit, I just cut both of them off, Ol’ girl has been dodging me, which is cool. I’m about my money and my career, all the extra shit come second I’m not giving nobody no free promo.

JL: I saw your little twitter beef with her, I heard she used to run around with a few girl’s know for thoting and she used to only date NBA players, but maybe she got sick of being ran through by the whole NBA and changed her type. You should have known to never let bird meet your man, because now he got her all around Deleon. But enough about the hoe tell us about what inspires you and what made you start rapping? 

SM: My inspiration stems from wanting betta’ and seeing my fans put themselves to a higher level, I make music to motivate and to vibe to. When I wrote ‘Icy girl’ I wrote it to talk my shit and build confidence. But if you’re asking who inspires me? My mom and grandma’ My grandma is so damn high maintenance  that it made me want to live just like her. But my mom was really big on Foxy and Lil Kim, that I was always listening to dope female artist. Seriously at 14, my dad would bring me around all his hood ass friends making me rap for them, anytime I would mess up or my lyrics were weak they used to rip me up and tell me next time they saw me I betta’ had sharpened up. That alone pushed me to write and recite my lyrics. eventually, they gave me my props and worked with me to get better.

JL: Being that your new to the music industry how does it feel to be now in it as a new female rapper. And speaking of music Deleon’s party did you see that fight between Avah and Kardi B and how did that make you feel?

SM: It feels amazing, sometimes I doubt myself seeing all the big names but  I let my work do the talking. I’ve met alot of older rappers in the game and It’s always love. But I know I gotta’ work twice as hard to even stand a chance. People get me confused thinking’ oh “ she from Instagram and raps” But nah’ I rap and I have a Instagram, don’t let my followers get it twisted if you’ve followed me you know I’ve been on this rap shit’ for years. But I’m taking this opportunity to build me myself come up with dope lyrics and connect. Fight? I’m not gone lie to you, I didn’t even see that shit fully, I saw a shoe get thrown and that was it, I know baby momma’ Kam would’ve probably won tho. That’s really all I can comment on.

JL: I mean Kardi can win a fight but Avah got lawyers for days so she would have lost that finically. You know Deleon got Kardi in that 360 deal. How do you feel about Nicki Minaj?

SM: She’s dope, her style is different. I grew up listen to Nicki and even meeting her recently she’ def has the sweetest soul. I  remember first hearing ‘ itty bitty piggy” me and my friends did a whole video it was fresh hearing someone rap the way she does and now looking at all she’s accomplished just really makes me want to push harder in this industry.

JL: And before you go tell us about who you are crushing on. I heard you’ve been around town hanging with a few guys.

SM: Wooow, I ain’t gon’ lie my dating life is trash, but that’s because I’m focused on my career and not tryna’ to be exclusive and work just solely on my music. But I am single so if somebody got they eye on me, I might entertain it for a little minute, but yeeeeah I havent’ found anybody just yet, Sorry Jason, I wish I could bring you a list cause then maybe you can put me down with someone poppin’. 

JL: I got you right after this interview. But I got somewhere I have to be, were out ya’ll!

#( interviews. )

[toughguywithbossygirlfriend]

Batman #40 - Writing mistake  ?.. or not ?..

I have to say that I was half angry, half pleased with Tom King’s Batman Issue #40 ... because of some bad story telling... maybe(?) bad story telling ? 

There is a lot of good stuff in this one, for the BatCat of course but for WonderBat as well and more than you could have expected... all in all a good Issue except for the “Mistake”.. (if it is one)

Pretty much like with Batman #39 Tom King treated neither of the three character with disrespect, Bruce and Diana could show their exceptional chemistry and Selina could be pictured as an intelligent and compassionate hero.

This is quite long, as often with me and focuses mainly WonderBat but on Selina as well... it may be more wonderbat but it definitively isn’t anti-batcat. There is an interesting point I didn’t really explore but who will surely have some incidences in later Issues : the exchange between Selina and the GM about “Hope, Love and Marriage” ... it could contains some clues about the wedding, but I didn’t check it out.

Anyway, If you read this, read it till the end, don’t go ballistic if you are only half way through, … and If you did go through to the end but you still feel the need, then  … as Liam Sharp said “so be it”… It is not my purpose to hurt any character fan or ship with this and I don’t think I’ll do it … anyway remember I did not write the Story, Tom King did ! so if you feel the need to blame someone about anything you know who to blame.

Everything starts with the one big important question that I mentioned in my previous post “Batman #39: ...WonderBatCat ...” :

(DC Rebirth’s Batman #40) Selina and the “Gentle Man”

here we go ..

“WonderBatCat” when I wrote that one ... I wasn’t really thinking Tom King would even play with that idea ... but we’ll see at the end of this post the little wink ;) he made about it.

And, as expected, the answer to the question was : “No” ... otherwise both Diana and Bruce would have refrained their temptation for as long as needed - so far, it’s OK, no mistake and in line with the outcome of Batman #39. 

In the very similar “Action comic” story with Supes and Wondy fighting in the realm of Walhalla, both Clark and Diana knew about the differences between the speeds of the timeflows, and they expected either to Die in the realm or to return to the normal world (and to Lois for Clark ... I think Diana was single) once the battle ended. It may have lasted nearly 1000 years but it was not supposed to be endless, unlike the battle against the hordes of Gehenna.  Knowing that, Wonder Woman and Superman had all the reasons to refrain any temptation and they succeeded.

But Tom King didn’t choose that path, ... on purpose ... he wanted them to hook up ... or at least to look like they did ... it was all part of the teasing plan : Trapped in a realm with no escape, no way to get help or even ask for it, fighting an endless and hopeless war that could only have one end: their own deaths. And on top of that, the desperation of having been abandoned and forgotten from all the people they cared about ... quite a Nightmare !

Selina’s POV

Selina understood the consequences, the moment she learned about the Time flow speed differences ... even if some BatCat and WonderBat fans have a hard time to accept it ... Selina knew in that moment that Bruce and Diana where trapped in that realm for over a decade or two, maybe three, and that both had necessarily come to the conclusion that they have been abandoned by herself and the GM forever ... she knew, even if he was still alive, that he had to hate her for that, ... she already had lost him and if they were both still alive they would have had to comfort each other, ... by now they would be together ... of course she gets angry at the GM, the guy just destroyed her relationship with Bruce for selfish reasons ...

But then (again like I already suggested in my post about Batman #39) Selina shows she is a real hero, with a compassion that can compete with Diana’s, ... Selina allows him to see his wife ... even after he just destroyed her future with Bruce, she lets him meet his loved one, ... I have to say Selina is admirable of selflessness ... Her own life is yet broken again but what would be the point of punishing him because he did that for love, his love ... and the guy sacrifices himself endlessly for all other people, all other lovers ...

Selina gives him some more time knowing that in the realm, at least one of them is still alive and fights with no hope only to prevent the hordes from coming ... it may be Bruce alone, it may be Diana alone or both and if they are together , then they only had each other’s arms to comfort them... only a few hours passed but she knows that she’d lost him ... and that is the reason why Selina cries the moment they return even if they didn’t exchange a single word...She doesn’t smile ... this isn’t are not tears of happiness..  She must think that is the moment where her nightmare is gonna come true and Bruce is going to say her that it is over.

But against all odds ... Bruce still wants to marry her !!  ... ??

That would be related to the “Writing mistake” that we will look at later ...

This Selina has not much to do with the one I used to read about when I was a young boy ... this one is really adorable ... I can just feel the claws of BatCat trying to catch me and drag me into their world of bliss ... but, enough with the love for Selina and lets check out ...

Diana and Bruce’s POV

(Edit of DC Rebirth’s Batman #40)

The main difference between BatCat and WonderBat is that Catwoman will drag him into Darkness, to the Night, to the Batman, while Wonder Woman will push him into the Light, the Day, to Bruce Wayne. 

Someone said Tom King used a puzzle metaphor to explain the BatCat relationship ... After reading Batman #39 and Batman #40 it is pretty obvious that even for Tom King (a puzzle piece has more than one side), if Selina is the perfect fit to Bruce “Batman” Wayne’s puzzle pieces “dark side”,  than Diana is the perfect fit to his “bright side” ... not even the BatCat master denies that ...

That is visible even in the way they call each other in their intimate and tender moments... for BatCat it will be “Bat” and “Cat” while for WonderBat it is “Bruce” and “Diana”.

When BatCat are together the passion and sex takes over, on roof tops, in the bedroom, in the love boat, when WonderBat plays out, the hearts and souls take over, sitting at the fire place, her hand on his knee, comfortable and safe with each other, they are like a settled married couple who made love countless of times and where Tenderness, Love and Care replaced the Passion and Excitement of the discovery.

No matter how much the BatCat are cheering and sending trash posts because of the wedding ... WonderBat still got the most beautiful artwork  ... and the deepest feelings ... so it is hard to be really angry with Tom King ... he could have played out Diana with a totally platonic friendship ... but he didn’t ... and I think DC doesn’t want it either. A relationship with Bruce and Diana has too much to offer on so many levels, and I think they know it very well. But so far Batman and Wonder Woman don’t need each other to sell comics ... other characters on the other hand need some strong boost ... and what better publicity than to share a comic with one of these two ? ...

(Edit of DC Rebirth’s Batman #40)

So far Tom King’s story was solid and coherent ... having been trapped in the Realm for over 10 years they were convinced that this was all they had left for the rest of Eternity (as clearly explained in Batman #39) ... for them there was no more BatCat and no more WonderTrev to consider and because of that, they could do nothing wrong, giving into their feelings for each other... 

So why stop this intimate foreplay ? ... it didn’t make any sense... 

An Anon asked @fyeahwonderbat​ why Diana mentioned “ever” ? 

“No, we can’t.” you could imagine this is about Selina and Trevor but “ever” ? ... what if Selina and Trevor, both Die ? “ever” ?

the reason suggested by the Anon is a valid one imo : there could be some kind  of reason, a powerful spell, idk forbidding them to get together. doomed to stay apart no matter how much they love each other. That could explain why they stopped even if there were no more over valid reasons ... In the JL#90:Revelation Diana had to ask her Gods the permission to carry Bruce’s children and it was refused ... The “Batman who laughts” said that in the worlds where Bruce and Diana where together they had Kids that where so Fierce creatures that he did write down all their names to remember them like some kind of trophy list - could the Gods be afraid of WonderBat ?... 

It wouldn’t be the first time DC hints to the fact that there may be some deeper relationship between these two even if they have other loved ones with them ... during the New52 era, Trevor was supposed, because of his bond with Diana, to be able to use the Lasso of truth to save them all, but he wasn’t there and J’onn told Batman that he could use the Lasso as well and that “he knew why” ... the reason remained a mystery but Bruce actually used the Lasso without any problem... Catwoman was quite jealous that Batman had obviously the same “bond” with Diana than Trevor ... (so you had a bit BatCat, a bit WonderTrev, but a mysterious underlying WonderBat ) ...

The other reason that comes up to mind is much like in JL#90 that : “they just don’t want to risk their incredible friendship”... but that was already the wrong reason in JL#90..

(DC Rebirth’s Batman #40)

He leans into her more than the reverse and rubs his face and nose with hers, But she doesn’t back off, and on the contrary, makes sure for good skin contact, grazing her lips over his nose, half kissing it ...

This doesn’t feel like a “Oh My God !! what are we doing ?? this cannot be !! Back off !!” but rather like a “Dammit! ,why can’t we be happy .. I need you so much ...”.

Be sure Tom King was fully aware of the content of the Issue ... He is responsible of the Batman serie and wrote this after all ... 

And That is were Tom Kings writing gets out of track and becomes incoherent ... the Writing mistake !! : why would they suddenly talk about Selina and Trevor ? why should they suddenly think that they would go back when they were so convinced earlier that they would not ?? ... that doesn’t make sense ...

Tom King literally created the perfect conditions to push them together, and then he forgets some of these same conditions just to pull them apart again !!

Or ... and that would mean it wasn’t a Writing mistake after all ...

They both secretly knew from the beginning about the time flow differences ... even if the “Gentle Man” didn’t tell them ... (like Clark and Diana in the “Action Comic” story)

Why and How could that have been possible ? ... easy

for Diana: How ? She is a supernatural creature and has connections to creatures that could have surely given her all the “need to know” informations about the Realm, the GM, the Hordes ... Why ? She’s intelligent : wouldn’t you want to know everything you can if you are supposed to take such risks ??

for Bruce: Hell, the guy is a Paranoid Detective , so the question not Why but only How ... Zatanna, Constantine, Dr Fate, Etrigan, Deadman, ... he has countless very competent allies who could have made some research for him ..

And they surely talked about it together ...

So maybe it isn’t a Writing mistake after all !! ... but then why wouldn’t Tom King explain that reason until the end of the Issue ? After their return ? ... unless they are rooting for each other, hard, but something keeps them from acting on it, and that information is a DC internal “need to know” information until it gets exposed. And we return to the little word “ever” from earlier. Dammit, could there be something real about that idea?

Some of you may think “No, you’re wrong there is no writing mistake, they wouldn’t have hooked up anyway because after 10 years there was still hope ...”, well OK !!, why not ... but then let me ask another question : What about 35 years ?... 

If they didn’t knew about the time-flow speed differences, but still wanted to stay true ... that means that they were consciously hoping to return to their loved ones and resume their previous relationship. right ? ... Bruce Wayne would actually hope to marry a Selina Kyle who is 37 years older then she was when he left her ? ... and Trevor would surely be around 70 years old ... ? ... is that the theory ? ... I am not that cheesy ...

I think Tom King knew what he did with this two Issues ... I am pretty sure the durations (10 years, 37 years) were thought through as well as the rest.

(Edit of DC Rebirth’s Batman #40 and from a JLA comic of 1960, I think )

It is somehow disturbing to read that speech about how Selina and Trevor are “good” and thus they “deserve to have good people” as well ... so now it isn’t anymore “about what you believe” but “about what you deserve” ... Dammit, I am so confused... Joking ! XD 

You just get the feeling she meant : “Bruce, Love, ... we are not allowed to be happy together, ... so lets at least do our best to make other good people happy ...”

Did you notice : Diana uses Selina’s first name (as with Bruce, or Clark/Kal, or the other leaguers ... ) but still uses Trevor’s full name, the same way she did a long time ago when she wasn’t really in a hurry to marry him. want to keep some distance here ?

Of course there is always the less “pure and innocent” solution ... maybe Tom King choose the 10 th year just to show us that they did resist ... they tried... as long as they could ... but ... 2 weeks later ... they had to get it out of their system ... it happened ...and again, and again ... until year 37... They just never talked about it again ... 

Not good enough ... Yeah you could say that ...

So where is the truth ?

Did Tom King make a ridiculous mistake in his story ?? is there a well hidden secret that keeps two lovers apart ? or wasn’t it that “pure and innocent” ?

Your choice ...

after their return from the realm, Batman’s sentences may give you a hint thou... much like the wrong comparison between Lois as a reporter and Cat as a thief in Batman #35 ... another mistake... TK seems to be better in psychology then in logic ...

At least it seems that with all the BatCat promotion there is an obvious will from DC to keep WonderBat strong and alive with all that teasing, in Batman #39 and #40 but in Dark nights metal as well ... maybe to capitalize on it with the next reboot ?

And for the fun ... Last but not least ... I made a “Gasp !” when I read that one after posting “WonderBatCat” in the title of my Batman #39 post :

Diana thinks about Selina and herself, when she means “Us” and its possible consequences, because Selina suggested they go all three the next time ... Now, let me just resume : two very attractive and supposedly Bi-Sexual women, both very compassionate and obviously very very close to the same Guy, trapped for much longer (more like 300 years, to give the GM at least a few days with his Love) with only each other to comfort .... and much more time to spare because the Hordes may not be so everlasting...

Hmm ... temperature is gonna rise in the realm ...

#batman #bruce wayne #Wonder woman #diana prince #wonderbat

[kncrowder88]

Having wat hed the Snyder cut of Justice League.... I think, while it's good, I stand by my view that both Marvel and DC have this weird sort of lost focus or something with movies. Like, they got good movies, good ideas, good concepts.....but then something along the way is going wrong for whatever reason.

Be it not letting actors know things. Or not planning out stories. Or what.

But I mean ... look at DC for example, both WW movies depict her as being okay with her decision. Happy and content, only seeming upset about her lost love. Yes shes got things but no apparent guilt over leaving her people. Then you got JL coming in trying to play up on this sudden guilt out of no where?

And honestly that would have been good. Overall for the JL movie. Touching on the guilt heroes can hold - using her and others. And bringing in new faces.

And I'm sorry but ... your telling me that Supes is the only one that could save it all? Not Diana, the demigoddess, who faced a literal god? Who saved the entire world not once but twice? Both her movies involve world saving, the second one is broadcasted in a time point where both Bats and Supes parents (at the least) would have been alive. And your telling me its Supes that becomes some planet wide god figure not the woman that would have been spoken of amongst generations since No Mans Land?

Your telling me not a single soul left that battle and didnt go "yeah, so, this woman strolled through no mans land like it was nothing. It's how we won." That she didnt become some urban legend over the years?

Aquaman has a whole as song sung by the people in an area ....

I just .... I'm sorry but JL, while a good movie, falls flat for me because it still manages to wrap itself up in a "but Superman is the bestest" mindset rather than ALL of them have a worth that they each rely on. This is DC flaw, while Marvel ... that be a different post or for someone else to add but I know its character stuff to just different.

#mcu #dc cinematic universe #i think both have to do with how long theyve been around #but yet the difference in that #mcu was a sudden planned thing that turned into massive secrets #so much so they keep it even from cast preventing a lot of amazing management at times #of the characters themselves and of the scenea #while dc its a bit of the opposite theyve been filming for supes and bats #and then seemed to decide to pull and mcu #and have backed themselves into a corner of trying to figure that out #because they dont want to start over

[justnotcricket]

Match Report: 25/11/17 WASTCA One-Day Div 2

Fremantle (8/241) def Subi Marist (9/163)

Mann Oval is a cricket ground in miniature. A tiny oval, a small man’s oval. An oval for small men… and for some, this was the first homecoming since the horrific ‘Mann Oval Massacre’…

When I arrived at the venue the last surviving veterans were at the Mosman Park Bowling Club, emotional wounds still so raw as to suggest they were drinking to forget…

Legend has it, in the first meeting between the recently estranged Fremantle Mosman Park One Day team and it’s previous fraternal masters, Sub Marist, tensions were at an all time high.

The rebellious FMPCC were looking to make a point of their desertion, and SMCC still hurt and reeling from the betrayal of their brothers, were determined to see them put in their place.

With plenty of pregame banter, the Pirates won the toss, elected to bat, and after all manner of failure, proceeded to shuffle like they had ne’er shuffled before. Subi’s opening bowler took 4 wickets and they were all out for 71.

It must have been mortifying.

Matty Angus, then captain of Subi Marist [!!!], smelled blood, promoted himself to number 3, [wasn’t required], and the opening batsmen made the runs in less than 5 overs.

Retribution. Merciless, and swift in its brutal execution. No wonder it still smarts, and is spoken of in hushed tones to this day…

Ray on the other hand, spared the indignity, wistfully reminisced about the time he won the Fred Mann Medal in under 12’s back in the 1930’s, and you felt like his was a different sort of homecoming; a washed out sky, the spires of Norfolk Pines piercing the lilac haze of Jacaranda, littered with mid twentieth century apartments where the poor people used to live. He was home, this was his country...

He then went on to joke about how Liz had some One Day International tickets, and was excited to be finally seeing some ‘real cricket’…

I’m not sure what she means by that.

What does she mean by that!?!

Sure, in second division no one ever really gives LBW, or stumpings for example, but for us the game is played with as much passion and rivalry as any Ashes Series.

Smith had just made a game-changing ton for Australia in Brisbane, and in our minds, we were there with him, facing every ball, grinding it out, warding off defeat, and sharing the triumph… 

Well, Dave Barratt was anyway. Still smarting from the slight of alleged boringness, strode out to the crease with the kind of steely determination that was ultimately even more boring.

We had won the toss and were batting.

Quinny at the other end, couldn’t help but entertain. Everyone loves a clown, but spare a thought for the sad man, whose heart and soul goes to making other men laugh.  

It’s a tough gig, and he does all his own slapstick…

Dubois opened the bowling with a haircut that would have looked quite handsome on a middle-aged woman from Claremont. Quinny blanched.

Elliot from the other, pranced in a merry dance from side on of the wicket. It was a fancy action; with a one, two, three, arms into 5th position, skip, hop, slide… and bowl. In my mind, I even see the tu-tu.

It was so distracting and Quinny had no option than to hit him down the ground. 

Dave Barratt turned 4’s into twos, and 2’s into 1’s and scintillating cricket into an afternoon nap. Quin farmed himself the strike to stay alert.

Broad shouldered Jonny came on to bowl, carrying the ball with a forward wrist that hung before his groin like a pendulous seedpod. It was kind of erotic in a way I can’t quite put my finger in.

Quinny rocked back and cut his first delivery, and followed it with a later cut, two balls later in fact.

Dave Barratt kept it sensible, head down, nothing silly, and was about as much fun as senior public servant ever really can be.

He did bring up the 50 off 10 overs but was caught for 18, closing a 63 run opening partnership.

Meanwhile, Australia approached the English total… in no small part due to Dave’s empathetic connection with the Australian captain.

I came in at number 3, and was feeling good. I saw the ball well, played some nice shots and some even more beautiful leaves, until Wynne came on and served a selection of fruity mince pies: my weakness at this time of year.

Our thinking was it was better to have Joe umpiring out in the middle annoying the opposition, than in the shed annoying us. It proved to be an oversight.

He gave me LBW with my back leg in the air to a high bouncing ball still in its way up!?! I think he fired me before it even connected…

Does he know I’m on our selection committee? Does he know I write the match report? Is the guy A COMPLETE IDIOT!?!

In the moment, I may have said a few harsh words that I will come to regret, but now that I have taken some time to think reasonably about this and let my emotions cool, I think it is time we fucked him off all together. 

It wasn’t the incorrectness of the decision, [Quinny said it was plumb, and I was playing across the line…again], but it was the sheer enjoyment of giving me out. Like he vicariously took the wicket!?! ‘How is that?’ he grinned!

You can get away with being a shit bloke like Darrell if we are really short of bowlers but not when you are in the team as part of the clubs ‘new member drive’.

I was out on 13. Unlucky for some...

Joe Dirt specifically.

He’ll be going for some long walks out of the nets on Tuesday, which will do us both good, I need to vent and he needs the exercise.

JL came in looking as relaxed as a man three beers in by midday, and set about constructing an innings. At drinks, we were two for 93. Quinny was on 49 and Australia lead by 29 runs.

Darrell made a great brew, only lacking rum and a can of Emu Export, [according to Quinny], who brought up his 50 with a couple of boundaries over mid wicket and one down the ground to take 17 runs from an over by Cranley.

Their bowling stocks largely turned to laughing stocks as Jonny fatigued and started bowling wides, or short and outside off; easy to cut, or rock back and square drive, and the boys made hay while the sun shone.

Joe, fixating on the edge of the skinny little pitch, called no ball after no ball, until the opposing Captain started to complain about the stultifying level of officiation…

‘Sorry mate, we know...’

Harley came on to bowl and Quinny was uncharacteristically patient. He was in his nervous 70’s and maybe this would be the day to convert a healthy start into a milestone century.

Harley also looked like he was in his 70’s, with even less chance of making it to 100, especially after dropping a caught and bowled attempt that could probably kill a man of his age.

JL hit one over the fence, which on a backyard ground such as this, and with calls of ‘lost ball’, surely must be 6 and out. Once the ball had been recovered, play resumed and he brought up with the 150 with a 4 that very nearly landed in a passing pram.

I’m not an expert, but surely this kind of behaviour deviates from the standard INTJ on the MBTI, and clearly indicates psychopathic tendencies.

You can imagine careers day back in high school: ‘Has he considered corporate law, Mrs Little?’

Don’t get me wrong; he also played some beautiful cut shots and fine glances off his legs. But he would then tease the fielders spooning it just in front of them, while calling, ‘Yes!’

Like the kind of kid that pulls the wings off flies...

Quinny hit a big six, fell over, was nearly stumped, fell out of a building, ducked under plank, and was run over by a little red car giggling with midgets.

Or at least that’s how I remember his innings.

JL brought up his 50 with a pull shot square of the wicket, and raised his bat, almost in remorse and embarrassment for the bowlers, almost as if remorse was in his emotional range. He then hit a six into someone’s front yard, narrowly missing their new car.

They brought up a 100 run partnership before Joe gave Quinny out, stumped on 92. I mean seriously…

Did the other team give stumpings, or run outs? No they did not.

Gobsmacked at this turn of events, we quickly lost three wickets in an over. Shrugger skied it for a golden duck. Darrell got in on the action and fired JLBW:

Justin Little Before Wicket.

New batsmen, Nav and Matty made running between wickets look like a choreographed WWE fight sequence; ducks, feints, a mid pitch clothes-lining and direct hit from the deep to remove Angus.

Ray was caught and Harley got a 5 for!

The old man can die happy. His life’s work complete…

The collapse only slowed when Weston smashed an edge to the keeper that JL signaled wide.  Sheepishly, he went on to hit two sixes to finish.

And that… is how umpiring is done in this competition.

Darrell padded up and walked out to the middle, watched Leon hit the maximums, and walked back without contribution, and was as graceful and humble about it, as you can imagine…

Other non-contributors included Joe, who was preparing to bat by doing throw downs with his son... AND DOING THE THROWING!?!

At least he was wearing actual pads, I suppose. To throw in.

We finished with a mighty 8 for 241 off the full 35 overs. What a difference 20 years makes. How the tides had turned! With the pirate flag flying from the shelter, tea was more like a family picnic if you were raised by bikie gang or an Islamic death cult. Quinny recounted the negotiations required to acquire the flag from an 8-year-old girl’s tree house.

‘Please just take the flag. And promise you will never try to make contact with our mother again…’

It was always going to be a difficult chase, and we gave them as many chances in the field as is sporting, but they lost wickets regularly and never really looked like a chance.

Darrell opened the bowling and had spat the dummy by his second over. Ray attempted to talk him down from mid on, counseling him between bursts of expletives, but it was to no avail.

He bowled 6 overs before refusing to bowl any more, frustratingly, with half decent figures of 1 for 25. 

Mind you, the only reason he still gets selected is because he’s a carrying member of a gun club, and no one has the courage to tell him otherwise.

Ray opened with a spell from the other end bowling 7 overs 1 for 34, and really should bowl more. Matt bowled 7 overs and 2 for 42 before he did a hammy and was forced to limp the plank.

Joe bowled a 20-ball two over spell. His first 11 ball over for went 10 runs, and the second; a tidy 6 by comparison, to finish with 0 for 16. Another couple of overs and he would have bowled the standard 42 balls.

I suppose if you are not going to get another over, you might as well make it last. Number 2 bowled both kinds of music: Leon, and Weston to finish with 1 for 4 off 1. Another under utilised resource.

Pedestrian Dave bowled 5 overs and took 2 for 13 at the death, [6 of those being wides] and closed out the game bowling to Lowther.

I couldn’t help myself: I was rooting for underdog, even if he had done a little poo in his pants.

He carried his bat as they ran out of overs with only 161 on the board and we won by nearly 80 runs.

The Crownies came out in the golden light of the setting sun, and the fines session was like a roll call of dropped sitters on the boundary:

Matty Angus [present], JL [present], Nav [present], Darrell?

Darrell had gone home…

Alex Quin won the ‘Hot for 12 Cold for 24’ award for his massive knock and in a move that can only be described as Jack Sparrow-esque, then spun the wheel back at the club to win the meat raffle.

It was truly his day… and a convincing win to seal 4 in a row. With as many wins as losses behind us, we have leapt from the bottom of the ladder, and into the 4.  

Our focus will now have to shift from ‘access and inclusivity’, to qualifying our best players for finals.

Which leaves two questions on everybody’s lips...

Is this curtains for Joe Dirt?

And how many holes in a straw?

#cricket #pirates #wickets

[arkus-rhapsode]

Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest Chapter 15 Review

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. Today we have a review and will it be a decent stocking suffer or a lump of coal? I don’t know how long I can keep with the chrsitmas vibe so I’m dropping it here.

So we have Erza and Jellal at a shrine that’s probably a Japanese thing I don’t understand. Also I think this might be the first time both Erza and Jellal are on a cover page together.

So we open on Jellal and his confrontation with Touka where he asks why she is getting close to FT. Apparently it’s because all of the powerful mages gathered in one place will grow to boiling point that will likely lead to destruction. Y’know that is actually an interesting concept. The fact that guilds have the potential to lead to destruction that threatens the current balance of the world due to the fact strong mages are all gathering in a single location with a single allegiance.

If the magic council government system was more competent and fleshed out, I could see thiss making some tension between the governments of the world and guilds. Be like Justice League and Project Cadmus plot in JL unlimited, where it becomes a super powered cold war that will force us to ask some very hard questions. How much magic is okay? Should the guilds be dissolved and made into squads serving their kingdom like Black Clover? Should magic be still considered an art form if its regulated?

And you lost it.

Sorry, but there’s some holes in her logic here. She refers to too much magic as potentially turning black like the black wizard Zeref. Zeref wasn’t the black wizard because of his magic, its what he did with that magic. He made countless demons and then had the ability to literally steal a person’s life. But the power to steal life wasn’t because he was too strong or had more magic than others, it was because he used his knowledge of magic to press forward into the subject of life to the point it was interfering with the domain of god.

The god cursed Zeref, its not like FT who all of them trained to become this powerful that they might potentially be too powerful to be stopped. And given the case of Zeref, the thing she should be mad at is the knowledge of magic and what could happen if it was mass distributed like it was with Zeref. Zeref was taught at a magic academy and academia would clearly force students to study and push the bounds and concepts of magic, so thaat is wheree her anger should stem from.

Another thing is the fact that black magic in the series always referred to life. Bickslow manipulated souls, Zeref made demons, Jerome’s sword rotted things away. All are black magic, and have a concept of life/death, with white being the opposite which is likely nothingness. So would that imply that she wants to wipe away all magic in the world? Can’t the case cause she still has the water of the water dragon, so its no like she is destroying the magic she steals. And finally where this loses me is this “turn the world white.” I thought this would honestly work a lot better if it was intimate and kept between FR. If this was just a critism of the guild and how the fact their so strong and someone from the outside needed to balance the out before they potentially did something that no one could stand against. But by making Touka this more, grandiose villain with fixation on making the world white, then yo lose the moral ambiguity and intimacy that could come from this story.

And don’t say we need it to be on the large scale for it to matter. A big draw of FT is the guild themselves and not world of Earthland. That means that a conflict that solely affects them can be very interesting. Its the same reason why I thing fanatasia arc has the best conflict because its an inner guild turmoil. Its something that forces bring out their inner politics of their guild.

With that out of the way, we see Touka begin to struggle against someone called the white mage. Meaning that Touka is currently having someone pilot their body against Touka’s will. Hey Jellal, this ring some bells for you? Being controlled by some entity. Also, split personalities, this white mage really wants to be new Zeref. If the twist is that Larcade somehow placed himself inside someone and is doing his white shit again, I’m done.

Gajeel then burst in and binds her down with iron. Which shouldn’t be effective because if someone steals magic then couldn’t they absorb magic iron-GAH! Thinking about the magic in FT hurts my head on little rules there is to it!

Okay, Gajeel we need to talk about this black or white thing. Where did this come from? I know that this was previously mentioned, but I never brought up how Gajeel saying it makes no sense. Not only because this type of thinking has never been part of his character, but because Gajeel is black. He’s known as black steel, his primary color is black, he has a shad0w dragon form that literally radiate black shadows, a power up he got from Rouge who use black shadows who is close to Gajeel, as well as close to Gajeel is Panterlily who is primarily a black colored cat, and his ultimate form in dragon force is black steel. By all this account, “black” is seeming like a very good a positive thing in his life. It’s not like gajeel calls himself “black” to represent how he never fells like he can forgive the bad stuff he did, because as mentioned previously, this black/white thing was never part of who he was.

Its not even like this is typical lingo in this world because we call good and bad guilds legal and dark guilds. Not black and white guilds. This is the end of this plot thread for the chapter. And honestly, I’m with Jellal here, what is all this? But nevermind that cause we gotta jump to Erza vs Kyria.... Joy...

I can se her whole camel toe... Classy. You know, cause right after we sat through three weeks of a woman being parade around like dog while scantily clad, we need to have fanservice in this tense confrontation of all that aggression. This is not a problem with fanservice, as I said, fanservice is not a bad thing, the problem is timing, and this is not the right time. I mean, this was the same issue I had with Lucy vs Brandish, because literally some shots were focused less on the action and more whose ass is in your face. Only Lucy vs Brandish was at least better because the character conflict of Lucy and Brandish and that Brandish had more character than slicey sexual predator. Only good thing about this is it isn’t Erza’s camel toe.

And know we get what I consider that worst moment this chapter.

Where do I start?

How about the continuity? So Erza states that their job was to hunt dragons, and that she had Wendy enchant a dragon slayer element into a sword. Now, we know that this is possible to do as we saw in the Irene fight, but what we didn’t know was what this quest was. How could Wendy have made a dragon slaying sword before-hand if we didn’t know that this was a dragon hunting mission in the first place? You could say, Wendy figured to enchant it after their breifing on the quest and then enchanted the blade, but as we see Wendy still clearly had her wind dragon abilities and that this is named belserion and its crackling with lightning similar to what little we saw of sage dragon magic.

That would mean that either Wendy enchanted Irene’s magic into her upon her death and never used it, then gave it to erza (because her wording makes it sound like it was made just for this trip and wasn’t forged during Alvarez) or that Wendy is not actually giving Erza the Sage dragon powers and rather just the quality of her magic that is dragon slaying. (but that clearly doesn’t fit)

Then we have the blade itself. Why did it extend like a light saber? Enchantment isn’t the same as forging a weapon out of pure magic. As we saw in the Irene fight, Enchantment coats an existing blade with the magic. If this were the case with the current blade, then the lightning would be crackling just around what remains of the blade.

Then there is the question of why I took so long for you to use and the fact that benizakura has been broken and its treated like no big deal. If you knew you were on a hunt for dragons and Kyria you already could confirm as a dangerous enemy who is a threat, why not use this when you first met? You could say that they weren’t trying to kill her, but it was clear that DS magic won’t automatically kill another DS. Now she didn’t use benizakura against Kyria, she used a sword we never saw that had no qualities to it that were special. To which I say, why wasn’t that the DS sword? Wouldn’t that make more sense? Why is Benizakura, the katanna we always see with clear heart, the one? And how come we are just brushing of the katanna that appeared all the way back in ToH like it was nothing? This should be like Zoro losing his Yubashiri, a big deal, but instead, lol its a lightsaber!

And finally we get to the big elephant in the room, why does this exist in the first place? How could you suck the magic off a dead person and enchant it into a sword? We know a person’s life and their magic is tied together and if Irene died then her Sage Dragon Magic should be gone too. Either Wendy somehow made the this out of thin air (which I highly doubt), or there might be more of that DS blood bathing going on, but with swords. Actually, if Erza wants a DS slaying sword it make more sense if she had a sword with a DS lacrima shoved into it. At least that’s magic preserved in lacrima.

And finally there’s the fact its called Belserion. Why in god’s name would you name it after aperson who was commited to detroying you, your country, tortured your friends, and then spent her whole match belittling you? Is it cause she killed herself and she knew Irene truly oved her? Well we know Irene never fully explained why she killed herself so Erza has no actual knowledge of her “love” for her. And besides, if she did, she denounced Ireene as even being her parent? Either she named it Belserion after the dragon Belserion in the flashback, or she named it out of pity. Like, “you killed yourself? Well I guess that helped me?”

Honestly, since Wendy made it and the fact Alvarez pushed how close Erza and Wendy were suppose to be, wouldn’t it be called Marvell or if its a blade that changed form, why not Knightwalker? This is so bad. I mean pet girl erza offended me as a writting choice, but this is the first thing this spin off I legit considered very hackish.

We cut to the top of the ship with Natsu and Weendy vs Skullion, where Madmorl enters the fray. Or is it Madmole? I don’t care.

Natsu and Madmorl clash, but as to be expected from their previous encounter, Natsu fares not to well against this attack because of Madmorl’s defen-

No. We know it can take the heat. We saw Madmorl brush off a a fire dragon king level attack. You can’t just overcome this cause you say you can-

Or you could just forget all the struggling you had in your first encounter and just BAMF your way through, logic be damned. Look, I get an respect the idea of melting the armor, but we already know that he can take a fire dragon king level flame already. So that made this interesting, it wouldn’t b a repeat of the first Natsu vs Gajeel fight where the heat eventually broke through the scales. Madmorl’s armor is not like normal metal, its just hardness that can’t be penetrated. Why now does turning up the heat work? Why does it work better after he previously got his ass whipped and just got out of seal stone? You literally won, just because.

Never mind anything I said about Erza vs Kyria with that blade, this is the real worst moment. You know, if you want to make that the case of just over heating then here’s an idea, how about having that enchanter girl over there start activating her attack up buffs. We know she has them and she did it for Erza in the Irene fight. Why not have working together contribute to victory, and not contribute to the loli getting her top burned off. Classy way to end the chapter.

Post Chapter Follow Up: Welp, this chapter was just a mess. I will start positive and say there are some really good ideas with Touka and this idea that FT has grown too powerful. There is a lot of drama in watching our favorite guild be forced to confront some of the shadier aspects of their activities. Afterall, wee got that with Touka hiding behind Laxus and he protected her just cause she was a guild mate regardless of hearing any evidence. Using the sequel to deconstruct the FT guild and all of the ideology it has made up is a really interesting idea. Unfortunately that idea is kinda gotten rid of.

Touka falls into that category of villain with big grand plans that affect the world. Instead of this being an FT problem, they’re just a facet of the problem and thus they’re targeted. Not because the idea of one guild with all that power is scary, but because they aren’t “white.”

And the negatives continue with that DS sword. You could say I’m nitpicking the fuck out of that, but as I said before, the difference between nitpicking EZ and FT is simple. Ez is new, any nitpicking feels like I’m not giving it room to make mistakes and find its footing so it can do better, but FT is a now completed series with a sequel. FT is 500+ chapters and has continuity, it has story arcs and things that need to be remembered and kept accounted for, Otherwise, what’s the point of this series trying to be a continuous story? At the end of the day I can only justify the Belserion blade as, it just seemed cool so Hiro put it in.

And finally we have Natsu just winning against an opponent he didn’t the first time with more fire. You know, if they want to do that, just have it be cause Wendy buffed him. King is Natsu’s pinnacle and we know Madmorl can survive it, so to go beyond, have Wendy use her enhancing ability. Have friendship be a victory rather than just saying the word “friendship.” Use team work to overcome adversaries, that’s why no matter any gripe I have with Black Clover as a story, I’ll always appreciate the series fights almost always being team battles, because when they mentions friendship its actually tangible and not a literal reality rewriting ability.

Final Verdict: 3/10

Some good ideas

Bad action

Many questionable story decisions

#fairy tail #fairy tail 100 years quest #fairy tail 100 years quest 15 #natsu dragneel #erza scarlet #jellal fernandes #wendy marvell #madmorl #team natsu #kyria #skullion raider #gajeel redfox #levy mcgarden #juvia lockser #pantherlily #irene belserion #spriggan 12 #laxus dreyar #touka #lucy heartfilia #gray fullbuster #crime sorciere

[theonlydetermined]

Heading into the New Year

So my feelings have definitely been compromised over the last few months.

I can’t help but to write down what I have been feeling, but also what my realistic expectations are going into the new year. Like the movie “21,” always account for variable change. Unfortunately, I did not account for this.

2017 was definitely one to remember. It wasn’t my best year, but I must humbly say that it was nothing short of a learning experience. The pessimistic side would have indicated that it bluntly sucked ass, but a lot of the things that have happened to me this year have been absolutely out of my control.

There are two things this year that I’m heavily reflecting on; first is my health, second was the end of my 7 year relationship.

When I first started the year, my body felt like I was at an all time high, I was slowly losing weight, I thought I was progressing to where I needed to be mentally, emotionally, and physically. In an instant, my doctors told me I was a few stages from kidney failure. From there, I underwent 7 months of chemo and aggressive steroids which fed into my insecurities such as my weight gain and struggling to maintain some balance. I was in excessive pain, experiencing vertigo like none other, and was extremely depressed. I detest the feeling of not being able to perform at the same level I was accustomed to in the past. I’m not even that old in age. However, my body felt  like it is degenerating at faster rate than everyone else. I never found it so hard to maintain focus. I was engulfed so easily from day 1. I have always been mentally tough regarding my disease. Although at times I was very tempted to use it as a crutch, my subconscious did not allow me too. I never gave up running, I never relinquished my love to play tennis, basketball, or to dance. I continued to only want to be better. I have to thank my family and friends; for not only being supportive, but helping me through my recovery both physically and mentally. God has shown me I cannot do this without his help and hopefully in this coming year I can collaborate with him in order to achieve the ultimate recovery; spiritual recovery. Hopefully, everything else will follow suit.

Second, was my 7 year relationship (I’m aware that I’m putting this out there). The last few months have questioned my purpose in this life. However, I’m progressively coming a long. I’m still grieving this loss because not only did I lose a relationship that would have transpired into an engagement, I lost someone in the process. It was definitely equivalent to someone dying because I do not know this person anymore. I’m guilty of still being in denial about the whole situation because I still want to believe that the person I once loved is still in there. But clearly, things have definitely changed.

I can’t fathom the fact that I can’t put this into words. The best way I can possibly describe these feelings is that in comparison, my feelings feel like Pandora’s box. One day, I’m really good and I would presume that I am better off with a “fuck you attitude.” Other days, when I think about the little stuff, it feels more significant than what it was. Therefore, I relapse once again.

Your voice is still in my head when I lay down at night and when I wake up in the morning.

For good measure, in a cute voice you always use to tell me;

“Don’t let me go okay?”

“How was your day, biff? Before we cuddle, you would always say “haash”

ETC….they keep going with each tear.

I was upset and depressed because that is all I could think about. 75% percent of my current life is reflective of what we had or what we use to do. All I wanted to do is erase it and not remember who the flying fuck you were. Everything I touched and saw initiated a flashback on what we use to be. I remember when shopping for Nora’s Bday gift at Toys R Us at Great Lakes Crossing, one of the baby brands was called GO-BABY-GO. The minute I saw that brand, I kept thinking about when we ziplined by the caverns in Texas which was one of the best times I had in my life regardless of what happened before the trip started.

Shopping for presents this year for Christmas was one the hardest things I ever had to do. I walk into Gamestop and they are selling this Jigglypuff lamp. I kept thinking that I may have wanted to buy that for you just so I can see the smile on your face. This past Thanksgiving was hard as well not being as busy spending it with both of our families. The things that I am thankful for are my family, the people who got me through this difficult time, and the fact that you did not end up killing me in the end.

When your birthday passed, I couldn’t help but to subliminally tell you happy bday via twitter. As much as I hate you for what you did, I still did not want you to feel alone on your birthday. When your with someone who has become an integral part of your life, they become a part of you. Furthermore, when you share that connection with someone whether it is your significant other, family member, or really close friend; you can always sense that something is wrong.

I told you that I hated because you did not understand the gravity of what your actions have done. For better or for worse, I will never be the same. However, that still does not change that the past 7 years meant everything to me.

All I have to say is good luck. I hope you find the happiness you longed for. I just hope that if there were ever a time you were unhappy that you do not compromise your current relationship because that person does not deserve that in any shape or form whatsoever. I have bared witness and shouldered the burden of your depression. I saw how deep you let your insecurities affect the people around you. I just wish you knew what you were doing and you were not so blind or oblivious to what was right in front of you. When people warn you what your doing, it is not that they were criticizing you or purposely to bring down your mentality. It is so that you are not collateral for yourself and for others. You were just so goddamn selfish that you could not see that.

I do have to thank you though for numerous things: 1. Thank you for relieving me of you because I know I will find someone who will love me for me and not the idea of me. Now that we are apart, I gained back a lot; people who I have not seen or talked to in years. People accepting me back in their lives. Fortunately, now I know what I want with some clarity. I will not let a woman define my happiness.

2. Thank you for introducing me to a second family that I never thought I would ever have. Never thought that I would ever meet a collective group that would change my life forever.

3. Thank you accepting my disease when I needed you most. You were really a trooper. Now you have a huge weight lifted off your shoulders.

4. Thank you for all the memories. It was some of the best times of my life. I am forever grateful for all those times. Jersey, Cali, The Bahamas, Texas, Canada, Florida, D.C, etc. The list goes on and on. I won’t let those memories be tainted.

I wish you the absolute best and nothing less. Hopefully one day we can reconcile when we are both better people.

To the people who are there for me now.

*I cannot thank these people enough for what they have done for me helping me end this year on a better note. Without them, I probably would still feel depressed.

KCGF

NVF

JM

JF

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JB

MC

MJ

**VA and JL.

Now I am heading into the new year with a bigger heart and hopefully a better soul. I’m grown up now with still more growing to do. Got some career moves waiting for me and I’m excited. Cheers to a new year and new friendships being made. Hopefully, I’ll find what I’m looking for (Cali is still the goal, if not for better).

[lx-5point0-blog]

Universal LUBRX CHURCH

Initiating contact… LX – 5.0 Uploading… How I spent my summer vacation 2016 by John Driver "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" (Exodus 20:16). In the immortal words of B-A Barackus, Mr.-T A-Team, "I pity the fool." …….. 11-15-16 @ 11am Los Angeles, undisclosed area.. Dear members, In response to a sad situation I have recently been involved in as a test of my character, and the strength of my integrity, I have prepared a not too long piece, in hopes that it can make all of us a better person. The truest tests of character always come with great adversity, strong temptation, or the amassing of personal power. We sell ourselves out when we perceive that the promise of temptation, and immediate gratification, is greater than the risk of the negative consequence. Even when we are aware of the price we may have to pay for it. An example of a lack of ethics perhaps. By looking at a persons actions, some may perceive this to be. A judge of character must be made by another of stronger character, but, remember this, Character can be GOOD, and, it can BAD, as well. Some like to deal in the 50 shades of gray on this subject. I do not. Also, integrity. Integrity is NOT the state of honesty. Integrity is the ability to hold water. The solidity of the vessel. Translation: Are you gonna perform the character that you posses the same way every time when faced with adversity? Therefore; a person of BAD character can posses integrity, as can a person of GOOD character can posses integrity. No gray exists in that sense of the words. All of us display solidity of character when we deal patiently and mindfully with adversity. Some do not see the value of suffering, but it is what strengthens our core as Men. Instant gratification and instant relief deprive, or rob, our age of man of the source to actually build and strengthen our character. I welcome the challenge, the confrontation, the test, as it gives me a sense of energy in my soul every time. In my Humbleness as a Man, I came to a biblical resolution to the actions of another Christian brother, of whom has attempted to take my freedom from me, as they did Brother John the Apostle. He attempts have an authority, behead me, and place it up high. It is very unsportsmanlike in my opinion. In fact, if I am not mistaken(insert sarcasm font here), it is rather... Warlike. Today, as I am driving my car out on the highway, the turnpike, directed my true path, through the Badlands, of a stream of consciousness I have. As it did in the past, in the Lost Hills of the Wilderness. I recall the power of all the energies, and, the collective beliefs of the good, and, the kind. Reminding me, my abilities are mine, and, no one else. Responsibility for actions, Is in MY possession, and, NO ONE else. Therefore, I, am in control of EVERYTHING, I am. Brother Charles, Rest In Peace, said it so, precisely, well," BELIEVE." Because, to "know" is to believe. As a Minister of theology, universally, and, with an education in Fire Science, I have put to work, what I know, and, consulted with my "Father. The omnipotent... I am." You know who I am referring to, I hope. I mean, I understand, there are a few of my fellow Christian brothers, and sisters, that may, mmm, backslide a bit on their ethics at times, or, only think of the subject on Sunday's. It's alright. You are still a great person. I am meek, so, a little something about myself many of you nose-bleeders may not be privy to. The Human condition derives its power from a belief, that something greater than ourselves is the way to survival and happiness. I am human. And an awesome one at that. I also can humiliate myself way better than anyone else can, and, I can tell bad jokes, as well. My imagination is pretty vivid. I write and I am an author, too. I have a condition only 1% of the human race. Oh, and I can defend myself, and protect others with amazing results, also. I am a warrior of energy and light. A spirit of FIGHT. And of compassion. Empathy. Kindness. Oh, and a Good Samaritan. So, the word is strong, and, by example, our true character is judged. "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Romans 12:19). "For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffetted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an EXAMPLE, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, WHEN HE WAS REVILED, REVILED NOT AGAIN; when he suffered, HE THREATENED NOT; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously" (I Peter 2:20-22). “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake” (Matthew 5:11). The old nature, the fallen nature, will always tend to the sins of the flesh and these are contrary to the Spirit, we know that. The new nature imparted by Christ Jesus will produce the fruit of the Spirit, which fruit is contrary to the sins of the flesh, we know that too (Galatians 5:16-24). But, how often do we yield to the flesh rather than the Spirit when we are attacked or otherwise set upon by an injurious accusation coming from someone unscrupulous enough to not establish the facts in the matter? Remember that when we put on the Lord Jesus Christ, we will be like Christ in how we respond to things like false accusation. "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof" (Romans 13:14). The Lord Jesus Christ took upon Himself the mantle of meekness. When He was reviled, He reviled not again. He was meek and lowly. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am MEEK and LOWLY in heart: and ye shall find rest for your souls" (Matthew 11:29). And understand that meekness is not weakness. It is strength, for God honors the meek in spirit, and upholds those who would depend upon Him in the clearing of any unjust matter. The man who will chose to not defend himself against the unjust accusations of others is taking the position of meekness and humility leaving the matter in God's hands alone for His resolution. When a brother or sister is falsely accused, and matters are taken into one's own hands, pride and arrogance will follow, leading to a bad case of bitterness and anger. Translation: Malicious behavior with an agenda of only destroying a persons life is usually an excuse for a caveman to crush his skull. Usually, ending up in Life without parole. Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: THE LORD REWARD HIM according to his works" (II Timothy 4:14. "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Romans 12:19). God will honor those who honor Him, and the false accuser will find that his wrongdoing will come down upon his own head. God knows how to clear the just, and in time He will do that. In the meantime, it is important that we pray for those who have falsely accused us, and have made themselves our enemies. Let us guard our own hearts against this sin, and let us deal with false accusation in a manner that pleases the Lord. Have an awesome day, JL That being said… there is more… Tactics used against a victim of harassment or more clearly defined recently , is PsychoTerror. Perfected by Scientologists and the L Ron Hubbard doctrine, are: • Sleep deprivation (a step required to achieve brain washing according to Russian documents) • Noisy investigations / accusations(a cowardly, in my opinion, tactic of defaming a victim without ever coming into contact with a person) • Arrogant (shit eating grin-a subconscious method of the absence of humility)) • Mimic(meant to disrupt/ or a want to be something other than ones self; cops dream of being Outlaws) • Up bridge (Image/ status/ success perceived) • Kennesaw, GA (Location and proximity of past residence and employment is a trail of the crime in all cases.) REVENGE is entirely a feminine trait. REVENGE is sweetest served up cold. I personally do not seek revenge, but, do seek to even the score, impose STREET justice, put my hands on them, but, my hands are my words, and my words are weapons of humility. That being said, I do not ever chase or hunt, instead prefer to trap. Patience is key to successfully trapping the perpetrator. I've already mentally imagined the encounter, for life is like a wheel, and whatever goes around, comes around. The inevitability of the encounter is highly likely. The network or social connections, prove that we all know each other, or, if you know the right seven people, you are connected to everyone on the planet. This is the reason I choose kindness and honesty, live and respect. Somebody I have never met before is some how a friend of a friend of an associate to a relative, and so on. It is my Legacy I am creating. I prefer to find the strengths in people, and if it is good, dwell on this. I know who I am and I am forever learning daily of new subjects. The human race is one race and racism is not a condition I participate in. I am colorblind, literally and figuratively. I am only 1% of males in the world with this brand of visual deficiency or an Evolutionary Mutation an Adaptation. It is considered to be an assets to overcome and see through objects which are camouflaged. Just an interesting point I would like to add. In the human race, and the species of homosapiens, I believe the female is the smartest of the two. Why? Because the emotional and subconscious blinders that men have do not exist in women. Therefore, they do not need testosterone. The power of suggestion is the strength of the most intelligent ones. These times and situations are changing to allow the woman to excel and produce far more than the male. Some women, even believe they do not need one man. And that marriage is a trick, and an unnecessary social brainwash. I know of a woman that believes this is true. And she convinced her parents of this, and to assist her in a purchase of a home. Our paths crossed during the occupancy of that time, and it taught me a valuable lesson of why it is necessary to never assume anything about someone you have recently just met. And that everyone, is up to something. Without a doubt in my mind. It's just relative to the degree of good or bad. But they are doing it, or thinking it, or even talking about it. Some are special patient creative and selfish in their methods. Some will attempt to talk you around and around, or just out in out lie, believing they have convinced you of something that is not reality, in an attempt to create another more suitable for them. Excerpts from Sermon on the Mount: Matthew, Chapter 5-7: 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. The Fulfillment of the Law 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.18For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.19Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.20For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. Murder 21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’22But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell. 23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,24leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift. 25 “Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.26Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny. Eye for Eye 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ 39But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.40And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.41If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. Treasures in Heaven 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.23But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Judging Others 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brotherʼs eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brotherʼs eye. 6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. 9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?11If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. The Narrow and Wide Gates 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. True and False Prophets 15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheepʼs clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?17Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. The Wise and Foolish Builders 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” 28When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law. Stay Strong, John T. Lober, Minister of the Universal Life Church ©COPYRIGHTED ™LUBRXbrand ®UNIVERSALlifeCHURCH