#Somehow I only post my art of Wally

[avroditelovesthesun]

@vinnybox thanks again for the lightning tutorial. I had to try it with an old scetch I still had.

#wally west #The flash #my art #dc #dc comics #Thank you vinnybox #Finaly something new for my art blog #I see a pattern #Somehow I only post my art of Wally

[spiderceo]

WORLD SWAP AU

warnings: slight scopophobia (fear of staring)

a/n: welcome to my funky lil au inspired by @aerkame and their ‘alive au’. i really like the idea of the puppets somehow ending up in the reader’s world and making their life ten times harder than it needs to be lol

master post

🌟 you were never a morning person so you always hit the snooze button the moment your alarm went off. you reached over like you usually do to your alarm clock but instead of the usual metal, you grabbed onto something soft and squishy like…felt? hold on-

🌟 you opened one eye only to come face to face with a little yellow puppet staring at you widely with a grin. it’s blue hair in your hands and nothing but staring between you both. time seemed to pause as you waited for your brain to catch up but then it suddenly spoke:

🌟 “…good morning, neighbour.” it smiled brightly.

🌟 you let out a screech that could burst eardrums and tried to put as much distance between you and this creature. you backed into the wall against the other side of your bed and just kept screaming bloody murder. the puppet was also screaming alongside you but it wasn’t scared, it was just copying you.

🌟 cut to a few minutes after and you are standing in your living room with all of the puppets crammed on your couch. they all came in varying sizes so it made their squeeze to fit rather difficult. the puppet who almost gave you a heart attack introduced himself as wally and then told you the names of all the others. the fact you even felt sane enough to sit and listen to them all talk over each other for your attention was a miracle. most people would have either fainted or gone back to bed in hopes this was just a bad dream.

🌟 for some reason, the shock of these living puppets in your home wore off pretty quickly. it was probably the idea of having to take care of them and the stress it would put you through that did it. no time to be in shock when your entire life needed to be rearranged.

🌟 none of the puppets could find a way to explain their situation. “one day we were playing, and the next we were here!” the one named sally exclaimed, using her arms expressively as she talked. it wasn’t like you were much help in this situation. you were just as confused as they were.

🌟 the rest of the day went by a bit chaotically. these new roommates of yours caused a lot of trouble. they didn’t know anything about the modern world apparently so you had to teach them like they were children. they asked about everything from the toaster to your toothpaste. curiosity was something they all didn’t lack.

🌟 keeping them entertained wasn’t a hard job. it meant that you could process your situation and figure out a way to send them back to where they came from.

🌟 frank was interested in your bookshelves. you found him reading pride and prejudice. the speed at which he read amused you greatly. they were practically flying through the pages.

🌟 you had to teach poppy how to use your kitchen. all she wanted to do was bake you a nice meal in thanks for welcoming them into your home — despite all the trouble it was going to cause.

🌟 you let julie try on all your clothes and have a fashion show with everyone. cleaning up after her was a haste but they offered to help clean up which was weirdly sweet.

🌟 wally had figured out how to use the tv but not entirely. you walked in on him watching static to which you asked “how long have you been staring at that?”. his response was “my eyes feel funny.”

🌟 sally has taken a liking to the random ornaments scattered around your house. she will randomly pick one up and come running to you to ask what it is. of course you’ll explain anything to her but it was strange that she didn’t know what a sea shell was…

🌟 eddie has started doing arts and crafts in bulk. frank said that he does it when he’s stressed. you’re not entirely sure how to relax him because it’s not like you can take a puppet to a spa or treat them to a nice meal-

🌟 barnaby has been following you around with perfectly timed jokes and sound effects. it’s starting to get on your nerves (especially when you’re trying to nap) but your hope that they’d soon return to whatever world they come from makes you tolerate it.

🌟 howdy hasn’t found something in your home he enjoys yet. he spends most of his time helping you with housework. his multiple arms and tall stature help when it comes to cleaning and reaching the top shelve. if you could choose any of them to stay it would definitely be him because he’s so kind and helpful — maybe you’d keep poppy around too because her meals are like heaven on a plate.

#welcome home #welcome home arg #wh #reader insert #gender neutral insert #wally darling #eddie darling #frank frankly #julie joyful #poppy partridge #sally starlet #howdy pillar #barnaby b beagle #fanfic

[bee-bread-draws]

This is Wally Darling. He’s a mixed practice vet, meaning he works on both large and small animals (cows, horses and house pets)! Wally also happens to be the founder of the Welcome Home Veterinarian Clinic, the very first clinic to offer a wide range of specialists for any and all of your pets needs! He is very passionate about his job and loves being able to work with all of his friends!

This is my new Welcome Home AU! Or at least an attempt at one lol. In this AU, all of the characters are veterinarians and work at the same clinic. So far, I have everyone’s roles, personality, and some backstories planned out. I haven’t managed to draw any of the characters besides Wally but will be trying to work on that! I also don’t really know what I’m going to call this AU. So far it’s just ‘Veterinarian AU’ because it’s quite easy to understand. But I could also use the initials of the clinics name. If you have any suggestions let me know!

If you’ve seen this post somehow in the throng of all the other amazing AUs, give it some love please. This is something that I’m actually excited to work on for once and will help me improve my art in the long run! This is a project I’m doing for fun and only for fun, so please don’t try to hate it that much.

Thank you for reading and have a great day/night!

#welcome home #wally darling #Wally darling au #welcome home au #veterinarian au #I love you guys!!!! #❤️❤️ #I know I’m not the best drawer but I’m actually proud of how this turned out!

[theneighborhoodwatch]

pls elaborate on your last post. exactly how many dreams about welcome home have you had

in hindsight?? not that many, actually. there was just like a solid 3-4 months where it was All i would dream about. i actually posted the freaky rpgmaker dream a while back as a tangent on an unrelated ask, but other highlights include:

the one where a new page got added to the site that i think was called "tattle doodles"? they were in a different style than the guestbook drawings - some were in clown's regular style while others looked more like raw pencil sketches. a few i remember included julie looking into a house at nighttime with this blank-eyed stare, and another one where frank was like venting to wally. there was a speech bubble from him that read "i just don't know what to do!" while wally looks back at him like a dog who swallowed the remote. but for some reason frank's wearing julie's dress and there's like an x-ray view of what's inside wally (it's a hand holding an apple) and i remember it being a kind of viscerally terrifying shot. also the entire time this is happening there's this absolutely feverish country song playing over it that only had a single verse repeated over and over again. i think it was something like "and you ain't never gonna lose what you never could've found."

the one where the website itself got like, hijacked? the art style shifted to something a lot more quentin-blake esque, and the neighborhood map in particular was a lot more crude, like crayon/color pencil sketches over a dark background. the blurbs for each character all got like Absurdly long and weirdly personal and accusatory and were very clearly not referring to the characters alone anymore. at some point i find a bunch of links to like, various webpages and fake news articles talking about this guy named thomas stone who i think knew ronald dorelaine somehow?or worked with him? and they had a falling out of Some Sort. either way my brain somehow made the connection that he was responsible for the art shift, and that was his art style. i don't remember anything else.

the one where the homepage got all gunked up. there was some writing in the background behind wally and every time i refreshed the page there was more of it. i don't remember what any of it said, except that it was very disparaging and the handwriting didn't match any of the characters'. it was written in like, black mspaint pencil, i would say. also at some point there were like, very simple drawings of the WH characters getting hanged at the fuckin gallows? like it started with poppy and after a couple of refreshes a new character got added. for some reason poppy had this color scheme from some older concept art.

the one where there was a cd single from wally, somehow. i don't remember anything about it except that he was a shockingly good singer, which is probably how i knew it was a dream.

#anonymous #ask #welcome home

[boywonderasf]

he. he did the art???

yes, yes i did.

and while the drawing itself is not kink-related, the rest of this post (rant) is. 18+ please, be kind, dont reblog to non-kink blogs, yada yada the whole shpeel.

(also the "explanation" is basically just a speedrun hurt/comfort fluffy sickfic. might write later idk)

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ANYWAYS! i had so badly wanted to make this drawing somehow kink related, but couldn't due to it being drawn in my Class Doodles Notebook (the one i let people see/use)

but imean when i say i REALLY wanted to make his blush look fever-like or even just make his nose a bit darker (maybe even have it running😶)

also ignore his suit (and him in general lmao he a lil wonky💀), i had no references, only my imagination plus whatever pictures of him were stored in the Brain Bank, and just prayed it would end up okay🤷

yes he is crying. why?

well now that i have the freedom to say this, I made it cause he was out patrolling while sick w/ a fever, but then he felt Really Bad and Flash (Wally😻) found his dumbass on a rooftop, naturally.

yada yada Wally is Upset cause he explicitly told Dick to 1: tell him or somebody when he wasn't feeling well (and not like small cold. try more like getting a little too close to passing out than he should), and 2: Take It Easy While He Was Still Recovering From A Previous Cold (he did not, can you tell?)

but Wally being Upset and Grr about Dick's stubbornness around "weakness" and the (slowly becoming less) constant battles the two have over simply allowing themselves to be comforted and cared for by the other, lead to some misunderstandings from Dick's end.

he, in his deliriously fevered state of mind, thought Wally was upset with him for getting sick and being "weak", so he immediately started crying, which made Wally rush to his side and takes off Dick's mask to Wipe His Tears, Kiss His Face, and Gauge Temp of the Ill Bird.

so all that explains why Dick's mask isn't on. lord that was a long explanation for just one small thing mb yall💀

anyways this is my little burst of bullshit for today i definitely babygirlified him (IT WAS ON ACCIDENT THO I DIDNT REALIZE SLIGHTLY SHADING HIS LIPS WOULD MAKE HIM SO-✨😽💅✨!!!!)

sure hope nobody comes hatin, and that anybody that sees this doesn't hate it on sight🙏

mozel tov, i wish all a good day/night😸😸😸

#snz #snzknk #dick grayson #fanart #dick grayson fanart #wally west #they gay and stop crime😽💅 #birdflash #sick dick grayson #may potentially turn into another (maybe unfinished) birdflash snz/sickfic #I AINT NEVER CLAIMED TO BE AN ARTIST OR THAT I WAS GOOD #HES JUST A SILLY GUY AND I LOVE HIM

[thebigbidea]

I've vaguely mentioned her in a previous post but here's my Welcome Home OC/ Self-C. Her name is Emira. Emira Eagerly. Emi for short. Alike me, she uses all pronouns, (she/he/they), and is genderfluid. Oh! And after realizing her design was alike the Joyfuls, i decided she'd be related to them somehow. Like, first cousin once removed, maybe?.

Anygay, this is just an art/info dump to get her out there, i didn't feel like curating a post to get likes, so yuh.

I'll be using she/her pronouns for Emi only so it doesn't get confusing xd // the green text is kinda like the words i exaggerated while theoretically talking

Here's my first real sketches of her <33

Ignore the crappy Julie drawing lmao. I made a poopy mini comic about Emi getting a haircut.

I do heavily multiship WH characters. Mostly me multishipping Wally x Julie, Julie x Sally, and Wally having a crush on Eddie (the other characters i ship aren't multiships, just regular ones like Poppy x Howdy and Frank x Eddie). This is all to say that i also multiship Wally alot. And so, i both hc him as pan and ship him with my own OC (and some other peoples' OCs that are really cute). I also hc Wally as having a bit of a preference to guys, sooo, when Emi cut her hair, Wals was like awooga.

And yea, that's basically what the mini comic was. Emi cut her hair and this caused Wally to start crushing a little.

Colored!!

I think atp i did figure out that i wanted Emi to be a fashion designer/ seamstress.

Other outfits!! Yippie!! - I really love the party outfit. The shoes, ahhg! I wish they really existed.

Hehe, lil (crappy) sktech :·)

Oh yeah, i kind of had the idea of Wally drawing out the patterns for Emira when she was overwhelmed with ideas and didn't know where to start on an outfit. She'd just waffle about her ideas with Wally. Probably assumed he was drawing an apple or something, but oh? What's this? You drew a whole template for the dress i was rambling on and on about!! Thank you, Wally!

Her house :·)

AHHHH i love this drawing!!! Em and Emi, Emira and Emira, she and he, they and they, idc how to describe it, just.. genderfluidness!? And also, the outfits!! I just loved drawing them, I'd hella wear them irl. Especially the belt. I wish i had that 1970s belt irl!! I also loveee how she has longer hair and shorter at some point, meaning i can basically give her any hairstyle i want in my art!! It doesn't have to be consistent (unless it's a comic) - :·)) // this took me about 3hrs. And i barely took any breaks, that's how much i enjoyed drawing her!! Ahhh!!!

I was just looking through Pinterest and got the inspiration!! Well no, not just that. I failed to mention b4 that I'd like to think in the WH Halloween special, Emi attempted to dress up as a biblically accurate angle.. but it scared the kids tm (not actually, it mostly scared Frank) so she changed!! Her alternative costume was a clown!!. - And while, no, i didn't draw her as a biblically accurate angle, i did still make her an angle!! :·)

I do like this drawing, butttt my original sketch was way more expressive than this one. My second sketch was definitely more stiff, however i still went with it bc the first sketch was kinda wonky when flipped. Whoopies!!

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Now i can ramble about Emi wayyyy more. I have so many more headcannons, comics, and crappy little drawing not shown here but this post is getting to long!! Buh bye, now loves <33!!!

#welcome home #wally darling #art dump #my oc shit #crazed ramblings #idrk what to tag this #i talk too much #julie joyful #self insert #Emira Eagerly

[arcanetrivia]

Monkey Island Week 2022 Day 1

I don’t draw (“we’re artists”? ah, if only), so I hardly feel it’s worth me making a top post about this rather than just reblogging, but...

https://captmickey.tumblr.com/post/688764371754729472/day-one-return-to-a-new-look-holy-dairy-farmer

Day One: Return To A New Look

Holy Dairy Farmer, we got a new Monkey Island coming out this year! This is absolutely positively wild! And because this is, after all, a new Monkey Island game, that means our boy Guybrush got a whole new look.

And he looks absolutely wonderful!

But lets be real: we’re artists. We have our things we would like added or remove, or maybe nothing at all and because we love it as is! So what would you do? Would you change his look or not? If you would, what will you add or remove? His pony tail? No tail? Mohawk? Have at it!

How dare you suggest removing his ponytail ;)

I’m not sure whether this means “is there something you would have wanted to see / would change” about Guybrush’s design in general, or specifically the RMI design. If the latter, I don’t want to harp on the art style and invite drama (I do like the art in general and Wally particularly was a real IT HE!!!! moment), though I would have preferred more natural proportions (head to lower limb ratio is especially odd).

But as far as specific design elements, I miss his blue eyes! And yes I know 1. no one has colored eyes in this style (unless you count LeChuck’s glowing red) and 2. he doesn’t have visibly blue eyes in like half of the games anyway, but somehow they’re such an important feature in the image I carry around in my head.

Slightly silly answer, I’ve long wanted to see Guybrush in a pirate hat. Not necessarily as a permanent feature of his costume, just a scene or something. And while I can understand the internal chronological reason for having him in basically his Revenge outfit, although they seem to have added a little capelet or trim of some kind to the back--

--I was kinda hoping for new clothes, just to see what they came up with. Maybe there will be time-jumping shenanigans as so many have speculated and we’ll get to see a little variety here or there.

I might also have gone with hair a little less brightly blond, tried to split the difference between the light brown color in (original) MI1/2 and the trend to really yellow blond that happened later, sort of like they did in the MI2 SE. This is partly also a “the Guybrush in my head is more dark/honey blond, a color that sometimes looks light brown and sometimes looks golden” thing but also the idea of sort of unifying or recombining various iterations of the design so there isn’t this... era divide? I guess? or something... But I can see why they wanted to make him pop out of the screen as a general color design choice -- see for example how his hair shows up against the dark teal of the side of the ship he’s standing in front of.

(As for a mohawk, I always find it fun to dress up favorite characters in all sorts of specifially themed outfits and modern-punk Guybrush is actually one I’d thought of. He didn’t have a mohawk, but probably quite an undercut under the ponytail, and he had a blue leather jacket with skull & crossbones done in pyramid studs ;) )

#miweek2022 #monkey island #adventure games #guybrush threepwood #meta #RtMI

[yangjapus]

Pretty Rhythm: Welcome Home

So for the past couple of months, I've been struggling with art block and I really need to post something... until that one interesting discord vc with my partner. So we were in vc, talking about our childhood anime series and somehow I remember this particular anime show, which was the Pretty Rhythm series. Then I said "would it be cool if I make this into a WH au? Just kidding!" and they were like "if you want to, because I don't think anyone has made it into an au." After an hour of thinking about it, I sorta made it into an au lmao

So what is this really about?

The Prism Show is an all-new kind of ice skating show that requires its participants to be figure skaters, models, and singers all at the same time. So in this au, it's mainly focused on the performances and the cast of welcome home.

(These are the only character designs I made that are performers. I'll make more soon!)

Who is the Prism King/Queen?

In this au Wally is the Prism King and always has heen. No one has ever tried to surpass him.

Will there be a (Y/N) in this au?

I've been getting a few questions about this and my answer is no. (Y/n) is not included in the pretty rhythm au. I just wanted the attention on the cast more rather than on (Y/n).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

#welcomehome #welcomehomeau #welcomehomeart

[scandalsavagefanfic]

DC Kink Meme Prompts List

Since the kink meme is getting a lot of attention and growing daily, I thought I’d post a convenient place where I can keep track of the prompts that I’d like to see filled again. I figure you’re all here because we share similar interests and this way, if you’re a writer with looking for a prompt, you don’t have to scroll through the almost 400 prompts that are currently posted. 

So here we go. Beware, this is a kink meme. These are nsfw and some may be triggering. 

JayDick Watersports -  Filled HERE

sub!Jason & Dom!Dick are in a consensual D/s relationship that has a heavy Master/slave dynamic (whether 24/7 or primarily during sex is up to you!). They're on a stakeout one night, and it's really cold, and, aw, fuck, Dick needs to piss, but he doesn't want his dick to freeze. Good thing he's got his bitch there with him, right? Dick pissing in Jay's ass preferred just to show the level of not caring about Jay's comfort [it's still cold!], but totally not gonna complain about piss drinking, either, if Dick's feeling a little more charitable. Is Jay surprised because it's the first time Dick has done this? Is this a normal, expected duty that he performs regularly? That's up to you!

Tim/Jason A/B/O - Filled

In an A/B/O world where omegas are in charge and alphas are treated like animals, or kept as pets, CEO Tim decides to treat himself to a new toy and buys Jason. Feel free to go as wild as you like with the kinks, I'm pretty unsquickable

Tim/Jason Stalker!Tim - Filled on the Meme by anon and HERE (by me)

Older Tim, younger Jason, where Tim's stalking gets a little obsessive once Jason takes over as Robin, and he starts stalking Jason out of costume as well as at night. A little judicious hacking later and he's able to keep an eye on Jason's internet activity too. Once he finds Jason looking at gay porn he knows he's got an in. And he starts blackmailing Jason, online at first, but escalating every time he gets Jason to go a little further, until he gets him to submit in person.

Slade/Dick/Jason - Filled amazingly HERE

Dick's been with Slade for a while, and now that he's stopped fighting and given into his training, Slade thinks he deserves a reward. Every good boy deserves a puppy, and Batman's new Robin looks like he could fit the role perfectly.

Jason Todd - Object Insertion - Filled on the meme (art)

Honestly, that's all I've got for you. I just want someone making Jason take things up his ass that have no business being there. Consensual or not are both fine! Any ship, though definitely a strong preference for Roy, Slade, Tim, Kyle, Dick, Roman or Ra's. Preferably not underage, but I'm not entirely opposed.

Ra's/Jason - Filled HERE

Ra's test drives an undunked Jason. The boy must be useful for something, after all, and he looks so pretty in chains. ABO welcome. 

Prompt- Pegging (Jason) - Filled HERE

Jason gets pegged by one (or more ;)) of the lovely ladies of the DC universe. And enjoys it thoroughly Pairing is dealer's choice. <3

Bruce/Jason 

Bruce takes in Jason off the streets, but more for use as a personal whore than to be Robin. Bonuses for Bruce still adopting Jason and getting off on fucking his son. EXTRA bonus points for Alfred's unfazed acceptance/support of it and perhaps even his participation.

Jason Todd Intercrural Sex - Filled on meme

This man deserves more thigh fucking and so do we! All ships welcome!

No Title - Bruce/Jason, Dick finds out Bruce has been sexually abusing Jason

One of the other prompts made me realize that while there are a lot of fics where Jason discovers Bruce has been abusing Dick, there are none the other way around and suddenly I have a craving. So I would like for Dick to find out (maybe right after Jason returns, Dick catches them and overhears Bruce say something to indicate it used to happen regularly) that Bruce had been sexually abusing Jason since the moment he found him and try to save him. And like, because of his background as a child prostitute, Jason kind of thinks it's normal or that it's the only way he could earn love? Maybe Bruce implies that Jason is useless otherwise and he'd end up back on the streets if he's not useful. Maybe Bruce is even happy to point out that the reason he never even considered touching the others is because they were too good for it, pure and wholesome, while Jason was ruined goods.

Dick/Jason fuck-or-die bottom!Jay 

I would absolutely kill to see a fic where Dick is forced to fuck Jason (for whatever reason but preferably not due to sex pollen/aphrodisiacs/drugs - I would prefer if they were both in their right minds please) Preferably they wouldn't be in a relationship or have secret feelings for each other and this would be mutual noncon/rape with a focus on how horrified they are that they're having to do this to each other. I would really, really like if it was bottom!Jason for this, but that there is acknowledgement that Dick is being raped here too!

Skeezy Ric Grayson

One specific fic I read has completely coloured my perception of Ric, and now I'm just desperate to see him being a total creep. Perving on his siblings and former friends. Would love to see him not take no for an answer, especially with someone who doesn't want to fight back because "it's still Dick in there somewhere, I can't hurt him" or something like that. Preference for Wally (HiC who?) or Jason, but Tim, Roy, Babs or Donna would be okay, too! A/B/O with Alpha!Ric would be a bonus but isn't necessary.

Cassie/Rose bondage spanking and D/s, semi-dubious consent

Cassie has had enough of Rose mouthing off and causing trouble, so she ties her up with her lasso and lectures her. Rose mockingly asks her if she’s going to spank her for being a bad girl, and much to her surprise, Cassie does. They both enjoy it much more than expected

Nyssa/Talia

Nyssa/Talia, set post-Death and the Maidens, Talia restrained while Nyssa gets her off, begging to be allowed to reciprocate. Bonus points for twisty fucked up Nyssa POV with all kinds of big global megalomaniacal justifications for what she's doing and how important it is to the greater good. (Reposted from old DC kinkmeme)

Jason Todd/Dick Grayson/Roy Harper/Koriand’r

Kori loves watching her subs play with each other and rewards them well for good behavior

JayTim hatesex

Jason and Tim having incestuous-sibling-rivalry-hate-sex against the memorial

Any Bats/???, Alfred has to clean up

Poor Alfred often gets stuck cleaning up the mess when any of the family bring partners over. The crackier the circumstances the better!

Slade/Jason identity porn

Slade and Jason fuck while in costume as and pretending to be Batman and Nightwing respectively

Kyle Rayner/any

Kyle winds up working as a stripper somehow. Some other heroes find out and pay him a visit

Batfam/Jason; non con or resigned-to-his-fate cumdumpster!Jason

Could also be Earth-3 Owlfam/Jason. A/B/O welcome but it doesn't have to be. Would appreciate any one or combination of the following: dehumanization/objectification, humiliation, public sex, breeding kink, restraints, fucking machines, cum enemas, lots of cum in general, size kink... I just want something unapologetically filthy. I'm pretty much good with everything but scat.

Dick/Tim non/dub-con, universe hopping

Dark Dick from a dark universe ends up in the main universe, where he is delighted to find a brand new Timmy to play with, who unconditionally trusts his brother and doesn't know he's been replaced. Cue Dick slowly luring him in so he can have his fun. Tim doesn't realize until it's too late, or doesn't realize at all and has no idea how his beloved older brother could do this to him. Main universe has fully platonic, familial relationships within in the batfam. Feel free to imply/state anything you like about the dark universe. Grooming/slowly warming Tim up to more and more touches, crying, overstimulation, bondage, or any combination thereof are all bonuses

Young Justice S3 Dick/Jason omegaverse

Alpha!Dick Grayson is stuck on a mission and somehow has to help the mysterious Red-Hooded omega through his heat. But they have to stay quiet in order to not wake the pup Damian sleeping right next to them. Preferably there's an identity reveal in there where Dick finds out the omega is Jason Todd under the mask.

Addict!Roy Harper Noncon

Noncon (or possibly dubcon, if the manipulation is clear enough to readers) with Snowbirds Don't Fly era!Roy Harper as the victim. Could be an OC, another Titan, a Leaguer, a canon villain... Dealer's choice! Looking for something that really focuses on how he's being taken advantage of, rather than just "can't technically consent because he's high, but is totally into it."

Woder Woman/Batman, Rough Sex

Bruce loves it when Diana is rough with him

Bane/Bruce, violent noncon

Something set during Knightfall, where Bane decides to take “breaking the Bat” even further by raping Bruce and possibly also his precious little Robin

Jay/Tim bdsm AU, sub Jay

What it says on the tin. Was thinking maybe also an arranged marriage of sub Jason to dom Tim Drake, to cement a business union but also because subs aren’t full citizens.

Robin!Jason/Bruce Somnophilia

Bruce drugs his new little Robin and slips into his room. He takes his time with him, enjoying Jason before carefully opening and fucking him. Would be great if Jason wakes up towards the end but can't do anything but take it- maybe because of the drugs, maybe because of the way Bruce is holding him down, or even because he likes it.

Sidekicks/Villains noncon glory wall

Any sidekicks you want—Speedy, the Robins and Batgirls, Kid Flash and Impulse, the Wonder girls, etc.—being displayed in a glory wall, leaving their holes open for fucking. Interested villains can pay to fuck any hole they desire, and they enjoy wrecking the sidekicks and filling them with come

Robin!Jason/Villains & Henchmen?

Robin Jason gets captured and tied up by the villain of the week, who decides to take advantage of the situation. Robin is blindfolded and groped/fucked by the villain and maybe some henchmen while waiting for Batman to rescue him. Batman finding a bound and blind Jay too tempting to resist is a bonus.

Dickjay daddy kink

Older! Dick and bottom! Jason. Jason came back years later and Dick is around 40.

OmegaJason/Batfam first heat, lactation

It's Jason's first heat and the alphas of the pack know that his milk is on its way soon. All it needs is a little encouragement. A few knots and some nipple play should do it. His milk tastes perfect as it starts to flow.

Jason/Dick, Jason/RomanSionis, Hooker!Jason & Officer Grayson

So this is based off a discussion from AGES ago in the jayroman discord server that I still think about to this day XD A no capes au in which Jason never gets picked up by Bruce and ends up a crime alley prostitute who somehow along the way caught the eye of Black Mask and winds up working for him. And Black Mask has basically the whole city in his pocket, including the police force, which is why it’s so annoying when this little upstart, Officer Dick Grayson, starts to try to challenge his hold on the city, the little goody two-shoes denying any and all bribes and refusing to back down in the face of threats. And it should be easy to squash one annoying little bug, but somehow all attempts have failed and he can’t openly go after him without risking his reputation as a clean, law-abiding businessman, a reputation that’s slowly starting to unravel thanks to the dogged efforts of Officer Grayson, because the little shit is annoyingly not as stupid as his attempts to go after Roman would make him seem and despite all of Roman’s power and having basically the entire police force and the various other government officials Roman has in his pocket against him, he has made far too much headway in his endeavors So Roman gives Jason the job of seducing Dick, because if bribery and threats don’t work, video evidence of an officer fucking an underage hooker makes excellent blackmail material, and should be enough to take him down for good if he ever steps a toe out of line again Except no matter how Jason tries to seduce him, Dick is just too decent a guy to take advantage (Ex: Jason: *shows up wearing even more revealing clothes than the night before.* Dick: “You must be cold, here, take my jacket.” etc.) And before he knows it, Jason finds himself growing weirdly fond of the infuriating idiot with his stupid puns and painful sincerity

Roman Sionis/Jason Todd, AOB noncon impregnation gang rape

Intersex AOB verse. Roman wants to punish and claim the upstart omega, so he plugs Jason’s cunt and lets his men anally rape Jason until the omega begs Roman to breed his pussy

TimKon, a/b/o, alpha!Tim, bottom Conner

Humans have a/b/o. Kryptonians do not. Alpha!Tim thinks that he shouldn't bother Kon about Tim's rut. Kon thinks otherwise. Whether Kon can keep up with Tim (superpowers got to be good for something, right?) or is overwhelmed is up to anon :) I am absolutely unsquickable so whatever extra kinks are fine with me. Just please top!Tim only. Please, my crops are dying.

past romanjay now mobJay, gangbang

After getting tired with his new toy, Roman decided to just give his subordinates a chance to have fun with it. But mostly he just want to see the red hood to get more humiliated after destroying his empire.

Damian Wayne/Jason Todd, bestiality

It's time for Damian to introduce his new acquired pet to the pack, Titus and Ace.

Tim gags and spanks Damian

Red Robin has to take Robin out on patrol because Batman is away, Damian is reckless and keeps disobeying orders so Tim punishes him while having him gagged for being mouthy. can progress to something more sexual but doesn't have to be. Damian secretly enjoying it is a bonus.

Deathstroke/All the Robins

Slade really has a thing for fighting and chasing after Batbrats…

Rose/Jason mommy kink edging and pegging

Jason wants to be a good boy for mommy, Rose rewards his good behavior

Jason Todd/Kyle Rayner hatesex - Filled

I’d love some rough, angry, violent hatesex between these two. Bonus points for snarky asshole bottom!jason and kyle using his ring to make restraints/other kinky constructs ;)

Flashpoint!Father Todd/Incubus!Dick

Incubus!Dick seduces Father Todd. Jason holds out longer than most but Dick prides himself on being irresistible. He’s never failed before and he doesn’t plan to start now. But maybe, instead of his usual dine-and-ditch MO, Dick think’s he might like to savor this meal for long. Jason falls so beautifully. (bottom Jason please) Catholic aesthetics, blasphemy as kink, church sex (altar, confessional, pews, etc)

Flashpoint Thomas Wayne/Father Todd

Thomas Wayne as Batman bends Father Todd over the altar. In uniform. (At least for Thomas. It would be super hot if he strips Father Todd out of his robes first. Maybe everything except his rosary?)

Jason/Tim rape

Tim ties down Jason and rides(rapes) him. Pls let Tim use Jason as nothing but a mere meat dildo.

Titans/Dick, Titans/Jason, Titans/Tim consensual gangbang - Filled

The not-so-secret tradition of team bonding by fucking the current Bat on the Teen Titans is well-adhered to, especially given the enthusiastic consent of all participants Feel free to include any or all: garden sex, pool sex, power use, DP, riding, pegging, toy use, CBT, nipple play, cockwarming, CFNM/CMNM, and consensual somno All other kinks welcome excluding scat, watersports, emeto, ageplay, vore, and anything else bloody

Thomas Elliot/Bruce Wayne (Rape/Non-con)

Bruce doesn't realise how obsessed Thomas really is with him. Leads to Hush raping Bruce. Can be when Bruce knows who Hush is or when he still doesn't know.

Evil!Dick and Jason, noncon or dubcon

Jason comes back to his safehouse and is surprised to find Dick already there. After the initial surprise, Jason is quick to find out that there's something... off, about this Dick. He's not acting like his usual self. It turns out this isn't the usual Dick that Jason is familiar with, instead, he is a darker version of him (drugged? Talon from Earth-3 that somehow ends up in the main universe? other possibilities? all welcome options!), and this Dark!Dick is obsessed with Jason and wants to fuck him... and he doesn't take no for an answer. So there's a setup for a non-con or dub-con(in case Jason also has a crush on main Dick) for you. Restraints (gags, ropes, tapes etc.) are also welcome but doesn't have to be present.

Kon-El/Lex Luthor Daddy Kink DubCon

Lex genetically programmed Kon to need his daddy to fill him up when he created him. Lex made Kon to check all his boxes (ie Superman, something he made, a gifted teenager). Kon can’t actually consent because of programming, and he doesn’t want it until he’s getting it. Can be simple daddy kink or full of abdl. Bonus points for trans!Kon

Guy Gardner/Bunch of Aliens possible Dubcon/Noncon

Macho, hotheaded, shit-talking Guy is the embodiment of hyper-masculinity, and that arrogance of his gets him into a lot more than just a bar fight. All of Guy's enemies seem to be of the huge, muscular variety, so let's see the most stocky lantern get put in his place. Does he secretly love it? Does he outright hate it? Maybe all that shit-talking was just a ploy to finally get someone to "punish" him right. The choice is up to you. Maybe it's a bunch of random aliens Guy's ticked off in a bar. Maybe all that showboating's pissed off Kilowog or Arkillo. Maybe Lobo's still put out after being tricked one too many times by Guy. Perhaps, Atrocitus's still kinda harboring a grudge for Guy kicking him out of the Red Lanterns. Then there's always the way too touchy Dementor with his Vuldarian kin. I'm all for any other kinks or situations, I just would prefer no bathroom stuff. Go absolutely wild.

Black Mask/anyone, bathroom control, omorashi - Filled on meme

I'm a simple person with simple needs: Roman controlling whether or not someone's allowed to piss. can be consensual or noncon torture, the victim can end up pissing themselves or make it to the bathroom safely. just as long as Roman's in total control of the situation, and smug about it. bonus points: tears, begging, banter, degradation, embarrassment, additional torture, anything else along those lines. watersports only, please, no scat!

Roy Clones/Dick gangbang omegaverse

YJ season 3 episode 4 has excellent gangbang material just so you know Add omegaverse to it and its perfect Noncon/dubcon is accepted also

Titans/Jason Gangbang

Prefer comics based more than the show but either is fine. Dick and his friends welcome the new Robin the Titans way, by breaking in that hole. New kid is always the team toy, and it's even more fun now that it's Nightwing's bratty kid brother. Consensual or non con, dealer's choice. Double (or triple) penetration, dirty talk, and powers used for sex are favorite kinks but I'm good with pretty much anything.

Willis Todd/Jason Todd, Mob/Jason; Incest and forced underage prostitution

Willis pimps out his kid for cash and drugs. Catherine either pretends she doesn't know or knows and helps/doesn't care. And like any good salesman, he makes sure to test out his product to make sure it's up to snuff. 

Make it cruel and awful and hopeless. Dehumanizing and degrading. Jason is just a hole to sell and use. belting in sensitive areas, beatings, violent sex, cum play, blood play... I just want something dark and nasty. 

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Woo! Ok. I’ll try to keep this up the best I can. I’ll link/mark when prompts are filled so that you guys can check it out if you want (all filled prompts can be reached by the link in the title, but some have ao3 links that I put on the “Filled” note). 

I’ll also reblog this with any new prompts that come up or if I find I’ve forgotten one. 

#DC Kink Meme #long post #too many things to tag #content and trigger warnings apply to some of the prompts #enter at your own risk #mostly Jason Todd centric #but others that I liked too

[joeinfurnari]

My Dinner with Andre

My Dinner with Andre might be one of the most difficult movies for many viewers to watch. The artsy crowd would call it minimalist while the more lowbrow among us would say it’s boring! There’s just so little to it that there is a valid case for both. The story is simply a struggling young playwright, Wally agrees to meet an acquaintance, Andre, for dinner at a nice restaurant in decaying New York city and conversation ensues. The end. But like so many things in life, My Dinner with Andre gives you so much more if you really listen closely. I recently watched it again and I forgot just how great it is and how it continues to speak to us today.

It’s so stark and unapologetic about being without plot that it’s become the subject of many pop culture parodies. I know there is a Simpson’s reference to it but I most enjoyed the episode of Community that spoofs it. You may think that this comes from a place of common dislike for the movie but it’s actually the opposite. The parodies just prove how influential and beloved it is. Why? For me, the appeal is the conversation itself. It’s been celebrated for being a complete fiction that does a great job at coming across as a documentary but that’s just appreciation on a formal level. It’s not just that they had a conversation that’s important, it’s what they talk about that matters. The content of that discussion is so important, the writers and filmmaker felt it merited being the subject of a film without any distraction. To say that Louis Malle created My Dinner with Andre for the iconoclasm alone, misses the point.

The two men seated at dinner are artists/playwrights and catch up on the long period since they last encountered each other. They’re not really friends and Wally even debates cancelling the dinner before ultimately opting to go. He’s a working writer and artist making ends meet in New York City while Andre has had a long hiatus from creative life spent on travel and self examination. Wally confirms their community speculation that Andre has money that allows his adventures. Andre at first spends dominates the conversation with anecdotes about mutual acquaintances and talks about some of the retreats and workshops he’s attended recently. Andre has dropped out of the arts and has been on a personal quest to find himself after becoming disillusioned with his life.

In the time since they last spoke Andre describes a crisis in his creative life. He left the theater and traveled to Poland where he spent time with strangers in the woods creating experimental theater. He didn’t speak or understand Polish and they didn’t understand English but the time spent together was transformative. What began for him as creative exploration in the woods forced him to act as himself and in so doing he was forced to examine his life and how he acts when he plays himself:

So, you follow the same law of improvisation…which is that you do whatever your impulse, as the character, tells you to do…but in this case, you are the character. So there's no imaginary situation to hide behind…and there's no other person to hide behind. What you're doing, in fact, is you're asking those same questions…that Stanislavsky said the actor should constantly ask himself as a character:

Who am I? Why am I here? Where do I come from, and where am I going?

But instead of applying them to a role, you apply them to yourself.

Andre tells more stories of his spiritual and creative adventures. For him, his journey to this dinner has been full of magic, mystery, serendipity and travel to exotic locations including India and even a Saharan Oasis. The restaurant is quite nice but it is still remarkably banal compared to Andre’s monstrous hallucinations and descriptions of his process of personal exploration. It culminates in a description of being buried alive in Montauk, NY. From that point on, Andre becomes surprised by his own reactions to things in his life. He even begins to look at himself and the sort of person who would spend his time the way he has. People in his life who he called friends, repulse him. Figures on television appear to be objectively horrible people. He says,

And I suddenly had this feeling I was just as creepy as they were…and that my whole life had been a sham…

…

I mean, I really feel that I'm just washed up, wiped out. I feel I've just squandered my life.

Moments later he goes on to say,

Well, you know, I may be in a very emotional state right now, Wally.…but since I've come back home I've just been finding the world we're living in…more and more upsetting.

It’s as though Andre has a new perception of the world that is in stark contrast to his former self. He’s alone in this perspective until he sees a woman working in the theater who recognizes the trouble on his face. Where everyone else he encountered commented on how great he looked, this woman somehow knew by looking at him, the emotional state he was in. Because of this woman’s recent loss of her mother, she was able to see him clearly. Andre says,

She didn't know anything about what I'd been going through. But the other people, what they saw was this tan, or this shirt…or the fact that the shirt goes well with the tan.

So they said, " Gee, you look wonderful." Now, they're living in an insane dreamworld.

They're not looking.

That seems very strange to me. Right, because they just didn'ts ee anything, somehow.…except, uh, the few little things that they wanted to see.

All of this has resonated with me very personally. I similarly feel as though my perspective on the world has shifted and it has made me incompatible with things as they are and people who aren’t looking. It’s as though my prior life was a dream, honestly. When I think of how I thought about the world and other people for most of my life, I also hate that prior self. I agree with Andre that that earlier version of myself inhabited an insane dreamworld. Andre describes it using the example of his dying mother. Although she was terminally ill and appeared only minutes away from death, the specialist was beaming at all the progress she was making. For this doctor, he had so narrowed his goals/perception to her arm that any healing on that front was cause for celebration. Insane.

I mean, we're just walking around in some kind of fog. I think we're all in a trance. We're walking around like zombies. I don't…I don't think we're even aware of ourselves or our own reaction to things.

We…We're just going around all day like unconscious machines…and meanwhile there's all of this rage and worry and uneasiness…just building up and building up inside us.

And later, Andre continues to describe this state of mind:

Isn't it amazing how often a doctor…will live up to our expectation of how a doctor should look? When you see a terrorist on television, he looks just like a terrorist. I mean, we live in a world in which fathers…or single people, or artists…are all trying to live up to someone's fantasy…of how a father, or a single person,or an artist should look and behave.

They all act as if they know exactly how they ought to conduct themselves…at every single moment…and they all seem totally self-confident.

For two men involved in theater, they are approaching the idea that who we fashion ourselves to be, is selected from clearly defined character behaviors and appearance. For an actor, it must be disturbing for there to be no leap between the actor and the character. Why is it that someone who adopts the role of artist in real life, chooses to look like what we expect? As average people in our world, we’re acting our roles as they have been defined for us by someone else. This should be alarming to everyone and not just Andre and Wally.

I mean, we just put no value at all on perceiving reality. I mean, on the contrary, this incredible emphasis that we all place now.…on our so-called careers…automatically makes perceiving reality a very low priority…because if your life is organized around trying to be successful in a career…well, it just doesn't matter what you perceive or what you experience. You can really sort of shut your mind off for years ahead, in a way. You can sort of turn on the automatic pilot.

How many of us are doing this right now? I did it for many years, always overlooking the here and now for some future reward that all of it was building towards. I also think if your focus is on a career, it’s less on the experience and wisdom needed to fully embody that role. This is why this is such a great film. It may not wow you with realistic explosions but it challenges you to question your view on your life and your world. You shouldn’t be content with the way things are. If you are, you are part of a very fortunate few and you may be overlooking much of the world to do so.

people's concentration is on their goals.…in their life they just live each moment by habit.

…

And if you're just operating by habit…then you're not really living. I mean, you know, in Sanskrit, the root of the verb " to be".…is the same as " to grow" or " to make grow. "

This is something I think about a lot. I live as a cartoonist dedicated to writing and drawing and designing and promoting and tweeting and posting and editing etc. in a driving need to produce, produce, produce. Am I really living? I don’t think so. It’s okay to admit it. This wasn’t a world of my creation but if I’m alive and active in it, I can change it. This film gave me a way to understand the things that I’ve gone through over the last few years. Without art, I wouldn’t have evidence that others have been where I stand. I feel less alone and more hopeful.

Wally talks about the need for escapism and comfort from art against the harsh reality of every day life. The choice is to create art that is comforting but for all its warmth, fails to acknowledge reality and might contribute to a collective disengaging with reality and most importantly, each other.

…we're starving because we're so cut off from contact with reality…that we're not getting any real sustenance,'cause we don't see the world. We don't see ourselves. We don't see how our actions affect other people.

This is heady stuff, for sure. All of this is to get us thinking about the nature of our lives and really see the things we’ve chosen for ourselves. To truly be free is to be able to think outside the characters and roles defined for us…even the ones we think we chose but didn’t create. Only by looking at ourselves honestly and as objectively as possible can we see how far from our own humanity we have come. Andre went through a personal crisis in which he went through a dramatization of his own death and rebirth. The fresh eyes this has given him as illuminated a very dark reality. There are no fancy distractions in this film because it is a battle cry for humanity’s future. Under the guise of a polite conversation about things most average people would discount as having no bearing on reality is actually about a fundamental reality that has changed without our conscious consent. His advise:

Get out of here.

…

the 1960s.…represented the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished…and that this is the beginning of the rest of the future, now…and that from now on there'll simply be all these robots walking around…feeling nothing, thinking nothing. And there'll be nobody left almost to remind them.…that there once was a species called a human being…with feelings and thoughts…and that history and memory are right now being erased…and soon nobody will really remember.…that life existed on the planet.

#My Dinner with Andre #Louis Malle #Wallace Shawn #Andre Gregory #Apocalypse already happened #Apocalypse #End of humanity #Humanity #Robots #Bots #Trolls #Theater #Acting #The Meaning of Life #Art #Reality #Action Packed Conversation #Battle Cry for Humanity #The Simpsons #Community #Parody #New York City

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May we have a recap, please? :)

**spoilers for panic at the art show and home for the holidays**

OK people. I actually don’t have a ton of commentary on these two so I’m gonna try and keep it (relatively) short and sweet [Edit from Future Me: Failed Step 1].

Also, iirc, this is the week Dropout starts streaming new Fantasy High eps on Wednesdays which is very dope and I am very excited for. I probably won’t do full on recaps like I do for normal eps because, lbr, I don’t strictly have the time to be recapping these eps at all and it’s pure stubbornness that keeps me from making wiser time management decisions. But, rest assured, if I have an Opinion, you will hear it whether you want to or not. 

Anyway, on with the show. 

Last recap, I mentioned that this ep was giving me Aelwen house party vibes and now it reminds me of that ep in another way: Everyone rolled like TRASH almost the entire ep. It was so frustrating! They barely got any hits in until like halfway through the ep.

(Aw man, I just realized I’m gonna have to remember which spelling of Aelwen is correct again now that FH is coming back.)

I love how Murph is immediately like, “I need to make sure my wife doesn’t die during this fight avenging her fictional husband.”

Isabella also has Aelwen’s trick of poofing around the battlefield which is annoying as hell (ha) for the group.

Siobhan hilariously casts fear on Priya just to be spiteful. I thought she was doing it to help the evac process but no. It was a purely spiteful action. Bless. 

When Kug turns into an ape he, of course, turns into *the* NY ape, King Kong. 

“I roll a nat 20 on an epic shit.”

When Brennan was describing Kingston’s spectral New Yorker Guardians I was already thinking about that one part of Spiderman 2 (the OG Toby Mac version) and then he straight up said, “You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us,” and I lost it.

“Deny the stairs the pleasure of my feet.” Emily is a poet.

I want to know what makes a pigeon spicy more than anything. 

The fact that Brennan killed Ox AGAIN and then immediately looked into the camera and let the audience know the dog was fine because he clearly Oracle stared into the future between eps and saw the entire internet sharpening their pitchforks  was so funny. 

About midway through the ep, Pete tries and fails to send Isabella back to hell and Isabella starts monologing about her plans and connection with Robert Moses (she stole the list from Santa and is/was gonna marry Moses apparently). I wonder if Brennan was like, “These players are for sure gonna murder her without getting any useful info out of her unless she goes full Bond Villain right now.”

And, proving my point, Emily immediately does 56 points of damage, royally f-ing Isabella up. 

This is a really civilian heavy fight which feels weird in a way the FH fights never did. Like, these aren’t even civilians who live in an adventuring town in a fantasy world. These are just normal ass civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Pete fails a wild magic roll after failing to teleport into the building and then gets a choice of getting really strong (which prob would have let him bust down the door) or to teleport in (which is what he does and exactly what he wanted). Very clutch when the dice rolls play into the story like that.

Kingston lightning bolts Isabella’s hair off which is just malicious but also totally called for.

On her next turn, Sophie gets hurt on purpose to get low enough to activate her ring, lets her hair burn for long enough to shorten it to a cute bob, insults Isabella, then knocks her tf out. 

I love that Emily took one of her teeth (a seemingly crazy move) and when called out by Lou was like, “It’s a link to Robert Moses” (a completely reasonable answer). That’s the Axford one-two punch.  

I didn’t mention it before but, Willie the golem is here, first immobile but then brought back by Misty. Post fight, he says he was somehow brought here by one of the evil factions of the city and says they’ll talk about it later. Also, Misty makes out with him (DON’T KINKSHAME HER).

With a high insight roll, Kingston is able to deduce that the group was ambushed (though not by Priya) and that their victory was a really important one for the fate of the city. 

(Sidenote: The amount that Pete is Over Priya in this ep is so funny.)

Back at Wally’s (which is where Kug is now staying) Wally has gotten Kug a dog bed to sleep in and fancy charcuterie cheese because he and Ricky are the only pure-hearted people in NYC. 

At the same time, Pete and Kingston have a very sweet heart to heart and then settle down at Kingston’s place to chill and listen to jazz. Idk how else we expected this to resolve, considering this is a Brennan Lee Mulligan DM’d show where the sacred pillars are Teamwork, Friendship, Communication, and Making up an NPC on the Fly Because One of Your PC’s Decided to do an Insane Thing. 

Next up is the Christmas ep and Brennan, Emily, and Zac are in sweaters for the occasion. 

Well,actually it’s the 21st and Emily immediately clocks that that’s the solstice. 

Are cookies the good carb?/Absolutely not. But have fun with your life. (I love Ricky’s soft jock energy.)

“I run deliveries,” Pete says to Kingston’s parents, not technically lying but also not being completely truthful. Misty would be proud. 

Going over to Misty, it seems pretty clear at this point (and it’s confirmed in the promo for next ep) that Misty’s fairy business is some kind of de-aging/reincarnation for herself. I wonder how many of these she’s done so far. She said she’s been around for, what? 200, 300 years? Assuming she’s been doing then reincarnations at about 65-70 years old and she reincarnates to around 25? Maybe 6 times? Idk. Just spitballing. 

Saucer of milk to keep the faeries from stealing her (non-existing) children. Faerie lore is wild y'all. 

Did you take another level of warlock?/Yeah bitch.

The fact that since Sophie has joined a monastery, she’s only taken Warlock levels and no Monk levels is very funny from a story perspective. It’s like, she finally comes to this sacred place to be trained to her full potential and she’s just spending what should be her sparring time playing with her cat in exchange for spells. Wild. 

Emily’s cat-like, self-satisfied grin when Brennan is like, “So you just jerry-rigged yourself clairvoyance powers, huh?” is so good. 

And she did it on the fly because Emily Axford is winning D&D. There are no points but she’s winning.

So, uh, Emily does, two things, very in character right after the other:

Thing number one: She send her unseen servant to spy on her family. Her dad seems hardline, “F, Dale. Whatever. Family first. She needs to get over it.” On the other side of the spectrum is her mom who is very upset about the whole affair with her siblings falling in the middle. 

The second thing she does, very casually I might add, is have her unseen servant BURN DOWN HER HOUSE SO SHE CAN COMMIT INSURANCE FRAUD.

EMILY

Everyone loses their minds and rightfully so. What a wild-ass swing that no one could have seen coming. I love it. 

“I look in my backpack which is now my home[…]" 

I almost forgot that Ricky was a fire fighter who would not abide that nonsense until Brennan decided to cut to him. 

Ricky just dolphin swims across the Hudson in 2.5 mins to go put out the fire that Sophie set. Amazing. 

Ally mocking Emily/Sophie: Truthfully, I don’t know what happened.

"I love John McClane, because he loves his wife.” WALLY

Wally: Oh we’re gonna tell a lie on Christmas.

“This is what winning looks like.”

I would really like to know what trace stuff what on the drugs Pete got from 7 but Ally rolled too low to figure it out.

“I disassociate fully." 

Well it took him a long ass time but glad to have Pete on the selling drugs to kids is bad train. Choo-choo, dude. 

7 saying you can hack in real life in reference to his AK-47 has the same energy as Hardison using the word hack in literally any semi-weird episode of Leverage. 

SOCIAL MEDIA IS VOLUNTARY PANOPTICON

So Kug goes with Wally to David’s house disguised as a dog and, despite that, blurts out that he’s his dad immediately. Well, he tries to. The Umbral Arcana stops him, unfortunately. 

"I lick my son’s face.” KUUUUG. 

Sophie showing up with a raw goose and hellish rebuking it is so metal and it’s a shame no one got to appreciate it. 

Me when Sophie’s Mom changes into black top in solidarity for Sophie’s mourning: F EVERY OTHER NON-SOPHIE BICICLETA. I RESPECT YOU. 

Kingston is hustling very hard to get his man Pete a job which is a very Kingston move. That’s how guys like that show affection. 

Didn’t mention it before but Kingston’s parents and Mom specifically adopting Pete is very cute. 

Sidenote: Idk what 7 was talking about Pete trying to stay low profile. He wears a cowboy hat (now a ZEBRA STRIPED one, courtesy of Kingston). I think the subtlety train has sailed my guy. 

Esther shows up at the firehouse, carrying presents for her mom and grandma and looking for Ricky. The says that she’s kinda dealing with something and it feels good to be around him (beat) magically speaking. Sure. I’m gonna keep my Hercules soundtrack on hand just in case anyway. 

I think Ricky is the only person who, with no pretense, could give his crush a sexy calendar featuring him.

Anyway, turns out Esther’s mom and grandma are the furies of Tompkins Square and she’s fated to join them or something. 

Esther causally: I defy you, I defy the prophecy.

The fury thing would explain why Esther’s mom would have cursed Kug. They are famously magical punishers.  

Ricky is a magically certified Good Boy but we been knew.

Zac’s restraint to respect Esther’s personal boundaries in lieu of getting a lore drop to stay true to Ricky’s character is amazing. Mad props.

So we slide over to Misty’s Christmas party which Stephen Sondhein is attending and him having a character card kinda killed me. 

There’s a post on tumblr somewhere about playing faerie  incapability for impoliteness against a vampires need to be invited in and that’s what I thought about when Moses and his vamp friends showed up at Misty’s house.

Robert tries to talk Misty into striking a deal with him for protection from Titania. She’s very much not having it.  

“You know Robert, I love a comedy and I love a farce. I’d like to remind you of who it is that started this and it’s not me and it’s not my friends but I can assure you Robert Moses that we will be the ones to end it if you do not. Do you understand me?” Damn. That’s a mic drop from Misty. 

[As I’m editing this, I’m realizing I somehow lost a BIG chunk of text. I’m not gonna write it all up again but the Cliffnotes are as follows:

Between the Solstice and Christmas, the gang goes Grand Central Station to see the clockwork gnomes that live there because trouble is apparently afoot. Some size changing nonsense happens and Pete shoots a dog (with mini bullets, the dog is fine). Lou is enchanted even though Kingston is not (a common theme with him). Ally and Emily are on the same nonsense wavelength (as usual). 

There are dope magical dragon trains under Grand Central Station that go to the shadow realm which is a place I’d like to know about. Kingston has never seen these trains before even though you’d really think he would have.  

Murph says Gnome Rights which is wild if you know what Naddpod is like. 

Anyway, the high priestess of the gnomes passed out the other day and they figure out it was due to pixie magic which is suspicious. They also know they pixies have access to a “time stone” which leads me to believe that it’s Brennan and not Aguefort who thinks that Chronomancy is the most powerful magic of all. 

Sophie and Jackson go to Dale’s grave on Christmas. Jackson explains that the Order of the Concrete Fist is basically a literal school of hard knocks. A counterbalance to all the reach for the stars dreaminess that comes with NYC.

Dale was their chosen one who was supposed to stop the monastery from falling when some unspecified badness crossed over to this side, but when he went to the place where he was supposed to get guidance, there was no one there (clearly tying in to what Dale said to Sophie last time they talked. I wonder what she needs to get to the top of? Empire State maybe?).

Watching Murph watching Emily, his real life spouse, play at grief for her fictional husband and do some truly insane things is so funny because you can clearly see him thinking, “I am married to this woman,” which, in fairness, is probably the main thing he’s thinking when he’s playing D&D with Emily.

I’m probably missing something but that’s all I remember. Back to post-Christmas!]

So it’s opening night at Misty’s show and, somehow, Ricky’s first show ever. 

I love that Don Confetti is there because of Siobhan’s offhanded comment for a handful of eps ago about him being a supporter of the arts.

Anyway, everything is going great until the second act when Titania busts in through the mirror which is *not* is storage as Misty requested but on stage. It’s a theater fight, y'all! And not the West Side Story kind although if that doesn’t come up I will be very surprised. 

“Let’s kill Titania!” –Misty in the promo

Just going straight to 11, huh Misty?

See y'all then!

#dimension 20 #the unsleeping city #d20 #asks #kickmuncher3

[laughingpinecone]

Letter!

Trick or Treat time!

I am laughingpineapple on AO3

It’s a long list of characters so the specific requests aren’t overly detailed, please draw at will from my general likes and general fandom likes in addition or as an alternative to any of those!

All requests are art or fic - for art, the stuff I like is the kind that depicts the characters doing something. I’ll aways be happier with a very simple drawing of two characters walking together or sharing a cup of coffee than with an ambitious composition that looks like an Avengers poster.

They are also all for tricks and treats, except for The Swapper which is just tricks, but ignore at will for extra gifts.

Likes: worldbuilding, slice of life (doubly so if the event the fic focuses on is made up but canon-specific), missing moments, 5+1 and similar formats, bonding and emotional support/intimacy, physical intimacy, lingering touches, loyalty, casefic, surrealism, magical realism, established relationships, future fic, hurt/comfort or just comfort from the ample canon hurt, throwing characters into non-canon environments, banter, functional relationships between dysfunctional individuals, unexplained mysteries, bittersweet moods, journal/epistolary fic, dreams and memories and identities, canon-adjacent tropey plots, outsider POV, UST, exploration of secondary bits of canon, leaning on the uniqueness of the canon setting/mood, found families, characters reuniting after a long and/or harrowing time, friends-to-lovers, road trips, maps, mutual pining, cuddling, wintry moods, the feeling of flannel and other fabrics, ridiculous concepts played straight, sensory details, sickfic, places being haunted, people being haunted, the mystery of the woods, small hopes in bleak worlds, electricity, places that don’t quite add up, mismatched memories, caves and deep places, distant city lights at night

Cool with: any tense, any pov, any rating, plotty, not plotty, IF, nerdy canon references, unrequested characters popping up

DNW: non-canonical rape, non-canonical children, unrequested ships, canon retellings, consent issues

Twin Peaks: Harry Truman, James Hurley, Frank Truman, Albert Rosenfield, Tammy Preston, Monica Bellucci, Margaret Lanterman, Denise Bryson, Cynthia Knox, Constance Talbot, Bosomy Woman, Annie Blackburn, Jade, Wally Brando, Diane Evans, Doris Truman, Lucy Moran

The mystery of the woods. How do they relate to the woods, what do they gain and what do they lose in the woods. Case fic but they don’t find out jack shit, someone disappears, David Bowie was there, it’s complicated. Fragmented, shifted, mirrored identities. New Lodge spaces. The risks of staring into the void for too long. Gentle illusions. Transcendence. The moon. Static buzzing. Any title from the s3 ethereal whooshing compilation used as a prompt, actually. For treats, all these spooky things can remain in the background while the warmer hues of canon (all the food and cute friendships and Canadian geese and sparks of joy) take center place!

AUs and fusion AUs are great for this fandom! I have Final Fantasy on my mind a lot recently so any FFVI, VII, T, IX, X, XII or XIII reimagining would be fantastic, but also regular fantasy, space opera, sci-fantasy… anything fancy!

I ship Coop/Albert/Harry and all sides thereof, Laura/Donna, Tammy/Cynthia, Lucy/Andy, Gordon/Phillip, Chet/Sam. I love & for all of the above and Harry&Frank, Bookhouse Boys in general, Margaret&Hawk, James&Shelly, Margaret&Trumans, Albert&Frank, Albert&Doris, Tammy&Albert, Tammy&literally any woman in the cast, Denise&any Blue Rose, Cynthia&Constance, Constance&Twin Peaks cast, Annie&Audrey, Annie&Shelly, Wally&Coop&Laura, Diane&Albert, Diane&Phillip, Lucy&Margaret. $character&Laura is the free space here, when in doubt add Laura.

Canon-specific DNWs: any singular Dreamer being the ‘source’ of canon, BOB (let alone Judy) being forever defeated in the finale, Judy being an active malevolent presence in the characters’ lives, clear explanations for canonical ambiguities, ‘Odessaverse’ being the reality layer, the Fireman’s House by the Sea being the White Lodge

Harry Truman: his life in remission or something with animals Frank Truman: maybe he’s a tulpa or maybe he came back to a town he doesn’t recognize anymore Albert Rosenfield: splitting identities post-canon, leaving the FBI, something about his jazz collection Tammy Preston: Tammy infodumping 101, meeting legacy characters, trying not to implode like previous generations of blue rose Monica Bellucci: just give me your headcanons about whatever the hell that was about, possibly not as a retelling. Was she actual Monica, a masking memory for a different spirit, something else entirely... Margaret Lanterman: playing off any character we never see her share a scene with in canon, environmental activist, saplings enthusiast Denise Bryson: actual undercover FBI means she’s now part of office shenanigans, right? Or coming back to Twin Peaks years later Cynthia Knox: Garland’s legacy in the USAF is a heavy burden. going through an initiation of her own not unlike Tammy Constance Talbot: visiting Twin Peaks for whatever reason, being shaken by some supernatural event Bosomy Woman: who is she, where does she come from. is she friends with Phil. I’m down with her being Lois Duffy or not Jade: two things I love about her are that she comes out unscathed from a brush-in with the supernatural and that "Jade” is an alias she got from Invitation to Love. Expanding on either topic would be great (Invitation to Love fandom fic?) Wally Brando: the absolute coolest. That is unironically all. Tell me more about how cool he is, in the woods or on the road. Diane Evans: defragmenting her self somehow, in and out of the red room Doris Truman: what’s she like, who is she friends with. A coincidence in Hastings’ website makes me wonder if she’s an UFO enthusiast and interested in the zone Lucy Moran: Lucy's way of perceiving the world as a gateway to deeper truths which she may or may not be aware of. Also raccoons.

Ghost Trick: Cabanela, Jowd, Alma, Pigeon Man, Emma, Bailey

I am very interested in various characters finding about the erased timeline, but not getting their memories back, and having to live with being told about what they did but never remembering it. All what-ifs welcome (what if they managed an acceptable happy ending but didn’t reset the timeline, what if a different party went back to the past and kept their memories, what if Alma’s ghost stuck around…) Also open to AUs here, especially for generic fantasy or sci-fi settings or the Final Fantasy ones I prompted for Yuletide .

I ship Alma/Cabanela/Jowd, Alma/Jowd and Cabanela/Jowd and like all the & relationships in the game and more. Lots of love to Sissel and Missile always. (and Alma/Cabanela if Jowd isn’t around for some reason! Just don’t ignore him please!)

Cabanela: graciously accepting some type of defeat, or being rightfully stubborn about something. Maybe situations in which he knows he doesn’t have to lead Jowd: time-displaced and touch-starved, or getting to the bottom of the morbid humor barrel. Knowing he’s at the center of everyone’s attention. (for the record, that beard is at the center of my attention. it is very nice) Alma: would be nice if she had a personality of her own. Ghost Alma with or without powers? Teaming up with Cabanela or Lynne? Maybe she has trouble communicating with them but she’s there? Pigeon Man: how do he and Lovey take to Sissel. Friendship with Cabanela in the new timeline. Emma: her plotting process, or her activist leanings, or both. Is she friends with Alma? Bailey: I like how simple he is, and his panic dance of course. Throw him at another character of your choice and see what happens? Cabanela, for example?

The Last Remnant: Kate, Pagus, Emma, David Nassau, Zolean, Sibal, Maddox

I’m very interested in post-game exploration, and getting a clearer feeling of any of the cities and assorted places. I like characterization based on battle quotes, red bubble dialogues, and even their unique stat (‘authority’ is a natural fit for David but ‘romance’ tells me something new about Sibal!) Character interaction. Bit of worldbuilding. What’s another festival they celebrate? Do they erect something else instead of the Valeria Heart? Any fun discoveries down in Siebenbur? Where the hell IS Veyriel, anyway, do they go look for it and if so what do they find out? End of an age. Old bonds.

I ship David/Rush (wouldn’t want it as the main focus of a David fic, but as background there or anywhere it’s great) and Pagus/Sibal/Maddox. David&Rush and Pagus&Sibal&Maddox are also great. I also love Torgal, Caedmon, Allan, Irina, Glenys, Sheryl, Roberto and the Duke of Ghor, but everyone, really.

Kate: any expansion of her tulpa narrative? Maybe while she makes a friend of your choice? Pagus: my history-loving nerd. I’m also not over the fact that it’s stated canon that for a Qsiti, he’s an absolute catch. What a babe. Emma: let her be grumpy at someone... maybe teaming up with David à la good cop bad cop David Nassau: nice things happening to David postcanon, please? He’s been through a lot and I love him. Who can understand him, what can give him purpose? Zolean: I need someone to adopt this sad fish now that he knows that his friend is gone. Military experience and lost friends preferred but not required. Sibal and/or Maddox: give me all the Qsiti worldbuilding, Siebenbur worldbuilding, Remnant daydreaming, backstory with Pagus, old men reunions after the ending...

Dark Souls: Solaire, Siegmeyer, Sieglinde, Logan, Gough, Artorias

I’m only familiar with the first game! It’s probably relevant to mention that I think that linking the fire is kind of a dumbass move, Gwyn is an ass, Kaathe has his own agenda and there’s no winning move in this world, or at least no obvious one. Feel free to deviate from anyone’s canon endings, to make things happen that’ll stave off their hollowing. I am interested in any of these people meeting and possibly striking up a friendship, and also in exploring Lordran’s temporal/dimensional fuckery, where it’s possible to meet people who have been gone for ages...

Solaire: tragic, lovable, doomed, pure of heart dumb of ass and all. Ways in which his search for his sun intersects with the bigger mysteries and tragedies? What if he accidentally talked to Kaathe instead of Frampt in his quest? Siegmeyer: just let him be jovial and helpful? Traveling with someone and being a good buddy? Sieglinde: (almost) unstoppable can of whoop-ass, what’s it like to be basically the only non-undead in Lordran? Logan: he grump. Maybe he learns something interesting in the Archives. I am also interested in deets on him going mad there, at the end of his quest for knowledge. Sounds eldritch, poignant and intriguing. Gough: get him out of gay baby jail, poor thing, what’d he do! Or, at least: who goes to visit him, what does he feel for his people who appear to be more or less enslaved. Why does Gwyn allow him to languish in that tower? Artorias: much like with Solaire, I am intrigued by this paragon of virtue in a world that's really harsh on that sort of thing. He’s also... not human? Sif and Alvina always welcome.

Pyre: Oralech, Sandra, Bertrude, Molten Milithe, Celeste, Volfred, Tariq, Pamitha

Oh the burning found family feelings, the revolutionary passion, the divide between topside social constraints (moreso for liberated exiles, thrust into heroic roles after the revolution) and the kind of freedom allowed by the downside! Mere distance cannot separate our spirits! Noxalas! ...any cutesy activity lifted from the game would be great, like X doing laundry with Y.  Thoughts about the Plan, about the Scribes, about being considered the reincarnation of the Scribes, about finding oneself at the end of an age, as everything crumbles down to form something new. The titan stars. Exploring literally any corner of the Downside. Any postcanon very welcome with any combination of endings as long as the revolution was peaceful. I love everyone so much. Please do lean in on the xeno details if you’re writing nonhumans! Even for gen, I like to read what it’s like to be something other than human.

I ship Volfred/Tariq, Volfred/Oralech, some form of Oralech/Volfred/Tariq (more of a Volfred-centric V but I would like to be convinced of the Oralech/Tariq side of things), Celeste/Jodariel, Reader/Sandra, Hedwyn/Fikani and Pamitha/Bertrude. All & pairs welcome. I do NOT ship Jodi/Ignarius, Celeste/Tariq and *ae/Almer.

Oralech: so many intense emotions, just pick one and run with it! His topside ending made me cry. Finding the pristine blackwagon, books and sigil he would deem the True Nightwings’? Learning to let go of he bundle of hatred and prejudice he’d used as a shield, one thread at a time? Bonding with a character of your choice? Sandra: butting heads with any character of your choice, ideologically and also because she’s understandably pissed off 24/7? Volfred was Reader before us, what was their relationship like? And I’m sure that post-game the Reader brings her along to Nightwings meetings when she feels like it? Bertrude: witchy snek doing witchy snek things please. Her reluctant bonding is great Milithe: also witchy snek doing witchy snek things but on a grander, more primeval scale? Her drive to explore the Downside touches me. Celeste: the fixed star learning not to be fixed anymore, and being a person, while her counterpart has something of a 830 years head start and no-one seems to be on her wavelength. She’s intense and burning and uncompromising and how do you live like that? Volfred: early days in exile, bonding with any of the old Nightwings, or living as prime minister giving his all to the new society he’s building, which has to be demanding and tiresome. Idealistic, self-assured and a little manipulative is one of my ideals so just send him Volfred-ing around and I’ll be happy. Tariq: he keeps it all under the surface and if you get a peek past it there’s something of an eldritch depth to him and isn’t that so sweet. I think we need more Tariq whump but also Tariq nursing sick Nightwings, Tariq having nice days and just all-around more Tariq, is all. Pamitha: it’s hard to break that self-loathing but she could get a break maybe? If she stays Downside, what does she find at the far borders of this land?

The Last Guardian: any

The boy & the very good boy… I’d like to read about a distant reunion. I was surprised by the boy being the combo breaker after the former Ueda protagonists cast their societies behind. He gets to live his life with his people, apparently, but what makes him leave and find Trico again? What’s their bond like, years later? Or is it Trico who comes back to search for him?

And what about the being in the coffin? Got any headcanons on the relationship between it, the master of the valley, the alien-looking white tower and the rest of the vall... well, crater, presumably? Are they dead? Does some part of their conscience stick around? Were they in some sort of cryostasis and the destruction of the master of the valley woke them up?

I really like the setting of the game so laying it thick with the environmental focus is always appreciated.

As an aside and since SotC and ICO are in the tagset, I don’t generally like to think about direct, rational connections between the three games, placing them in a timeline etc. Even so, if you read the TLG artbook: what the hell was Ueda going on about, talking about SotC “as if through a mirror” or whatever that quote went like? Iirc he was talking about TLG’s mirror and SotC’s pool having some sort of symbolic... inverted... connection...? If you have ideas about some crackpot surrealist connection between TLG and SotC, the kind fever dreams are made of, I’m all ears!

The Swapper: any

I fell in love early on with this indie gem and its take on cloning, communication and the loss of self and I’m thrilled to see it in the tagset. I love narratives that explore solitude, alien mindsets, rejection of society, fractured consciousness - you can see how The Swapper struck a chord (the stellar puzzles and graphics helped). So the first thing I’d like to read in this nonexistent fandom with no fic is something, anything, focused on any of these themes. What of our protagonist, or what is left of her (WHAT is left of her?), after the ‘planet’ ending? But an exploration of the 'spaceship’ ending also works, keeping in mind that I see it as by far the creepiest and less consolatory option (not that the plot has any business being consolatory or black and white in the fist place, but if I HAD to slap a ‘good end’ ‘bad end’ label, planet ending is the good ending for me). What interests me about the Scavenger - I’m mostly talking about the main playable character(s), but the original one is also very interesting - is mostly what the game puts her through. Delving into her background, not so much. I would also love any setup that offers a focus on the Watchers, just… exploring their point of view on this whole business and on life, the universe and everything as a whole. Luv me them rocks. I’d really like to get into their mindset. The two scientists can come too of course.

#letter #trick or treat 2019

[lopithecusfanfiction]

The Mark of Superman

Author: Lopithecus Pairing: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne Rating: Explicit  Word Count: 3401 Alternate: AO3, fanfiction.net Summary: Lord Superman makes sure Lord Batman knows exactly who he belongs to Warnings: 

Extremely Dubious Consent 

Dub-con bordering on non-con

Emotional/Psychological Abuse

Physical Abuse

Emotional Manipulation

Manipulation

Author's Note: Since the SRB is done posting, I’m going to post the entire fic on Tumblr now. If you haven’t read it yet, please enjoy!

See the wonderful art this fic was based on by Yamada (art blog: lord-yamada) here! Yamada, it was a pleasure to write this for your wonderful art. You know how much I love Lord Superman and Lord Batman. ;) I would like to thank my beta mitzvah (Melting) for beta reading this story. I really appreciate the thorough look through and all the pointers and suggestions that you made. It helped flesh out this story a lot and I couldn't have done it without you! :D The title is a play on “The Mark of Cain” because the art has the Superman symbol burned into Bruce’s skin and because I feel like it. ;P

Written for the SuperBat Reverse Bang 2018

“There’s another small group of rebels forming in New York. We’ll need to gather information to find out where their base of operations are and take them down.” Clark looks over at Bruce, making eye contact through the cowl. “I want you to do that, Batman.”

Bruce gives Clark a brisk nod, watching Clark as he continues onto another topic. It’s only been six months since the Justice Lords were formed and within those few months, all they’ve done is put the fear of God into innocent people. Or maybe people no longer believe in a God. Maybe all that’s left is Lord Superman.

Bruce is startled when he hears Diana’s voice calling him and he blinks, moving his gaze to her. She repeats herself. “Do you have anything to add, Batman?”

“No,” he says, simple and to the point. He really doesn’t have anything useful to add. One of the first things Clark had done “for him” was lobotomize the Gotham rogues. Clark had seemed to take the most pleasure out of burning holes into the Joker, muttering something about how the Joker will never be able to hurt Bruce or his children again. Or maybe it was Selina Clark had the most fun with, snapping her neck whilst growling that she can never have Bruce. Bruce doesn’t know anymore.

Clark’s eyes are on him, boring into his skull as if the man can read Bruce’s thoughts. The alien doesn’t look happy with him. “That’s it for now. You’re dismissed.”

Bruce stands slowly, anxiety thick in the air. No one wants to make Superman mad, no one but Diana who isn’t afraid to purposely antagonize the alien into anger, and everyone is always walking on eggshells whenever the man is around. Somehow, they can tell Bruce has made him angry. Bruce isn’t really sure what he did to make Clark angry at him suddenly, but he doesn’t want to deal with it in this room. His eyes flit to the empty seat, the one with the lightning bolt on it, before turning away and leaving the room, his back hot with the feeling of Clark’s eyes staring at him.

He doesn’t even make it halfway to the transporters before he’s grabbed by the arm in a strong grip. “Come with me.” The menacing, angry tone of Clark makes Bruce’s heart speed up. He has no choice but to do as told.

Clark brings him to an abandoned hallway, one that is rarely used anymore. It leads to the cafeteria. No one has eaten there in months, too many memories of Wally being there constantly, food stacked so high one would wonder where the speedster put it all. No one wants to think about Wally nor do they want to actually eat with one another anymore. This is no longer a happy place.

“What is it?” Bruce dares to ask and the hand gripping his arm tightens. It makes him glad that he had put extra padding in his suit, ever since Clark killed Luthor.

Still, Bruce is startled when Clark spins him around and slams his back into the wall. “What had you so distracted?” The alien demands, both hands on Bruce now.

“Nothing,” Bruce claims, not meeting Clark’s eyes. He doesn’t recognize them anymore. They are void of their usual warmth, their love. He misses the days when Clark would look at him as if he meant the world to him,  when Clark would kiss him passionately, softly. The days when they would hold each other after a long fight, lying in bed, ignoring the world for a few hours. He misses the days when his chest didn’t hurt with heartbreak.

“No,” Clark starts, leaning in. “You were thinking of something. Tell me.” The Kryptonian’s voice has gone gentle but Bruce isn’t fooled. It’s just a ploy Clark uses, to get Bruce to lower his guard. It works every time. He loves Clark too much.

“I was thinking about you,” he says low, almost inaudible. It’s not the whole truth but Clark will like hearing it.

“Oh?” A smile forms on the man’s lips and for a brief second Bruce sees the old Clark, the one he fell in love with. “What about me?”

Bruce forces a smile back. “How much I love you.”

Clark’s smile disappears almost instantaneously. “You’re lying.”

“What?”

Clark’s eyes grow hard, angry. “You were thinking about Wally, weren’t you?” Bruce shakes his head and opens his mouth to protest but Clark doesn’t allow him to speak. “That’s why you looked over at Wally’s seat, right?” Clark’s tone has gone harsh, accusatory. One of the alien’s hands travel down to the left side of Bruce’s hip, thumb pressing into the Superman symbol burned there. Bruce flinches as Clark growls, “Do I have to remind you again who exactly you belong to?”

“No!” Bruce gasps, not able to get away from that thumb. “I wasn’t thinking about him, Clark. I was thinking about you, only you.”

Clark gets in his face, baring his teeth and eyes turning red. Bruce can feel the heat of those blazing eyes on his skin, radiating from the frightening look. “Don’t lie to me.”

“I’m not!” He flinches again as that thumb presses harder, sharp, hot pain shooting up the side of his body. Clark had given him that scar just yesterday, when Bruce was caught talking about Talia to Dick, and how she was in Gotham trying to play out one of her father’s schemes again. Clark had gotten jealous, dragging him forcefully up to their room, and used heat vision to burn the S into his skin. “It was about you and how you lobotomized the Gotham villains.” Bruce’s voice shakes and he swallows, trying to control the wavering. His heart is pounding wildly in his chest. Clark’s thumb eases and eyes turn back to blue, but mistrust radiates from them. A dull ache throbs where Clark’s thumb had been. “God, Clark, Wally was the same age as Dick. They were best friends. Wally was more like a son to me. You know that.”

Clark’s hand suddenly comes up and grips Bruce by the throat, pushing his head back against the wall, chin up. Clark doesn’t squeeze but the pressure is threatening. “Don’t talk back to me.” The hand then moves and slides Bruce’s cowl off his head, revealing Bruce’s face. Clark’s hand cups his cheek. “You know I get like this because I just love you so much, right?”

Bruce resists the urge to swallow, his mouth filling with saliva. It would look too much like a hesitation to Clark. Bruce cups Clark’s cheek back. “I know. I love you too. I would never hurt you.”

Clark watches him closely, eyes roaming over Bruce’s face. The man’s eyebrows furrow, eyes shining with concern. “I just don’t want to lose you, Bruce.”

Bruce smiles at him, forced and fake. “And you won’t.” There’s silence between them as Clark holds Bruce against the wall, bruising grip still on his arm. Clark’s eyes stare into his, not moving. Bruce finally swallows.

Clark’s fist flies out and punches the wall right next to Bruce’s head, causing Bruce to flinch and suck in a surprised breath. Clark gets in his face, breath warm as he talks. “Do you really think I’m that stupid?” He turns Bruce around, slamming him against the wall and pressing Bruce’s face into it with a hand on the back of his head.

“What are you talking about?” Bruce grinds out, eyes shut from the pain in his head caused by getting it slammed against metal. There’s a dent in the wall where Clark’s fist collided with it.

Clark’s lips press against Bruce’s ear. “I see the way you look at me. With pity filled eyes. With rage and sadness.”

“No,” Bruce protests, breath inhaling in sharp gulps, fear crawling its way up into his chest.

“Yes,” Clark hisses and Bruce’s blood goes cold. Clark’s other hand reaches around and starts pulling down Bruce’s pants to the Batsuit. “I’m going to show you exactly what will happen if you ever leave me.”

“Clark please,” Bruce pleads and for a brief second, Clark hesitates.

Clark looks at him, eyes narrowed. “Do you not want it?” And Bruce can hear the implication in that voice, the implication that if he says anything other than “do it” that it will only make Clark angrier. Bruce doesn’t want Clark angrier.

Bruce closes his eyes, feels his heart breaking even more, and finally says, “No, I want you. Only you.”

He can hear the smirk in Clark’s voice when the alien replies. “Good.” Bruce’s pants are pulled down to his knees, exposing his soft cock. Clark’s hand wraps around it and the alien scoffs. “You don’t love me anymore at all.”

“I do,” Bruce says but his voice sounds small and defeated.

He can hear Clark shuffling behind him to pull down the pants to the Superman outfit. Then, Clark pushes the top of the Batsuit up a little, exposing the S burn. One of Clark’s fingers traces it. “I don’t know if I can believe you. You look at me with disgust.”

Bruce shakes his head. “No, I don’t. I’ll always love you, Clark.”

“Hmm,” Clark hums, spitting on his finger and then reaching behind Bruce to slide it into his entrance, mouth close to Bruce’s ear. “You do look at me like that, but I know how to remedy it.” Another finger is entered into him, almost completely dry with just enough spit to ease it in. It’s painful and Bruce sucks in a strained breath through clenched teeth. “You will love me again, Bruce.”

Clark is pumping two fingers into Bruce slowly, stroking Bruce’s cock to try and awaken it. Bruce closes his eyes and tries to will himself to get hard but it doesn’t work. It’s not until Clark pulls his fingers out, makes Bruce suck them until they are dripping with saliva, and sticks them back into him that he starts to stir, the painful burn easing.

Reaching back behind himself, Bruce grabs a hold of Clark’s head and pulls it forward, kissing the alien on the lips sensually. Clark now has three fingers in him and he’s starting to enjoy it somewhat, finally fully hard. Bruce pulls away from Clark’s mouth and looks the man in the eyes. “You don’t need to make me love you. I promise, Clark, I love you with everything I’ve got.” Clark looks Bruce in the eyes and Bruce suddenly feels like crying but instead he swallows hard, Clark removing his fingers. “You’re the only one for me.”

And that’s the problem, Bruce thinks as Clark smirks in satisfaction, lining up to Bruce’s entrance. I love you too much. I would do anything for you.Please come back to me, Clark. A tear slips out of Bruce’s eyes as he closes them, waiting for Clark to enter him.

“You’re now ready.” Clark’s emotionless voice concludes.

It wouldn’t matter if Bruce told Clark that he wasn’t ready. Clark doesn’t care and will continue no matter what. The knowledge of that hurts but there’s nothing he can do. He just knows he still loves the man, even after everything Clark has put him through and when Bruce’s next words are out of his mouth, they almost shock him. “Don’t leave, just, don’t ever leave me either.”

Bruce doesn’t know what he would do if Clark abandoned him, so he decides to not think about it. Instead he focuses on the pressure of Kal’s body behind him, the warmth coming off it, and the pure rage in those eyes. He’s trying so desperately to keep Clark happy and he still hopes that someday his beloved Clark will return to him.

Clark pushes in hard, Bruce gasping at the strength, and Clark’s smile felt against Bruce’s ear. “Never,” Clark whispers to him.

Clark had pushed into him with spit as the only thing slicking up the alien’s cock, causing pain to shoot up Bruce’s back. Bruce arches off the wall, breathing in a shuddering, sharp breath. A trickle of blood runs down his thigh, a throbbing ache radiating throughout his lower back and upper legs. The only mercy Clark shows is waiting for Bruce to catch his breath before the man slowly starts pulling out and then slowly going back into Bruce, more blood dripping down the inside of his thighs. The worst part is, Bruce is still hard. He’s enjoying the pain, feels like he deserves it.

He dismissed Superman killing Lex Luthor, stood there as Clark lobotomized the villains of his city, and contributed to the worlds destruction at the hands of the Justice Lords. He’s just as bad as Lord Superman, just as responsible. He’s earned this as his punishment, this torture before he finally dies at the hands Lord Superman.

Clark pushes in one last time before stopping, panting in sync with Bruce’s own drawn in breaths. The alien reaches around and grabs a hold of Bruce’s hard cock, the tip already leaking greedily. Bruce wants more, he wants more pain, more punishment. “I’m always amazed by how much you enjoy me hurting you. Sometimes,” Clark strokes down the length of Bruce’s cock and Bruce moans with pleasure, “I wonder how far I can go before I really break you.”

“Kill me,” Bruce mutters, fluttering his eyes open. “Are you going to eventually kill me?”

Clark chuckles, the vibrations traveling through the whole alien’s body and into the cock buried in Bruce’s ass. Bruce tenses at the feeling. Clark had stopped moving, allowing the head of the man’s cock to rest on Bruce’s prostate. Bruce groans and Clark’s chuckling ceases. “Of course, not. I would never kill you, Bruce. I never want you to leave me, remember?”

“Then what are you going to do when I die?” Bruce asks, concentrating on Clark’s hand stroking him slowly.

“You’re not going to die,” Clark says, pecking Bruce’s ear.

“I will eventually. Maybe not in battle but age-”

“Who says you’re going to grow old?” Clark interrupts and Bruce’s eyes snap open completely, shocked. “I’m not going to let you get old, Bruce. That’s nonsense.”

Bruce is about to ask Clark how exactly he plans on keeping Bruce young when it hits. “The Lazarus Pits?” Bruce asks, horrified. Clark is licking at his neck and the alien hums in confirmation. “Clark, you can’t-”

“I can.” Clark lifts his head and looks at Bruce’s profile. “Of course, I can. You’re never leaving me.”

“But the pit messes with your head, Clark, I don’t want-”

“I don’t care what you want,” Clark snaps and squeezes Bruce’s cock painfully, pulling out and shoving back in roughly. The mixture of spit and blood has made the movements smoother, easier, but it still aches and throbs. “When I say you’re never leaving me, Bruce, that means you’re never leaving.”

Bruce’s heart sinks to his stomach, causing nausea. He shuts his eyes dejectedly, realizing that he won’t even have the escape of death to get him out of Hell. Bruce hangs his head, leaning against the wall. “What if I did it myself?”

“Did what?” Clark asks, beginning to stroke again.

“Killed myself,” Bruce answers.

Clark starts laughing. “You wouldn’t dare. I’d still put your body in the pit, bringing you back.” Another tear escapes from Bruce’s eyes and one of his hands curl into a fist. “Awe, don’t be like that, Bruce. We’ll be together, in love, for eternity. Isn’t that what you want?” Bruce doesn’t answer and Clark kisses his temple. “Of course, it is.”

The alien begins to really fuck him then, pulling back and pushing back in roughly, groaning and panting with pleasure. Bruce’s eyes have screwed shut again, a large lump lodging itself in his throat as he thinks about spending forever with this version of Clark, in this Hell. Does he not deserve death, to finally rest and be gone from this world? Has he done so much wrong in his life that this is his fate for now on?

The people of the world would be right. There is no more God. There’s only Lord Superman.

Bruce gasps as Clark’s cock hits his prostate, the first time Clark has probably done it on purpose. Clark’s hands are on his dick, stroking in time with those brutal thrusts, the head leaking precum profusely. Sweat is dripping down his body and when he tries to look behind himself, all he sees are red, glowing eyes staring back. Bruce’s heart stutters in fear, despite Clark saying he would never kill him. But it’s not the dying he is afraid of anymore. It’s watching Clark fall even more, seeing how far gone he really ends up.

Bruce is panting uncontrollably now, Clark’s cock hitting his prostate with every entry. He’s close, even with the pain of the whole thing, and he wants to cum but is too afraid that if he begs for it, Clark will leave him without finishing. The Kryptonian is in a cruel state of mind right now and Clark has done it before. Clark would do it now as well.

It’s not too long before Clark starts to stutter into the end, thrusts becoming awkward and uneven. Soon, Bruce is feeling a hot liquid being pumped into him and it’s enough to get himself off. Especially when Clark’s fingers are rubbing at the head of his cock, playing with the slit there. He’s cumming onto the wall with long, white spurts, body shaking uncontrollably and low moan escaping his throat. They stand there, sated physically, for a few seconds before Clark finally pulls out of him.

Bruce immediately drops to the floor, onto his knees. His hands are still splayed on the wall but his head is bowed between his arms. He feels Clark kneel down beside him and Bruce tries to hold off the tears for now.

“You’re mine, Bruce. Don’t ever forget that,” Clark tells him and stands.

Bruce looks up, vision blurring with unshed tears. “Clark?” Clark stops and turns around to face him. “Please, don’t leave me here.”

Clark crosses his arms. “And why shouldn’t I?”

Bruce tries to think of something, anything. His legs hurt and his ass is on fire, pin pricks crawling up his back. The sex was too rushed, too forced. Bruce’s stomach turns upside down at the thought of actually liking it, about how fucked up in the head Bruce really is. He’s just as insane as Clark. “I don’t think I can get back to my room on my own.”

Clark takes a step towards him. “And what? You don’t want to be seen out here, humiliated?”

“Please…” Bruce begs because he has no other choice. Clark will leave him here, all by himself, until Diana or J’onn find him. And he can’t let that happen because Diana and J’onn can never know about this. Clark has made it perfectly clear to him before that if anyone would find out about how they have sex, how rough it can get, Bruce would lose all respect from the rest of the Lords. That they would look down upon him, as if he were weak and never listen to another order that he gave again. Bruce can’t lose that. He can’t let them see him as below them. He can’t lose control of them. It’s the only thing he can control in his life. So Bruce isn’t above begging in this situation.

Clark is staring at him and Bruce prays internally that Clark isn’t feeling that cruel. Finally, the alien drops his arms and approaches Bruce, lifting him up by one arm. “Fine.”

Clark helps Bruce back to his room and during the journey, Bruce pretends it’s his Clark who is helping him. The Clark who had love for others. The Clark who cared and did everything in his power to save people. The Clark that Bruce would have wanted to spend eternity with.

Clark deposits his aching body onto Bruce’s bed and then walks away. The alien stops in the doorway, turning back to face Bruce. “I love you, Bruce.” There’s an edge of sincerity in the Kryptonian’s voice but it’s hidden behind the coldness of it, the threatening untone being heard clearly.

“I love you too, Clark.” Bruce stares the Devil in the eyes. “Forever.”

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#5

so i’m almost at the end of season 2 of the flash (spoilers ahead, kinda)

I’ve watched enough of these cw shows to know that at the end of every season someone dies. it was pretty easy to guess who was gonna die at the end of season one - eddie had martyr written all over him from day one. i was just like yeah, this guy’s gonna die, probably sacrificing himself trying to save other people. plus it was easier for the writers to kill him so iris and barry could get together, rather than have her break his heart.

anyway, here are my predictions for season 2 deaths:

i’m thinking either Earth-2 Wells or Barry’s dad. He currently has 3 father figures in his life and that’s too many. Why would they bring his dad back randomly, if not to kill him off? And after Barry finally came to terms with his mother’s death, it would be such a huge punch in the face. 

Then there’s Wells, he also has martyr written all over him. Always acting selfish and like it’s him and his daughter’s survival over everyone else, but in the end he always decides to do the right thing and make sacrifices to help the greater good. Plus him and Jesse just made up, making it all the more heartbreaking. 

I also considered Jesse or Wally. I think they’re too new to kill off though, we haven’t become fully emotionally attached to them yet, and CW show deaths rely on the viewers being extremely emotionally attached. Out of Jesse and her dad, I think she’s more likely to live. She already had a near death experience, plus she’s young and has more potential as a character. Wally definitely keeps getting himself into dangerous situations, but I also think his character has too much potential to kill off so soon. Plus it would be too cruel, even for the CW, to kill him off right after him and Joe found each other.

I know Barry and Cisco live because (besides Barry being the main character lol) I saw them in the Supergirl crossover. So unless they pull a fake death cliff hanger, it’s not Barry or Cisco. I’m pretty sure Iris was in the crossover as well? Maybe not but I’m pretty sure she lives. 

Genuinely can’t remember if Caitlin was in the crossover or not, but I don’t think it’s her either. I definitely seriously considered it, because of her connection with Jay, but it’s probably too soon to kill off one of the “core 5″ characters - barry, cisco, caitlin, joe and iris. Joe was on my list as well because he’s another father figure, but I think it’s too early in the show to kill him. 

Or maybe they’ll surprise me and kill off a minor character like Singh or Dr. McGee. Zoom/Jay is probably gonna die as well, but he’s the bad guy. I’m only counting good guy deaths here. 

Watch, I’m gonna come back here in a couple hours and be like “I was soooooo wrong!” lol

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finally watching you’ve got mail (1998) and found out where that gif of tom hanks on the computer is from

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just finished watching the ultimate playlist of noise, time to go listen to the districts for 2 hours straight and be angsty

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underrated moment in tv shows/movies/books: when two characters who never spend any time alone together somehow end up in a room alone and, after sitting in awkward silence for a moment, are both just like "yep" "okay then" and leave the room

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Oliver! (1968)

It would be wrong to read any of the reviews on this blog as unbiased. When biases are personal, reviewers should not be afraid to reveal their biases, so here are mine. Some months after Carol Reed’s Oliver! was released to North American theaters, my paternal grandfather – an honor guard unit in the South Vietnamese military – saw the film, presumably with Vietnamese subtitles or someone over-dubbing the audio. Upon fleeing to the United States and settling in Indiana after the Fall of Saigon on April 1975, my grandfather passed along his love of Oliver! to my father when the film aired on television. And, as you might guess, my dad passed along arguably his favorite movie musical to me at an early age. Oliver! is an early childhood favorite (being an easily scared kid, the movie somehow never creeped me out, and today I can sing the songs from heart), and almost certainly the first non-Disney musical I was ever exposed to. Based on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and the West End musical based on the book, how remarkable that Oliver’s story and Lionel Bart’s beautiful musical score found its way to South Vietnam amid a year of international political turmoil and the deadliest year for North and South Vietnamese and American forces.

I avoid writing on Academy Awards history in these reviews, too, so this paragraph will be an aberration. Films that win Best Picture are, in a way, burdened with the title. They are subject to greater outrage and scrutinized more closely than other nominees and non-nominees are. Oliver!, by virtue of being released the same year as 2001: A Space Odyssey (and also by being more popular in Britain than in America), has suffered with this burden. In an Internet culture that discourages nuance while talking about Oscar history and rewards proclamations for how much smarter one is than the Academy for recognizing one movie over another, this subsequent statement might be unpopular. I think 2001 is the better film and deserves its masterpiece status, but I think Oliver! is fantastic and, if given the choice to watch one or the other, give me Oliver! every single time. For those behind and in front of the camera during Oliver!, they should be nothing but proud of what they brought to this movie.

We first meet Oliver Twist (Mark Lester; singing dubbed by Kathe Green) at a workhouse outside London alongside his fellow orphan boys. They are served gruel every day – much to their disdain. As a stunt and for drawing the longest straw, Oliver will go up to the overseer Mr. Bumble (Harry Secombe) and utter those immortal lines: “Please sir, I want some more” (”WHAT?!”). The workhouse’s board of directors quickly decide that Oliver should be sold off. Bumble will sell Oliver to an undertaker, but the young boy will escape and make his way to London. Minutes after arriving, Oliver encounters another young boy named the Artful Dodger (Jack Wild), who makes Oliver feel welcome and promises him a place to stay for the night. Dodger leads Oliver to a near-abandoned corner of London – abandoned with the exception of a cadre of young boys working for the aging Fagin (Ron Moody) as pickpockets. Even for those unfamiliar with this narrative, I think you can see where this is going. Also critical to the plot are the violent, abusive criminal Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed); Nancy (Shani Wallis, Nancy is Bill’s lover); and a gentleman named Mr. Brownlow (Joseph O’Connor). Hugh Griffith cameos as a magistrate.

Charles Dickens, being the writer that he was, might be horrified by how Lionel Bart adapted his novel for the West End. The original novel – touching upon class disparities, skewering characters profiting from child labor, and even attracting justified accusations of anti-Semitism in its depiction of Fagin – is necessarily simplified here, offering comedic angles where there previously were none. Bart, who wrote the music and lyrics for Oliver!, made Fagin more sympathetic (Bart was Jewish) and shifted his focus from early nineteenth century British class tensions (which remains in the film adaptation as well, but is deemphasized due to its specificity) to themes of belonging and the importance of families – surrogate and otherwise. Other musical adaptations have done a better job retaining their source material’s darker themes, but given that Oliver’s arc from overworked and underfed child slave to a misguided “criminal” to a fully loved and welcomed member of a family remains, not all is lost.

There is no one character that ever dangles far from actual belonging, but their relationships to those who they feel they belong with vary. Oliver is physically and spiritually itinerant in the opening minutes, searching for someone or someplace willing to respect and nourish him. He believes he has found it with Fagin’s gang – it would be wrong to deny whatever positive feelings he keeps with his time with Fagin and his young pickpockets – but will realize the violence, personified by Bill Sikes, lurking underneath the surface. The most complicated case is Nancy, who clearly loves Bill even if his behavior is finally beginning to break her. Decades before the ideas of toxic relationships and hamstrung by Dickens’ near-predestined treatment of his characters, Nancy is a woman who has outgrown from her love with Bill, but that same love renders her unable to see life without him. She is a tragic character that never understands the agency she might have until the very end (in which she is punished for it, but the punisher pays dearly) – Oliver! may be no feminist triumph, but it clearly respects Nancy as a character and her dreams even if she never breaks from the poisonous masculinity impacting her life.

When adapting stage musicals for Hollywood productions, the norm is to cut a handful of songs; in rare instances, like West Side Story (1961) and My Fair Lady (1964), none of the songs are cut even if a few lyrics are rearranged. Carol Reed cut three songs for his adaptation of Oliver! – a decision which strengthens and streamlines the movie – including the Bumbles’ “I Shall Scream!”, “That’s Your Funeral” (sung by the Sowerberrys, the undertaker family, to intimidate Mr. Bumble and Oliver), and “My Name” (sung by Bill as a sort of introductory song). All of these cuts are made in service of decisions where the ideas in each of these songs might better be represented visually. Cutting “I Shall Scream!” is Reed’s decision to maintain the focus on Oliver in the early minutes and downplaying the Bumbles’ role in the film. The points in “That’s Your Funeral” and “My Name” are made obvious enough by the actors – Mark Lester, who looks fearful throughout the movie, captures Oliver’s fear of the Sowerberrys and the movie already hammers home the idea that everyone is terrified of Bill Sikes.

The strength of Lionel Bart’s musical score to Oliver! endures. The singing is excellent, and thankfully it is only Mark Lester who has to have his singing voice dubbed (for the record, I largely do not consider dubbing singing voices as a sin for movie musicals – maybe I am lenient to a fault) “Food, Glorious Food” (sung by the Temple Choir of London under the direction of Sir George Thalben-Ball; they also sang “Consider Yourself”) barely needs an introduction, even for those tangentially aware of this musical’s existence. No political diatribes needed, just desperate, bony boys fantasizing about food that is not gruel. As Bumble, Harry Secombe – an established tenor – can belt out “Boy for Sale” and display his masterful pipes. It takes a little bit to find a character-building song in “Where Is Love?”, but the song is a success in its simplicity and heartrending lyrics.

After Oliver escapes the Sowerberrys and finds himself in London, Bart’s songs are empowered: Onna White’s choreography. Making use of space that could not be possible on a theater stage, White gifts the film with choreography respective to the workers (the meatpackers move in ways that make sense given their job, as do the high-strung policemen) seen in “Consider Yourself” – the dance direction is never tedious, and there is so much interest packed into the screen on this busy London day while keeping some sense of distance and geometric sense (there is no rapid cutting or close-up cinematography to disorient the viewer from location). And if that was not enough, “Who Will Buy?” is a valedictory, post-intermission triumph as morning vendors gradually populate the streets just outside of Mr. Brownlow’s home. Fans of Pete’s Dragon (1977) will recognize White’s choreographic style in the two excellent pub songs led by Shani Wallis as Nancy: “It’s a Fine Life” (which serves to introduce the audience to Nancy and develop the character and her relationship with Bill Sikes) and “Oom-Pah Pah” (another celebratory song, but it doubles as having a function for the resolving scenes). White contributes to the scope of Bart’s score, lending an intrigue not as apparent in the stage musical.

Not as ambitious or essential to characterization or plot progression but closest to my heart is “I’d Do Anything” – a more modest song still benefiting from White’s dance direction. Like so many songs in Oliver!, it is pure unadulterated joy to watch and listen to. There may be minimal clever wordplay, but the score wears its emotions on the sleeve and expresses them honestly, and is beautifully orchestrated and arranged.

For the performers, Mark Lester is slightly disappointing as Oliver – a bit of a blank slate, but Dickens did not care to enrich his eponymous protagonist with much character either. Beyond that, Harry Secombe is great for the short time Mr. Bumble is in the film and Oliver Reed (Carol Reed’s nephew) is a physical menace as Bill Sikes. The young Jack Wild has the perfect surname and is a natural as the rapscallion Dodger – a character more mature than the adults probably give him credit for. But the two best performances belong to Shani Wallis and Ron Moody. Wallis, as Nancy, is luminous despite having to put up with the indiscretions of the men surrounding her. Wallis embodies Nancy totally: she shows us how Nancy clearly cares for the young pickpockets in Fagin’s gang and, seeing Oliver’s gentleness, wants only the healthiest and happiest possible life for our title character. I am just surprised Wallis did not become a bigger star following the film’s release. Opposite her, Ron Moody is a riot as Fagin. The fourth choice behind Peter O’Toole (too expensive), Peter Sellers (who declined the part after a late stage in negotiations), and Dick Van Dyke, Moody (regarded in Britain; unknown in the United States) is a shining example how those who originate stage musical parts – usually not the first choice among movie studio executives – excel when given the damn part. Moody’s comedic timing is incredible, and his ability to make a villainous character so sympathetic without being a punchline is something I am not sure O’Toole or Sellers could have accomplished.

Also of note behind the camera: Oswald Morris’ fluid cinematography and Ralph Kemplen’s editing are most noticeable during the musical segments and keep the narrative flow at a brisk pace that emphasizes the scope when needed to and cuts down on the excessive pomp. The production design by art director John Box and set decorator Terence Marsh and the costume design by Phyllis Dalton places us in the mid-nineteenth century – going beyond a movie soundstage (okay, aside from the fact the production is quite large and never emphasizes confined spaces) and inundating the seedier parts of London with detail. For Oliver!, the film uses a greater proportion of open-air sets than the average stage-to-screen musical adaptation, and the film feels more lived-in as a result.

The producers at Romulus Films and the distributing executives at Columbia lavished their expenses on Oliver!. They permitted a long six months of rehearsal before any film shoots began. That is more than double, sometimes triple, the preparation time needed for a new production of a stage play or musical – resulting in a movie adaptation of Oliver! that exceeds the limitations of the source material and confines of a theater.

1960s movie musicals represented the last remnants of a Studio System Hollywood – where the immense theatricality in such wholesome (Oliver! is not without some darkness) musicals matched their scope. Oliver! arrived after the end of the Studio System, but was created by individuals who had long operated in that environment. It is a tremendous film, regardless of the adapted material. For children, the film can serve as an introduction to Dickensian England and the injustices and indignities the most societally vulnerable faced in those times. Oliver, having lived in the workhouse all of his life, has never understood love before fleeing to London. He finds fragments of love with Dodger and Fagin, and pieces them together with the help of Nancy and Mr. Brownlow. The first acts of kindness are overdue, but it is to the film’s credit that Oliver is a gracious recipient.

My rating: 9/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.

This is the eleventh Movie Odyssey Retrospective. Movie Odyssey Retrospectives are write-ups on films I had seen in their entirety before this blog’s creation or films I failed to give a full-length write-up to following the blog’s creation. Previous Retrospectives include Dracula (1931), Dumbo (1941), and 12 Angry Men (1957).

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• You cannot make a wiki claiming someone else’s character or any existing design (including the designs of cartoon, story characters etc). Inspirations are acceptable.

• You must credit someone’s art if you are using it in a post, chat, or wiki. (Proper credit: It must have the name of the artist and a link to any of their social media or the art piece on said social media).

• If you trace or heavily reference something, that’s also art theft and will get you the same punishment.

OFF TOPIC CONTENT

•This amino is made for bringing you Cuphead content only. If you really are wanting to post about BATIM, Undertale, FNAF, Baldi’s Basics, etc, take these to the appropriate communities. This is why seperate aminos were created anyway.

• Any content is allowed as long as it follows our rules and stays on the topic of Cuphead.

• Topics that are political or may cause a huge outbreak of arguments is not allowed.

• It is allowed,if the art is a crossover and has characters from other fandoms in it. But, it must stay on topic to Cuphead.

• Animation memes are allowed,as long as they follow the rules and is on the topic of Cuphead.

• Contest, raffles, etc must be related to Cuphead.

• Chats must relate to Cuphead in some way.

• Stories must be on topic as well.

Have fun my Casino members! Enjoy your stay and don’t be shy to say Hi!