#as in ‘my way or the highway’

[britcision]

Ah, WIP Wednesday, all the energy I was missing for this fic has come back with a bang

Just little snacks for y’all today though, just in case it doesn’t carry through. And if it does, well, you’ll get the next chapter all the sooner! 😁

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I’ll Take The Highway

Time was almost slipping away too quickly in the milkshake bar, and Danny wished he didn’t have to keep an eye on it.

(Well. Seriously hoped. Even in the privacy of his head, he couldn’t make it a wish.)

He had to get Tucker back to MIT though, and back to Gotham in a reasonable time frame to get to bed before class tomorrow.

If he got to bed before midnight, there might be a chance for he and Jason to run to the Far Frozen in the morning. Or after, Danny’s classes didn’t run late. Or…

He was missing out on the fun today, trying to plan tomorrow. Much as Jazz would love him being more organised, he pushed it to the back of his mind.

They’d visit Frostbite soon. And find out how Jason’s core was, though Danny was beginning to think he knew. Here, when Jason was happy and relaxed? Not tensed, shut down, or angry?

Danny could definitely feel something he hadn’t before. Not exactly the same as another ghost, or any of the other halfas, not yet.

But it was almost like Box Lunch’s fresh core seen through a house of mirrors.

Maybe that was what had him so close to the edge today? It was taking some pretty serious effort not to react to even the mention of an old threat to Jason.

Jason, the sweet baby ghost.

And if his smile was a little sappy at that thought, well, that was no one’s business but his own. At least he had something to sit on for when his rogues started embarrassing baby stories.

Finally he couldn’t put it off anymore. Too much to do, friends to fly across country, and he still hadn’t found a good way to ask. He just… well.

He’d given Jason all the server info, the stuff about who his rogues were, how he beat them, the things they’d learned about the Infinite Realms. They’d even shared some stories around different bits.

That didn’t exactly explain what he wanted to ask Waylon about. And it really wasn’t something he was comfortable sharing just yet, even if he already knew it was dumb.

Jason was a good guy. Who hung out with Batman, who was apparently an asshole. He wouldn’t judge Danny for having some dark and fucked up stories in all the zany ones.

Fuck, maybe Waylon could tell him how Jason would react. It was gonna come up, it’d have to, and Danny really would feel better having someone else’s opinion.

He was reluctant to interrupt their good time, another story devolving into laughter, but it was getting into the afternoon and… well, he also had no idea how long this would take.

“Hey, uh, by the way. I’ve gotta head out in a bit, dropping Tuck back off in Massachusetts, I just wanted to talk to Waylon for a minute first? In private?” Because if Danny had learned one thing?

Direct worked best.

It worked now, Harley nodding along and hopping up, cartwheeling her way along the table and out of the booth.

“Say no more, Danno! C’mon, Jayjay, I wanted ta catch up with you on somethin’ too, so this works perfectly!” She declared cheerfully, giving Jason a fond tug to his fluffy white streak of hair.

Jason shot Danny a look that was half commiserating, half curious as he slid out of the both after her, but Danny was too busy staring into an imagined hellscape where Harley met Jack Fenton.

Fuck Dan, the world couldn’t handle that.

By the time he came back to himself, he and Waylon were alone in the booth, the big man watching him curiously.

“So, what’s on yer mind, kid?” He asked in a low voice, folding his arms on the edge of the table and leaning in.

Secret villain hideaway or not, this wasn’t something Danny wanted just anyone overhearing, so he beckoned Waylon closer to his end of the booth first, tucked into the wall.

The big guy slid his way surprisingly delicately down the seat, then leaned in again, watching Danny expectantly.

Which was when Danny realised he shoulda probably thought about a good way to put this.

Blunt it was gonna have to be.

“So… you… Harley said people called you Killer Croc before you ever hurt anyone?” He said in a rush, flinching at how bad it actually sounded said aloud.

Waylon… did not have eyebrows to raise, and it was really fucking weird that he was noticing that now, but it was definitely what he’d been doing, and Danny was distracting himself again.

“They did,” Waylon agreed a moment later, his voice low and even. Guard up, but not defensive. Not closing the topic off.

Danny huffed out a sigh, and found he couldn’t quite meet the man’s eyes. Found himself intently examining the diamond pattern on the formica tables. His own hands, twisting in front of him over that pattern.

“You… you became what they said you were. A monster.” The words caught in his throat, hard to spit out and shit he thought he was past this.

It had been years.

A scaled green hand covered his, and Danny found himself surprised by how smooth the scales were. Far from soft, but not rough. Almost smoother than the table.

“Who called you a monster, kid?” Waylon asked softly, his voice gruff with something too close to understanding.

Danny’s head snapped up and he shook it quickly, sucking in a deep breath.

“Oh, no one. Not for like, a really long time now. And they said sorry and everything, it’s not that. It’s… you gave into it. Let them make you something wrong and dangerous, and you stopped. How did you stop?” He asked quietly, finally finding it easier to look at Waylon’s face.

He looked surprised.

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#dp x dc #danny fenton dead and loving it #wip wednesday #tentative title: i’ll take the highway #as in ‘my way or the highway’ #bruce’s way obviously #danny time friendos

[supersapphical]

perhaps my most esoteric but very, very passionate spn take is that i truly believe if you haven't watched season 1 supernatural with the original music cues, you have not seen season 1 supernatural.

#i actually try not to think about it too much because it fills me with an unreasonable amount of rage #like so many people are out here just experiencing season 1 WRONG #no highway to hell at the end of the pilot??? #no fear the reaper WHILE the reaper is attacking someone??? #no sugar we're going down playing in the background while high school girls chitchat in bloody mary??? #no in-a-gadda-da-vida at the opening of skin??? #NO bad company NO boston NO bob seger #no carry on my wayward son which in the original run was first used in salvation #no can't find my way home in route 666 #AND THE BIGGEST CRIME OF ALL NO BAD MOON RISING AT THE END OF THE SEASON FINALE

[madamemiz]

You are an idiot who just, in the eyes of the law, stole a multi-million dollar piece of AI animatronic tech from a highly controversial company.

Now a fugitive, you weigh your options, and with few choices available you decide going on the run is your best bet.

Time for a road trip.

scenes and concepts for something i'm working on ;)

thanks to my very smart and funny wife @asheep-asleep for the wizard rv idea bc that's so much better than anything i would have come up with

#this is for something that is very much a wip #but it is in progress #the inside of the rv is based on a camper my folks had that i spent a lot of time in growing up #the bathroom is truly a crime against sanitation it is nigh on unusable #the dca does NOT fit. they found out the hard way #fnaf sb #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #also yes the wizmobile IS tacky and highly visible but look #it's funny #this plot is 100% a framing device that's a thinly veiled excuse to put sun and moon in a variety of scenes and situations #my art #ventura highway

[oifaaa]

On the topic of fanfiction I'm convinced a concerning amount of people genuinely do not know how to play fuck marry kill and for some reason this is a genuine rule breaker for me when reading a fanfic with a fuck marry kill premise

#fanfiction #nobody is allowed to say there is multiple ways to play or im the one playing it the wrong way #shhhhhhhhhhhh #ive decided that its my way or the highway bub #im willing to die on this hill

[lvlcurrent]

So I have been scrolling through ur yummy posts lately & I have noticed that there's like some sort of conflict between MC & Barbatos. What in the world did MC do to Barb or just what happened 😭

i feel like he just. does not like them 😅 hc that aside from teas and stuff he just finds humans/human culture gross LOL

heres some barbie hatred ive drawn over time =w=)

#my way or the highway personality #* #ask. #anonymous

[oodlesodoodles]

#Disco elysium #Cunoesse #In this house we are nice to cunoesse #My way or the highway #C would love nausicaa i know thisnin my heart

[nostalgicfun]

This is probably Too Niche, but to the vivid dreamers out there: do you ever get nostalgic for a place from your dreams that isn't real? I have recurring locations in my dreams that just. don't exist. And I find myself thinking about them or having "memories" about them even though they don't exist and never have. But they're real in my heart even though I'll never go there.

(tell me about these places in the tags, I'm so curious)

#the house along the highway with all the junk around it that I walk up to but never get to go in #the lake with the houses around it where I walk out onto the little fishing pier and watch the swans every time #the alternate version of the trails at my mom's house where a stream green with algae runs along the railroad tracks #the big mall where most of the lights are off and many of the stores haven't been restock in a long time and there's a creepy thrift store #and I know malls (esp abandoned malls) are common in dreams but this is the same one every time and I'm aware of that in the dream #a yellow victorian house with lots of trees and a fence out front. there's a park nearby. I've always been older in this dream #and it's always MY house. and I'm always so surprised I live there in a self-aware kind of way. I long for that house so bad.

[annabelle--cane]

oh stede. a man who's been so thoroughly starved of self-confidence for his whole life that every time he gets a morsel of it he blacks out and enters a fugue state of hubristic bravado and commits interpersonal atrocities.

#king has no happy medium between 'I destroy everything I touch' and 'my way or the highway babey!!!!!' #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #marina marvels at life

[wikiangela]

fuck it friday

tagged by @hippolotamus @fortheloveofbuddie 💖

so I started a new wip lol 🙈 I really need to work on all the other ones but I'll get to everything haha so i'm not sure if any of this makes sense for buck tbh but idgaf, this is just me projecting my own thoughts and feelings™️ and making it about him processing his death lol 💁 it is gonna be pre-slash buddie tho bc obviously I have to 😂

ngl i kinda don't wanna share any of it but also i wanna share all of it bc i'm kinda loving how it's turning out haha so fuck it, here are two short snippets haha

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Ever since he died, Buck has been feeling… off. Numb. Sad. Exhausted. He’s not even sure how to explain it, how to voice it, so he doesn’t. When people ask how he is, he says he’s fine. And he is, he swears he is. He’s okay, he’s alive, he has his amazing friends and family, a job he loves, everything is fine. But… but. He’s not sure what the hell is wrong, but a part of him is not fine. Hasn’t been fine since the lightning strike.

(...)

He doesn’t want to go home. He just wants to keep driving, wherever the road takes him. Driving is good, he likes driving, letting his thoughts wander, listening to music, having control of something. He thinks that’s it, that’s why. Driving is one of the few times he feels fully in control, his feet controlling the speed, hands holding the steering wheel and dictating the direction. Whether he makes it to work or gives into the thoughts that tell him to not turn the wheel and let his car crash into a tree or a building, or another car – it’s all up to him. He doesn’t- he won’t crash his car on purpose, but sometimes he wonders… maybe at least that’ll make him feel something. Make him hurt, make him scared, anything. Make him die, this time permanently- he doesn’t want that. He doesn’t, he swears he doesn’t. He just wonders sometimes, that’s all.

He doesn’t wanna go home, so he decides to keep driving. Just a few more minutes, to clear his head.

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#fuck it friday #someone take angst away from me - a few months ago I was all about fluffy fluff wtf happened lol #btw this is gonna be lots of buck driving and thinking lol #bc every day on my way to and from work im like: what if i didnt take that exit on the highway and just kept driving and driving and drivin #so yeah lol #im fine tho #buddie wip #buddie fic #buddie #wikiangela writes #my writing #fic snippet #my wips #buck driving fic #<- i guess for now this is the tag lol

[th3d0nutl0rd]

Renegade Nell is like if BBC Merlin, POTC and Horrible Histories season 3 episode 1 had a threesome and a really weird baby was produced as a result.

#my anecdotes have always been horrible #but this one truly takes the cake #bad explanation #but really the only way i can describe it #my next post will be a venn diagram #renegade nell #potc #horrible histories #highway man #nell jackson #morgan le fay #sofia wilmot #bbc merlin #merlin bbc

[narwhalsarefalling]

i got a seizure from watching Avatar 2 and now I can’t drive for six months

#the narwhal speaks #the law in tx is that if u have a seizure and usually dont get them u gotta wait six months before driving again #which is fine and dandy except i live in a country where public transport takes 8 hours to travel 2 miles #(it was a fullbody seizure too not one located just in my legs like my normal ones) #avatar the way of water #urgj now my parenrs are gonna habe to drive me to school despite me being 22 years young #IM NOT GONNA HAVE A SEIZURE ON THE HIGHWAY @ TX DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION #UNLESS SOME FUCKER INSTALLS STROBE HEADLIGJTS #anyway this is what i get for watching avatar anyway lol #ok to rb btw! but you are legally obligated to make fun of me

[chelsiegeorgia]

Speed Highway is probably my favorite Sonic level  

without the text

#sonic the hedgehog #Sonic Adventure #sonic #speed highway #art #fanart #digital art #nothing but pure joy when i play this level #both the original and the generations version #peak sonic level #sa1 #i put so much effort into this T-T #race through speed highway get stuck in my head way too often #banger

[grahamdollton]

just wanted to say i'm real fond of the way james says this particular thing in this one part of that audiobook that he recorded . . . . .

#“fffucking altar boy” #someone get this man a clerical collar #i was going to say something in the tags but y'all don't need to hear my thoughts on this. just take the mp3 i need to be freed of it #it's 5 in the morning i haven't slept i'm having blasphemy for breakfast (dinner) #audio #the way he drags out the end of the word boy and his voice gets a little gravelly....... shut up shut up shut up #i'm over here clutching my crucifix rn #james spader #strange highways

[gretahayes]

batman fans are really annoying and almost definitely the most annoying dc fans (and i say this as a batman fan.) but green lantern fans are a close second because holy shit man

#my rambles #the biggest victim complexes ever...and definitely some of it is deserved the gls have had a rough go of it but like. #especially since there's like ten or more earth gls (not to mention non-earth gls. or other corps) for people to like and still be gl fans #there's like. zero coherence between the groups. its all my-way-or-the-highway. its all my-guy-and-his-story-is-the-best #ITS SO TIRING. im tired. at least some batman fans are self aware but most annoying gl fans are not #BREAKING MY SILENCE. i love my gl fan friends/mutuals but the vast majority...

[thelaurenshippen]

the way that silver said "I will stand here with you an hour, a day, a year" to flint and "I will wait a day, a month, a year, forever" to madi....I'm sick to my stomach. who is doing unhinged devotion like this man

#I have no doubt this exact post was made ten years ago or whenever the finale aired #but I'M NEW HERE #black sails #black sails spoilers #lauren feels things #the way that silver is just like...'oh there's a strong willed person who wants to change the entire world with their strong will?' #guess they're my life now! #the way that flint and madi are sooooooo similar #except that silver diagnoses flint perfectly! he mostly just wants to burn the world! #whereas madi actually has true strength of conviction and ideals #and silver #who has been living with james 'my way or the highway but also if you outsmart me I might grudgingly respect you #but my whims are going to be IMPOSSIBLE to understand or track' flint #sees madi and is like 'yeah she'll be mad for a little while but we'll move past it' #and maybe they do! but he soooo miscalculates I love it #also the way that he looks at madi when she is looking at flint after they're all safe #is........so insane #loves her knows she loves him #is obsessed with flint #and yet the fact that madi respects and trusts flint #and that they share so much naturally in their thinking that silver has hard won #drives him craazyyyyyy #ANYWAY I'M UNWELL CAN YOU TELL

[honeyblockm]

LONGING BECOMES ITS OWN OBJECT

A c!Karlnapity webweave in three parts

In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar-wai // Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) - Kuang-Hui Liu // The Death of Antinous - Mark Doty // Happy Together (1997) - Wong Kar-wai // A brief-but-seemingly-long-moment when we are on the phone. It is snowing outside. I am staring at the snow. Idk what you are looking at but we are running out of things to talk about. - Sean Cho A. // [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)] - e.e. cummings // chasing ghosts - @routeriver // all i need - @violentcherries // Jenny Holzer // discord message

Ash Ode - Dean Young // A BAS BRUIT - Leo D’Oriano // SAND GLASS MIRROR SHARDS - @saintashes // In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar-wai // Jenny Holzer // Nguyen Linh // Luana Azevedo // Zoriana Stakhniv // Wolfgang Tillmans // After the Threesome, They Both Drive You Home - Sue Hyon Bae // Swan-like Embrace, Paris, 2001 - Nan Goldin // PRELUDE: ON CONTAINING MULTITUDES. - @saintashes // Medici Bustier Pearl - Mirror Palais

In all of my dreams, the words I love you - Hanif Abdurraqib // Seaside Death, 2021 - Al Mefer // Jenny Holzer // baroque pearls (1) // baroque pearls (2) // storm front - lorata // 7 Politically Correct Catcalls as Told by a Poet - Natalie Choi // Happy Together (1997) - Wong Kar-wai // SO LIGHT YOU WERE I WOULD HAVE CARRIED YOU - Deborah Digges // Hanif Abdurraqib, poet - Hanif Abdurraqib // SAND GLASS MIRROR SHARDS - @saintashes // @ousia-poetica

#this is simultaneously three webweaves and also one big one. chapters. if you will #and that's bc i kept having stuff left over that i rlly wanted to use #yens #web weaving #my art #i once again do not have a tag 4 webweaves. hm. #quackity #c!quackity #c!karlnapity #c!sapnap #c!karl #idk. man i havent maintagged properly in a while #i mean. this is. technically q centric but theres elements of everyone #and i couldnt squeeze in twin human highway flares. oh well. maybe for a honq one someday #wong kar wai has me in a fucking chokehold man