#'it's been 84 years' is me i am it

[starsundertheceiling]

"Potter!"

#no bc the way i am screaming #i can't even read the book because i'm actively screaming #'it's been 84 years' is me i am it #i've watched the movie before so it's not like i didn't know that this would happen #but c'mon it's literally been 190 pages since i've last seen him #and it's not that many but in the meantime theo made me want to throw the book 7522 times soo.. #when i tell you i adore boris but want to bite theo's head off #ok i have to shut up and continue reading lol #byeeee #boreo #the goldfinch

[valkyrie0cain]

tiktok has discovered maxley and now i'm just waiting for all the new art and fic.

#i have been going here for 84 years #i fucking love max and brad #maxley #max goof #bradley uppercrust iii #my text posts #also the surge in edits has made me want to write my own fic and i very much am

[khaotunq]

"i don't know this fandom but i read this because i like your writing"

i am ON tHE FloOR.

#honestly. i'm going to swear eternal fealty to you. #+ i got comments telling me i'm funny so i'm also swearing myself to them forever #i am occasionally utterly baffled that people still find my tw fics #which is fine and i'm glad people enjoy them but i do not recommend them #(that sounds flippant. i'm genuinely very happy people still find joy in them) #but this in particular. someone coming over from my tw fic to the moonlight chicken one #absolutely floored me. i am unable to quite express the depths of my floored-ness #yes it's taken me like 14 hours to peel myself off me3 to go reply to fic comments #because i've opened ao3 properly for the first time in forever i'm considering posting gaipas pov of that same fic #but i also don't know if anyone will read it #but i also also don't know that i post things for any other reason than. i wanna. #i've had it written for ages i've just been swithering for 84 years #anyway. #so it is decreed

[randolphbellmd]

last (scheduled) day of all experiments ever in grad school everybody cheered

#i cannot wait until this whole 12-hour shift starting at 4:30 am on both sat and sun thing is over let me tell you #it’s been 84* years #*7.1 years

[maddy-ferguson]

do you guys ever wonder what nick is up to these days

#byler #i know twt bylers hate him because they think he's a scammer who wrote the scripts himself somehow #but I still think they were real honestly and i feel like a lot more people on here do #like yeah i hate who i am is sad but nick didn't write it himself i fear #i wonder how they got rid of him because the last time he popped up he was saying he had proof through two cast members that the scripts #were legit #not me trying to revive #scriptgate #when it's been 84 years already (it's only been a month and a half. can you believe)

[essektheylyss]

Reunited (with my beloved glasses) and it feels so goooood

#it's been 84 years..... #i joke but they told me 5-7 business days and it turned out to be uhhh 12. cuz i am so blind and they were a pain to cut lenses for lol #I've got blue light filters. I've got the special lens type cuz otherwise they're like half an inch thick. they're huge. #but they also replaced my nose pieces!!! took such good care of my bbys #anyway thriving. i almost waited until lunch and was like. nah I'm going now i want my blue light filters #my old glasses were so off my prescription and they're huge and plastic and orange inside #but these are brass and metal and elegant #best glasses. bbys. #i straight up am gonna wear these until they cannot be used anymore. gonna have to wear out the metal before i replace them.

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

WIFI WIFI WIFI WIFI I THINK WE'RE GONNA GET MORE FL IN FONTAINE DID TOU SEE THE TRAILERRRRRRRRR!!!

AHHH OUR SILLY GINGER BOY IS OUT FOR A CHALLENGE!!

HOPE YOU'RE EATING WELL, STAYING HYDRATED AND SLEEPING GOOD CAUSE ITS ABOUT TO GET FUN!

-🍀

AARGRHGHHGHH I SAW CHILDE DURING THE TRAILER AND WAS LIKE THAT'S HIM!!!!!!! THAT'S MY BOY!!!!!!!!! oh PLEASE let Foul Legacy make a comeback, Fontaine is already shaping up to be amazing and that would make it SO MUCH BETTER PLEEEAASE

plus i can think up so many fun underwater brainrot when the swimming portion of Fontaine is released heehehehehe

#chit chat #🍀anon #genshin talk #i don't think i have to tag this as spoilers since the trailer is out #BUT if anyone would like me to just shoot me a message!! #i am so hyped for fontaine #not only are focalors and alrecchino getting released but my boy CHILDE IS BACK #it's been 84 years #focalors will actually be my first archon if i do get her! #i think her design is stunning #who are yall pulling for during fontaine? #good evening :)

[hauntingblue]

NAMI HAS TAKEN ACTION!!! LETSGOOOOO

#when is uta gonna physically fight luffy..... it's just a matter of time #shanks planning on coming back?? its been 84 years.... that probably was only said to makino bc he is trying to sway her.... girl run... #'that's our local sea beast' so he just hangs out??? well fuck me #luffy was just fucking around about the making a new era and look what happened.... apollo blessed him.... #the sun god omg.... nika..... ahdahsaj i ws fucking around with that too HAJSHAJA #oh no shit he does actually come back.... i thought this was the same time... omg... THAT'S EVEN SKETCHIER!!! #thinking luffy wss just here alone depressed in foosha and ace was there alone depressed on the forest too...... 🥺🥺🥺 #ohhhh little luffy....... like i know she is not dead but something happened..... what.... #oh it might seem like she died... elegia destroyed bc of shanks??? what is that and tot music (sounds like catalan meaning all music to me) #beckman has haki too? like zoro........ #SHE HAS BEEF WITH SHANKS?? SEE HOW HE IS SKETCHY!! WHATS WITH THAT FACE??? #i need to make my evil shanks cosnpiracy board but that whill be implied on my other bigger conspiracy board i am sure #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 1030 #zeus got free... its namis turn... #usopp and nami being strong and brave for tama..... exactly..... #and so they meet again..... oh new break with momo....... #otama tamed big mom too omg ajdhajshaja prometheus saying she enters mom mode with kids under 10 AHDHAJSHAJ #no way big mom is turning on kaido for this.... SHE KNOWS RYUO TOO??? SHE IS NOT TOUCHING HIM OMG #goodbye page one... jesus.... now his sister..... damn #damn. wasnt expecting all that. now nami can take zeus either way hehe #episode 1031 #when are we gonna get ad breaks for the rest of the crew.... we get it zoro and luffy are important.... okay.... #sanji carrying zoro.... here we go.... #PEROSPERO????? DIEEEE!!!! WHERE IS CARROT??? #komachiyo..... TAMAA!!!!! usopp tells nami to take her and run.... NAH!!!! FUCK HER SHIT UP!!!!!! #nami finally fighting omg i have been waiting for this moment #episode 1032

[shesailsships]

HAPPY OMG-LOCKWOOD & CO-IS-FINALLY RELEASED DAY !!

#lockwood and co #lockwood #jonathan stroud #IT'S BEEN 84 YEARS #okay it's been 10 #BUT STILL #I am like delirious with excitement #mah portland row bbs mean everything to me #if you didn't know that lockwood is an obsession of mine #look out i'm about to go hyper fixation mode #:DD #about me

[lexa-griffins]

Hi 👩🏼‍⚕️

I say this lovingly, "You truly are evil and cruel. You belong in the pantheon of people who want to watch the world burn"

I was blindsided by that cancer diagnosis for Clarke and Lexa's daughter and I was not expecting that when I asked you to hurt them. Lexa lost Clarke and now she might lose Madi! She truly believes her entire life is falling apart

How explosive will the confrontation be when Clarke and Lexa are alone and she demands Lexa to tell her everything and why she hid Madi from her? Will Lexa finally confess everything and let down all her walls and be vulnerable with Clarke? Will this push them closer together or farther apart? I need answers!!!

Damn, is there something wrong with me if I love this unimaginable level of pain, heartache, and trauma that they both have to navigate together for Madi's sake. It might actually be cathartic for me since I've seen this happen as a nurse. Sometimes I just wish I could absorb all their pain and heal them. I wanna lay in Madi's bed and hug her and tell her that she'll be fine and there's nothing to worry about (I hate putting on a brave face when I know that's a lie 🥺)

Do you promise that all three of them will be happy together as a family when Madi goes into remission? My heart won't survive if they have to say goodbye to Madi. I'll never forgive you if Madi doesn't learn the truth about her doctor also being her mom. They deserve a happy ending 🥺

I am so very sorry for smacking you in the face with that but 😈 angst is angst 😈

Lexa's entire world shatters when she hears those words out of Clarke's mouth. Madi was fine, she has been fine so how, how did Lexa miss any signs that something could be wrong?

And Clarke. God Clarke wants to yell, she wants to cry and run away. She wants to shake Lexa, ask her how could she hide her daughter from her like this and at the same time she wants to hug her so badly and promise her everything will okay, that she will not sleep until Madi is cured and then, then they can go and be a family and she can learn about everything she missed during those 2 years and never again be away from them. And more than anything she wants to kneel on the bed, take Madi's small hand and tell her that she is her sire and that she doesnt need to worry because she'll never let anything bad happen to her, that she knows Madi will be so brave through all of this.

They wait for Madi to fall asleep eventually, a couple of hours later after Clarke had to, at great cost to her heart, excuse herself to see other patients, leaving Lexa sniffing with a nod and Madi curled up to her side. Clarke finds Lexa by a vending machine and calmly, oh so much calmer than she feels, asks her to speak to her alone. The moment the janitor's closet door closes Clarke let's the waterworks start.

"Why didn't you tell me? Why would you keep her from me? Do you really hate me this much? I'm your fucking mate, how could you?"

Soon the tears of anger turn into sobs as Clarke breaks down completely, "I didn't have any time with her and now I might not have that much left." Which Clarke understands might be a horrible to tell a mother who just found out her child has cancer but she is her child too goddammit!

They cry in each other's arms as Lexa whispers apologies that could never bring back the years Clarke lost with her little girl.

Its not easy for them. Lexa moves into a little apartment in the city, knowing this is the best hospital for Madi to stay at. Clarke insists on still being Madi's doctor even if she's her sire, there is no way she's not gonna spend as much time with her daughter as she possibly can.

Its treatable and that is all they can focus on. Still the operation is a risk so Lexa and Clarke spend as much time as they can manage with Madi and with each other. And its so easy for Lexa to fall back in love with Clarke. She isnt even sure how and why she ever stopped, why was she so scared of having a life with her, why she all but put as much distance as she could between her and Clarke the moment she learned she was pregnant. She feels so beyond guilty for not allowing Clarke and Madi happier memories together. Perhaps this is her punishment for pushing Clarke away the way she did. She had a chance to make it right when they accidentally mated and she didn't and now he universe might take Madi away from her and leave her with without her daughter and without her mate.

Try as she can Clarke is not allowed in the operation room. They haven't told Madi yet but they do not know what will happen inside the block so they tell her. The little girl's smile, however weaker, could still lighten up a room.

"I knew it! I knew you were my mom."

Clarke smiles at her, trying so hard not to choke on her tears while Lexa turns away from them both to hide her own, "How did you know?"

Madi blinks, slowly. She's getting tired much faster now and Clarke softly brushes her temple that peaks behind the beany Madi now wears as without her hair she keeps complaining of being cold. Its one of Lexa's old ones, kne she stole from Clarke all those years ago.

"Your scent. You smell-" she stops mid-sentence, rudely interrupted by a yawn "-you smell like mommy."

Right. They are mated, her and Lexa's scents have mixed to create their own, the exact same scent Madi has being so young.

"I smell like mommy?"

"Yeah... like home."

As she falls asleep, her mothers' sobs can not longer be kept inside.

Lexa and Clarke stay at the hospital during the entire operation. There is no more pretending they do not want to touch or embarrassment over leaning on each other. They cry on each other's shoulders, kiss to comfort each other, make promises they don't even know they'll be able to keep if Madi makes it out okay.

-

Lexa moves into Clarke's apartment. They don't know what they are doing but it makes it easier for both of them.

-

After two weeks, Madi's has a whole bedroom set up. It feels weird and yet so right in Clarke's eyes. Lexa's clothes in her wardrobe, her favorite coffee next to Clarke's on the counter, Madi's small pair of shoes by the entrance, a spare bedroom left bare for the past couple of years now inhabited by the light of her eyes.

Lexa and her never really talk about it - god they have always been horrible at talking - but in their own weird way, they know they are each other's forevers.

Madi is better now. Not cured, not fully yet, but she's on her way. Her hair is growing back in the most adorable brown locks and she now has enough energy to play around the apartment and go on small walks. She smiles brighter, fuller and has started calling Clarke mom.

Lexa proposed. It is not costume for the omega to get down on one knee but very little of their life together so far has been traditional. Madi will be their ringbearer and the little brother she doesn't yet know she's gonna have will be their little flower boy - even if she pouts when she learns the wedding will be postponed for about her year as Lexa refuses to walk down the aisle pregnant, which in Clarke's opinion is the most beautiful she's ever seen her, as she promises its not just her alpha talking for not having been present in her past gestation.

They were horrible together at first. Toxic and unstable and yet even after breaking up they could not get away from one another. A dumb medical trial got them so riled up for each other they knotted and mated for the very first time. And then when they could finally leave each other, they didn't. And when they finally did, Lexa was left with a permanent reminder of Clarke in the form of their pup while her made moved away from her. Only for the universe to bring them back together in the most painful of ways.

Lexa will never, ever forgive whoever is out there for making her little girl suffer the way she did. But for what is worth, at least it bought her and Clarke back together and finally made them see they are what each other needs; them, their sweet daughter, and their little boy and whoever more comes next :)

#letter opened #👩🏼‍⚕️ anon #im sorry its been 84 years ajsjsjajsis #THEY ARE FINE! #no one is dead! #and look they have another little baby now too 🥰 #i am not as mean as you make me to be 😌

[siena-sevenwits]

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#Maybe 84 Charing Cross Road had too strong an effect on me. As I turn my head this way and that #trying to figure out what I shall do with myself when the semester is over and ties are cut with the school I've been teaching for this pas #decade #it occurs to me that I might go - hat in hand as it were - to the old bookseller who runs my favourite used bookstore of all time. #The shop has the most wonderfully curated selection. The first time I walked in there #having been used to the used book section in value village #I almost had my breath taken away #I have to be careful not to go there too often because I am weak for spending money on books #but every Christmas I go and buy a ton as presents and usually something for myself #and I ask the owner if I can start a stack on his counter while I shop and he is always happy and comments on my finds as I bring them #He is kind and conversational on those occasions #My mom once struck up a long conversation with him when we were there together #and learned how he has owned that shop forty years or so and does not have an assistant because he's always managed on his own #And last night as I tried to fall asleep I got ridiculously ahead of myself and imagined the possibilities of employment there in #the detail of a novel without much regard for the probable realities - the realities that he has given no sign of wanting to hire and #having gone so far without an assistant probably doesn't want one #that there would be sides to the job which would likely be dreary #and that as with any job there would be all kinds of difficulties #BUT I often need these romantic imaginings to spur me on to take any kind of action. So - this might be silly - but I am thinking of doing #things the old fashioned way - of going round to the shop rather than emailing him - and asking if there is any chance that there might #be opportunities for work. It will likely all come to nothing and I'll keep looking #but I'll at least make a memory of having tried.

[desiccatedwithering]

steddie fic: "the older"

me, a person who descended to such depths of insanity that I read multiple 80s newspaper articles and sections from a literal law book: but which one of them is older? because eddie could be younger than steve according to canon

#to clarify this is NOT me judging other authors. i recognize that i am completely unhinged and have done so so much unnecessary research #the fact that eddie & steve could've always been in the same grade and eddie could actually be younger just lives in my head rent free #yes in s4 eddie is most likely 19-20 but he *could* still be 18 #also rip to eddie failing to graduate in 84 and then having to sit through an entire extra hour of class each day the next year #eddie: [complaining about school] #the party: oh you think you have it bad? we need to have SIX more credits to graduate than you do. and four whole years of english. #i have a whole google doc with notes about what the school system was like. aka details that are pretty much never relevant to fics lmao #anyway i predict that this post will get 0 notes #my post #tag ramble #steddie

[sakebytheriver]

#ignore me #community #six seasons and a movie #6 seasons and a movie #am i doing too much? perhaps #but it has been 84 years

[krshush]

NEW PROFESSOR LAYTON GAME?

#THIS WEEK. HAS FELT LONGER THAN THE ENTIRETY OF 2022 FOR ME. AND THEN ALSO THIS??? #I AM DELIGHTED BUT ALSO. PROF. NOW? HELLO??? IT'S BEEN 84 YEARS-- #K.R. shush

[bigskydreaming]

A lot of it is simply bad editing? How much interaction did Dick and Jason have post-Crisis? How much could they have? And while Tumblr loves Red Robin, have they read literally anything else from that era? And "I only have scans I found on Tumblr" syndrome. Ignore context and distort, and you too can reinterpret a character to the opposite.

Well sure, but that's also kinda the point? Scans that distort, obscure or exclude context are simply not the only ones available on tumblr. For every single major fanon that's based on misinformation or a lack of context, I can absolutely, one hundred percent PROMISE that there's an abundance of fans who have made detailed posts and provided all the necessary context TO correct those fanons.

I mean, I know that just in terms of my own posts, I've absolutely written tons that go into a lot of depth about exactly how much interaction Dick and Jason had post-crisis, and how its actually a lot more than most people act like they could have had, and their interactions most likely spanned a period of at least two to three years.

And I know that not only have those posts been signal boosted over the years by a lot of other Dick Grayson fans who have tons of followers I don't have, from other corners of fandom....other bloggers like hood-ex, northoftheroad, fuyunoakegata, nightwingmyboi and lots more, like....they've got tons of their own posts detailing the exact same things.

And yet, I'm also aware - ALL of us are aware - that there are plenty of fans, even 'Big Name Fans' of other characters who absolutely follow at least some of these blogs and who thus absolutely have had access to all of this information and context for yeeeeeears....and yet who still CHOOSE to persist with the "Dick is famously an asshole to his brothers, canon says so" takes. With their own sizable platforms not only not being used to course correct for fanon misinformation, but to deliberately CHOOSE to continue to perpetuate and spread those context-less takes.

Which brings us to this.

Simply put:

At a certain point, it has to be acknowledged that a lack of information and context is just flat out NOT the reason certain character-defaming fanons persist.

They persist because even with an abundance of Dick Grayson fans more than willing - downright EAGER - to provide and spread actual canon, and correct misinterpretations of various character dynamics....there are plenty of fans who just flat out don't WANT to be corrected.

Lots of the people who hype up or perpetuate dynamics that make Dick out to be just this inherently flawed, disruptive figure within the Batfam....they don't have that view of him because they're unaware of any other views of him, or they have no idea that this interpretation is not only NOT rooted in canon, it flat out defies most established canon.

No, they insist on takes depicting Dick's dynamic within the family as selfish, spoiled, and disruptive because they WANT those takes. They're useful to them. It lets them position their preferred Batfam members as eternally misunderstood or mistreated by an alleged hero sibling, or even son (in the case of Bruce fans who like to act like Dick is the cause of all fights and estrangements between them).

And like, the thing is - its not even that I don't understand where this impulse comes from, and WHY various fans like this kind of take or dynamic for the Batfam?

I'm just eternally annoyed with people refusing to own that and playing at any angle to pretend they just don't know any better, or that they aren't deliberately choosing to prioritize and emphasize certain takes over others.

And most of all, I just find it obnoxious that people still act like, outright BAFFLED that their completely voluntary choice to constantly paint Dick's character in a bad light, like, annoys actual fans of his character? Like LMAO, of fucking course its going to bug us! Especially when its clear that like, people aren't emphasizing Dick being an asshole to his brothers because they genuinely think that's the real canon or the only take on those dynamics that exist....they just CHOSE to embrace those takes, and people still want to pretend that like....they have zero idea why this would rub fans of Dick's the wrong way?

I mean, look, I don't always write Bad Dad Bruce Wayne content, y'know? I write a lot of goofy, fanon-influenced posts about the Batfam as a whole, where Bruce isn't characterized as some abusive asshole....but! Its still absolutely true that this isn't the only way I write Bruce. Absolutely I write content and meta that focuses in on runs and stories where he's been portrayed abusively, and I delve into how I think that affects Dick and the others, stuff like that.

Its just, like, I don't kid myself that the latter content doesn't rub Bruce stans the wrong way, you know? I'm absolutely aware that they're not gonna be down with those takes, and I don't think there's any reason for them to be, if they fundamentally view those interpretations of the character as things that just should never have happened and they don't want to explore for any reason.

This is absolutely valid for Bruce fans, and I don't mind in the least when people are like, this just isn't the Bruce I look for in canon or fanon content, its not what I'm here for. Like. Okay! That's totally fair!

But at least the stories I base those kinds of content or meta on actually freaking HAPPENED, and its not like I'm making all of that up just TO position Dick as a poor little meow meow, y'know? They happened, and thus I'm interested in exploring the ramifications of that, or how that informs or affects certain parts of canon or various dynamics. And even when I do explore those topics, I'm not at all oblivious to the fact that those explorations aren't going to be for everyone, they're just....the opposite of what some fans of the Batfam look for, and like...they're not going to be looking to engage with that content, nor should they be or have to.

Like, flat out, I think there is a HUGE difference from something like, Dick Grayson stans writing stories about Bruce's actions and words in a comic like New Teen Titans #55, or Nightwing #30.....

Versus fans of other characters writing stories based on the completely non-canon, fanon informed tropes of 'Dick kicked Tim out of Gotham, told him he was crazy, tried to send him to Arkham to get help' or 'Dick threw Jason in Arkham a few cells down from the Joker and left him to rot' or 'Dick was a douchebag to Jason the entire time he knew him as a kid and influenced all the Titans to treat Jason like shit.'

So when for years and years and years, other corners of fandom outright MAKE UP their entire BASIS for hating Dick's character and key dynamics or interactions he has with various other characters, and then on TOP of that, they're like...."ummm, we have no idea why this would bother Dick Grayson fans, is this not canon? No, seriously, we heard that its absolutely canon, and will aggressively ignore any attempts to provide information to the contrary, because like we just have no control over seeing and writing Dick Grayson in this light because look its not our fault, its just canon, get mad at it not us...."

When that's absolutely just not true....

THAT'S the part that grinds my gears. *Shrugs*

#like to be clear anon Im not mad at you for this ask or whatever lol #its literally just the situation that bugs the crap out of me and gets me heated #but I do apologize if I'm not conveying the distinction well enough #like....this has been an ongoing thing that persists in Batfandom and has for years #so I'm just like. very Over It as a phenomenon y'know? #so when it comes up on my blog or is relevant to an ask or a single post I tend to sound like I'm a LOT more annoyed with just #that simple ask or post or reply than I actually am #like its really not that. its the whole....phenomenon as a whole and that's ASSOCIATED with asks or conversations along these lines #that gets me eye-rolling and going like ugh when can we change the channel to something new its been 84 million years of this nonsense #y'know?

[lilgayalienn]

THE WHOLE WEEK WAITING FOR DAEMYRA/ DAEMON/ RHAENYRA/

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON EPISODE 4/ KING OF THE NARROW SEA/ DAEMYRA STUFF

#house of the dragon #house targaryen #daemyra #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd #hotd season 1 #hotd ep 4 #the whole week its been just a lot of emotions and feels and now its sunday and i have to wait a few more hours ugh #just waiting for daemyra its been a whole growing in me and waiting for sunday was like waiting 84 years or more idk #i am crazy obsessed with daemyra and the whole week it felt like hell going on #i just want daemyra just to have at least 6 scenes of them and maybe a little kissing and i will be fine and no shit scenes with crispin #this week i will always remember like THE HELL WEEK FOR DAEMYRA in my heart in my head ugh #at least make them kiss and i will be fine and put it to end #their pic on wednesday was a fresh breath of air and then more waiting good thing is sunday