#Aka Liminal as fuck

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 191

So. Apparently immortality does in fact exist. And is apparently very easily accidentally achieved, if the fact an entire city has it now. 

The GIW will be waiting a very long time to be able to drop that ghost shield, because the city doesn’t seem to be dying out anytime soon. Or at all actually. It’s been several generations now. 

They might need to request assistance. Maybe before others start to investigate now that vigilantes are becoming a semi-common thing.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #The ghost shield made it where the ecto wasn’t able to disperse as it came out of the portal & filled the city #Everyone became too ecto contaminated to be able to exit #And just… stopped being able to die permanently or by old age #They’re not exactly humans nor ghosts but something in-between #Aka Liminal as fuck #Technically everyone counts as a meta or alien #They sure aren’t human anymore & all remember the shit the GIW and government have pulled #They’ve opened up trading with the Realms a while ago #They give them living world things that help with obsessions & get seeds or whatever supplies in exchange #Along with training #They all give off necromancing fae vibes #Liminal Amity Park #Danny is Not ghost king

[periswirl]

We're all familiar with the DP×DC trope of Danny telling Jason he freaking reeks but I raise you this.

Jehovah's Witness Danny

Now he's not actually a Jehovah's Witness. No, he was just tasked with seeking out liminals to ensure their health as the only galfa with some sense; aka the only halfa the Observants could get away with strong arming into doing it. Dani was too young and far too unpredictable, Vlad was a mess, and the less said about Dan the better.

So, Danny. After accepting the role with all the grace of a cat being dragged screaming into a tub of water he set out to check on all the liminals listed. In order to cheer himself up Danny decided he would partake in the best form of cooperation he could.

Malicious compliance

That's how he found himself inside a cave staring down a set of massive steel doors. The ecto signature tracking on the paperwork had led him here. He raised his fist and knocked; imbuing the knock with some ectoplasm to make sure it was heard. His haunting lessons were paying off.

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Jason sat bored in the cave. Bruce had everyone working with Constantine to track some mysterious entity that had popped up in Gotham.

Constantine had felt a huge spike in death energy in the city and teleported over with a quickness Jason wasn't aware the man had.

Jason was preparing to head back home when a knock rang through the cave.

"What the fuck?" Dick whipped wildly towards the cave entrance where the knock had sounded from. No one should even be able to have found the entrance.

Tim was at the BatComputer in record time pulling up the cameras. Outside stood a teenage boy.

"Hello. Do you have time to talk about the fate of your immortal soul?"

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I just love the idea of them looking at the cameras and Danny's just;

WHERE WILL YOUR SOUL GO WHEN YOU DIE? ARE YOU SAVED?

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dpxdc #dcxdp #dpxdc prompt

[jedi-enthusiast]

My [completed] CodyWan Fic Masterlist

This is going to be a very long list of all my favorite CodyWan fics that are completed. Later on today or tomorrow I'll make another list for all of the CodyWan fics I enjoy that are currently ongoing/incomplete (because we, in fandom, need to start supporting authors during the writing process instead of only after, but that's a whole other post).

The fics are gonna be separated by Modern AU, Canon-Divergent/Canon-ish, Crack, and Canon But a Little to the Left. Full Disclaimer: this is going to be a very long list, so the triggers and descriptions will be brief--make sure you read the tags and warnings before reading!

I don't know who these authors are on tumblr, so I can't tag them, but I recommend that you guys tag them if you recognize them--because they deserve all the love <3 and I think, especially now, we need to let fic authors know that we appreciate them.

Modern AU

212th Street Coffee by thosewhowanderwithfire 

Cody runs a coffee shop, Obi-Wan comes in frequently with a different members of his friends/family and Cody learns a lot about his crazy life by eavesdropping.

bury me beneath the tree i climbed when i was a child by stormwarnings 

Obi-Wan's family life is messy, to say the least. Cody and his family work as firefighters/EMTs/etc. and Obi-Wan kinda just gets adopted into the family by constantly needing to call the firefighters/EMTs/etc.

Coruscant Story by TyeDyeBoogers

A mafia AU thing where Obi-Wan and Cody are both in different mafia families, but then they date each other pretending to be regular normal people (bc neither of them know they're in the mafia, much less different families), and then a bunch of stuff happens and drama ensues.

TW: Murder, Violence

cradle my name on your tongue by jynx 

Running from an abusive ex, Obi-Wan and Anakin move to a small town where they set up their tattoo and piercing shop. Obi-Wan quickly falls for Cody, the florist across the street, but bad things happen when Obi-Wan's ex just won't give up.

TW: Violence, Abusive Relationship, Drugging, Attempted SA (this doesn't go into detail, but it's still there)

Foreign Affairs by ro_moray 

Obi-Wan and Anakin come to America as foreign ambassadors, Cody is one of their bodyguards. Both Obi-Wan and Cody fall head over heels quickly, and there's some political drama via Maul.

TW: Violence (I think?)

Hey Bartender by Wxlves 

Obi-Wan and Cody both work as bartenders at Dex's, they become FWB, and feelings ensue.

I've Served My Time In Hell by TheSleepingOne (SleepingNebula) 

There's a zombie apocalypse going on and Obi-Wan is repeatedly fucked over by the universe in the form of being forced to spend time around his ex, Cody, and Cody's very protective family.

TW: Violence, Gore

Liminal Beings by ChubbstheFish 

Cody is the lighthouse keeper in a small town with his family. Obi-Wan and his family move into said small town and become close with Cody's family, but it quickly becomes clear that Obi-Wan and his family aren't exactly what they seem--aka human.

Not Denial by spqr 

Obi-Wan is a PI and Cody is the sorry moron who falls head over heels for him after meeting him exactly once.

TW: Violence

Seeker Prospector by brigitttt

Cody is a bounty hunter looking for his father, Obi-Wan is just trying to study dinosaur bones. The two meet, fuck, and then catch feelings.

TW: Violence, Mild Gore (I think)

We’ll Do This Together by MageOfCole 

Obi-Wan and Cody have a one night stand and Cody accidentally gets Obi-Wan pregnant (of the trans variety, not the a/b/o variety). Obi-Wan tries to hide this from Cody and his family, but Obi-Wan's family doesn't know how to mind their own business. Family hijinks ensue.

What…a sleep over? by Wixiany

Cody's family decides to host a party, but he needs to study, so he heads over to Anakin's brother's house to get some peace and quiet. He wasn't ready for how pretty Obi-Wan was.

You Gave Me the World that I Wanted by Legogirl22 

Cody has to take care of his family, so he swears up and down that he won't fall for the cute bookkeeper he keeps seeing. He fails. Miserably.

Canon Divergent/Canon-ish

A Ghost or a Man by smallandangry 

Obi-Wan makes a life for himself on Tatooine, eventually Cody finds him, and the locals get attached to both.

A New Life by cwiptids 

Rex and Echo hear about a clone on Tatooine...guess who they meet and take another guess as to who they're married to.

end of the road by adiduck (book_people)

Obi-Wan and Cody spar before Utapau and make unfulfilled promises.

Glimpse Of Us by fingerstripesofchaos 

Post-Order 66 angst fic, just like...loads of angst. This is not a happy fic at all, it made me cry.

TW: Suicide Mention/Reference

Haven’t Felt Like This My Dear by Bluebellstar

Cody gets a hangover and is a total baby about it, Obi-Wan is very amused.

little white truths by imperiousphasmid 

Obi-Wan gets injured and only family and spouse(s) are allowed to see him...I think you know where this is going.

Made by Walking by piotsa  

After Order 66, Quinlan finds Cody and then Cody finds Obi-Wan.

not dead yet by keylimemagpie (QuickSilverFox3)

✨ smut with emotions ✨

Our children our future (that we didn’t know of) by Feniksiara   

After Order-66 Cody finds out that the Kaminoans decided to use Obi-Wan and Cody's DNA to make Force-sensitive clones...then the Mandalorian dad genes kick in.

Standard Operating Procedures by galateaGalvanized

A mission goes wrong and suddenly almost the entire 212th is in love with Obi-Wan...except, it appears, Cody. Y'all know exactly where this is going.

all the world in my arms by biscuityskies 

Obi-Wan has nightmares after Kadavo, then shit goes to hell on a mission, and Cody worries--also Anakin and biscuityskies' OC Hex are little shits.

where the fields are painted gold by biscuityskies

The 212th end up crashing in the forest, so Obi-Wan and Cody get some "camping out in the forest" cuddles and also banter.

night spar by cabezadeperro (minigami) 

Obi-Wan and Cody spar at night, and there is a lot of tension. Not of the fun kind, though.

chain of command by cabezadeperro (minigami) 

Obi-Wan and Cody are undercover and eventually have to find some way to keep the people tracking them from finding them. If you've watched Marvel, you know where this is going.

In the Treetops by ebw_writes499 

After a mission on Kashyyyk everyone needs to go to bed, which they do...all the way up in the trees.

Caretaker by ebw_writes499 

On Tatooine, Cody gets sick and Obi-Wan has to take care of him. Obi-Wan is a worrier.

Love Despite the Distance by ebw_writes499 

After the war, Cody and Rex comm each other to catch up. Also Cody became a senator against his will.

Overworked by ebw_writes499 

Obi-Wan and Cody both had the same idea and that idea was "sneak off to take a nap."

Compartment Syndrome by elwenyere 

After a bad crash, Obi-Wan is knocked out and Cody is injured. Cody carries Obi-Wan through all the danger while reminiscing, certain that he'll be decommissioned after due to his injury.

TW: Mild Gore? (of the "description of injury" variety)

Good Soldiers by elwenyere 

A story about Obi-Wan and Cody throughout the War and after Order 66, with a happy ending.

Don’t Worry It's A Very High Threadcount by goldleaf1066 

Obi-Wan uses a blanket to warm up instead of Cody and Cody is very fussy about it. It gets a little angsty near the end, but things end good.

And Our Faces Toward the Sun by goldleaf1066 

The War ends and Cody and Obi-Wan share a kiss.

I'll Bend Your Light Around Me (A Sunrise At My Back) by goldleaf1066   

A sweet little story about Obi-Wan and Cody throughout the war, with a happy ending!

Stepping In, Stepping Out by goldleaf1066   

Cody and Obi-Wan take turns covering for each other when they oversleep.

With Both Our Hands Around It by goldleaf1066

Obi-Wan and Cody discuss their relationship while also participating in some extracurricular activities.

Crack Fics

Compulsive Honesty by afoundling 

Cody, Obi-Wan, and some of the 212th get dosed with truth serum and just have to let it run its course.

Fools and Idiots by BehindBrokenWindows 

Somehow everyone gets it in their heads that Obi-Wan and Padme are fucking, and Anakin is not happy when he finds out. We all know who he's really fucking.

Operation “who’s kriffing the General” by Sweet_bubbs 

Everyone finds out that Obi-Wan is in a relationship with someone, but they don't know who--but boy do they want to find out.

Resignation in more than one sense by BitterChocolateStars   

Obi-Wan tries to resign, Mace is a little shit (affectionate) and says no, and hijinks ensue.

Time to Celebrate by Kurosaki224   

Kurosaki's OC just wants to talk to his superiors after the war and ends up seeing a lot more than he wants to.

Rex finds out by The_neurodivergent_nerd   

Exactly what it sounds like.

The Trickster by The_neurodivergent_nerd  

A long dead Sith lord has a great sense of humor.

Canon But a Little to the Left

closed together by numbika 

Obi-Wan is blind AU where Obi-Wan and Cody get stuck in an elevator together.

I Got My Head Checked by frostbitebakery   

Sith Obi-Wan AU where Cody falls in love with Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan changes the course of the War because Cody and his brothers make him realize he still has his heart.

TW: Violence, Self Harm (of the "making a sith" variety)

Marriage in Disguise by bjjones   

Oops! Looks like to make peace with Mandalore, the Jedi will just have to send Obi-Wan to get married to Cody, son of Manda'lor Jango Fett. They totally weren't dating before this.

We’ll Meet Again by little_dumpling

Obi-Wan doesn't become a Jedi Knight and instead works in the MediCorps and becomes a doctor, then he ends up meeting Cody on Geonosis.

TW: Medical Gore (I think?)

What came after by galateaGalvanized  http://archiveofourown.org/works/29595831 

Obi-Wan has gone full Sith and is on Mandalore, Cody and the 212th go to get their general.

#ao3 fanfic #star wars #codywan #fanfic #sw prequels #the clone wars #codywan fanfic #codywan fic recs #fic recs #holy shit this was longer than I anticipated #this took me like 2 hours to put together so y'all better be grateful #possibly triggering

[tennessoui]

honestly doctor who! ahsoka having her own companion is very galaxy brain. i actually have some other suggestions for ahsoka time travel companions:

1) sabine

(she just becomes increasingly smug as the mission goes on and ahsoka keeps failing, then increasingly frustrated because she realizes that she is stuck with ahsoka. i do think she would shoot anakin or palpatine in at least a couple of the timelines.)

2) bo katan

(bo katan spends most of the time fighting with ahsoka and obsessively trying to obtain the darksaber. this backfires when anakin begins to suspect bo katan of being the secret sith lord. ahsoka and bo katan are forced to fake a relationship in order to get him off their back at one point. they accidentally become jedi-mandalorian married in at least one timeline before a humiliated ahsoka resets the timeline anyway. now bo katan is uoset because their fake marriage isn’t real anymore and brings it up saltily at least once every reset.)

3) kaeden

(no coherent thoughts just kaesoka 😔)

4) mace

(at first he is shook because of how truly degenerate some of the timelines get, but also he manages to kill palpatine in at least one of them and he’s pretty pleased with himself. other than that, i feel like he would take a “we should stay and fix the damage we’ve inflicted” approach as opposed to ahsoka’s “hit the reset button now” mindset. he would also pick up at least one hobby along the way, like idk crocheting or fishing)

5) yoda

(ahsoka spends most of the time miserably trekking around with a little green gremlin in her swagpack, aka swag backpack. he keeps giving her cryptic advice on how to deal with the situation until she realizes the best action is inaction. by the end, they decide to sit on the beach and just eat sandwiches together while they watch anakin throw a tantrum over the sand while obi wan sighs because he just wanted to try out surfing)

6) luke

(this is actually the canon backstory for how ahsoka and luke met. dave filoni just didn’t tell us because he didn’t think it was important enough to mention.)

7) count dooku

(this one doesn’t really have any explanation, i just thought it would be funny. bonus points because count dooku approves of obi wan but fucking hates anakin and so this is basically his personal hell. he nearly tries to kill ahsoka at one point, thinking that he will be freed, only to realize he’ll be stuck in the timeline with anakin and obi-wan forever. thus causing him to rescue her and hit reset. while ahsoka tries to matchmake anakin and obi wan, count dooku is constantly trying to break them up. at one point anakin accuses him of being homophobic and obi wan attends a support group for lgbt adults whose parents won’t accept their marriage and count dooku gets offended because he is NOT homophobic, he is just a hater. if anakin and obi wan have 1 opp, it’s count dooku. if anakin and obi wan have 1 million opps, it’s count dooku + an army of 999,999 droids. if anakin and obi wan have 0 opps, count dooku is dead. etc etc)

Note: I would put also R2 or Chopper as candidates but they don’t really seem like good companions to me on account of them being aggressively Dalek-coded.

i think all of these work in different ways and you have put it together so beautifully - i think it makes so much sense!

in my mind since none of this is really happening, ahsoka's companion could definitely change every so often as the Force pairs her with different people in an attempt to show her a different lesson....it's not actually the person but an aspect of their personality that could help ahsoka heal and maybe even appreciate the love obi-wan and anakin share

(except dooku. dooku wasn't supposed to be there and it's his actual force ghost. he's just such a strong hater that the force could literally not keep him out of this liminal space)

#asks #time traveler ahsoka au #all great thoughts here a plus

[radicalreliablerandomness]

Heyyy gimme podcast recs pls thank u

done.

I definitely recommend Rude Tales of Magic. It’s a dnd podcast with most of the actual play removed so it’s mostly roleplay and story telling. Each episode averages about an hour or so. Basic premise is that a handful of college students fuck the world up by completing a hazing which in this case is a demon summoning ritual. They have to find out how to fix the world.

If you like modern scifi definitely look into Midnight Burger. They’re a really well written fiction podcast and have incredible characters that are just really well done. You’ll somehow like and hate all of them as much as possible in the best way. Episodes average about 30 minutes to an hour or so. It’s about a time/space traveling diner and the residents/employees try to help solve a problem every place they land. (Think dr who but with more drama) There is an overarching plot that comes together so look out for that.

On the topic of fiction……. Monstrous Agonies. Great fiction podcast and it’s just super chill and comforting. Episodes are about 15 minutes so it’s a nice in between tasks listen. The idea is that it’s an radio advice segment on a station for “liminal Britain” aka the monster world to put it plainly. There’s very good advice there and the intermittent ad reads will have you giggling.

I don’t want to spend all day here so I’ll only put one more. In a similar vein as Monstrous Agonies, Desert Skies. Another fiction podcast ik ik. The voice acting in this one is insane (it’s the same person the whole time) and just super well done. Episodes last around 25 minutes, sometimes a bit more or less. The premise is that when you die you show up on a highway and get to this fuel pit stop. I’m not going to spoil it anymore you just have to experience it.

#Podcast #podcasts #podcast recommendations #desert skies podcast #desert skies #monstrous agonies #ma Pod #midnight burger #midnight burger podcast #rude tales of magic #rude tales of magic podcast

[psychologeek]

You offered to do some fic recs...I was wondering if you had any angsty DC favorites you could share? gen & finished, please :]

Yes, I have!!!

[if you like my recs, PLZ let me know :) .]

[also - my ask box is still open!]

So, first of all - basically everything written by envysparkler (I started, and figured out half of the fics on my recs were written by envy)

Hurt/Comfort

ghost story by envysparkler

Jason Todd dies in Ethiopia. Well. Kind of

outlast the rain by ScarlettSwordMoon

During a routine patrol, Dick’s glove malfunctions and he almost falls to his death. Bruce redesigns them. Problem solved, right? Only Dick is refusing to take the new pair. AKA Trauma is irrational, but love endures all.

Day 4: Dick Grayson’s Eldest Daughter Syndrome & “Catch me.”

For the City Sweetly Whispers  by Drag0nst0rm

The first time Bruce hears the city speak, he thinks he's losing his mind.

By the time Gotham's killed Dick's parents and forced a nine year old into the Robin suit, he only wishes that were true.

Tim Drake: Myth and Legend by siren_of_the_ocean

2 fics, both very good

between a rock and a hard place by envysparkler

Tim curled up in a ball and shook with several, near-hyperventilating breaths. Jason clenched his hands into fists.

“Hood?” came Nightwing’s tentative check-in, “How’s everything going?”

I’m trapped under a building, he didn’t say. Tim thinks I’m going to murder him, he didn’t say. Get me out of here before I claw my own skin off, he didn’t say.

Vulpes by Snow_Wyvern (warning -it really scared me! It's like the old Grimm's tales)

No human is permitted to see the Animal Court. But Tim, a feral, too-small thing, with tangled hair and teeth that yet remember how to rend, who scrambles about on four legs as often as two because there is no one to lift him to his feet - Tim, who wandered into the nighttime woods and has no one to call him back to the light of human homes - why would the forest have any reason to think him a man-thing?

Liminal Space by Calamityjim

Bruce's habit of collecting strays is not limited by dimension.

Or

When Young Justice Batman comes across an angsty, seemingly abandoned by his Batman Tim Drake, he decides to step up to the plate and parent the crap out of him.

Words: 77,186 (it's a series, this is the first fic).

muzzled by envysparkler, Periazhad

Tim, bound and gagged, listening to a group of people haggle over his fate, is hard-pressed to think of how this situation can get worse.

Then Hood walks in.

reset by Valkirin

Black Mask hires Circe to keep Red Hood out of his way for a week. Circe's spell will only last a week and she doesn't think Batman will notice or care that she placed a time-limited memory spell on a minor criminal.

Fifteen-year-old Jason Todd wakes up in a future he doesn't understand.

fault lines tremble under my glass house by paperxcrowns

In a moment of clarity, Tim remembers his emergency button. He remembers patrol, and he remembers a gang and a shootout.

He uses his free hand to fumble around until he manages to find the chest piece and press the emergency button. His vision is fuzzing at the edges and the last thing he sees is a dark figure leaning over him, a gun pointed at his face.

Well fuck, is his last thought before everything fades to black.

A Recipe for Disaster by  Calypso_Rambles, JUBE514

Titan AU. Red hood came to hurt the baby bird, but find him cooking and grieving his father. FEELS.

Under A Parent's Wing by IzzyMRDB

When Tim found out that Dick Grayson was a gymnastics instructor in Bludhaven, he quickly signed up. After all, learning gymnastics from The Nightwing himself is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Dick Grayson is more concerned at the obvious signs of child abuse he sees in one of his students.

AKA

Dick Grayson, as a childcare worker, is a mandated reporter who knows how to recognize child abuse in his students. Tim Drake, after a lifetime of fear and confusion, learns to trust adults.

Detainment by DragonflyxParodies

"Do you beat your children?” Bruce asks, voice flat and odd in a way unlike any Hal has ever heard before, and Hal’s blood runs cold, and –

Other Batman’s jaw clenches. He does not answer immediately.

The whole fucking League visibly draws back.

In which Bat has instituted very strict measures for handling alternate versions of himself, and the Justice League finds out why

Family Ties by Wafflesssss

Prepare for a cry.

At ages 15, 12, and 9, Dick, Jason, and Tim had found a home in Wayne Manor. Never mind the fact that Dick was the only one Bruce had legally adopted, and never mind that Tim and Jason's parents had no idea where they spent their time(not that either set cared). The three were brothers, and Bruce was maybe sort of like a dad, and it was perfect.

And then Wayne Manor goes up in flames, and only the kids make it out.

Four years later, Dick is angry, Jason is a vigilante, and Tim is a ghost. When Dick has an encounter with the Red Hood, it sets off a chain of events that could bring all three brothers back together. But, for some reason, Batman has taken an interest in each of them. Why?

I Have Come Back To You Broken (take me home) by LylaRivers

His Replacement stares at him with glassy, unfocused eyes, his begging for mercy long since silenced. Jason doesn’t dare let himself think about how the Replacement had pleaded for Robin to save him.

Mēnin Aeide by ApatheticAthena

Batman has taken personal time off from the Justice League when they capture the notorious Gotham crime lord Red Hood. The league thinks he's just another crazed criminal and Jason is doing absolutely nothing to dissuade them of that notion. In fact, he may be making things worse.

A New Day by Sparkypants

Freshly resurrected, Jason comes back to Gotham with a plan for vengeance and zero interest in reconciling with his family.

Things don't quite work out how he anticipated.

Or;

A different take on Jason coming back to the family.

A Hero Lost by Cdelphiki

When Jason Todd died on that fateful April day, Bruce was tempted to just... stop. To let the world know he was Batman, and that it'd just lost a hero in Jason Todd.

And so he did.

It didn't keep him from mourning the death of his son.

Or: Bruce quits being Batman in the wake of Jason's death, tells the world who he is, then retires to Montana and slowly finds healing. And when Jason comes back to life six months later, and Talia tells him 'you remain unavenged,' he can't find any evidence to support that, so he goes home.

Code of Silence by JHSC (TW: lots of triggers! Mentioned CSA)

Willis Todd doesn’t die in prison. That doesn’t change much, until it does.

Don't All Birds Belong in Boxes? by Maladaptive_Daydreamer

scream out my memories as if i was never there by CosmoKid

Tim realizes that the Red Hood is Jason Todd and makes a snap decision: Tim Drake needs to disappear.

that awful sound by MasterOfMyFateCaptainOfMySoul

Dick Grayson is fed up of losing people. So when the Joker kills Jason, kills his brother, he doesn’t let it slide. It changes quite a few things.

Leaving You For the Last Time (Warwick Avenue) by unpossible

A lot of different ways it can go

(Jason, Trauma, and life)

Other recs:

Jason Todd: The Not-So-Outlaw  by  GoAwayOlivia

Jason Todd isn't what Batman made him, he isn't what the Joker made him, he isn't what the League of Assassins made him, and he isn't what the Lazarus Pit made him. He's his own person and he's taking himself back, one home renovation at a time. Also he might just make friends with the people who are supposed to be his brothers while he's at it.

Contagious by d_aia

Jim didn’t know it, until Maggie barged in, opening his door with such force that it bounced off the wall and broke a glass panel. Whatever he’d wanted object was lost the moment she said, “Somebody killed the Joker.” His first thought was that he expected her to tell him the city was melting down, not to give good news.

His second was, ‘Is the killer worse than Joker?’

*

The Joker's dead. Now what?

(13k words)

Batman and Robin(s) (and Batgirl) (and Oracle) by IzzyMRDB

Simultaneous Robins AU where Bruce is just juggling being a single dad who loves his children very very much.

Ain't No Compass, Ain't No Map by ebjameston for Limnaia, SparrowsNest

A CPS agent gets sent to investigate a tip that Tim Drake has been abandoned by his parents and is living with the Red Hood. The CPS agent leaves with no Tim Drake, a date with Red Hood's lieutenant, and an intern who's promising to fix the IT systems at his office.

It's a weird day for Theo.

There Will Be Darkness Again by dukeaubergine

One of the BEST.

The Toxic Masculinity of a "Hero" by Todd Peters by orphan_account

When Jason gets his newest paper prompt in his Intro to Women and Gender Studies class, he knows just who he wants to write about.

Like Going Through Hell on a Sunday by probablyanxious

Jason Todd has to bring Damian to Gotham for his protection, meets Billy along the way and just doesn't know how he's supposed to keep these kids safe while dealing with his trauma (aka killing that damn clown)

#batman #jason todd #dc au #DC #fic recs #fic rec #fanfics recommendation #batfam #tim drake #red robin #robin #bruce wayne #dick grayson #nightwing #gotham #angst #and more #fluff #red hood

[orbleglorb]

🖊️ + Leylo!

!!!! the her!!!!

leylo is a 28-year-old librarian that lives in the fictional town of point savaford, colorado. it's on the border between colorado and wyoming. it's considered a big town for the area, but that's kinda because there's not much else there.

leylo comes from the oregon/washington border (the borders are important here, they act as transitional places, aka "liminal spaces" or just "liminals" that, if you get really lucky or unlucky, can lead you to a different dimension. all borders can act as these portals, but not all are as strong as others. rural places that ppl travel less are more likely to have a more strong "pull" to another dimension." she comes from the other dimension on the other side of that border (except it's a little hard to tell which dimension is which on the borders, because that's where they blend). she was raised in a cult commune (not getting into that because i think it'd be considered way too edgy/intense by my general tumblr audience). she has 7 siblings (it used to be 10). she is not close with any of them, although she regrets that a little bit in her later life.

she has DID, and has a handful of alters. the only one that really comes up in the story is Mike (i think that was his name? either that or Mack). Mike fronts after Leylo has a huge argument with her siblings, back when she was around 18 or 19, where a lot of stuff was brought up that shouldn't have been. He decides to pack up and run away right then (note: they all got out of the cult before this happened. there was, like, a huge event where the cult was forcefully disbanded, and then all of the kids were sent to inpatient care and then put in foster care. some were adopted immediately, some weren't. leylo and her brother zach were both taken in by the (adoptive*) father of the boy that essentially served as the whistleblower for what was going on in the commune. the father is Oscar, the kid is Marco. so actually she has 8 siblings (11 counting the ones no longer alive) and zach has 9 siblings (12 counting the ones no longer alive). man apparently i love weird complicated families. who could have seen this coming <- has a family structure that is abnormal and therefore hard to explain

ANYWAY. mike decided he was gonna hop on the next greyhound bus and leave. he expected leylo to front again soon and she would go back, but he wanted out. except. she didn't front again. for like 2 or 3 years. so he just traveled via greyhound buses and ended up in Arkansas. here's a visual of how far away that is:

ID: a map of the united states of america with a web of greyhound bus routes. washington and oregon in the northwest are both very far from arkansas, which is in the south, but closer to the middle of the USA than it is to the east coast. still, you have to pass through at least 7 states to get from the northwest to arkansas, if i traced the lines on the map right. /end ID

according to google maps, it's about a 2 day bus drive, presumably not counting if you miss a bus, do something besides ride the bus, etc. and mike was adventurous. he wanted to explore these places! so he did. he actually didn't really plan on stopping, but he liked arkansas enough when driving through it that he stopped in little rock and stayed. he moved out of little rock, and then out of central arkansas, then to the fictional town of Smallmouth, which rests along the Buffalo River in northern Arkansas. mike started a life there. he got a job at one of the many outdoorsy shops in the area, started dating a girl named jessica, and made some friends.

and then leylo fronted again and was like "what the fuck." she did NOT appreciate the arkansas heat. she did not understand why this woman was texting her on a phone she never bought and didn't even know the passcode to, or why she's being evicted from an apartment she's never been in, but she is! and she goes to her job after the manager calls her and asks why she hasn't come in yet, and apparently "i didn't know i had a job at a bait and tackle shop" wasn't a good excuse. everyone can tell that something is off, especially her coworker (and mike's friend), taylor. he presses her to say what's wrong, and she just says that she wants to go by leylo instead of mike and that she's getting evicted. doesn't mention the memory stuff. so he offers to let her move in with him, as he needs a roommate to afford the house anyway. leylo doesn't fully trust the guy, but mike did, and it's better than sleeping on the street, so she agrees & she moves in (and meets his young daughter, winter) all within, like, a week of randomly waking up in arkansas after 2 or 3 years have passed without you knowing.

taylor and leylo get along even better than taylor and mike did. taylor and leylo are, like, platonic soulmates. the term doesn't do their relationship justice, because i feel like "platonic soulmates" makes the relationship sound "lesser." truly, they are soulmates and best friends and lifetime partners, and also there is no romantic attraction between them. when the true crime community started being A Thing & ppl who were curious about the cult stuff trued to reach out to her, leylo changed her last name to match taylor's. his surname is wallace, and she changed her to gromit. hesitantly takes the role of winter's second parent, and begrudgingly takes the title of "mom," as it's easier than just explaining "i am close friends with her dad, we live together and will for the foreseeable future, there is no romance in this" to her teachers and stuff. all of the teachers are like "don't worry, we're very accepting here ^_^" and she's like "oh cool so you understand platonic lifetime partnerships" but no it just means they're not going to flip their shit that a white kid has a black stepmom. which isn't even what's happening but ok. she attends winter's kindergarten "graduation," then her elementary to middle school "graduation," then takes winter to her middle school open houses, parent-teacher conferences, etc., because taylor starts having a panic attack any time he goes near the middle and high schools (there's only 1 of each in this town).

i bet you might be wondering. "hey. what happened to jessica." so funny you should ask that! leylo did not speak to her. ever. she left her on read. didn't know how to begin to explain that fuckery. jessica lived a town over, so she just. never left town. avoided her at all costs. until one night, another one of leylo's alters fronted & got her in a bit of danger. leylo fronted again before anyone found out, but she called taylor, still freaking out, and they went to the hospital & she was diagnosed with DID. after she got home, she was like, "hey, i should explain to that chick what happened." so she leaves jessica like five paragraphs to wake up to in the morning. and so jessica was like. "well! okay! i spent a lot of time thinking about the different things that could have possibly caused mike to stop texting me, and this was not one of them!"

one day, taylor went missing, and leylo was left with winter. after that, winter came out as trans and changed his name to rowan, and they moved to colorado to be in a better environment for lgbtq ppl. she somehow finessed a job at a library and has a little romance thing happening with a guy who works at the flower shop across the street

*this distinction is important because i am considering making one of the villains, martín, marco's biological dad, and i don't want ppl to confuse martín and oscar. essentially, it started out as: martín and dolores had two kids, laura and marco. laura is about fifteen years older than marco. then it became martín and dolores had one kid, laura, who has one kid, marco. but i am leaning towards changing it back to the original family structure. the reason i had changed it in the first place was to make martín older in order to kinda filter out filler characters in the extended family (because the extended family is VERY important), but a) different ways i can do that and b) not rlly as big of an issue now

#asks 4 sasha #oc: leylo gromit

[arcplaysgames]

Writing all of this up to the tune of "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" because it felt suitable.

Reverie heads over the Junes food court one more time and as destiny would have it, the team wants to have a final meeting.

How fucking convenient. You know, if the Midnight Channel birthed itself with conception-via-rumor, that would be remarkably fitting given the game's obsession with rumors.

But man, this conversation with the team is great because I HAVE BEEN BITCHING ABOUT THESE QUESTIONS FOR WEEKS NOW.

Who created the Midnight Channel and how did Namatame, Adachi, and Reverie all get the power of Persona to start off?

SPEAKING

OF

ADACHI

Adachi spent his cigarette money on some stationery and stamps apparently. He sent a letter to Reverie and what's striking is the coolness, the resignation, the lack of his previous simmering anger. Reverie told Adachi he could still change and personally I wasn't sure but who knows!

But Adachi writes to be helpful, because he's clued into all the supernatural elements of this case and one thing has been haunting him: he cannot remember where he first heard of the Midnight Channel either. Just a rumor, just a whisper.

Genuinely: Adachi is a top tier gaming villain. Huge fan.

PFFFT HAHAH. THANKS MAN! APPRECIATE IT.

lmao Chie, a little known localization of fucking Cassandra I guess.

The game encourages me to try and figure out the first thing that happened to Reverie in this game, what happened upon arriving in Yasoinaba. Which.... the very first thing was meeting Marie, but I'm not allowed to go into the Velvet Room yet for some reason, so I head over to talk to Dojima and Nanako instead.

...........

hold please.

Hang on a fucking minute. Are you serious right now.

After a brief detour to my favorite liminal limo of the mind--

Also, this only occurred to me now.

You frequently visit the Velvet Room in dreams and it's associated with the hero's unconsciousness. Is Igor's red-veined eyes meant to be a nod to the idea that he is a warden of the sleeping world and as such he never sleeps himself? Or am I reading too much into it.

Actually who knows, this game loves the Jungian collective subconsciousness shit, Persona and the Nonary Games are making out in Philosophy 101 talking about the Morphogenetic Field.

Anyway. I see the Velvet Room folks and go to the gas station.

And this gas attendant has been hanging out on every rainy day since the start of the game, and all of a sudden,t he weather shifts from bright and sunny to rain.

da fuck

excuse me i finally figured out that fucking voice, that's Karen Straussman, aka fucking AEGIS FROM PERSONA 3 jfc no wonder hearing it tickled my fucking brain so aggressively, i had JUST finished P3P

They put the Sagiri into-- wait. Oh my god. Is that why Namatame's whole shadow situation was so fucking weird?

if they put the Sagiri into Adachi and Namatame, then what did they put into Reverie????

LITERALLY NO IDEA, I AM CURRENTLY CONTENDING WITH THE DUBIOUSNESS OF "it was the gas station attendant" RIGHT NOW

....... oh the.... the weird inexplicable and suspicious lecture on the creation of Japan by Edogawa all the way back in Iwatodai. okay. Izanagi and Izanami. So Reverie has the subconscious imprint of Izanagi in him, the person who locked Izanami in Yomi.

/blows out a breath

okay

YEP I SURE DO

lmao my feelings on this ending are in progress and I wanna see how this all falls into place before having an opinion

#p4 #persona liveblog

[shadow-pixelle]

special challenge- each of these needs to be answered with a different fic

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Ooooohkay! Big ask. Let's see if I can do your little extra challenge too while I'm at it, I've probably got enough stuff.

Under a read more, because oh dear god this got long so quickly.

So for the portal; I'll go with 'something I haven't written yet', rather than haven't posted, because when it comes down to it I have no idea if I'll write something, but anything I've not posted I'll post eventually, so yeah.

The fic is called Run (Yourself) To Death, it's a Danny PhantomxDC crossover, it was one of the first things I came up with for this fandom, and is a solid 90% the fault of Clockwayswrite's A Broken Sort of Normal because that's what introduced me to the 'quick death' ship and I found it very very cute. Idea was that Wally West doesn't end up dead after the big twister thing from Young Justice (I don't remember enough about that show to give more details) and instead sort of... falls sideways, I guess? Into a natural portal to the Infinite Realms riiiiiight as he also fades into the Speedforce and kinda ends up in this very fucked up state of not-quite-Halfa but not dead but not alive either, no connection to the Speedforce, and a developing Ghost Core. The entire story would be focused on Danny finding him and trying to help him get back to his reality, which is really really hard, and takes several years, ending with them in a relationship and also Wally as a super liminal/basically a Halfa by the time they figure it out.

I'm not entirely sure if I'm calling it Run Yourself To Death, or just Run To Death, which is why the 'yourself' is in brackets.

Sunny cloud!; favourite piece of dialogue... ok, I've got a few WIPs ongoing at the moment. Normally I'd go with the one closest to being posted, buuuuuut that fic has no dialogue. So I'll go for the next one on that list, which is Strange Aeons, the Tumblr fic.

(I spent a solid like, half an hour looking through my various WIPs trying to choose a line, because I couldn't for the life of me decide on one that I liked enough.)

“Wait, so if you’re not- related, or whatever, to the Lazarus Pit, then what are you?”

I mostly like this one because of the cliffhanger-ness of it. It's not the last line of that segment, but it's pretty close to it.

For the thundercloud; something funny/cracky from your WIP. This is hilarious, because my WIP 1 isn't really funny- or well, it is, but more in the context of irony, and WIP 2 is. Uh. Not there yet. WIP 3 and WIP 4 both have some alright ones, so I'll take this one from Parhelion, because why not.

That scent was incredibly familiar. "Did you traffic me to yourself?" He asked, incredulity too strong for nervousness. "You haven't been trafficked." Wayne replied automatically, before stilling. "Excuse me?"

Tornado! Or as it appeared on my screen, cloud with a ghost tail. Sum up a WIP with a few fic tropes/AO3 tags. Uuuh ok. Let's use Ornithology for this one, because it's currently my main WIP. I'd sum this one up with Found Family, Cryptid Batfam, Gotham City Is Weird, Gotham City Rolls With Everything, and Wingfic as my main ones. I love this fic so much. It's nearly complete, too, which is a yay.

And finally, umbrella rain. Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it... hmm. Ok this is a fun one for me, because usually if I have a fic concept, I intend to write it, no matter what? But I've definitely got something somewhere that's so old that I probably won't end up writing it just because I've got so much else to write...

digs into the box of WIPs and ideas

Ok let's pull out two fun ones that I have in this old as fuck list- specifically ones that I actually remember what the fuck that note means (looking at you, 'guitar riff bad life decisions (also AA)' like what the fuck does that mean Past Pix. What the hell is that.)

So one of them is labelled as 'Tarre Kamino aka fuck the SW timeline'. I mostly remember this one because I started writing this, and it is in fact the reason I have a Word document with my own Star Wars timeline in it, because I got so sick of trying to figure it out via the wikis that I made some guesses and made my own. I didn't write more than maybe a scene of it because it was all driving me mad, and also I couldn't figure out where to go with things, but the idea was that the Force Ghost of Tarre Vizsla is on Kamino fucking around and finding out, and basically doing his best to keep the clones safe in the face of gestures at common fanon Kamino stuff and also like, the amount of rage he's got at Jango Fett and the other Mandos on planet. Cool idea, could not figure out where to go with it aside from probably having him interact with Shaak Ti at some point, but I had a solid 10 years to get through to get there and was lost.

The second one is 'Kamino is v angery (4546B)', man I love my naming system for things, and this one had No Plot Just Vibes. Fans of Subnautica may recognise that little number-letter combo at the end, the idea was literally that Kamino had once been the planet 4546B from Subnautica. The only real idea I had to go from there involved the Leviathans, specifically the Sea Emperor, but I had no idea what I wanted to do with it outside of that.

Maybe I'll come back to them sometime.

looks up wow this is a long post, huh. Damn. Hope you enjoyed hearing all these rambles, and ta very much for the ask! It was fun to go digging through things for quotes and stuff.

#ask game #emoji ask game #fic writing #writing #strange aeons au #ornithology dc au #parhelion dc au #wips #my wips #long post beware #goddamn i had a lot more to say about this than i realised huh #fun stuff though

[houndaelyn]

What ever happened to your Miquote fella? Where are THEY now?

Long story short: he died! and i recycled his pixel body into my current main, Korso.

The long story short but slightly longer, though, is that while he did indeed die fucking around and finding out his nature as an entangled liminal entity means he did not entirely cease to be— he exists everywhere, no where, and the space between. There's a lot of magic sci-fi (aka bullshit) going on with him and his awareness of the multiverse that he'd made Contingency Plans and has subsequently 'reawakened' in one of his fail-safes— albeit in a severely reduced capacity and not entirely to his assuredly foolproof spec.

#zeddias #miqo #blorbo babble #he's one of those characters i make in every game i play somehow/eventually #and so i tied it into his character Lore #no tart

[gilbirda]

This idea has been plaguing my brain for days now and I had to put it somewhere, so here:

Basically Jason was in his apartment watching some silly shows with his girlfriend laying on his side, his evening was doing pretty great for once, that is untill Oracle called saying they needed help, before Jason could decline she said unknown portals showed up in Gotham and one of them opened right in Crime Alley(or the Narrows, both work) and the Bat asked for him to investigate that portal while the rest of the batfam would deal with the other portals, a.k.a Jason had little choice but to go there and see what the fuck was going on in his territory.

So after angrily putting on the helmet and telling Jazz he would be back in a few minutes he got on his motorcycle and whent off to where the portal was, but once he got to the location Oracle provided there was no portal in sight, only a lot of dirt, a really big crater and- is that a person on a floating board!?

Aparentlly there was a random person standing on a floating board and chilling in the middle of a big crater, at this point he's not even surprised anymore. As he approaches the crater he starts seeing more details on the person, they had a green teal shirt with black shoulder pads and white gloves, they also had ginger hair tied in a how ponytail that was eerily similar to his girlfriend's, but it could just be a coincidence.

But as he got closer and the dust started to settle down he could not help the confused-almost-shout that came out of his mouth, and the only question in his mind is what the hell is Jazz doing here???

As it turns out, that was not Jazz, or at least not his Jazz, because aparentlly she was from a alternative universe and ended up in this universe by accident while she was chasing a powerful ghost with dimensional travel powers, in all honesty Jason is already done with this bullshit.

"Is there any other alternative version of my girlfriend I should know abaut?" Jason asked in a very exasperated voice

"Well, I did see a Jazz that had 2 swords and a blue blue hair streak before you showed up" the other Jazz sheepishly replied.

Jason buried his head on his hands.

He just wanted to spend some time with his girlfriend.

(Basically the idea is that Jason ends up meeting Krosan's version of Jazz and is very tired of dealing with multiversonal bullshit and I think him meeting that version of Dan would be kinda funny tbh, and also a little reference for Mortified!Jazz. Idk what this is but i needed to let it out)

YOOOOOO, THIS SOUNDS AMAZING!!!

We've seen a Spiderverse-like AU for Danny, why not for Jazz?? We have halfa!Jazz, Mortified!Jazz (aka warrior princess), Hunter!Jazz (Krossan's design is amazing and the thing with Dan is so cute) and my (is not really mine? I just ran with the idea in my fics) Liminal!Jazz.

I know you meant only Hunter!Jazz and Dan in their universe, but now the Spiderverse-like concept in in my brain now.

OOOOOO

MAYBE ALSO @impyssadobsessions's Evil Queen Jazz????

Also, so many girlfriends... Would they like Jason?

Hunter!Jazz I would think likes him, but in a older brother kind of way (also in Krossan's art she looks young soooo). He is kinda like her Dan but post-redemption, so she is very interested in getting into his head and learn how he did it.

Mortified!Jazz is also young but would have a crush on him, specially when she finds out he can kick ass and drinks respect women juice. And with how he takes care of his girlfriend? Honestly if she weren't so busy with, you know, saving the world and helping her brother become King, she'd want something like that for herself.

Halfa!Jazz is more of a trickster and had a chance to be the younger sibling, from what I could gather the consensus is in the Phandom. Assuming she's close in age to Jason here, she wouldn't mind sharing with that world's Jazz. "He has two hands, other-me!" Also she would want to fix the Lazarus Pits thing ASAP.

Evil!Jazz is into him immediately. His sense of justice and how he is willing to do anything to save people are things she finds attractive. Also it helps that he is cute 😌💖

Anyone that wants to add to this PLEASE do so. This is such a concept!!!!! I will be rotating this in my head for days.

#gil answers #danny phantom #jazz fenton #jason todd #batman dc #anger management ship #jazz x jason #jazz/jason #evil!Jazz #dp x dc

[bellyfisher]

strawberries and cigarettes

read on ao3! | 2.2k words

summary: Conrad stops me and tilts my head to look into his eyes, he’s staring at my lips, “So if I kissed you right now, you wouldn’t feel anything?” His voice goes dark.

aka Belly and Conrad do kiss the first night.

It’s the first night in Cousins for the summer. I put on my black one piece, the only swimsuit that still fits me. I grab my purple towel and head out to the pool. Night swims are my favorite, it’s like liminal space. An alternate reality where time isn’t real for awhile. I feel braver in the pool. After doing a few laps, I come up for air and Conrad sits on the edge in his signature pink hoodie and dark blue shorts. His feet submerged, a beer bottle next to him, and a cigarette in his mouth.

“Belly your night swims aren’t exactly a secret.” My mouth opens into an “O” shape. He’s been paying attention to me?

“Since when do you smoke?” I stare up at him. I need to change the subject immediately.

“Why does it matter?” He states back simply.

“You always said smoking was bad for you. Messes with the white matter in your brain.”

“God, do you memorize everything I say?” He tilts his head with a smirk on his face. He knows what he’s doing.

“No. But you need to stop smoking.” I try my best to seem unaffected. He isn’t winning this game.

“What will you give me if I do?” Conrad’s voice gets lower, he’s taunting me. And the game just changed again. Conrad has always kept me on my toes. I can lean into whatever this is or pretend I don’t know what he’s trying to do.

I stare at Conrad for a few moments and decide to cock my head, the bravery of night helping me, “Actually I change my mind, smoking is hot”. I smirk at him, wondering if he’ll call me on my bluff.

“Come light it for me then.” I stare blankly not thinking I would get this far. I start to open my mouth and give in, copping out of this game of chicken. “Do you want to get out of here?” Conrad asks before I can get a word out.

I hold out my arm silently as he helps me out of the pool. I slide on some shorts over my one piece. Is this real? I don’t say a word, scared to break whatever trance Conrad may be in.

We get to his car in the driveway and he checks his pocket for his keys. “Shit.” He mumbles.

I start to laugh and point, “Hey look in your front seat.”

“Oh you’re fucking kidding me!” He bellows. There they are, sitting on the driver’s seat in his locked car.

“Shh you’re gonna wake moms. They would kill me if they knew i was leaving the house this late.”

“But you’re with me.” He winks.

“I don’t think they would approve of this situation though.” He grabs my hand and starts fast walking to the road.

“Where are we going?” I ask him

“I don’t know but I just want to get out of here, you know?”

“Yeah I get it.” And I did. It was probably for very different reasons but on some level Conrad and I always understood each other. “So when did you start smoking Mr. bad boy?”

“When I quit football.” He shrugs like it was just a blip in an otherwise uninteresting life he led.

“Well why did you quit?”

“I dont know.”

“That’s bullshit and you know it.” It comes out harsher than I mean it to. Conrad can hide from everyone else, but he can’t hide from me.

“Language Belly!”

“Don’t call me Belly. And stop avoiding the question.”

“Okay I quit because of my dad. I just don’t want to be like him.”

Conrad gripped my hand tighter as he said that. I squeezed him back to let him know I was still there. That I wasn’t actually mad.

“Is that the only thing that’s wrong?” After the words leave my mouth, the walk is silent for 5 minutes. I don’t want to push him because I don’t want this to end. If Conrad changes the subject I decide in my mind that I won’t push it more.

Conrad sighs, like he’s trying to give himself confidence, “I just-how could he cheat on my mom you know? Am I hard-wired to be a shitty person? Is it in my genes?”

The idea of Adam cheating on Susannah makes me want to cry, but I’m determined to be strong for Conrad, “Mr. Fisher made his choices and I think you sitting here saying you’re scared you’ll be like him means you aren’t.”

“I just couldn’t live with myself if I became a bad person, you know.” Conrad looks away from me as he says this. He’s still holding my hand though.

“Conrad, you could never be a bad person.” My voice softens as I realize this is one of Conrad’s deepest fears.

“You’re just saying that because you’ve always had a crush on me.” His tone is lighter at a flip of a switch, he’s nudging me while I giggle.

My cheeks turn hot and red as I look down, “Maybe I’m just taking pity on you?”

Conrad stops me and tilts my head to look into his eyes, he’s staring at my lips, “So if I kissed you right now, you wouldn’t feel anything?” His voice goes dark.

Be strong, Belly. “N-nope. I wouldn’t feel anything but pity.”

“Belly I know I’m a good kisser. I’ll have you weak in the knees.” He would, he does already. But I’m not admitting to anything.

I lick my lips. The air is silent. It’s 85 degrees outside but I’m shivering. Conrad pulls off his sweatshirt and gives it to me to wear. He doesn’t take his eyes off of me the whole time.

Is he going to kiss me? Are my dreams really coming true?

He leans down and presses his lips to mine. He starts softly, his mouth still closed. I take my hand out of his and put it around his neck. He takes the opportunity to put his hands on my waist and deepen the kiss. When he opens his mouth to meet with my tongue, he tastes like strawberries and cigarettes. I decide in that moment that strawberries will never taste the same to me again.

I pull away and look up at him, both of us breathing heavily. Before I can get a word out he’s crashing his lips into mine again. He lifts me up like i weigh nothing and I wrap my legs around him. The kiss has gone from soft and thoughtful to passionate and overwhelming. He kisses me like im air he needs to breathe. After a minute or an hour, I can't even begin to tell, he finally puts me down.

“Wow.” Is all I can manage to breathe out.

“Told you I’m a good kisser.” He winks at me again. I shove him playfully. He grabs my hand again as we keep walking.

“Where are we going anyways?”

“There’s a treehouse in a park that has a really good view of the beach. You’ll love it.”

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Conrad holds my hand to help me up the ladder. Once we’re up, I sit next to him. Our legs are straight but touching each other on the side. My whole body is buzzing from the high of this night. Conrad pulls out another cigarette.

“I was serious earlier, you should quit.” Conrad looks at me and lights the cigarette with no shame, “Fine but I’m not coming to visit you when you get lung cancer.”

“Oh Belly ever the optimist. What if I never get lung cancer?”

“Okay either way I don’t want to listen to your smoker’s cough for the rest of our lives. It’s gross.”

Conrad quietly smokes the cigarette, refusing to answer me. So I lay back on my hands and look out over the ocean. Not much to see in the dark, but the stars are out in full force tonight.

“Do you ever get scared that you won’t live up to the potential everyone sees in you?” I startle a little bit, not expecting Conrad to talk.

“Well actually I don’t think people see anything in me besides this annoying little girl, so no. Can’t say I relate.”

Conrad is silent.

“But for what it’s worth, I think the only person worried about that is you. Your mom and Jeremiah would always love you no matter what. I mean Susannah is worried sick about you. I overheard her talking to my mom about it.”

“Yeah but they’re forced to love me no matter what.”

“Well okay then consider me. I don’t have to like you at all, and I practically worship the ground you walk on. I could have easily decided Jeremiah was perfect to me, but I chose you for a reason.” I giggle a little bit. Trying to lighten the mood but it doesn’t seem to help, “If it makes you feel better, I feel like I’m never going to find a place that’s home to me.”

“Ah you’re young though. Maybe you’ll find home wherever you go to college.”

“Yeah but I think home will always be Cousins to me. And I don’t see how I would end up living here full-time.”

“Here I’ll make you a deal: I give you the summer house when it’s inevitably passed to me, and you get off my ass about smoking.” Conrad finally cracks a smile.

“Deal.” I shake his hand, “I’m holding you to that.”

“I expect nothing less from you.”

We talk up in that treehouse until the sun rises. We don’t talk about anything of substance really. Just teachers we had in school, what classes Conrad is taking in the fall, our best summer memories.

“My favorite memory I think is the first belly flop we ever did. The look of pure terror on your face, mom’s laughter, the unadulterated joy of the summer house.” I wince. I remember it differently. It felt like a game everyone else was in on except for me. Although, it does boost my ego that I’m in his favorite summer memory and not some girl he’s made out with. Even if I am one of those girls now.

I don’t tell him this night is my favorite memory, I’ll keep it to myself for now.

“We should probably get back to the house.” I say starting to stand up, “I don’t feel like walking so I’m calling Steven. He owes me a no-questions-asked.”

Conrad follows me down the ladder. We sit on a bench for a few minutes in total silence. Steven pulls up and Jeremiah is in the passenger seat, forcing me and Conrad to sit in the back.

“Why were you guys out so late?” Steven immediately tries to ask.

“Nope.” I pop, “You owe me a no questions asked. And out of the rules of a no-questions-asked I will not elaborate for your sake why you owe me one.” I say sternly. (He owes me one because I caught him writing Drarry fanfiction two months ago).

Steven grumbles, Jeremiah raises an eyebrow at me through the rearview mirror and I give him a small smile. I look out the window, and I feel Conrad grab three of my fingers gently.

So it was real to him too and I can’t help the giddiness I feel. My heart starts racing. I'm sure everyone can hear it.

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I pass out at the summer house. Thankfully, mom and Susannah never found out I left. I slept until about 2 PM that day. When I make my way to the kitchen, Conrad is sitting at the island eating a bowl of cereal.

“Mornin’” I smile at him. I get nothing but a grunt in return. I’m a little bit stunned. I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this, “You okay?” I ask as I go in the fridge for a yogurt.

“Yeah, Belly. I’m fine.” His tone feels straightforward. Why is he doing this?

“Why are you being like that?” My voice gets small. Conrad wouldn’t rip last night away from me, I know him.

“I’m not being like anything.”

“You weren’t acting like this last night.” There’s hurt in my voice. I don’t want it to be there.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Nothing happened last night.” He looks up at me. Daring me to start an argument.

“I really can’t believe you, asshole. After all you said to me? It was real and you know it. I don’t know why you’re hiding from me.”

“Belly, you’re acting crazy.” He gets up to wash his dish, “I’ve gotta go. Told Jeremiah I would surf with him.”

Conrad walks out the back door towards the beach without so much as looking back at me. I can still taste him on my lips and I’m still wearing his sweatshirt that lingers of his smell. Instead of making me happy, it makes me sob. It will always be Conrad’s choice if we’re together or not, and I get that now.

#the summer i turned pretty #tsitp fic #tsitp #belly x conrad fic #belly x conrad #bonrad #bonrad fic #conrad fisher #belly conklin #this physically hurt me to right bc conrad is my uwu baby :( #anyways enjoy! lemme know what u think!

[theroseandthebeast]

I posted 30,185 times in 2022

That's 7,520 more posts than 2021!

29 posts created (0%)

30,156 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 29,798 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#0 - 675 posts

#interview with the vampire - 2,136 posts

#iwtv amc - 2,028 posts

#art - 1,736 posts

#our flag means death - 1,654 posts

#fashion - 887 posts

#critical role - 885 posts

#design - 550 posts

#what we do in the shadows - 488 posts

#words - 477 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#your boughts of bad luck eventually come back around as bonuses to you and what you protect as miraculous coincidences of earned convenience

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Blackbeard:

18 notes - Posted March 24, 2022

#4

umm hello, "vaxgrog???" 👀👀👀

also affectionately known as the Vax/Grog spanking fic! because spanking reasons.

which is to say, playfighting that sometimes involves getting Vax smacked around. i got lost somewhere in the eventual blowjob, idk.

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It only takes a few minutes for Vax to become sweaty, and tired, and irritated, and when Grog delivers a beautiful, solid smack across his backside he swears hard enough to actually use up the rest of the air in his lungs. 

Grog stops. Vax realizes he’s gone still. His face is mashed into the training floor - one hand digging into the ground, the other pulled up behind his back. His knees are tucked up under him, barely, and one of Grog’s legs is shoved between them. 

"Again?" Vax asks, and the world is barely out before Grog's blisteringly large hand slams through the air. 

Vax swears again, before he can bite it back, and then Grog is off top of him, yanking Vax’s pants down around his knees as quick as Grog has ever done anything, Vax is sure, and he gets to bury his face in his arms when the spanking begins in earnest.

“What's that?” Grog asks, sharp and teasing but not unkind.

“Please,” Vax says, “please, you big dumb motherfucker,”

19 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

#3

"Catholicism continues to be hilarious" oh so now the PROTESTANT is going to preach to us now?

idk if this is a friend being funny or a serious anon but please know this IS the funniest ask I've ever received

21 notes - Posted February 22, 2022

#2

clock symbolism this, ice pick that, why is no one talking about how Katya and Sofia were the inspiration for Emma Frost and Jean Grey

23 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Nope (2022) fic recs

11 recs -- mostly OJ/Angel, OJ & Emerald & Angel, some Jupe + Mary Jo

dreamin’ with the lights on., by mr_charles

OJ is there to take care of Angel after he gets out of the hospital.

or--?

save a horse, ride a cowboy.

where’s the love you’re after? by judypoovey

"So what, you want an Oprah shot for a first kiss? We gonna meet at the gulch during golden hour? Should I call that photographer Em was fucking for a photoshoot like we're getting engaged?"

choke on the memory now., by mr_charles

the best way to keep Angel Torres' mouth shut is to put something else in it.

or:

"yeah no, this is kinkier than I planned"-- an actual text sent to judypoovey

got to know that i’ve been calling you home, by judypoovey

After Jean Jacket, OJ can't figure out what it is Angel even wants from them.

He's not obsessing over it.

broken glass sparkling, by kocasoda

“Not in the mood for VR anymore?”

“Nope,” Angel had said, nervous, almost apologetic. “I just can’t anymore. I need— I gotta be able to see what’s actually going on around me or I get all weird, y'know, ‘cause what if something happens and I’m not as fast as I was last time? If I was a second off with that barbed wire fence, Jean Jacket would've— I mean, it got me, it fuckin' had me in its mouth, I was in it—“ and then he inhaled hard and had a panic attack.

Every Animal Has Rules, by sublightsleeper

OJ is good at patterns. He's good at routines. He's not so good at reading the room.

aka: Five times Angel kissed OJ and one time OJ kissed Angel.

shining sugars, by inaspic

The road trip, all day and a half of it, is less about getting a new horse and (definitely) more about breaking away from the noise.

The Show Goes On, by draculard

In 1999, eight months after Gordy's birthday party, a cameraman lugs his RCA into Mary Jo's hospital room.

reaching the serene., by mr_charles

"don't be a brat."

Angel's a brat. A lot.

in holy orders, by watercupx

"Mm-"

See the full post

23 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #i clearly post no original content #ALSO SORRY WHAT IS THAT LONGEST TAG #long post

[companionwolf]

Where the FUCK are the liminal spaces but they're laboratories aesthetic photos... all I can really think that fits is portal 1 in the lab areas . But even that doesn't actually match The Fucked Up Facility in my dream... so what the Fuck

ig the lightning/time freeze room in the real unreal also kinda works but that room doesn't quite match what I Saw in my Brain

anyway that verse is 'it makes a home in me' aka goopverse for short now

#wolf barking #check your hands #it makes a home in me #imahim #goopverse

[thefinalvoid]

from the 60 asks: 2, 15, 29, 36 (which is also 51 for some reason? huh), ooh 54 is fun, and 59

2. whats her biggest regret

not going with her youngest brother into town in her youth. (she and others with red eyes were prosecuted in the town she was born in. her second family was tortured to death one by one until it was just chalia and her youngest brother. after an argument, he went into town alone to scavenge for food. upon his return, he was covered in lacerations and slowly bled to death)

15. How would she describe herself?

Old and forgetful. she knows shes the second known oldest being. it's generally one of the first things she tells people who are learning about her for the first time. due to the fact that her memories change fairly often, shes not exactly a reliable individual.

29. If she could change one thing about herself, physical or otherswise, what would it be?

she would be mortal. she wasnt supposed to be immortal. She knows shes probably causing some issue in the liminal (space between universes) simply by existing. also shes been through a lot of trauma she deserves to rest. Chalia wouldnt say that but its true.

36. whats her favourite thing about herself?

her sense of fashion. she fucking loves making clothes so much. she grew up wearing what was basically trash and now she gets to look regal and she loves it!

54. whats her body count?

a lot. id ask murders or sexual partners but the answer is still a lot. she done more murders tho by quite a bit. she is like a trillion years old and eats by killing people. so uh. yeah. also she likes to fuck its her second favourite thing to do. the first is sewing.

59. What motivates her?

vengance. shes pissed off that children (aka non-gods younger than her) are hurt by others. she was once a child who was hurt very severly by others. it should not happen to children they do not deserve it.