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flamingpudding · 10 months
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Gaming Pal Prompt
A/N: Random Idea that was stuck in my head after reading about a Pen Pal Prompt
It all started with a simple accidentally created open lobby. Sam, Tucker and Danny were just playing Doom in a four person Lobby that was supposed to be passcode locked and private so that it was only the three of them playing. But one of them must have forgotten to lock it as suddenly a random player joined them as well as the in-game voice chat they were using.
"Sup. Mind if I join the game? My last lobby kicked me."
"Why? Too good or too bad?"
Tucker shot back, not minding the new player. The three would just have to watch what they talk about during game time.
"Don't know. I think they thought I cheated."
"Pff, sore losers. Maybe you can help these losers kick ass."
"Oh shut it Sam, we will wipe the floor with you now!"
"A challenge huh? That sounds interesting. I am Tim by the way."
"Sam."
"Tucker."
"Danny."
The friend request was sent after the game in which Tim did help Tucker and Danny beat Sam. Only for Sam to demand a rematch to regain her victory streak. From then on the random player regularity started joining in on their games whenever he happened to be online at the same time.
Of course the trio filtered their talks over voice chat. Making sure they wouldn't let anything atrocious slip. Though they did have some fun telling a non Amity Parker about the shit that goes down in their town and Tim always appeared interested to hear more about the things going on. Always curious and full of follow up questions, that strangely focus on who the attackers were ( always ghosts really they don't have any other rogues aside from maybe the fruitloop) and other times very much focused on their local ghost hero Phantom. He was also strangely interested in the whole GIW situation and sounded rather confused when they mentioned the Anti-Ecto Acts.
Aside from that Tim practically became a part of their little group. Their online Gamer Pal who knew nearly as much about their rogues and local Hero (thanks to all the questions he asked) like they did. A full fledged Team Phantom member who just didn't know the main secret of Danny actually doing the Ghost fighting as Phantom and being the one getting hunted by his own Parents and the GIW.
So of course the day came where Sam, Tucker and Danny forget to filter their words. It was during one particularly exhausting day when Danny had only had like 4 hours of sleep because he had studied all night for an English Test and then Skulker appeared to hunt Phantom and Danny's parents showed up too, making souping the Hunter Ghost especially difficult.
"Ancients, Skulker just had to decide on hunting you today, didn't he Danny?"
"Don't remind me. He is still souped in the thermos, but dodging Mom was harder with so little sleep."
"Should you like take a nap then man?"
"Nah I am fine for gaming night."
"Hey Danny, you did escape the blasters unscratched right? Your mom is the better shot after all."
"Nearly. Mom landed a couple of hits but it's almost healed already, just some small burn marks left."
"I am sorry, WHAT?! Did you guys just say that Skulker, the one that's hunting Phantom for sports, was hunting Danny. Danny was the one to Soup him not Phantom and Danny's Mom shot and hurt her own son with one of these ecto-blasters?!"
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stealingyourbones · 1 year
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Not sure if this has been suggested before but what do you think about a DP x DC Cross where the JL discover Amity because the "It's Not Gay if he's Dead" joke escapes containment into mainstream? Also I love your blog! You're awesome.
aaaaa thank you sm hun! I really appreciate that :D I'm glad you enjoy my funky lil blog!
And now, I threw this idea at a fellow who is simply me with prompts but even more unhinged and they wrote a thing. I present to you, This:
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Escaping containment implies that the content got leaked somehow. 
Maybe after so long with dealing with ghosts on their own, especially with ghosts that can control and use tech the people of Amity Park decide to self isolate. Phantom and Red Huntress are considered the only main heroes allowed in Amity, one out of pride and two out of concern of a ghost possessing an foreign hero. 
There was a fight and the tech isolation software glitched or a satellite picks up something on accident, letting a small leak occur. Nothing major, just a small joke. 
A blurry photo of a white haired teenager with a fancam like edit around him and the words "It's Not Gay if he's Dead." 
Which on its own wouldn't have taken off very much on the internet, but someone pointed out that the teenager was wearing what was very obviously a hero outfit. Leading to people wondering just who exactly this hero is or was. 
So they dig, and it turns out the “one” leak wasn't the only one to happen. 
The internet finds out there's not just one meme. There's hundreds of them. All originating from a single midwestern city and mostly focused around one person, the white haired teenager that is referred to as Phantom in most memes. 
Theres edits of a female musician with bright blue hair with text saying “that moment when a dead girl is your bisexual awakening” and “Its not a crush on a villian if shes not alive.” 
There's even photos of these slime-like creatures. With dozens of different memes referring to them. Varying from calling them green pigeons, to talking about tossing them like a sports ball.  
Theres even a photo of Dash and most of the football team are wearing group shirts that all say “It's Not Gay if he's Dead” with Phantoms logo on it, half as a joke and half because some of them would definitely date Phantom if they could. 
It's not even the Justice League that finds the jokes first, it's the younger generation of heroes. 
(It's how Tim asks Kon for a date. He sends a meme with Danny getting flunged in the worlds most tumbling superhero pose with the below text "It's not gay if he's dead." Tim immediately sends another text "But it is gay if he's an alien, 10pm picnic date?")
The different memes get passed around, none of them taking them that seriously, until it gets to Batman. One of the memes is sent in the bat group chat by one of the Bat kids to ask Jason about getting group Batburger later. “If your hero’s dead its not gay, it’s just hero worship, even if you want to meet him behind the Nasty Burger.” 
It's the hyper specific wording that gets Batman to look into it. He only finds the memes, nothing else. No town called Amity Park, no hero called Phantom, no trace outside of a reference to a defunct and wiped completely clean government branch and references to a nonexist law. 
This leads him to contact the Justice League, including the JL Dark, for a meeting. 
Surprisingly quite a few members recognize the teen outside of the memes. Flash, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, and some of the JLD. The Flash refuses to say anything due to timeline continuum dangers. Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter mention someone like him appearing in ancient texts, but nothing beyond that. The JLD that know are physically and contractually unable to say much beyond Phantom being a hero and very important. 
It’s Captain Marvel that genuinely knows anything about him. “That's Danny, he's pretty cool. He's even helped me out a few times!”
The rest of the JL are surprised, Marvel gets more questions and answers some of them. He doesn't share the knowledge that he's helped Billy at handling the whole secret child hero thing, and that he's welcome in Amity. Just enough information to make the League stop looking into Phantom, Ember, Cujo, all of Amity. 
It works, mostly. 
Batman has never been one to let sleeping dogs lie…
-From Bones’ GhostWriter, S.
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This was so fun to write! I hope you enjoy part 2!
Pairings: Jake Kiszka X Danny Wagner *ssslash
Warnings and tags: 18+ only, no minors! Adult themes including: partner death (past tense), fatal illness, brief mentions of depressive attitudes, some drinking, little bit of flirting, dad Jake AU, uncle Danny AU
Word count: 4k
Another end to a week and soon it was Saturday. Jake was back on the field with the kids, jogging backwards alongside them as he taught them how to attempt making passes with the balls. It wasn’t exactly going well, but he didn’t expect much from only the second day of practice.
The kids were having fun and that was all that really mattered so he wasn’t hard on them at all. He was having a good time watching their little feet and legs try to maneuver the checkered balls, giggling himself when one of them would trip up and he’d have to quickly catch them before they surly ate some grass.
There was to be no crying on the field under his watch.
A few parents had come to see their kids learn the sport, though most just sat in their folding lawn chairs and clapped from the sidelines. Emma’s mom was here. She’d made it a point to come up to Jake before practice started and invite him over for lunch afterwards, to which he said he’d consider it.
Honestly, he hadn’t had much time to think about Danny since the other day, but he’d suddenly gotten a strange feeling in his gut when walking over to the field this afternoon. He had no idea if Danny would be there today, and he wasn’t sure if he’d mentally prepared himself to deal with any antics today. It was a relief to see he wasn’t there, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t be at the house for lunch.
“Can I go play at Emma’s house? Pleeease?” Luna asked in her sweetest, trying to pull on her dad’s heartstrings, voice.
“Michael has been outside grilling all afternoon. We’ve got plenty of food” Emma’s mom sweetened the deal with the promise of barbecue, and after that little cardio workout Jake had to admit he was pretty hungry.
“Oh all right, just for a little while” Jake finally agreed and both kids squealed with excitement.
“So how’s it going with the foundation?” She casually made small talk as they all started their walk back towards the houses.
“It’s been going. We hit a few snags with securing some donations out on the west coast. Thought for a second I was going to have to go out there myself to get it all sorted out, but my team came through in the end”.
“That’s good to hear. It’s great what you guys do for musical education”. She almost always asked Jake about his job when she got the chance to chat with him. Jake didn’t mind, he loved his job, a legacy left behind.
“By the way, I’ve been thinking about putting Emma in some piano lessons” she continued, “you wouldn’t happen to know anyone would you?” Though she didn’t come right out and ask him, the look she gave him and the tone in her voice suggested what she really meant was would he teach her. “I’ve seen that beautiful piano in your house”.
“That was June’s” Jake informed her that the piano she mentioned wasn’t exactly his, but his late wife’s. “I could teach her how to play guitar” he chuckled nervously, fidgeting with the strap of his backpack, “but piano might be a little out of my expertise”.
“Oh, I see” she trailed off, almost sorry she’d unintentionally brought up a possibly sensitive subject.
Jake offered her a warm smile in return, trying to show her he didn’t mind at all. He liked talking about her, and actually he kind of wished people would ask about her more often so he could feel free and happy to reminisce instead of everyone just trying to tiptoe around it.
“I really wish I could’ve met her. I bet she was an amazing woman”.
She was the most amazing woman he’d ever met, Jake thought to himself. They had met at an event for the foundation he now worked for. He was only nineteen at the time, still just a kid in the eyes of the seasoned professionals he was so anxious to be getting a chance to mingle with.
Being a freelance musician, Jake was just trying to book whatever he could with the help of his manager, who happened to be friends with some people also invited to this party. Jake hadn’t expected much of anything to come from that night. Maybe have a few (nonalcoholic) drinks with some like natured musicians, learn some tips of the industry, if he was lucky and smooth talked enough maybe score his next gig. What he never expected was meeting June.
They spent practically the whole night standing at a high top table at the corner of the room together, just getting to know each other. He told her he played the guitar and she modestly revealed that she was a singer who also played a few instruments of her own. She was twenty-one at the time so she was drinking sparkling wine and Jake couldn’t tell if the flush in her cheeks was from him, or the glass in her hand. Either way he couldn’t take his eyes off of her.
At the end of the night he gave her his number, praying she would give him a call. After two long days of beating himself up for not just asking for her number instead, she called him and they set up a lunch date.
It was then he found out she was the only daughter of the owners of the foundation who’s party they’d met at. She had spent most of the past two years traveling around with them going to events like the night before, meeting musicians and trying to fundraise money for musical programs in schools.
She had decided now that she wanted to settle down for a bit, write some pieces and even possibly work on an album. Jake was extremely excited when she invited him to the studio with her, and before he knew it they were collaborating and eventually dating as well.
Two years of hard work and their album was finally hitting the market. The combination of Jake’s crafty acoustic and effortlessly executed electric guitar riffs, with her smooth powering vocals and elegant instrumentals made for popular reviews. They toured together for a while, most of their shows profits giving back to her family’s foundation.
Jake and June never denied the dating rumors. It was blatantly obvious with the palpable chemistry between them both on and off stage, and as soon as touring was over they were eloping up in the mountains of her family home.
It seemed so unreal looking back on the way it all happened. Jake was crying tears of happiness when he found out she was pregnant with Luna, but the tears soon turned sorrowful when all the blood testing along with early pregnancy confirmed June’s worst nightmare, her diagnosis.
The doctors assured them that the pregnancy didn’t put her or the baby at risk, but Jake could tell when she started getting sick because she didn’t sing anymore. She just didn’t have the strength in her lungs to do so.
Thankfully Luna did arrive perfectly fine, and they’d had nearly a full year together before June took a turn for the worst. She was bedridden on their daughter’s first birthday, and Jake couldn’t stand to see the pain it caused her to not be able to be the mother she always wanted to be.
The next thing he knew, she was gone and he was navigating life as a parent alone. He decided making music and playing shows couldn’t be a stable job for a toddler, so he inherited his wife’s shares of the foundation where he started to work full time.
“She would’ve loved you guys, especially Emma and Luna getting so close. She always wanted a big family since she was an only child”. Jake smiled again as he watched the kids chase each other through the yard once they finally reached the house. “Are you an Michael thinking about having anymore?”
She turned quiet herself this time, shrugging her shoulders as she held the door open for him after the kids plowed through to get to playing in the backyard. “We’ll see” she replied, absently like it wasn’t a topic she really preferred to get into right now.
Jake followed her through their home to the French doors that opened up onto their back patio. Emma’s dad was finishing up at the grill so they started setting up the table with napkins, cups and utensils, some chips, everything you’d need for an afternoon barbecue.
“Is there anything I can help with?” Jake asked, feeling awkward about just standing there as they worked. He’d had plenty of meals at their house, and shared his dining room with them as well, so he wasn’t uncomfortable but he still considered himself a guest and offered his assistance.
“Oh I’ve got some potato salad in the fridge, would you mind grabbing that and some ice from the kitchen?”
Without hesitation Jake made his way back inside, easily navigating his way to his destination, stopping dead in his tracks when he rounded the corner and saw the kitchen wasn’t as empty as he’d expected it to be.
“Looking for this?” Danny smirked as he held what looked like the bowl of potato salad he’d been sent for.
“No” Jake blurted out, his mind too preoccupied with trying, and failing, to look away from the man standing in front of him. He was in black jeans again, maybe even the same ones from their first encounter, and another t-shirt. Only this t-shirt instead of having the sleeves cut off had the last two inches chopped away so that the hem hung just above his belted waistband.
All he had to do was shift a bit and Jake was getting a peak at his navel, decorated with a patch of dark hair. There was something else too, something silver just barely hidden underneath the cotton. A belly button piercing? He couldn’t be sure, but he absolutely was not getting any closer to get a better look or letting himself get caught staring.
“Ice” he spoke in another one word sentence, but didn’t move a muscle to retrieve said ice.
“Here, I got it” Danny set the bowl down on the island that separated them and stepped over to the cabinets. He had his back facing Jake now, but as he opened the cabinet and reached onto the top shelf for a metal container for the ice Jake could see how far the shirt rose with the stretch, exposing smooth tanned skin and a pair of back dimples.
Jake continued to watch in silence as Danny filled the bucket up before turning back around. “Want to take that and I’ll take this?” He raised his eyebrows and nodded his head slightly towards the bowl on the counter.
“Okay” Jake approached the island like a skittish cat. One wrong move from Danny and he’d be scurrying off. Danny only waited patiently for Jake to reach over and slide the bowl across the granite then he wrapped his arm around it and held it close to his body.
“Your hair looks nice by the way” Danny muttered quietly when Jake was closer.
Jake brows furrowed in confusion before he could catch himself. He’d let his hair down from the clip he’d thrown it up in at practice, but all he’d had was his fingers to haphazardly comb through it. He couldn’t imagine that it looked ‘nice’ right now.
“It looks good down is what I mean” Danny elaborated, moving past him to head outside before someone came looking for them.
“There you are! I was sure you didn’t get lost just going to the kitchen” his sister called them over to the table when she spotted them through the door.
She had the kids already rounded up, sitting together at one end with a plate each and barbecue sauce already smeared on their faces. Practice must’ve made them just as hungry as Jake was.
Jake took a seat next to Luna, Michael sat at the end of the table and his wife to his right. That left the seat across from Jake open, and the seat next to him on Michael’s left. Great, either he’d be trying to avoid looking at Danny while he ate, or he’d be sitting right next to him.
He turned to check on Luna making sure she had a napkin and enough water before he planned to get back up and make a plate for himself. The seat next to him was drug across the concrete as Danny pulled it out to take a seat, but then the sound of a plate sliding across the table made Jake look over.
Danny sent him a smile as the plate ended up right in front of Jake, setting his own plate down in front of his chair next then leaving to get drinks.
“Thanks” Jake mumbled when Danny handed him a water as well.
“You know Danny plays the guitar too” his sister commented as she watched their little interaction, stabbing her fork into some of the potato salad.
“Really?” Jake replied, too polite to ignore her conversation. “Is he any good?” What he could do though was talk to her like their subject wasn’t nearly brushing shoulders with him as he picked up his fork.
“He is. At least from what I can remember he hasn’t played in a while”.
“That’s because my Gibson got stolen” Danny interjected.
“I don’t see how that’s anyone’s fault but your own” she scolded him.
Jake was able to get a few bites in as they argued back and forth for a moment when he noticed Michael was being unusually quiet. He chalked it up to letting Danny and his sister have their moment. He himself knew how family bickering could go.
“I’m thinking about getting a new one though. Maybe when I do I could come over and we could jam”.
Jake nearly choked on his water at Danny’s bold suggestion, but he somehow managed to swallow it down and look his way. “Umm, yeah that could be cool”. Shit, why did he agree?
“Cool” Danny flashed another smile and Jake focused on his plate again, already thinking of excuses he could use to get out of that.
“Daddy, I’m done” Luna tugged on Jake’s arm to get his attention after a little while of eating and chatting. “Can we go play in Emma’s room?”
“Ask Emma’s mom if she can be excused from the table” he answered her as he gathered up her mess.
“Of course, you kids run along and play, I’ll be right back” she quickly replied as she got up to grab something from inside. Danny jumped up to help Jake clear the kids plates, stacking them and all the trash together and carrying it to be thrown away, the kids following behind him.
“Have any interesting cases right now?” Jake asked Michael when it was just the two of them left outside.
“Nothing really interesting, just a lot” he replied simply.
“I hear you’ve been having to stay late quite a bit, I’m always happy to help with Emma”. He watched as Michael nodded, though his attention seemed to be focused behind Jake. Looking over his shoulder just barely in view behind the glass doors Danny and his sister seemed to be deep in discussion again.
Like she could sense their eyes on her, she quickly came back out, carrying a wine bottle and two glasses. “A client gave this to us, you have to try it at least once” she insisted as she poured herself and Jake a glass.
They talked for a while longer, one glass turning into two before Jake had to cut himself off, but she went ahead and finished the bottle with her third. At some point Michael had gotten up and went inside. Jake found it odd he wasn’t socializing at all today, but maybe he was just overworked and needed a break. God knows he knew what it was like to need a break.
“Well I better get Luna and head home. We still have homework she didn’t want to do last night”.
“Go ahead, I’m going to clean up a little bit out here. It was good catching up”.
“It’s always a pleasure” he replied, then got up feeling his head rush a little bit with the motion. It’s a good thing they only had a short walk home because that wine was potent, three glasses would’ve definitely gotten him into some trouble.
When he was back inside he could already hear the giggling of the children coming from the living room instead of the hallway with the bedrooms. “Luna? Time to go sweetheart” he called out.
He was right, they were in the living room, and so was Danny who looked up at him from where he sat on the floor in front of a kids play desk. He had about a dozen rainbow butterfly clips fixed in his curls, and his hands were spread across the tiny desk while Emma painted them silver with sparkles.
“Daddy! Can I see your phone?” Luna jumped up from the couch that had hair accessories scattered across its cushions, no doubt the next pieces to be added to Danny’s look.
“What for?” He asked, letting her grab onto his hand and pull him further into the room.
“Danny said we can add him as a friend on TikTok” she answered him, already trying to pry his phone from his front pocket.
“Is that so?” Jake retrieved his phone first, looking over at Danny in question.
“Only if you send me those slime scooping videos. Those are my favorite” he told her to which she jumped up and down giggling.
Jake reluctantly unlocked his phone and opened the app he’d only installed so that he and Luna could watch cute farm animal videos on and such, she loved those. He let Danny tell him his username and added him as a friend. “Alright can we go now?”
“Bye Emma! I’ll see you at school on Monday!” Luna waved to her, then to Danny.
“Careful!” Emma scolded him when he tried to wave back, checking his nails for smudges when he quickly obeyed and put his hand back down.
Later that night Jake laid in bed getting caught up on some reading and waiting for Josh’s call when he got a notification on his phone. He’d almost forgotten about the TikTok add when he saw that Danny followed him back, and shortly after sent him a video. He debated ignoring it, but ended up deciding to check and make sure he wasn’t sending anything weird where Luna could see.
A pleasant little tune came across the speaker when it started with a title to the video on the screen that said ‘rating the scoopability of this week's slimes’. He actually watches this? Jake thought as he let the video play on, an orange ‘slush’ slime, whatever that was, up first. Next was a deep blue one with purple flash and gold stars. Wait, he kind of liked that one, and why was this kind of relaxing? Finally there was a green translucent slime, this one had lots of tiny little charms in it which Jake had to squint his eyes at to see that some of the charms were tiny soccer balls.
Was Danny thinking about him when he sent this video?
Jake closed the video and stared at the white background of the nearly empty inbox before he curiously clicked on the bubble that took him to Danny’s profile. He didn’t have anything posted, but there was a link to his instagram account.
The link took him immediately to the other app, and Jake lied to himself saying he hoped his account was private. It wasn’t.
A grid of pictures of Danny flooded Jake’s screen in the usual instagram manner. Being nosey he scrolled a little bit, finding one interesting enough to click on and enlarge. He looked like he was in a tattoo shop, and he was in a position that showed off his forearm while he pretended to flex- not that he had to try very hard.
What looked like brand new ink by the irritation of his skin banded around his arm in bold black lines. How had he missed this when they met? He could remember what Danny was wearing, but clearly he’d been trying to avoid looking at him too much if he’d not seen the tattoo.
He stared at the picture for a bit longer, studying the marking and the unfamiliar symbol they made when he was interrupted by his awaited phone call.
“Hey” he answered, trying to sound normal- like he wasn’t just creeping on someone's social media.
“What were you doing?” Josh asked, too intuitive to not notice he’d caught Jake off guard.
“Nothing” Jake replied, his voice turning up a bit at the end.
“What were you watching porn or something?”
“What? No! I absolutely was not” Jake groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose at his brother's brazen questioning.
“I wouldn’t judge you if you were. How else are you supposed to release some stress without getting a little… well, release?”
“Please stop talking. The only thing stressing me out right now is you”.
“How was practice today?” Josh asked instead, sounding a little too eager to get the updates about ‘practice’.
“Really good” Jake replied, only adding to Josh’s delusion of what really good meant.
“So you got to see a certain someone again?”
Of course, this conversation was actually about that.
“Not at practice. We had lunch at Emma’s house”.
“Wait…” Josh stopped him in confusion. “So the person who hit on you is?”
Jake debated for a moment about telling Josh about Danny. Besides he was just some random guy he had to put up with right now since his family was close with Emma’s, right? He figured Danny’s living situation with his sister wasn’t permanent, so eventually he’d leave and everything would go back to normal, right?
“Jake, come on if you don’t tell me I’m just going to imagine what I want to then” Josh read his mind.
Knowing leaving it up to Josh’s imagination was not the best course of action- that could get out of hand fast, Jake gave in. “His name is Danny. He’s Emma’s uncle”.
The other end was silent for a moment as his brother took in this information. Jake knew that Josh didn’t care that this crush was someone of the same sex, having been with his boyfriend for nearly a decade now. “This is… interesting”. Jake could hear Josh’s grin, knowing he was probably planning out how he could meet Danny as soon as possible.
“Don’t be weird about it. It’s nothing”.
“Yeah, just a crush” Josh giggled mischievously. “Jake has a crush”.
“Shut up I don’t”.
“Oh, wait till Sam gets a hold of this”. Jake knew Josh wouldn’t actually tell him if he didn’t want him to, but it was also fun to tease him with it.
“I’m hanging up now”.
With a chuckle still in his tone Josh wished him a good night. When the call ended Danny’s instagram pulled back up and Jake gave it one last scroll through before he sighed and closed all his tabs before plugging his phone back in and saving his place in his book. Setting them both on his night stand he turned out his light and settled into bed, one question left on his mind.
Did he have a crush?
Before today he would’ve said no, absolutely not, but he had to admit seeing Danny playing with the kids had done something to him.
A crush might’ve been a strong word at this point, but if he saw Danny again he didn’t think he’d mind it so much anymore.
Coming to grips with that Jake was able to easily fall asleep, knowing that he probably would be seeing him again.
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charlywrites · 2 years
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Requested by two anons
Request; hiii, can you write anger for danny ricciardo? ie: getting into a nasty argument but eventually making up (or out🙈) + Request; Can I request a first fight and grovelling Daniel 🤔 please
Warnings; swearing, mention of mclaren’s treatment to Daniel, Daniel is mean but for like 2 mins bc I can’t handle him being mean, also this is really short i’m sorry!
Note; @/mclaren i’m under your bed for the rest of the season, y’all better sleep with one eye open.
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From the three months you had been dating Daniel, he was truly a sunshine and made your life so much better just by being in it. From the day you met, he had been one of the nicest and loveliest person you’ve ever met.
Arguments were bound to happen in a couple at some point, but so far, yours hadn’t been in one- you always seemed to agree with each other on everything.
While you had your own career and work, you would find a way to assist to almost all of the Grand Prix, you loved the sport and you couldn’t lie, Daniel really needed your support with how difficult this season was for him.
He was talented, everyone knew that, and you were convinced he hadn’t lost his touch unlike some people would say- you knew it was mclaren’s fault, their strategy would always ruin his races, when the car was behaving, which was rare, they would hold him down to have Lando in front.
When it wasn’t the strategy, it was the pit stops that would screw over his race, no matter what, something would get in the way during the races. It was frustrating to say the least, you couldn’t do anything besides seeing your boyfriend get his talent wasted every weekend.
Daniel had confessed to you how hard it was for him, how misunderstood and ignored he was during the races, and all you could say was that you would always believe in him and how great he was, no matter how awful the car was.
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Another race week-end that was disappointing for Daniel, but also McLaren as a whole. Friday had been awful for your boyfriend and the saturday hadn’t been any better during the Sprint race as he had once again been held back by his crew.
For once, the car was almost alright and Daniel felt like he could push it a bit more, he had more pace than his teammate who was in front of him- it wasn’t the first time of the season that this happened, yet the result was the same.
Daniel’s engineer said he would get back to him to allow him to overtake Lando or not, but he didn’t even bother calling him back on the radio. The sprint race ended with Daniel staying behind Lando when he could’ve tried to overtake Bottas and get closer to the points.
After the race, it was impossible for you to describe how frustrated you were at Daniel’s team- you had never seen such an unfair treatment, and each new week showed it more clearly.
If you had listened to your heart at that moment, you would have pulled up a scene right in front of the garage but you knew you had no rights to do so, you weren’t a professional, you were allowed here only because you were Daniel’s girlfriend.
Instead, you stayed on your own, not too close to anyone that could accidentally get on your nerves and waited for your boyfriend to get back to the garage- it was petty but while waiting, arms crossed against your chest, you could help but shoot daggers at all the team.
The look in your eyes softened as soon as you saw Daniel’s car arriving in front of the garage, when he was finally out of his car, you rushed to hug him, so quickly that he hadn’t removed his helmet yet.
The hug was clearly different than the ones you were used to, Daniel was stiff and barely hugged you back- shrugging it off, you told yourself that his mind was still focused on the race and that it wouldn’t be that way for too long.
At that time, you had no idea how wrong you were- you only realized it when you were back in your hotel room. Daniel had spent the last couple of hours avoiding you whenever he could and when he couldn’t, he would just stay silent.
When you both got to your hotel room, you sighed as you closed the door behind you, “ what’s up your butt dan?”
“ What?”
“ You heard me, what’s up your butt? Since the end of the race, you’ve been avoiding me, not talking- it’s just not like you.”
If glares could kill, you would probably be dead by now, Daniel had never looked at you like that, or let alone looked this angry, “ oh I don’t know, maybe I’m fucking upset over this whole week-end! They’ve been screwing me over and over again, I’m fucking tired and wanted to be left alone but you’re always here!”
You couldn’t believe Daniel’s words, they were spat with such venom, it just didn’t sound like your boyfriend, “ what the fuck, Daniel! I was there to support you and wanted to comfort you after that race.”
“ Well, it was a bad call, I didn’t want your presence!”
“ One thing’s for sure, you won’t have it for the next race.”
“ You know what? Maybe it’ll work in my favor. After all, it started to go downhill ever since I met you. Maybe you’re the actual reason this season is atrocious.”
You were left stunned by what you had just heard, you could feel your heart breaks into millions of pieces. You wanted to talk back, tell him how much of an asshole he was, but no words left your mouth.
It just hurt, way too much. You had done nothing to deserve that. Ever since Daniel and you had started dating, you had been nothing but supportive of him, you were always behind to cheer for him, no matter how hard the season was, and that was how you were thanked.
Sniffling, you felt tears threatening to fall down, but you didn’t want to show him how much his words hurt you, “ congrats for saving the second part of your season in that case.”
Daniel had stayed silent as soon as his words came out of his mouth, he knew he had fucked up, even if he didn’t mean what he had said, it was too late to take it back, the damage had been done.
He didn’t know what to say to make it better, a simple sorry wouldn’t be enough. When he saw you head back to the door, he knew he had to act quickly before you’d be gone, “ wait y/n! I didn’t mean it, I swear.”
“ Yet, you said it. I’m sorry I fucked over your season.”
“ No, no, no! Don’t apologize, it’s not your fault! You’re the only reason this season is actually bearable, you make it better.”
Scoffing, you crossed your arms over your chest, “ how am I supposed to believe this when a minute ago, you told me it was my fault?”
“ I’m so sorry, I know I fucked up. It’s not an excuse but I was so angry after the race and I needed to take it out on someone but you didn’t deserve it.”
“ I happened to be here and took one for the team, uh?” you didn’t want to forgive Daniel yet, but still you softened at his explanation, it was a good thing that he was actually trying to fix it up.
“ I really didn’t want to, that’s why I tried to distance myself from you after the race, I didn’t want to snap at you.”
“ You can vent to me all you want Dan, I’m here to listen to you and make it better when I can. I don’t mind to be the shoulder you can cry on- but don’t ever snap at me like that again.”
“ I won’t do it again, I promise.”
You sighed, knowing it might be stupid of you to forgive him already, but you loved Daniel too much, you couldn’t stay mad at him, no matter how painful his words had been, “ I forgive you but I won’t forget.”
And just like that, his big gummy smile you had fallen for was back on his face- it was truly one of the things you loved the most about him, how contagious his smile was.
As soon as he had thanked you for forgiving him, he walked the few steps separating the two of you and crashed his lips against yours while cupping your cheeks with each of his hands.
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BATMAN, MEET TEAM PHANTOM chapter 44 is UP!
As always, here is the link to chapter 1. This is story 5 in the "Ghosts in Gotham Series". Enjoy!
Summary of chapter 44:
It's a play day at Star Labs. The best of Team Phantom is gathering, along with Red Robin and Cyborg, and they're looking to take their mind off of their troubles by doing something Danny loves--making things the Fenton way! Is Star Labs ready for the young men? Is Cyborg??
Also, on an unnamed island in the tropics, a group of young ladies and a singular young man make landfall on a beautiful island paradise. One of them is obsessed with safety. The others just wanna have fun!
Also, DUCT TAPE!
Teaser below cut...
Victor was watching Danny intently when he noticed a blue mist escape from the boy’s mouth. “Aw, man! Not now!” The newest Ghost King groaned. “This better not be one of those asshat Observants trying to mess up my day…” He grumbled then started looking around for—something.
That something turned out to be a head and torso that popped up out of the computer console by Cyborg. “Hello, young friends, my King. Greetings! It is I, Technus! Master of all Technology! I am here to assist you in whatever manner you require of me today!” The what in the hell was that thing??? stepped fully out of the computer and looked around the room. His face lit up like Times Square on New Year’s Eve. “OH! We have so much to work with! My King! Do you have any projects in mind for today?”
The being completely ignored the other three boys in the room. Silas Stone was watching the craziness in the lab from the safety of the Observation Room. He had read what the kids were allowed to work with—or rather the very, very short list of what they weren’t—and decided that he didn’t personally need to be in the room with the four boys, and, apparently, now an ecto-being. He reached for the antacids. It was going to be a long day, unless the two newest boys had enough talent to make this interesting…
Below the observation level, Danny stood facing Technus. “Don’t make me regret making you my Royal Technological Advisor—understand?” He leveled a glare at the ghostly visage in the white luminescent lab coat.
“Technus” bowed his head. “I hope that one day I can fully earn your trust, Your Majesty.”
Tucker looked at Danny and then back at Technus. He walked over and slapped both of them on the back. “Guys, we are here to have FUN. Invent, experiment, and play with hazardous things! Let’s not waste our time on posturing, OK?”
Danny blushed…were his cheeks turning a bit green??...Victor wasn’t sure he really wanted the answer to that question. He was saved from his confusion by Danny, who looked up sporting a grin. “Yeah. I’ve got some great ideas for ghost shields—not shielding against ghosts, but shielding ghosts from human weaponry, so they’d be safe to visit Earth, should the United Nations grant us Sovereignty and possible member status. They should also work against ecto-blasts, so the weaker ghosts—and my armies—can be outfitted with a bit more protection than they have had until now. I want my people to be safe.
Cyborg was a bit taken aback. Most scientific types who were given access to Star Labs always wanted to get something marketable out of the time spent there. This kid—no, this KING—was looking out for his people, first and foremost. He was pulled out of his thoughts when Tucker started talking.
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Maxiel fanfic rec
yes thats right you heard me a maxiel fanfic reclist because apparently im crazy and ive been reading so much maxiel tht i can make a reclist now. its all so very catered to my taste soooo have fun
1. With The Sun In Our Eyes by screwstyles | T, 36k
“A fake dating AU set in 2025: It’s bad enough that Max is outed by an ex in the middle of racing season, and then his team suggests he pretend to date Daniel to soften the blow. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds.”
a maxiel classic, theres just something about fake/pretend relation ship that just gets me. also a lot of miscommunication so heads up for that”
2. you pick me up and take me home again by wintrs | M, 28k
“It feels like a dream, seeing Daniel again after all these years. It's a second chance Max knows he doesn't deserve, and he isn't going to waste it.Or: Max isn't racing in 2027, although he couldn't tell you exactly why. But it isn't a big deal. He's fine.”
max deals with his feelings and also his past trauma. very very angsty.
3. Little Drops of Anguish by semperama | E, 45k
“After a crash in Baku 2021 leaves Max unable to race, he's left trying to figure out what to do with his life—and with Daniel, who doesn't seem to want to let him go.”
also like fic no 2 max cant race and must face the fact tht theres a life beyond racing and daniel showing him that.
4. well we can settle down by tiredtiredsharl | M, 24k
“Sometimes Daniel watches the tapes back and he thinks: shouldn’t I be jealous of this kid? Or: Max drives the way we all aspire. Or: Christ, I’m in the presence of someone who will go down in FIA history.He never says any of that. Because after he watches Max stumble through an interview with a journalist who quotes Toto, he realizes that the pressure is the last thing Max needs.Max is one bad race away from combusting. Or going into the wall again. And Daniel can’t handle either of those options. For reasons he can’t examine right now. Or ever.”
dont remember much of the plot except that i found myself finishing the ff at 6 am in the morning and the light were coming through my window. amazing shit
5. The Dog's Home by dm3rv | M 33k
“Max Verstappen liked dogs. Max Verstappen loved cats. The jury was still out on people.Max has spent years climbing the ranks at an Animal Welfare Charity, moving from volunteer to intern to Animal Care Manager. The dogs and cats he cares for are his life - if only he didn't have to spend so much of his time putting up with 'VIPs'; entitled celebrities and donors with image-based agendas. Daniel is going through an image and identity crisis after an uninspiring season with McLaren. Keen for an image overhaul, he gives his time to a local animal shelter. What he doesn't expect is the prickly Animal Care Manager who has been assigned to look after him. Animal Shelter AU.”
THE BEST! max vet au youre crazy and dog boy daniel scared of dogs? good content also dont forget to check out the side galex. also good shit.
6. The Drive Of Your Life by  littleprism | ?, 70k
“Daniel is a semi-known actor. Max just got his second WDC a few months ago. There was absolutely no reason for them to meet.
Until a fateful crash in testing changed that.”
b list actor danny and racer maxy playing in a movie together. theres some plot holes but if you dont really think about it its soo good. 
7. anything to get to the rush by kingsguarding | E, 18k
“It’s so stupid, that’s the thing.Every year, the World Champion gets to choose another driver to … celebrate with. It’s an old tradition, apparently. As old as the sport itself. Part of the prize of winning, part of your reward.Max has never understood it.”
the ff that made me realize im soo deep in maxiel lore that i will sink w this ship. basically two emotionally stunted boys doing emotionally stunted boys thing
8. MV33 by Whippasnappa | E, 14k
“Daniel finds out Max is on Grindr. He's curious. He's just going to download the app, just to see. Just to look at Max's profile. He's curious how Max picks up men, curious if Max puts his real face out there. He's definitely not going to message Max. He's definitely not going to do that. He messages Max.”
yeah.....
9. Happier than Ever (so why are you crying with blue-sky eyes) by Whippasnappa | E, 30k
“From the first time they met at RedBull, Max knew he never wanted to be without Daniel. A look through their relationship as Max tries (and fails) to keep his feelings for Daniel hidden, as Daniel leaves for Renault, then McLaren, as Max tries to hold himself together.”
it hurts but it hurts so good. retelling of their whole history
will be updated as i read more ff
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Danny Phantom Enemies Headcanons
This headcanon is gonna be about the many characters from the series Danny Phantom and see what their relationship with Team Phantom would be in the series ranging from: ally, neutral, and enemy. Now, it’s time for the enemys, enjoy. Allies here and neutrals here!
P.S. Sorry this took so long to due, real life comes before making headcanons. Enjoy!
Warning : Some character explanations will be super long, mentions of death, and other things rated PG-13.
Enemies:
Skulker - He was one of Team Phantom's first villains and was obsessed with hunting Danny for his pelt (GROSS!) and for being a Halfa. Skulker obviously doesn't care about who or what he hunts especially if a child or an endangered animal is his target. Once it's revealed that Danny isn't the only Halfa around (Not just Vlad and Dani) I can see him giving Danny 'the reason you suck speech' about how Danny is no longer special or worth his time hunting, which is a relief for Danny, but they'll still fight each other. Skulker may over time have a villian's respect towards Danny and Team Phantom, but will never admit it. I have a theory that the only reason he never hunted Vlad is because Vlad bribed him with endless weapons if Skulker never hunts him and Vlad pays Skulker to hunt things for him. On the scale of villiany in the show Skulker is #4 seeing as he hunts for sport and how he has been dangerously close to killing Danny and others.
Nicolai Technus - As much as Technus is a mad scientist type guy, he didn't really have the drive to be evil until Danny planted the idea. Once the idea came to mind Technus went through without hesitation, he could've changed his mind anytime. He defiantly embraced his villainous role by manipulating Danny and Valerie's emotions to like each other knowing that Valerie likes Danny Fenton and hates Danny Phantom (a bold move, I must admit). Ans in the bad timeline he teamed up with Skulker forming an even bigger baddie. So, yeah, he's an enemy.
Walker - For a guy who's a warden and expects everyone to follow the rules he's a hypocrite. He makes his own rules for others to follow, kidnap children, putting that shock collar on Wulf and almost putting it on Sam, and framed Danny and made him public enemy number one in his own town! If the series continued like a court episode revealing that it was Walker who attacked the ex-mayor and his police ghost possessed many citizens. Thus, clearing Danny's name and some high council in the Ghost Zone (not the Observants one, but like a lower division council that handles the different ghost jails and domains) remove Walker from his position as a warden and he is a prisoner of his own jail. He'll obviously blame Danny and Team Phantom and wants revenge.
Penelope Spectra & Bertrand- Oh my gosh, where do I begin with her? After the trauma she caused during her first episode she's #3 on my DP deadliest villains chart. Before she even set foot in Caper High, Spectra has gone through many different schools sucking the students' of their misery/energy to make herself and Bertrand stay young by lying and humiliating them, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if those poor kids ended up committing suicide because of her. Heck, she tried to kill the students of Casper High in 'Doctor's Disorder' and Jazz during the pep rally in front of everyone to create more misery. She made Danny utterly miserable, tried to turn Danny against Jazz, and tried to vaporize Jazz, and made Danny question himself as a Halfa by calling him a freak. As for Bertrand he's basically her lap dog and has no problems resulting in killing to get what he and his boss want. I think we all can agree that these two need to stay away from everyone, but mostly children.
The Guys in White - Let's face it: Amity Park hates these guys! Every episode that they're threatening citizens and ghost. They seem to have no problem with collateral damage seeing how that tried to kill Gregor/Elliot thinking he was the ghost boy and destroyed the observation station. Unlike the Fenton's who'll pay for the damages they caused, the Guys in White refuse to pay a penny and use the excuse that they work for the government. The worst thing they ever committed was them trying to blow up the Ghost Zone which would destroy our world too. Overtime they'll waste too much money on ghost catching equipment and the citizens of Amity Park will get sick of them causing the organization to disband. With only Agents K, O, and the leader guy still around trying to capture Danny or any other ghost.
The Other Ghost Hunters - After, their encounter with Danny Phantom they most likely felt humiliated, and it only fueled their hatred towards ghost. But seeing how popular Danny Phantom is in Amity Park doing anything against him is a big no-no. So I can see them waiting for Danny to screw-up so they can catch him.
Control Freak and Lydia - Seeing as Team Phantom have ruined his circus and plan to take over the world it's a given that he's an enemy. He probably spent years going to every town with his circus stealing from banks, museums, and jewelry stores only to be stopped by a couple of teens would make anybody vengeful. I doubt he remembers that Phantom and Fenton are the same person after Danny erased everyone's memory, but he does remember the events. Seeing as Lydia and Control Freak are a couple she seems cool with whatever evil scheme he comes up with. I believe the two were dating before her death.
Prince Aragon - Let's see arrogant, was willing to marry a child (I'm aware that was a practice back then, but today absolutely not!), kept his kingdom imprisoned in time for hundreds of years, and was abusive towards his sister. I see him having more of a vendetta over Dora and Sam than Danny.
Hotep Ra - Was a backstabbing advisor who tried to takeover world.
Vortex , Undergrowth, Nocturn - All three are powerful elemental: weather (Vortex), earth (Undergrowth), and dreams (Nocturn) that connect not just the human world but the ghost world as well. In each of their appearance all three were able to takeout Amity Park in a short amount of time and gave Team Phantom a run for their money, until they learned a new skill to defeat them. Seeing how the Observants had Vortex on trial it's obvious he is super powerful! I wish there was a special episode where all three combined like Skulltech 9.9 to see what kind of damage they could do.
Pariah Dark - Guy was a tyrant king who ruled with an iron fist and was so powerful that a group of ancient ghosts had to imprison him in the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep to stop his reign of terror. He doesn't care if you're human, ghost, or halfa in his eyes he's above all. The guy transported Amity Park into the Ghost Zone and lead an army that could've destroy everyone and the world! Heck, Skulker didn't want to confront him, SKULKER, that really says something! Hopefully, no one will be stupid enough to wake him up again.
Dan Phantom/ Dark Danny - He has no humanity in him, destroyed most of Amity Park (and most of the world), committed two thousand evil deeds, and even tried to kill his family and friends. Dan Phantom has no redeeming qualities and seeing how the observants couldn't take him out without Clockworks assistance shows how powerful he is. Inever believed Danny's ghost side was bad; Danny is Danny whether he's Phantom of Fenton. I believe the guilt and stress of losing everyone he loved and the fusion with Vlad was what form Dan Phantom. Heck! If it were reversed and Danny killed his ghost half, he would've been Dan Fenton human serial killer. For everyone's sake he needs to stay in the Fenton Thermos forever!
Master's Blasters - Okay, we all know season three and the last episode were to put it lightly -something. But I have to ask: where did Vlad find these guys? I mean honestly, a trio of ghost hunters pop out of nowhere, are better hunters than Valerie and Danny, the second they arrive Amity Park just eats them up and are willing to pay for being saved despite how they feel about the GIW, seriously? If it weren't for the cancelation, I would've built them up that Vlad staged their hunting/ rescues to make them look better than Phantom. As Danny slowly doubts himself as a hero the Master Blasters start charging for the rescues. At this point of time Phantom and Red huntress are nowhere to be found so the citizens of Amity Park have no choice, but to pay. Skip forward to the ending (minus Danny and Vlad revealed to be halfas) where the Fentons, Phantom, and Red Huntress team up to protect Amity Park from both ghost and human threats it's revealed that Master's Blasters aren't as good as they appeared without Vlad's trickery. They most like vow revenge on Team Phantom and try to outdo them only to fall flat.
Vlad Masters/ Plasmius - Where to begin with, Vlad? Oh, wait, I know! Vlad had this whole scheme to keep Maddie to himself, make Danny and Jazz see him as their father, created clones to make a new family, take over Amity Park, and tried to kill/humiliate Jack on a number of occasions. Even in the alternate timeline when he finally marries Maddie he is crazy controlling of her. He's doomed Amity Park/ the world numerous times for power, attempted to kill Danny, Jazz, Sam, Tucker, and Dani who are children (would've killed Valerie too if he knew about her finding out his secret), has tried to discredit Danny, taken over Amity Park via cheating, used his ghost powers to gain his wealthy, the list goes on. Vlad does seem to have some regret which is something most of the villains of the show don't seem to grasp. His older self in 'The Ultimate Enemy' realized the error of his ways and helped Danny return to his timeline (Vlad did state that he could've killed Danny instead but choose to do the right thing). And judging from the end of 'Phantom Planet' and the cover of the book ' A Glitch in Time' he seemed remorseful. He's done many things that have endangered both ghost and human life just to mess with Team Phantom, only time can tell if he deserves redemption.
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Got some more Hearafter AU headcanons for you cuz I fleshed out the story.
You can find part one here.
Aeleigh is an artist
She draws a lot!
Spends a lot of her freetime drawing
Prefers traditionally with pen and paper, but she does do the occasional digital piece as well
Her main motifs are usually morbid and twisted, or just generally dark fantasy
Her main inspiration comes from Tim Burton, Tessera Guild and Thomas Maindari
Tucker is the one that does her hair
He asked Damon, Valerie's dad for help in learning and for tips
Damon used to do Valerie's hair when she was a child and has a bit of experience in the area
When Aeleighs's hair isn't braided or styled, it's an afro
She did't like her hair as a kid
For a while she got bullied for it as a child
It stopped after Misty beat them up
She would pick a fight with anyone who messed with her friends
Aeleigh would push those who made Misty cry
They sat in the time out corner a lot
Jax would sit with them
Not because he was in trouble, but just to keep them company
Misty loves music
She’s played drums since she was a kid
She has a lot of anger issues
Instead of putting her into sports or anything active that might encourage violence, Danny and Sam put her into music
Specifically drums
The whole idea was that she could take the anger out while playing the drums instead of punching people
It’s worked surprisingly well
She has destroyged a few drum sets this way tho
Danny is slightly concerned about it as she grows older
It's been getting worse and worse recently
He's had to buy a new drum set every few months
But most of the times it usually just a few drums that are smashed and not the whole set
Still a bit of a neusance
Misty is also fairly decent on the guitarr
She does struggles a bit with reading the sheet music
But she loves music enough that she doesn’t let her dyslexia get in the way
Aside from ghost training, music is one of the subjects that Misty actually puts a lot of effort into
Compared to anything else like school
With her currently trying to learn piano, she plays three instruments
Jax has a tendency to scare his parents
It’s always unintentionally
It’s because he doesn’t use the stairs at home
He teleports around the house
From the op center to the second floor, to the bottom floor to the lab in the basement
He’s only used the stairs when Danny tells him to
He will malicously comply by teleporting back to his room and then go down the stairs
He thinks it’s a waste of time
Sam’s just happy they’re not walking through the walls
Danny has developed a habit of doing that
Sam’s pointed out the hypocrisy
Danny doesn’t see it
Jax hasn’t been IQ tested, but it is believed he is among the rare few with exceptional intelligence
You wouldn’t believe that when you first met him tho
He does not give off that impression at all
Most think he’s just your average lazy high schooler
Until you’ve had an intellectual conversation with him
He’ll dumb the most advanced subject someone his age should not know anything about to the point that it’ll sound like he’s just describing the difference between “their”, "there" and “they’re”
He does not use big words when he’s talking
Just your average person’s plain English
He is very bad at sports
Because he tends to skip
Not a fan of physical activity at all
He thinks that’s time he could be spent doing something productive instead
His version of productive is not very productive
Danny’s pointed out that physical activity is good for him and can be productive for the future
Jax has never agreed
Misty isn’t good at sports either
She’s too violent
With soccer she’ll kick the ball too hard
She’s burned through the goal net by accident
Same with dodge ball
People on the opposite team usually leave with bruises and Misty ends the lesson sitting on the bench with Jax
He got hit by purpose to get out of it
She will cheat on the obstacle courses
In her oppinion her Ghost Powers are her natural abilities
She was born with them since she was born a ghost
They can’t really argue with that, since it’s true
That still ban her from using them tho
She still uses them
Sam does not approve, insisting that just because she was born half ghost does not mean that her ghost powers should be used in place of normal physical strenght and endurance
Jax will correct them by saying they were born a quarter dead
Misty will correct him by saying she was born completely dead
Danny will laugh at the joke
Sam does not find it as funny
All of the kids are of different ethnical backgrounds
Misty and Jax are ethnicallyJewish through Sam and part ghost from Danny
Aeleigh is african-american
Lennie is Hispanic on Paulina's side
Lennie does speak Spanish
Often with Paulina
Often when they argue
She also has a tendency to switch between Spanish and English when she's mad
Jax is fluent in Hebrew
He learned it while studying Judaism
He is not religious tho
Neither is Misty
They do still respect their heritage
Misty has tried to learn Hebrew, but it does not come easy for her
She does speak near fluent Esperanto tho
It's the native language of the ghost zone
It's an argument among scholars that it migrated to the ghost zone after being constructed on Earth, while others insist it migrated from the ghost zone to Earth
Danny also speaks fluent Esperanto
It is not videly known, but Danny is the Ghost King
Has been since he defeated Pariah Dark
He does not want the title, nor does he use it or flaunt it around
He hasn't been able to get rid of the crown
Destroying it doesn't work, it just respawn
And throwing it away doesn't work, it also just respawn
He's given the Ring of Rage to Sam
Danny hasn't had a single King like duty in his entire reign
Mostly because the ghosts govern themselves pretty well
The only times he's called upon as the Ghost King is when the Observants hold counsel
He hates it
It's just politics
He hates politics
Misty takes medication for whatever's going on with her hands
They've learned that cold helps to stop the spread of the black veins so they developed a freeze like medication that cools down her body temperature
It's effective when she remembers to take it
She's not a fan of it tho
Mostly because she doesn't like the chills it gives her throughout the days
It makes her heat up more which means she has to take a higher dosage
Jax is the one that makes sure she takes it during the days
He always carries an extra vial of it on him
He also carries an extra set of gloves in case Misty burns through hers
While they don't know it at the time, Misty's black hands has nothing to do with her powers
It is ghost related
But not in the way that they think
It's more like an infection
Jax and Misty got infected at the same time
But it doesn't take to cold which is why it didn't stick to Jax
I have more on the whole ordeal with Misty's hands, if anyone is interested in knowing more about that. I could do an entire one of these on that alone. But otherwise I'll explore that in due time with some art or stories and such. Could also make one for each individual kid. That could be something.
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What do you think of Juri Vips being with RLL at Long Beach? Is it likely that he will get a seat there? I don't know if you even know IndyCar stuffs but I don't know who else to ask 👉👈
I'm undecided of what I should think about him then again he did some sensitivity training and at least he apologised what other people Armstrong or Danny Ric never did. Do you think he should get another shot? You don't have to answer if you're not comfortable was just wondering.
the answer to this is: I don’t know. which makes me lean to the idea he shouldn’t. 
(to my knowledge Daniel actually did apologise, incidentally - I definitely remember it at the time; it wasn’t a stellar apology but it did happen)
with Jüri: a lot of what happened was not about him. Red Bull’s frantic response was not really about a junior driver doing something racist, it was about the fact they were increasingly getting a reputation as a racist team. the speed they acted about Vips was definitely accelerated by someone in Austria having realised there was a marketing consequence to the way the team had become associated with racist fan behaviour. 
that isn’t in any way to defend Vips or say that he shouldn’t have faced consequences: it was absolutely right he did. just that the consequences he faced weren’t particularly about him or what he did so much as they were face-saving for Red Bull to break its association to him. which means that, in addressing what he did or what it means to him, they weren’t necessarily very effective because that was never what it was about.
so a sensitivity course was a way of RB saying ‘we distance ourselves from this, this isn’t our institutional culture even though it is widely documented in the Hamilton commission report that in fact this is endemic to Formula 1′ rather than being something genuinely intended for educating Vips. 
he may have been undertaking more reflection and education since. he hasn’t spoken about it if he has but knowing how to speak publicly in a way that is useful rather than performative about that kind of thing is also not a hugely widely-available skill in motorsport and shutting the fuck up might be better, all things considered.
so the reason I don’t know is: I don’t believe the original consequences Vips faced were intended to teach him anything and I don’t know if he has learned anything since. 
even if he had: motorsport careers end all the time, prematurely. people run out of money and opportunities all the time. there’s always the call of becoming a hanger-on or a team manager or a driver coach (and those are the ones that stay in the industry) just the same cigarette-paper-width away as a barrier you either avoid or cause €180k damage into. 
so there’s no ‘fair’ about whether he comes back or not. it’s an unfair sport. being publicly racist is a better reason to end your career than a lot of the people I’m interviewing for my book who just ran out of ways to carry on. 
is he a good driver? yes, when he doesn’t lose his temper. even before he decided to drop racial slurs he’d been sabotaging his own results by making mistakes when he was in the lead and screwing up under pressure. whether that was the F1 seat being closer than before (I think he likely would’ve got the AlphaTauri seat this year if this hadn’t all happened) or the pressure of running simulator work and FP1s for F1 and then stepping back to the F2 car or the fact Hitech is a pretty aggro team or what, I don’t know. it wouldn’t excuse him being racist whatever it was - plenty of drivers have difficult seasons; Pourchaire’s last year in F2 was pretty mentally brutal but it wouldn’t get him out of dropping slurs. 
and an 11th place finish in F2 doesn’t at least showcase a generational talent, if there happens to be one in him. 
other people - well, person - disgraced for racism in F2 have found a home in IndyCar. Santino Ferrucci seems to have some sort bullet-proof cheque book that means he can come back from anything. I don’t think Vips is anything like as shitty a human being as Ferrucci (who terrorised his Formula 2 team mate with racial abuse, tried to run a Trump-supporting livery and then claimed he can’t be racist because he’s Italian before receiving a year-long PR tour from the IndyCar promoters)
the difference between Vips and Ferrucci - and also Vips and Armstrong, in terms of racers who’ve come out of F2 without stonking results and are looking for an IndyCar seat - is that he doesn’t have any funding. it was why he didn’t go to F2 a few years ago and had a sort of ambling junior career around anywhere Red Bull could find somewhere bargain bucket enough. so I don’t know that he’ll be outbidding anyone for an RLL seat, especially since his name isn’t going to be catnip to sponsors. I know he’s done some testing and is probably gunning for more, a way to impress enough to get seen. 
unfortunately - and I’m not saying this is right, it isn’t - the way that motorsport seats get allocated isn’t fair. it’s not about talent and it’s not about potential and sometimes it’s not even about money. I don’t call the shots on where Vips sits in that decision-making knot and I can’t read the minds of the people that do but there is a regular tendency for people to feel like they need to give white, cishet, male athletes another chance when they’ve faced any kind of consequences for something they’ve done that isn’t afforded to other people.
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Okay, my chirpetry of the skating and the costuming thereof will be all over the place today because I'm watching shit out of order, or I should say, I'm prioritizing events based on my level of giving a fuck. We're starting with the pairs, it seems like.
French kids #1: His outfit I'm not even gonna bother with, but her dress has been filling me with rage ever since I first saw it, especially since this isn't the Corpse Bride program. I'm calling it Dresse Macabre. Whose idea was it to a) make her look naked and b) embellish the dress with... ribs? Especially since - didn't this boy's previous partner retire because of an ED? I'm questioning the decision making all around, particularly hiring Gui as choreographer, since he's done some real stinker pair programs that never came together technically for the team. He should stick to ice dance.
French kids #2: Bruno is such a dish and I so want him to succeed, but this team has a bit less potential than the previous one, and he'll need to do some serious work to get them where they need to be. That twist looked like it could be a quad some day. His styling was so Morganesque that it gave me a bit of an ick, and her dress was so cute... from the bust down. Mismatched mesh is usually a supply chain issue, but the sleeves are a choice and such an unnecessary one at that. Mark here with a masterclass in classy commentary - yes, they do need to spend time with a ballet instructor, you're so right, Mark.
Anna and Poje Manuel: The costumes were a bit predictable but at least they fit the music. By Italian pair team standards, they're best-dressed, honestly. There's a Duhamelness to her, and I don't mean it in a bad way - she's really working out there on the ice. So nice to see someone point their toes in a lift, it's a lost art! The way the bottom of his vest was flapping around and cutting him in half was a bit distracting, but what I love is how we're seeing the Italian pair field build up because they've reached critical coaching mass. I loved their step sequence in particular. Ondrej is doing some great work, they have potential.
Danny and child: An East of Eden program in 2023 - that's what we're being subjected to. Fine, whatever. I thought it was going to be Riverdance, judging by the costumes. Do you understand my disdain for boatnecks on men in this sport now? Look at that thing puffy thing flopping around. From afar, it all looks so Christmas-y. Her hair and accessories are cute and the dress is fine, but uninspired and underwhelming, and again with those skating dress pentagrams. I don't understand why this pairing happened, particularly because there have been partnerless pair boys her own age in the U.S. recently that she'd at least have a future with. They have some nice movement quality but they've been overhyped and overscored.
Tria: They did so well! But there are more important things than being clean, and I fear they haven't gotten that memo yet. My concern is that this is their ceiling ☹️. The lack of transitions and his inability to perform some of the turns is going to hold them back, especially going up against gritty teams like Deanna and Max. Their programs are fine but too similar to what they did last year, and they needed something extraordinary this year to make them stand out and move up. They needed to go to a superstar choreographer like a Lori or a David to get whatever political boost they could get, they might not get another opportunity of an open field like this again. Alison seems lovely, but she's a base value coach and all her teams have the same issues and the same limitations. They need a harder throw if they're going to be a factor. The costumes I kinda hate and I know I'm being harsh, but the dress is too similar to one Ev wore ~4 years ago and I'm assuming it's the same designer because the girls always have a wedgie problem and the guy's costume is always perfunctory. It's frustrating because I feel like they're capable of so much more and they don't know it, and everyone's waiting for them to break into the top tier, but they don't know how. I know this was a W for them but I think they have more potential than they're even aware of. I hate to criticize because they clearly slayed, but it was more of a function of the state of the field than anything else. I just want them to soar. Anyway, Vanessa in shambles, good for them, please don't Mike it up tomorrow!
Mi gente Latino: Please get ur shit together on the jumps and throws because you are beautiful! I love me some Paganini. The color of the costumes is delightful and I'm kinda digging her classic pairs dress for its simplicity. So here's the thing about dressing pair guys - you don't need to use tricks that make the guys look broader - they already are. He needs a longer, fitted, untucked shirt, he doesn't need the sash in the front, or the cummerbund, or the awkward depth of the V, or the flappy random-length sleeves. Idk, they need to send them to Oakville or somewhere to figure out their elements because I'm aboard this struggle bus with them and I want it to be a party bus instead. Please medal here because I just can't.
Kovalevs: Why are the Kovalevs? Like, srsly, why are they? I'm really struggling to find something constructive to say so I'm just gonna keep my trap shut, I'm sure they're working hard and everything. I want to burn their costumes for heat.
Sara and Nicco: I'm trash for this team, which is why some of the things they do irritate me so. This program is so snoozy and so schmaltzy, I checked out multiple times throughout. The appliqués and stoning on her dress are truly random, and it looks like they borrowed his shirt from the local decommissioned opera house. His pants need to be a different color. I'd give them completely new outfits, they're so pretty, they look like they stepped out of a movie and they deserve movie star-worthy costumes. And can we please figure out the wedgie issues already? It looks so painful! I like the balayage but it's so yellow and inexpertly done. Another great team that needs just a liiiitle more elevation of the presentation and music choices to be stunning, this is all a bit below them, they have this classic pair quality that I'd been yearning for for so long and I need them to be contenders, you know?
Anyway, on to my love/hate discipline, the dance!
Oh my gosh, Fashionista Nonny, I've been sick as a dog, and had a full nyquil induced hallucination sequence that I posted this and added comments. I can't remember what those were, so I'm just going to post for the people, because you're such an icon!
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Alright then 📙
put a version of the book emoji in my inbox, and i'll explain the plot of a fanfic that i haven't written, but i want to write!
okay is this a very original idea? no it is not but i haven't been able to get rid of the idea, so i should actually very much get around to writing it
this is all because i genuinely love the idea of things happening in bars, and i don't think we have even close to enough bar!aus for, well, anything
ok but hear me out and if you think this sounds too much like cheers then oops [ mentions injuries, alcoholism ]
steve is still a former navy seal, but due to a traumatic brain injury and anxiety, he gets a medical discharge and is shipped back to hawaii, his title then being former navy seal. he copes poorly, turns to alcohol and copes even more poorly, and kind of on a whim, ends up buying a bar. he eventually gets help, gets clean, but holds onto the bar, and to this day he still has the bottle cap from the last bottle of beer he drank (it's a poor, worn-out longboard bottle cap)
danny never became law enforcement. instead, he kept on with the baseball track, and became the hero of major league baseball, having come through the academy of the new jersey jackals, before being signed by the yankees, nicknamed "mayday" because whenever he started on the bench, he'd come on and save the day at the mayday signal. however, a rough episode on the field and three acl surgeries later, he's had to put his career on the shelf, and has turned to working with papers about sports, specialising in baseball (naturally).
when they start a baseball history series, he is sent to hawaii on a mission to write an in-depth article about the hawaii islanders, a former hawaiian baseball team that hasn't been active since 1987, and after meeting one of the old coaches at this bar, he decides to sit there and write down elements of his article every night (though it takes him about a week to realise that maybe he's returning to the bar to keep the ruggedly handsome bartender company, more than he's interested in actually writing the article)
i quickly put together a little scene here:
"what's the story here, new guy?" steve asked, a tea towel slung over his shoulder as he sorted the clean glasses back onto the right shelves.
danny huffed, sinking down on the uncomfortable bar stool that somehow had become his over the past couple of days. "a thirsty guy walks into a bar. you finish it, barkeep."
"take it your luck with the islanders' coaches are out, then?" steve chuckled, flicking the tap on the hanalei ipa as he filled a glass, placing it in front of danny with a thud. "on the house, mayday. and do know my offer to pull some strings around here still stands."
"it's my article."
"i'm just offering to help." steve raised his hands in surrender, shrugging down the tea towel to wipe some droplets of beer from the polished surface of the bar. "when all comes to it, it's your choice."
danny chewed on the inside of his lip for a moment, hand coming to wrap itself around the cool glass, the dew causing his fingertips to get slippery. "alright, you're on. what can you help me with?"
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turbourbo · 2 years
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The Hargreeves siblings as middle school teachers:
Luther teaches Home Ec. He’s not a great speaker and can be very disorganized. But he takes a lot of pride in things like baking an egg casserole or fixing the buttons on a shirt. And he’s super proud of his students every time they demonstrate a new skill. He’s also the first teacher to give up his plan if the building needs a sub. And if a student invites him to an event, he goes. It’s very important to him that his students feel like they matter.
Diego’s a gym teacher, coaching sports after school. He yells and makes a lot of aggressive hand motions. Some of the students are afraid of them. Things turn around after his team wins their first game and students catch his victory dance. Suddenly, everyone knows he can dance, and students who were afraid of him are begging him to show them some moves in the gym. Diego pretends it’s no big deal but secretly loves the attention.
I’m not sure what subject Allison would teach. I see her being a good speaker, organized, and well-prepared. I’m thinking English/drama, but she could probably teach any subject. She takes pride in her job, but when the bell rings, she’s out that door and doing her own thing. She keeps her personal life and work life separated. Because of this, she doesn’t coach or host any clubs. I can also see her and Klaus (if they share a lunch or plan) meeting up in their rooms and trash talking students and taking shots.
Klaus could probably bullshit his way through any subject. He’d be a GREAT sub, just staggering into a teacherless classroom after the bell, having no idea what the plans are or what he’s even subbing, and the students are just transfixed on this charismatic disaster of a man, because they have no idea what he’s going to do or say, but they know damn well it’s going to be entertaining af. Klaus would also direct the school plays, but like in his usual haphazard way. Like he would forget to secure the rights to the scripts, so they end up throwing productions of “Dannie” and “The Wizard of Boz,” he’d always be late to rehearsals, then rehearsals would run late because he’s having too much fun. Before things completely fall apart, he’d run to Allison for help with the fall play, and every spring, he would at least have Viktor involved in the musical. He and Diego have the worst teacher evaluations.
Let’s pretend Five’s teen body isn’t a problem. He teaches math. Like Allison, he’s super organized and prepared each day. He’s also a good speaker, as long as he’s doing the lesson. Like Diego, he can get frustrated with the students’ behavior or lack of understanding. I can also see him going “empty head, no thoughts” when a student does something spectacularly stupid, like drinking water from a repurposed bleach container or bringing a dead bird to class because “I’m going to Frankenstein this bitch.” His rapport with the students isn’t great. He seems like the job would exhaust him. He’ll go to Klaus’s room after a bad day for some booze and emotional support.
Sparrow Ben is organized, prepared, a good speaker, and super competitive. Idk why, I see him teaching social studies/history/government, that kind of thing. Students love him or hate him. A lot crush on him because of how ripped and impeccably dressed he is. He would definitely have favorites. The favorites would tell him he’s their favorite teacher, and in return, he would give them better grades and let them skip other teachers’ classes by hanging in his room. He absolutely REFUSES to sub or cover for other teachers, because that’s a them problem, not his problem. He coaches baseball in the fall and track in the spring. He has new assistant coaches every season because he’s notoriously difficult to work with. Both he and Diego will argue with refs. But Diego would throw hands with rude-ass parents of the opposing team, and Ben would stay out of it.
Viktor teaches band, obviously. Like Luther, he’s not a great speaker, but he’s pretty organized and has better rapport with the students than Five or Sparrow Ben. I feel like Viktor would take time to get to know his students, even listening to their difficulties outside of his classroom, and offering advice when he can. Viktor is especially patient with students with low self-esteem, and students who don’t fit in with the others. Like Luther, he wants every student to feel valued in his room. Also like Luther, he can get too invested in his students and bring that shit home with him.
Overall executive functioning, emotional control, social skills, adaptability, and empathy:
Luther. Mid to high executive functioning. High emotional control. Low social skills. Low adaptability. High empathy.
Diego. Low to mid executive functioning. Low emotional control. High social skills. Mid to high adaptability. Mid to high empathy.
Allison. High executive functioning. High emotional control. High social skills. Mid adaptability. Low to mid empathy.
Klaus. Low executive functioning. Mid emotional control. High social skills. High adaptability. Mid to high empathy.
Five. High executive functioning. Mid emotional control. Low social skills. Mid adaptability. Low to mid empathy.
Sparrow Ben. High executive functioning. Low emotional control. High social skills. Mid adaptability. Low empathy.
Viktor. High executive functioning. Mid to high emotional control. Mid social skills. Low adaptability. High empathy.
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thinking about your bake off AU....... me and claudia were discussing an F1 version i would personally love ur thoughts on this
this is genuinely the best au ever and i can never do it justice but here's some ideas i have
this is so hard because there's like 50 million footballers and 20 spaces in this god awful sport. and i also don't wanna do like just a straight comparison either cause the idea of comparing any footballer to lewis... i'd throw my own self in jail
right so i dont care about taa at all but you do so in light of the southgate news he's giving the vibe of "guy who won junior series in his rookie or second season, got to like alpha tauri and then was overlooked for a promotion to one of the big teams in favour of everyone else" despite somehow winning a race in a shitbox of a car and if southgate was in charge would probably be sent off to fe or indycar or something to free up a seat.
okay i know i said i wouldnt do comparisons but sadly i DO think though not at all equal deccy would end up being the danny ric of the grid like un four chew nat lee he does have the charismatic appeal and also the glow up. outside of that comparison i think he ends up being a solid midfield driver, there's always rumours of him making the step up but everywhere is already taken and the contracts never align and people just don't want to spend money buying him out because it'd be so high because he's so key for said midfield team so he gets a couple wins but he never challenges for a championship. OR i'd argue grealish could fill that danny role but i truly truly do not think that man would be smart enough to remember what all the buttons on that steering wheel do. like it's just not happening is it... i can suspend disbelief in an au only for so long. he'd crash trying to push one button cause he'd look down trying to find it rather than remembering to concentrate on the bloody track
if i give spurs players past and present some championships the way i cannot give them trophies at spurs erm... look away. but also dembele wins like 1 championship but is forever an underrated driver and people don't appreciate his racecraft but other drivers on the grid hate to battle him because they know he's sooooo good. wait jan and mousa teammates yeah!!!!!!!!! they win a championship each. gonna say harry and son are teammates at some point and absolutely DOMINATE because the work SO well together and helping to develop the car. dele and eric ARE teammates when dele first breaks into the sport like they WERE the blueprint back in the day we cant ignore. would have dele and son as teammates but it'd only be for like half a season and then dele's arc gets DEPRESSING!!!!!!! it's like if pierre had been demoted to alpha tauri and then flopped there too and been demoted out of the series altogether. i do think richy and romero as opponents but also actual teammates era would leave them like ocon and perez bitchy tweets and all because there wouldn't be the need for getting along that they have rn and that's important to me.
sissoko is a FLOP like nicky latifi but arguably maybe worse, has one good season but just fully is not a good use of a seat but then he goes to a different obscure series i cant think of and does well because i said so and also i'd be sat at home rooting for him even as he finishes 3 laps down and calling him the GOAT. no wait it's like when he scores he gets a podium and i'd have passed out and filmed the ceremony like i was literally there.
winksy and international baby girl kinda scream "i was ripped off with the promise of an f1 seat by zak brown and all i got was this stupid t-shirt" and then stay in indycar or something
maguire drives for like fucking haas or something and you genuinely do not know what he'll do. he seemed fine, decent, good even in junior formula and got his big move to f1 and just lost the plot. he's either anonymous in races or is being a Menace but even in his quiet races there's always the anticipation that he'll smash into another driver just to make himself feel better. like there is Always the chance of a safety car or a red flag if he's starting either because he's crashed into someone else or just decided to take himself into the barriers. you don't want to drive against him because you don't want to blink and suddenly have DNF-ed because of him.... but he also might get a penalty that boosts you up the grid without puncturing all 4 of your tyres somehow so... swings and roundabouts
marco reus is one of those goated goated goated drivers maybe we'll say he's like a lifelong ferrari fan like he is bvb and he signs to their academy and does well in junior series and spends the odd season at sauber/alfa and when he gets to ferrari everyone's like oh shit here we go and then the car is absolute CRAP but he simply wont abandon ferrari. like he's there forever he's the ride or die for that stupid team and instead of injuries we'll say it's constant DNFs and so he never wins a championship but he's hands down one of the biggest what if drivers. he's also so kind to younger drivers and if he can guide them in any way to make sensible contract decisions and help them mentally not pin everything on winning championships then he will.
like i hate ferrari but dare i say then here comes jude bellingham starboy?..... no i shall. he wins f3 and f2 as rookies at a super duper young age (rather than skipping junior categories like a certain dutchman) and ends up in the sauber by the time he's 17, in the ferrari by 18 and teammates with marco. if the ferrari garage was competent and the car wasn't a pile shit it'd be embarrassing for other teams... sadly that isn't the case. they make the best out of a bad situation and the genuine talent both of them possess drags that team to places it shouldn't be. marco is coming to the end but still got it and while still competitive he'll retire before he has to find a lower team. very much a mentor to jude as he progresses in as much as you can be in an individualistic yet team based sport. think we still see jude's temper sometimes flare up though over his career he deffo gets a hold of it and he deffo calls his engineer fucking shit at one point for a bad strategy but i also think he's not content to stick with ferrari if they're going to be rolling the circus into town every week and unlike marco WOULD jump to merc if they suddenly started outperforming (anyway this got too close to real life so let's leave that there)
as much as i hate to say this about my best friend erling, he's giving me red bull driver vibes I'm so sorry to myself and also him.
WAIT i've only made players drivers lemme see if any would be good engineers. maybe it's just because every tom dick and harry says he's smart but like i DO see ben davies being a good engineer maybe he can be sonny's. or wait hang on maybe i make dier dele's engineer rather than teammate hang on wait no hang on let's do that instead. i know there's nothing but hot air and joe rogan quotes up there but i think that would actually be soooooooooo perfect.
conor coady and tyrone mings are absolutely engineers and they work on the same team just managing a driver each and the social media/marketing team is constantly bullied into releasing footage with them after people clock they're not only fit but also good mates. so it'll be a video with drivers being silly and then INSTANTLY the exact same video concept but with those two.
jordan pickford either engineer or deranged team principle that is good at his job but also calls someone the c word over the radio and causes the PR team a sleepless week trying to deal with it.
dare i say hugo is the dilfy team principal who leads his team to like 10 championships in a row? yes i will.
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theinsanecrayonbox · 1 year
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For the Early Spider Team AU (sorry, idk what's the AU's official name), would the og canon team still appear? If so, how would they react to each other?
the AU doesn't really have an official name, so that's as good as any other (Team Spider Slayers? Web Slayers? Spider Warriors? Spider Savers? idk)
the og team still being a thing and interactions? hm...well, i guess that would depend upon what they're doing. do they still have their powers? are they being solo heroes, so Spidey would end up recruiting each of them to SHIELD as he meets them? (much like he does with the second team down the line). or are they already recruited by SHIELD as their New Warriors?
let's run with the competing team idea for now... because then we get SHIELD training vs competition time (though they'd probably need 1 more team mate to even the teams...). Fury and Coulson pitting the two teams of teens against each other, thinking a friendly rivalry would push them both further. pranks on the Hellicarrier when both sides take it too far off the training mat. obviously Sam and Bone being the first instigators, quickly convincing Luke (who then convinces Danny) and Goliath to join them. Anya would be against the prank war for the longest time, until she's caught in the cross fire, then it's on for her too. Ghost probably wouldn't be too hard to convince to join in too. Ben would be the hardest one to get, because he just keeps diffusing anything thrown at him; it actually might take "friendly fire" to get him roped into the war, and after that point, yeah...they gonna get in some big trouble. of course the resolve all that, the two teams probably get sent to Latveria on some recon thing that turns south super fast, and so everyone's paired with their most antagonistic counterpart but learn to work together to defeat some defective Doombot that was trying to build an earthquake machine or something. and so the prank war is ended with an armistice (with everyone looking at Sam and Bone, because realistically they'd be the ones with their fingers crossed here lol) tl;dr: if they're both competing SHIELD teams, they'd act like teenagers on rival sports teams
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blazenka · 1 year
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Professional Affairs
During s3, Sarah and Connor meet and begin to grow closer. Could they just stay co-workers or fall into something more? How will Abby react when and if she finds out?
Original source: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6139386/1/Professional-Affairs
Chapters: 10
Published: 2010-07-14 - 2011-01-01  
Words: 17268
Rated: Fiction T - Language: English - Genre: Romance/Friendship - Characters: Connor T., Sarah P. - Reviews: 32 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 4
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter Nine:
Sarah could just kill Danny bloody Quinn, and right when she entered her apartment she was thinking of way to do just that. Bloody daft man had made her throw her new cell phone with the new 18 month contract out a window in the middle of nowhere. She could just strangle him.
Yet, she supposed he had been right…
that whole day had been so stressful.
After running for their lives out of the ARC they decided to hide somewhere, that somewhere just happened to be surrounded by a mine field with terror birds. Of course, they did not know that. Then there was Becker's faux betrayal that turned into a way to get rid of Christine Johnson for now. She could have kissed him for his heroics… and did, as only a thank you. 'Maybe that was a bad idea with Connor right there,' Sarah pondered as she stepped into her bathroom.
A side from the running and near death situation, some of it had been fun. Sarah had especially enjoyed when they were able to dress up in formal period clothes. Connor had looked just dashing in his tux, so did Danny in all white. She even had bonded with Abby, a little. Well, while the two of them were running for their lives from Johnson, terror birds, through a field of corn and land minds… she should have stayed in Cairo.
Sarah looked down at her attire of the once beautiful red dress she had found and worn at the researcher's base. She wished she could have kept the elegant gown the way it was before resorting to tearing it so she could run. It had been like a fantasy to dance with Connor while he sported an amazing tux, complete with his fingerless gloves. She smiled at the thought, at least one good thing had happened that day.
Deciding it was best to take a long soak, Sarah waited for Connor to come home, even though it was really only her apartment. She hoped despite the short time it felt like home to him.
Connor was still at the ARC and craved his or rather Sarah's couch at her apartment; it was all he currently had. It had indeed been a long stress induced day and would like nothing more than to curl up, possibly with her. Not only had the ARC field team ran from Christine Johnson, but also had to deal with terror birds at an abandoned research building from probably WW II.
Top it off - Danny had tried to use him in a trap just when Connor had begun to like the bloke. Then Becker made them believe he had sided with Johnson just when… well, Connor never really liked soldier boy and was fully convinced when he stated he was just 'following orders,' Still couldn't believe Sarah kissed Becker after that facade. Yet, this all paled in comparison to what was now floating through Connor's thoughts.
He was trying to finish working as fast as he could but he couldn't get what Lester had said to him after the whole ordeal with Christine Johnson. Who would have thought the ARC had its own camera security system? He should have, especially before snogging Sarah in his office chair. After hearing Lester's lecture, Connor wished he could take back the applause given to the man since it obviously did not change his attitude.
Yet, Connor supposed Lester had a point. However, it plagued Connor how Lester informed him that it was very poor in his decision to try to 'seduce' two women at the same time. Connor was completely stunned Lester would think he could do such a thing. Was that what everyone in the home office thought of him?
All he knew was he wanted to go home - but when home is where the heart is… where exactly is home for Connor?
By the time Connor had walked into Sarah's apartment, the hour was passed two in the morning. He felt like a coward for just hoping she had fallen asleep instead of facing her.
Yet, as Connor opened the door to her small flat his heart broke. Sarah had obviously fallen asleep on the couch waiting for him, her small frame balled tight as her tan arms and legs wrapped around one of his pillows. He could really kick himself and weep all at the same time.
There was no doubt that Connor felt something for Sarah but honestly for him especially after the talk with Lester, it was beginning to feel rushed. This whole situation they were in was new for Sarah while he had become numb the perils of working at the ARC. Connor had immediately stepped up to be her own personal guide and now…
Guilt hit Connor straight in the pit of his stomach, he needed distance and clarity from Sarah… and probably Abby even though he felt he already had that.
Realization upon his genius mind would probably kill him one day, Connor thought as he debated what to do about Sarah and everything else. Unfortunately, one more night of delusion couldn't hurt; he decided as he grabbed some more blankets and lay curled next to Sarah, actually spooning her as he replaced the pillow she was grasping with himself. Hopefully, dawn would shed light on Connor's conscious as he fell asleep with Sarah by his side.
If Sarah thought she could kill Danny Quinn, she could not possibly fathom what she was going to do to Connor. Despite the pleasure of waking up right next to Connor, the morning had not gone well.
"I think… we should talk?" Connor began when he came out of the bathroom dressed for work. "About?" she knew that line well enough to know it meant trouble in any relationship. "Everything, it's just…" Connor began to stutter that he always seemed to do. "Is this about me kissing Becker?" Sarah asked with anxiety in her doe eyes.
Connor looked back to her with slight shock as he seemed to focus on the mug held in her hands. "This… did it mean anything?" he asked back. "Sort of, I was only thanking him though," she answered, "And you didn't answer my question, Connor!" as she stabbed her finger into his chest.
"No, I just thought we could talk," Connor stated warily. "Connor, have you ever had a conversation with a girl that ended well when it began with the phrase 'I think we should talk'?" she asked him. "No… but…" "Let's just go to work, okay Connor?" she retorted as she grabbed her coat. Connor couldn't help wonder why Sarah had just sounded like Abby there for a moment or if he just had that effect on all women.
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Baseball is boring and i think i can fix it
Baseball has and will always be my favorite sport, call me an old soul but I don't care. Just something about it being played in the summer, such great memories as a child, or watching the Cardinals win all those world series. Ever since my step dad entered into my life and showed me how amazing going to the ballpark is and everything that comes with the game it’s been my favorite thing to watch and I could care less what team it is or what the score it is, I love a good baseball game. However, my opinion is not shared by the majority of viewers. Television viewership is down 12% in 2021 from 2019 and the average baseball fan is 57. For years networks have tried to appeal to a younger audience with corny shows like mlb central or Brian Kenny’s annual attempt to not be an absolute weirdo on television.
The only way to make baseball more interesting to watch is to have colorful announcers that have excitement for the game and not talk about what they did over the weekend during a broadcast. My plan, have 2 games a week (to start) broadcast on a national network like FOX TBS or ESPN and find the most entertaining announcers you can. Joe buck is only a good announcer when the crowd gets into it and he can feed off their energy. John Smoltz is not funny enough to be a bad broadcaster. When I say colorful and energetic I don’t meen corny. Good examples are Gus Johnson who calls football and basketball games or the Charlotte Hornets announcers that scream players names and go absolutely bananas for a mid season second quarter dunk. A home run is so cool to watch, a strikeout is so demoralizing to the batter but the announcers have zero and I mean no fun or excitement when it comes to these events. No need to change the game or give us more stats that we don't care about. The easiest way to make baseball more interesting to watch is to change the way it's broadcast and televised, not the game itself.
Furthermore, along with this broadcast you need a show similar to Inside the NBA or NHL on TNT but I have a wonderful idea that could change the way games are talked about. Let’s face it the majority of baseball players are put on this earth to hit a baseball 400ft into the bleachers not be colorful commentators. Sure there are some that have some wit and humor to them but to get people to watch and pay attention to baseball is to do something new and unique. My genius idea, hire non athletes and not journalists to talk about baseball and give their two cents once or twice a week on a talk show for these big games. It could be a rotating group of people every year or every week I don't care but just four people in a room bantering, being funny and talking about such an amazing sport. My perfect four; Lary David, Danny McBride, Bill Murray, and Tina fey.
In conclusion, baseball is so fun and so awesome but there is no need to change the game to get people to watch, just change the way people watch it.
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