#yeah this list is old

[evan-writes-once-in-a-blue-moon]

Sapphic September prompt 22- "Are you ok?"

Barbara Minerva/Reader

WC: 720ish

Contains: pre-established relationship (sorta), comfort :), sprinkle of usual 1980s... idk., pre-movie (Wonder Woman: 1984).

AN: brought to you by me being bored at work and my friend selecting a random number, god bless.

Summary: You found Barbara in the bathroom composing herself... but you knew better than to let her hold it inside.

~-*-~

You reached out and got a hold of her shoulder, gently letting her know you were there.

"Barbara?"

She spun toward you and quickly flashed a smile and gestured as if nothing had happened. The gesture didn't magically erase her red eyes and the tear that had escaped and trailed through makeup. "Oh, hi, I didn't see you come in."

"Are you ok?" You didn't wait to ask. You watched her carefully as she brushed her hand through her hair and searched for a tissue in her pockets. You held one out to her, having grabbed one from the bathroom counter. She said "thanks" quietly and dabbed at her eyes and her cheek. "Barb," you stepped closer, but she put a hand on your shoulder and squeezed. She smiled bravely, but you knew there could have been a million things that caused her to cry in the bathroom.

"It's ok," she smiled again, but didn't keep your gaze.

"No, tell me."

It was an invitation just as much as it was a breath away from a begging plead.

"It-" her breath hitched, and she leaned against the counter, her back to the mirror. "It was... um. Leroy. He... I wrote a paper about the- the specimens from last month. He said I rushed it." She repeated his statement as if it was impossible. You both knew what it meant- that she was wrong in her findings.

You waited. While the work bathroom wasn't the best place for her to stammer, hiccup, and stumble through an explanation, you knew she wouldn't speak about it again and simply hold it with a white-knuckled grip in her heart if she didn't explain now.

You also knew Leroy was often the source of her sorrow- he was her boss. Although how he got the job ahead of her... you both knew it was only because he was a man and he had grown up with the museum director's family. Many an insult and plot had been half-heartedly formed against the man by Barbara... but that didn't matter.

What mattered was Barbara feeling like shit because he doesnt believe she's as good as she's proved time and time again.

"But I didn't rush it- I took the whole month! He was so sure that the specimens were more than they had been tagged, and he told me to do all these stupid tests! Which I did, of course, most of them I would do anyway just because I hardly have things to do anyway. But I did my job and I did it right and he just- he was so frustrating! He- god, he..." she sighed, catching her breath. "He's wrong! The stones are just- well, they're not just anything. They are pretty spectacular examples of their kind. But they're a dime a dozen, not something special. He's just angry that they're not much to showcase. He'll probably end up lying and totally over-writing my report and do something stupid with them anyway."

There it was. She had calmed down under your soothing attention and nodding, attention focused on her. You were thankful it hadn't taken long.

She looked at you, giving you a weak smile, but this time it was a real one. She had cried a little more during her ramble, but it wasn't anything she couldn't fix in a few minutes. She reached up and gently squeezed your arm.

"Better?" You asked, smiling. Your smile comforted and reassured hers.

She nodded. "You always know how to fix me."

You laughed, and it echoed in the empty bathroom. "I do my best."

She stood, her weight away from the counter. You both waited for a moment, listening for anyone coming toward the bathroom door. It was silent. She quickly cupped your cheeks and gave you a kiss- one you reciprocated. It was quick, but no less a comfort to both of you.

You heard someone coming and you pulled back, moving to a sink and starting to wash your hands. Barbara did the same.

One of the girls in your department came in, hurrying to a stall. You and Barbara left the bathroom, no longer needing to speak about the conversation.

"Are you ok?" You grabbed her hand and asked again before you split ways down the hallway. You let go of her hand quickly, but not before she gave yours a squeeze.

"I am," she nodded.

"I'll see you later, then?"

She nodded again.

"Can't wait," you smiled, giving her a wink, and turning away before she blushed.

#sappicseptember2019 #yeah this list is old #barbara minerva #barbara minerva/reader #dc/reader #wonder woman 1984 #cheetah wonder woman 1984 #ww 1984 #wlw #wlw fic #wlw fluff #barbara my beloved this is long awaited by me and me only #also rach i guess #dc cheetah #cheetah/reader #dc cheetah/reader

[icy-moons]

dreamworks animation can be pretty hit or miss but when they hit, they really fucking hit

#shrek #httyd #megamind #the bad guys #kung fu panda #prince of egypt #i actually had to look up what other movies dreamworks animation had #and my point still stands #like yeah sure no one remembers mr peabody & sherman but the impact of shrek and the bee movie and megamind. cultural powerhouses #this is an old post but im including puss in boots the last wish on the hits list #also sorry to people who were emotionally attached to peabody & sherman. i also enjoyed that movie but it's just not the others

[aroaceleovaldez]

I never quite finished these two cards the first time i tried making a PJO major arcana and I never posted them. I really like the designs though so I’ll probably try to do something similar when I draft them again

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #leo valdez #my art #tarot #hoo #the main thing i wanted to adjust for the Leo card was the Festus cause. i was struggling to simplify a mechanical dragon for tarot #also wasn't 100% on the embers detail cause wasnt sure how well that'd translate to a physical card #nico's was pretty close to done though #also i never figured out a boarder / font #im still obsessed with the way Leo was described during the fight in the end of BoO for the record #just ''yup he was MADE OF FIRE'' so cool #i can go through my list of my card assignments if anyone's curious #a couple of cards arent fully solidly decided but a decent amount are #also looking at my old art is reminding me the colors on my old monitor were a Lil Skewed #so saturated.... #nico's card will prob stay mostly the same though cause hell yeah that rocks. still love it. #if anyone's curious for these card reasonings - #judgement is traditionally depicted with an angel raising the dead and the planetary association is pluto. #i couldn't NOT. also card meanings: destiny / upcoming decision / putting past behind / healing / judgement / self-reflect / self-doubt #which is very nico vibes to me #then death is resistance to change / major change / endings & start of something new / personal transformation #which feels very Leo to me! plus i like the imagery of instead of Death on a horse it's Leo on Festus at the end of BoO #cause that was him ending a chapter of him trying to find himself and starting anew

[landgraabbed]

#p #tesiii #retiring my old tag ig #guess who has a mod load working! #and its the smoothest ive ever had it #combing thru mod lists and such to make sure i didnt miss anything but yeah. i done did it!! 95% of it at least #i do wish there was an updated grass mod for tr but ill cross that bridge when i get there. even if i have to gen the grass myself

[strawberrrylipsart]

The tie has been lost.

OFFTOBER - day 6 Resolved Panic

#offtober #off art #off fanart #off batter #this is after the timed section so like... the panic is over! batter got all the ghosties! but they took his tie :( #prompt list is from echothefreak #yeah im just using the same old bubble mailer and painting on it lmao #i like the texture it gives to backgrounds

[omegalomania]

coup de main, 2013

#fall out boy #patrick stump #*making poasts #id in the alt text #was looking thru old articles and this tickled me #the just one yesterday lyric that foxes sings is one of his favorites on srar! #he really did pay for a couple kids' taxi ride home after a sp era show! #also he lists his friendship crushes as tom hanks elvis costello batman josh groban and kevin smith #yeah batman. he just throws that in there in the middle

[rabbiteclair]

do other fields have this thing where 80% of people who are, in theory, mid-career experienced professionals are barely capable of performing fairly basic tasks without personalized guidance, or is software development just suffering under the curse of an entire generation being told to go into the field if they want to earn enough money to pay rent

#got off work two hours late today #because i was helping somebody with such daunting bugs as #'ah see the issue here is that you sent your content-type header to application/vnd.ms-excel for some reason.' #'you told the server that you are sending it an Excel file. like. an old Excel file. and you aren't. so why did you do that?' #'ah. I see. you copied some 12-year-old code and reused it without considering what it does? well. there's your problem.' #also 'one problem I see is that you spelled company wrong. yes. it has an M in it. right. put an M there. an M. like Monkey. M' #'yes put an M. no not at the end. see how you typed 'conpany'? yes it needs to be 'company'. so just fix that' #'right. c-o-m-p-a-n-y. yes. that's where the M should go. okay but now you've typed 'cmpany'. can we put an O there? yes after the C' #and 'well the problem here is that you're retrieving a list of numbers and telling Hibernate to interpret them as a random object' #'ah it's some code you copied from somewhere and didn't change apart from the query? yeah that tracks. well. change it.'

[bitternace]

Any number? 23 and saïx :)

couldn't count all the ways that i've died for you

[ID: a digital drawing of saix from kingdom hearts. He is shown from the hip up, his body in 3/4's and his face in profile. He is shadowed in warm tones. He has a neutral expression, and he's standing straight.

The background is transparent except for a circle that lays from the middle of his shoulders and upwards, with three sections that have a slightly bigger circumference where one to three, seven to eight, and eight to nine would be on a clock. All scenes are blue tones with a noise overlay. these three are all from saix's perspective.

In the first, there is a cloaked figure shown from the waist down, the tip end of young xehanort's keyblade leans forward and some of it goes out of bound, tiled floor as a background. The second one is saix's hand reaching for kingdom hearts. The third is his hand reaching towards Lea, who lies on the floor of radiant garden's lab.

The rest of the circumference is a labyrinth wall in keyblade's graveyard, with a harsh diagonal line of light on the upper half. Most of the circumference is lined black, except from nine to one o'clock, lined white. /End ID.]

#here ya go! :] #typhra #hi dear!!! you're probably gonna see this a little later than when i'm posting but mwah mwah #i didn't know what to do at first!! the og idea was using 'you color me in from my skin to my bones' with berserker saix #then 'are you lost? Take my hand' (see: subject x) but couldnt figure it out and then this idea came to me and i went on a frenzy (jesting) #i'm also not great @mouths/teeth but i will eventually work on figuring teeth out. I'd love to do a more elaborate berserker saix one day #anyway this was so much fun ty for the ask :] #there's a lot of trivia for this one #i told typhra right away but when the ask came in i was currently listening to no.23 of the list #this song was a runner up for the lyric i would slap over that is/alea kissy pic i drew months ago #which is funny to me #There was another piece of trivia but i'm drawing a blank hold up #saix kh #nano does reqs #my doods #oH YEAH #when i originally said 'this is done!' The time stamp (....i work slow) was 8:07 and after i noticed some details #it became 8:09 which i think is hilarious since #8/7 as his new/old org number and 8/9 as eight and death number?? okay damn #hilarious universe tysm

[starbuck]

my relationship with the mountain goats album i've been listening to for three and a half months straight is on a level you could never understand

#this is about Protein Source of the Future...Now! please do not derail #once and awhile i switch it out for a different CD but i can only listen to anything else two times through at most #and then it's back to the good old standard #the songs are just so... comfy???? #and almost every one is massively emotionally satisfying over and over #although the funny thing is that even now i could probably only confidently name around half of them? #75% at best #bc my car's CD player doesn't know how to properly read the CD #so the songs are just listed as numbered tracks #but yeah this album and i have been through some SHIT #it has gotten me through such a stressful period in my life and continues to do so #and i am so so grateful #probably not the typical mountain goats album one would say that about but oh well! #the mountain goats #tmg

[rivertalesien]

The Old Guard.

Nimona.

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Blue Eye Samurai.

Motherland: Fort Salem.

Warrior Nun.

We've been given some excellent potential franchises here. Two of them--the most explicitly queer/subversive--were cancelled, though each of them feature queer or queer-coded characters.

No idea if/when we'll see the follow-up to The Old Guard, but the setup had potential for realizing the relationship between Andy/Quynh.

Nimona is one of the most no-apologies trans characters ever.

D&D and Blue Eye Samurai conveniently skirt queer themes even as central characters appear coded.

In fact, one of the more regressive(?) elements of Samurai is that the main (male) villains are openly queer, but only ever seen being sexually serviced by women. This is a show that, at first, kept it's protagonist on a seemingly asexual path, only to discard it toward the end in a flashback (where she, for reasons that seem entirely out of character, agrees to marry a man and eventually enjoys sex and possibly falls in love with him).

It also setup what might have been a moment of queerbaiting in the long/suggestive stare between Mizu and Akemi, only to drop that hard in Taigen's lap, so to speak. Spinning away from that potentiality to setup a possible future romance with her childhood bully? uh

Netflix cancelled Warrior Nun in its second, acclaimed hit season, after it made its protagonist openly queer.

Not saying Samurai got the memo, but I wouldn't count on it courting a queer audience with an openly queer character or relationship (do I dare them? Yeah).

Will TOG2 or D&D2 follow a similar memo? Will Nimona, should it get a return? Not holding a breath, but it would be nice if they threw that memo away. Ripped it to shreds. Burn in the Black Cauldron. Something.

Because each of these stories are all brilliantly queer at their heart (whether intentional or not, mostly intentional), and we've been written out of pretty much everything, which only makes it easier to spread lies and hate in the real world. Care about us? Include us. No coding. No metaphors.

Motherland, Warrior Nun, Nimona (even The Old Guard) made it a priority. The rest could, too. Here's hoping they all return gayer than ever.

like Bob always said

#the old guard #nimona #warrior nun #motherland fort salem #blue eye samurai #dungeons and dragons : honor among thieves #queer media #queer characters #spoilers #all found family stories #guess what we gravitate to #that was picard season 1/2 too #but then they found the old family and decided to boot everyone else out so yeah not on this list

[seagull-scribbles]

I see so much art for the future Rise turtles, BUT WHAT OF THESE!? So i did a quick messy sketch during my 1hr lecture

2003 - S3E21

#TMNT #TMNT 2003 #honestly been obsessing over these #Raphs gained some weight hes like those old war vets that sit in bars all day i love him #also another raph with an eye injury to add to the list #Leo’s not even blue #so funny he raided the kraangs wardrobe from s1/s2 i think #mikey really committed to the no clothes aesthetic #also yeah i know 2012 also has grown up apocalyptic versions ill get to that i havent watched s4/s5 of that show yet #but look at these old men #these geezers #raph smiled once when he hugged Donnie #and he also was like ninjitsu who as he started throwing glass #Leo forgot hes a turtle with a shell but that’s fine hes senile #him and raph held hands i was sobbing #mikey you where forgotten too quickly ill mourn you i love you #also spoilers for e23 but when Donnie’s like YOUR ALL YOUNG AND MIKEY YOU HAVE BOTH ARMS #the brothers are like hello Donnie and dont even question it #they all went to their dream world and Donnie went through the horrors #very excited for 2012 which is the only version of my knowledge to have a future Donnie…TECHnically #anyway yeah these guys love them April didnt mourn them enough #ive decided the oversized jacket raph has was found at caseys #hed got it cheap in a sale even thought its ginormous and then this chunky dude found it and was like for me :) #took me ages to figure out why Leo wasn’t wearing glasses and then drawing this i was like oh shell his mask is gone #dont look Leo in the yes hes like Medusa you’ll turn to stone #raphael splinterson #leonardo splinterson #Michaelangelo splinterson #TMNT SAINW #SAINW

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

Rewatched the episode of House MD where Kutner dies and I honestly think instead of killing his character off, they should have said that Kutner got a job as physician to then President Barack Obama and that's why he was leaving. Objectively funnier since his actor did leave the show to work for Obama and I know it would have driven House nuts that Kutner was ditching to go play doctor with the President instead of getting verbally abused for House's amusement.

#house md #house md spoilers #i mean #the show is like a decade old but Kutner's death is kind of a big spoiler #lawrence kutner #but like #u KNOW Taub and Foreman would be seething with jealousy #kutner shows up one morning like hey guys i got a new job! I'll miss you! #and house makes some bitchy comment about who would be crazy enough to hire the guy who set a patient on fire #and Kutner is like the president did lol #thirteen would find Foreman's undying rage HILARIOUS im sure #i like to hc that Kutner is her Little Buddy™ #Taub would be ready to kill someone #and House is mad bc well its p much impossible for him to meddle #can't very well intimidate and terrorize the president into not hiring one of ur emotional support ducklings bc ur jealous #wilson and cuddy c plot (Kutner's political career is the b plot patients are a plot obviously) #where they have to desperately try to prevent house from being arrested for domestic terrorism (stalking the president) #but yeah they should have just given Kutner the same reason his actor had for leaving #bc i think it would make Taub kill himself out of rage and Foreman would be chewing glass and House is going to end up on a watch list #meanwhile Thirteen is so proud of her emotional support Little Guy™ even if she's too busy talking Taub and Foreman off the ledge #to properly congratulate him #im objectively correct and kind of want to write this as an au fic

[aldenhan]

i love a good senile boyfriend. he may not be physically old but mentally he is at least 85 and he’s always convinced someone is after him.

#sooo many men i could say this abt #the two men who started this are so random but #fox mulder #pierre bezukhov #yeah… don’t tell me i’m wrong #oh and #indiana jones #he’s old now but even when he was young he was senile #would i be wrong to say sweeney todd? idk #sweeney todd #josh groban plays a lot of them… #tj caruso #the list goes on #josh lyman #steven hyde #jim gordon

[bootyful-seventeen]

I am heavily contemplating on buying myself a dvd player soon and buying all the DVDs for a ton of movies and tv shows I grew up watching cuz I miss the magic of dvds

#hear me out on this one okay. but the Barbie movies were magic on dvd back in the day #and I do wanna see if stores are still selling the old strawberry shortcake dvds before I go online for those #I wanna snort that nostalgia so bad #and of course I’ll need to get the dcau on dvd #like all of it cuz I’m so bored with the dccu since we don’t get as much new stuff #it’s always Batman or superman and love them but I’m kinda bored from always seeing a new bman or sups movie #Wonder Woman I wouldn’t mind a new actor for her but I know she’s not gonna be a muscle mommy which I’ll be sad about #give me a Wonder Woman that is built like rhea ripely god damnit #the flash is eh cuz I found out this whole time I’ve been watching the Wally west flash #but yeah Wally is who I want and then there’s the green lantern like dude is so cool iams all we have is the 1 from 2011 I think #sure I could watch some of the tv series they have but I have too many shows on my watch list it’s overwhelming at times so I skip over lots #tho I will have to pray like crazy cuz some of the things I know I want are probably gonna be expensive as fuck even as second hand #saw a class of the titans season 1 dvd going for $81 cad 💀💀💀 #the world is not kind to those who don’t love the digital age #I prefers my dvds cuz I own it and no one can take it away from me unless they physically steal it #omg I’m turning into my grandma cuz she still had the vhs player with some tapes too #just wish she never donated the tapes for swan princess 1-3 and Anastasia and ferngully and basically all my faves that she owned #like Ngl a part of me wants to hit up value village just to see if maybe they’re still there or if I’ll find other copies of the same things #cuz a perk about cities with older people is that you get so much older tech and other items it’s insane

[gurorori]

enstars lolita substyle tier list <- delivered by a guy whos been So normal abt lolita for the past 7 yrs

#yehs ya might notice i removed the old school ones cuz well frankly. i don think enstarsies wld rly b into old school. apart from.. ahem #MIKAAAAAAA KAGEHIRAAAA #anyway #note: i do nawt hate ibanagi. i hate military #but yeah the old school ones stressed me so badly i jus ripped em out ok. no one can have it only me #if yr wonderin. wat these r based off #its vibes. i kno a lot of characters on a surface level im by naw means like usin sum kinda deep profound lore #jus vibes + personal opinion of like #imaginin the person in a substyle n if it clicks i add #tier list #ensemble stars #<- sneaky main tag. im ready

[thetriangletattoo]

inktober day 8 - phone

#larrie inktober #i still can't believe I'm doing inktober for real #I'm having so much fun with this list #idk maybe it's bc it's themed or maybe bc I'm finally in the mood and i have actual ideas #either way this is my take on the phone prompt and yeah i cheated a bit using an old sketch #hldaily #hltracks #hledit #hljournal #hlcreators #trackinghappily #trackinghome #flo's sketchbook