#as steph says she's such a little punk

[dianessunflower]

Michelle Yeoh outtakes from her People Magazine cover

#michelle yeoh #everything everywhere all at once #eeaao #people magazine #photoshoot #she's sunshine in human form #she's a human emoji fr #mimimoji #she's literally the goofiest #as steph says she's such a little punk #i love her so damn much

[rboooks]

Child Support Part 2

Tim watched the other young heroes as they tried to look around the watch tower without seeming like they were. He's been here plenty of times, but the rest of the Teen Titans and a few of the Young Justice hasn't.

Much was due to the older heroes leaving the younger ones alone. Some not taking them seriously enough to welcome them at the big HQ as much as that made his blood boil.

They were taking the same risks. They were fighting the same good fights. Why was their age the main reason they weren't treated equally?

Some teenage heroes weren't part of a team per see, but they always answered when a call was sent. For example, Cass and Steph were present, speaking softly to Static Shock. Damian was standing next to Jon and his little friend Colin who was just getting into the swing of the hero business.

Bruce almost bit through his tongue when Damian told him Abuse would be joining Robin on parol, and he could do nothing to stop them. (Tim felt like he was watching Damian tell Bruce a paraphrased version of "But Daddy, I love him!" and it kept him smiling for weeks)

It was wild to see almost every young hero in one place. He doesn't think this happened since the last time Justice Leauge got mind controlled and almost destroyed the whole world.

"Any idea why we're here?" Kon asks to his right, lowering his shade to stare at the Outlaws. Jason's team stood to the side chatting iddly while cleaning over thier weapons.

Kon's always like their punk point of view, and he knows his best friend wants to go over there to talk to them. If it wasn't for the issue of the clone still being mad about what Jason did at the Teen Titans tower. Almost murder was hard to forgive for people outside the Bats.

"None. All I know is that John Constantine sent out a message to every teenage superhero group calling for a meet-up," Tim responds.

Bart whistles with a grimace on his right. "Must be bad if that guy is asking."

"I heard Hawkwoman tell Superman that she was worried and wasn't sure she wanted anyone of us mixed up in Constantine's mistakes." Cassie chimes in from where she leans on the couch. The three turn to her as she lowers her voice, attempting to keep the others from hearing. "Batman told her off for it."

"Batman did?" Tim asks, surprised.

Cassie shrugs, throwing a bit of her blond hair over her shoulder. "As much Batman can emote anyway."

Yeah, that sounded about right. Though it must have been something Bruce found disrespectful. His dad usually never reprimanded strangers unless they were saying something or doing something that sounded far too much like bigotry to him.

But to apply that to Constantine? Someone, Bruce generally disliked communicating with because the man tended to backstab his contacts? Yes, Constantine wasn't evil, but he wasn't pleasant either.

If Bruce had magical issues, he tended to contact Zatanna first.

Just then, the watch tower's zeta beams activate. Everyone who gathered turns to the teleporting pads where Constantine appears looking, for lack of a better word, absolutely exhausted. Even Tim knows that his eye bags aren't that bad, and he's usually going hours without sleep.

"Oh good, you all made it," Constantine says, sipping from a mug and wearing nothing but sweatpants and what looks like a nightgown. His signature trench coat was nowhere in sight. "I'm going to be quick about this. I need a team of young heroes willing to accept my son into their fold."

The room is dead silent. Constantine sighs. "Look, I've tried everything, but it's like Danny is allergic to laying low. He fought with a demon the other day over a child's doll- which you all know happens. People get haunted! But Danny refused to do it the right way, and now I had to beat off the demon's marriage proposal at least ten times. Not to mention his lack of social skills! No matter which one I stick him in, he can't seem to make friends in school. He got shoved into a locker on his first day! I thought that was an American exaggeration of the telly!"

Constantine pauses and takes a large gulp of whatever he's drinking before continuing his rant. A hand runs through his already messy hair, leaving it in bigger disarray as he speaks. "He's behind in terms of trends and technology cause his other father raised him outside of the typical timelines, so sometimes it's like talking to someone from the early two thousand, and other times it's like he's a modern Victorian era lad. His powers are also all over the place because the ectoplasm in our world is thicker, so when he breathes it in, he losses his control. Just the other day he accidentally made himself fly through our ceiling and almost reach the atmosphere before I was able to bring him back down."

A few of the fliers in the room wince. Jon nods and whispers under his breath, though his voice carries in the silence. "Yeah, been there before. Flying can be scary if you don't know how to come down."

Johns glances around at all the young people, eyes showing a tad bit of desperation. "He's sad all the time now, and I don't know how to help. If working with you could help him make friends, I would be grateful. He's a great kid. He just needs to adjust."

Tim had no idea what to do with this information; how do you respond to arguably one of the strongest Justice League Darks' heroes asking for a play date for his son?

"How old is the child?" Damian's voice rings out. Colin's hand is attached to his sleeve, a slightly nervous smile on the boy's face as he attempts to hide from the staring heroes behind his brother. Tim bets that if he wasn't wearing the domino mask, they would be able to see slight tears in Colin's eyes.

Damian's other hand goes across his body to cover Colin's hand, and Tim fights a shit-eating grin. His eyes lock with Jason, and the two send each other knowing grins. Looks like Bruce did have to worry about Damian having a secret boyfriend.

He can't wait to tease Damian later.

"He's fourteen....or well, physically?" Constantine answers eagerly.

"What does that mean?" Kon asks this time.

"Okay, so he's half human, half ecto-being. He sired him with his other father, Clockwork, which was only four years ago in this dimension, but since he was raised in the Infinite Relemas, times move differently there? " The British man says, and Raven goes rigid.

"Clockwork, as in the most powerful Ancient?" She asks, looking horror-struck when Constantine nods.

Before anyone asked what that meant, the zeta tubes activated again without permission. Someone had hacked into their systems which were ten levels bad. Everyone naturally fell into a fighting stance, only to blink when a teenage boy stepped out with a loud excited screech.

"We're in space!" The teenager runs to one of the windows, pressing his hands and face up against the glass. "This is amazing!"

Tim only relaxes his muscles once Constantine clears his throat. "Chum...what are you doing here?"

"Oh. One of your curse rocks things started proposing to me again, so I ran out of the House of Mysteries. Thought I see what you were up to." The teenager says, turning around with a smile and utterly freezing at the sight of the gathered heroes.

He had dark hair, wide blue eyes, and the most adorable face Tim had ever seen. Not as sexy as Bernard, of course, but darn close. Judging by the looks of anyone attractive to males, most heroes thought the same.

"Um...hi?" He says, offering the Godsmack teenagers a helpless little shrug. "I'm Danny Constantine."

"It is a pleasure, Constantine." Damian marches over to him with all his little twelve-year-old authority. He barely reaches Danny's chest. "I shall look forward to working with you. Are you formally trained in combat or strictly magic?"

"Um...oh, I can throw a punch or two? I'm mostly self taught. I rely on my powers a lot?" Danny fumbles to answer throwing a desperate look at his presumed father.

"No matter. I shall have you begin training. My Beloved also needs to work on his form. There is no shame in this" Damian nods, and Constantine lets out a large sigh of relief. He jogs over to place a hand on his son's shoulder, giving him a one-sided hug

"Yes, Danny, you will join Robin, Superboy, and Abuse on missions. They agree to help you settle and get used to your ghost powers." Constantine smiles. "I'll give me time to discourage all those idiots from trying to trick you into marriage."

"Oh...okay. It's nice to meet you all. Please call me Phantom on the field. Um, are you the team leader?" He asks Damian as the three youngest boys lead him further into the watch tower.

Constantine watches them go with the brightest smile he's ever seen on the man's face. He looks back to the group, who were barely starting to pick their jaws off the floor and makes a shooing motion with his hand. "You lot are dismissed."

Then the man vanishes in a green portal.

There is a ringing silence until Barts blurts out. "I'm pretty sure this is where the Phantom Fan Club first formed. A historical moment."

Tim wants to take a nap.

( Part 1 )

#dcxdp crossover #dc x dp crossover #Child Support #Part 2 #John is trying his best #He's fighting off suitors from his son #Despite being very pretty Danny has a hard time making friends #He's the oldest in Damian's new team #I found the ship Damian/Colin the other day and I love it

[ijustthinkhesneat]

Respectfully speaking Dick Grayson is dragging a wagon.

Cut his head off because he is letting them eat cake.

I am tired of pretending that Dick being a 10 with a fatty has nothing to do with his appeal. If he had an up and down pole body y’all would not be simping so hard.

It’s like Jason Todd killing people because of his daddy issues. We love him because we all to some extent have those daddy issues. But we also love him because that man has the biggest tits in Gotham and thunder thighs that could pop melons and skulls alike.

Also put some respect on Duke and Steph’s names. They deserve some love from the untouched masses. A blonde baddie who works in retail and has a villain for a father statistically must be drowning in DMs that radiate a sticky aura.

Dukes parents basically got the Longbottom special and are crazy now. And guess what? Neville glowed up the hardest out of like the whole cast of the Harry Potter movies. Duke is serving Neville Longbottom, over looked and under appreciated but still carrying. He also essentially started a gang/cult and everyone knows only hot people can found a social movement.

Now Tim Drake has what I as a neurodivergent cockroach have dubbed; Autistic Rizz. Like yes he is intelligent and in good shape but the fundamentals of this man are lacking. He does not sleep, which is the same for all the above, he is mentally about an inch away from sending people anthrax in the mail and he likely dresses like a punk skater who got into flash dance and emerges from a dumpster every morning. This is all to say there is nothing conventionally appealing about this disaster, but he is still the rizzler. This is because his strangeness is endearing he’s an enigma and people want to know more. He’s a rude little goblin that you love to carry around.

Cassandra Cain is the Rizz Master for the opposite reason. She takes care of herself, knows how to dress and lives a mess free life. She also dresses like a ninja. Call her Rizzy McGuire.

#bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #nightwing #dc batman #red hood #spoiler #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #duke thomas #signal #black bat #Bruce has no rizz #Brucie is a rizz god #but like bruce has no rizz #like first date with Clark and he just says #do you eat?

[agaypanic]

I saw that you are writing about Roderick Heffley.

Can I make a request about Rodrick Heffley/reader (punk grunge girl)?

The reader has been friends with Rodrick for a year, she has her own band and she often hangs out with Rodrick.The reader writes songs for the band and when I realized that I fell in love with Rodrick, I wrote an entire album in his honor.(but since the reader replaced male pronouns with female pronouns in the songs, Rodrik did not understand about falling in love.)

You can make an awkward but sweet confession at the end.(like Roderick only got it when his friend told him directly about it, or when the reader was leaving town...)

I apologize if this is too specific and detailed. And I also ask you to forgive me if something is unclear, English is not my native language.

My Muse (Rodrick Heffley X Songwriter!Reader)

Masterlist

Request Something!

Summary: Inspiration for new songs strike you when you realize you’ve fallen in love with your friend Rodrick Heffley. But when you get the guts to play him a song as a way of confessing and he doesn’t understand, you figure it’s a lost cause.

A/N: reader is more of a pop-punk artist, and she wrote the only exception by paramore bc i said so. Idk much about instruments/terminology and also writing a character singing feels so awkward to me so sorry if it’s bad. Reader’s band is named after the one in metal lords (such a good movie ugh)

***

You and Rodrick had been friends for years, bonding over a shared love of music. As the two of you got older, you ventured into this interest by forming your own bands. Rodrick’s band, Löded Diper, was more rock, while yours, SkullFlower, followed more of a pop-punk genre. But that didn’t stop you and Rodrick from jamming and writing together during your free time.

With all the time you spend with Rodrick, you soon realized that your feelings for him grew beyond platonic, as cliche as it sounded. You obviously didn’t want to say anything and risk ruining what you had with him.

But you couldn’t help but have hope that Rodrick returned your feelings. No matter how many crushes he had, how distracted he became with his band’s latest business venture, or how often he got grounded to the point of not being allowed to leave the house for anything besides school, he always found his way to you. Sure, your heart ached a bit to see him so hung up over a girl who wouldn’t give him the time of day. But it was always made better when he’d sneak through your window just to sit with you when he should’ve been at home.

You didn’t want to bottle up your feelings forever, so you decided to write it all down in the form of lyrics. What started as a verse and half of a chorus soon became a complete song. And then one song turned into a handful. When you showed your bandmates, they immediately wanted to get to work on the instrumentals.

After a few long rehearsals and some convincing from the rest of the band, you decided to let Rodrick hear what you had been working on—half for his opinion and half as a love confession to your best friend.

“So…” As you walked to class with Rodrick, you kept having to tell yourself not to feel so anxious. Just think of it as just another band practice, and not you telling your best friend that you’re in love with him. “SkullFlower’s having a little rehearsal tonight. I think we’ve gotten a new song down pretty good. Did you wanna come?”

“Hell yeah!” Rodrick responded, seeming more pumped up than before you had asked. “What time were you thinking?”

“Probably around five. It’ll be at Steph’s place, since she has the best set up.”

The two of you stopped in front of your class, standing a bit to the side of the door to not block anyone’s path. 

“I’ll be there,” Rodrick said with a grin, patting your shoulder and giving it a squeeze. “See you then.” Then he turned around and left to go to his own class, leaving you to walk in alone. As you sat down in your seat, the only thing on your mind was how you hoped everything would go right tonight.

***

It was a pretty common occurrence for you and Rodrick to be at each other’s band rehearsals. So, none of your friends were surprised to see him pull up in his somewhat busted van while you tuned instruments and set up equipment. He jogged up the driveway with a grin and two slushies, one for him and one for you. Another common thing between you two was showing up with some kind of sweet treat just for the two of you.

“Hey guys!” Rodrick greeted everyone in Steph’s garage before handing you a large slushie cup filled with your favorite flavors. “Hey, rockstar.”

“Hi, Roddy.” You said, blushing at the little nickname before sipping your drink. You averted your gaze to somewhere else in the room, so you missed the slight pink on Rodrick’s cheeks from the nickname only you were allowed to use.

After a few minutes of mingling, you and the band got ready to play while Rodrick settled in a lawn chair. He sat directly in front of you, so you felt you had no choice but to look at him while fiddling with the microphone stand.

“This one took, like, a day to write,” you warned, taking a final sip of your slushie before setting it on the floor next to you. “It’s a little softer than the stuff we usually play, but I think it’s pretty good. But I wrote it, so I’m a bit biased.” 

“Everything you write is good, Y/n.” Rodrick tipped his slushie cup towards you. “Lemme hear it.”

You nodded and turned to Hailey. She started strumming on her guitar as Steph accompanied her on the keyboard. You swayed along to the music with closed eyes, internally counting down to your cue. 

Rodrick had probably heard you sing a million times, you’d probably sung more around him than you did alone. But your nerves made it feel like you were performing in front of a sold-out stadium for the first time, instead of in your friend’s practically empty garage.

“I’d never sing of love if it does not exist.” You plucked up the courage to finally look at Rodrick, who was already watching you with a smile so small you almost couldn’t see it. “But darling, you are the only exception.”

You didn’t know if it was the fear of knowing you were confessing your feelings to Rodrick or the bravery from opening your eyes and looking at him in the first place. But for the rest of the song, you and Rodrick maintained eye contact, making it feel like you were the only ones in the room. You wondered if he knew that the words were written just for him. 

As Hailey played the final chord of the song, letting it ring out, you gripped the microphone a bit nervously. At first, you thought the hard part was finally over. But then you remembered that Rodrick’s reaction was to follow.

“So… what’d you think?” Everyone eagerly awaited Rodrick’s response. Your friends knew about how deep your feelings went for him. And although they’d sometimes make fun of you for it, they were truly rooting for the two of you.

“That was awesome!” Rodrick said, throwing his arms out wide to emphasize his statement. You grinned, bouncing slightly on the balls of your feet in excitement. “Whoever you wrote that for is lucky, dude.”

And in an instant, all that excitement and hope diminished. 

“Oh.” You let out a small sigh before clearing your throat. “Oh, yeah, they are. They are lucky.” You could practically feel the pitiful stares of your bandmates. That, accompanied by Rodrick’s now slightly perplexed expression, made you feel uneasy. “Um, I’ll be right back.”

You were out in a flash, running into the house and to the bathroom to hide. Your band watched you disappear before looking back at Rodrick, whose eyes were stuck on the door you had gone through.

“Wow.” Dylan was the first to speak, looking at Rodrick with a raised brow and crossed arms. “I know you’re kinda dumb, Heffley, but this might be a new low.”

“Excuse me?” Rodrick quickly rose from his seat, looking at Dylan, offended and confused.

“Oh, come on, Rodrick. Don’t play stupid.” Hailey said as she set down her guitar. “Who do you think Y/n wrote that song about?”

Rodrick thought about the question for a moment, wracking his brain for an answer but coming up with nothing. He shrugged, hoping that one of your friends would just tell him outright what was going on.

“I’ll give you a hint,” Dylan said. “She only invited one person to this band practice, and she only wanted to play that specific song.”

The look on Rodrick’s face was starting to make your friends wonder if you were better off without him knowing about your feelings. But suddenly, he gasped in realization, looking at each of your friends for confirmation of what he was thinking. When they all nodded, relieved that he was finally starting to understand, he grabbed your slushie from the floor, muttering something about being back in a minute. 

In the bathroom, you were trying not to have a total freak out. You wondered how you could play this off. Although Rodrick wasn’t the brightest, he could be observant and stubborn when he wanted to be. He’d probably ask what was wrong, and if you could convince him that everything was fine, he would probably start asking who you wrote that love song about.

After splashing some water on your face to calm yourself down, you opened the door, only to see Rodrick standing on the other side.

“Jesus!” You jumped in surprise.

“Sorry.” Rodrick laughed nervously. “You, um, you forgot your slushie.”

“Oh, thanks.”

You fell into an awkward silence, standing in the threshold of your friend’s bathroom and slurping down your drink so you wouldn’t have to speak. Eventually, both of you were out of slushies.

“Was that song about me?” Rodrick blurted out, tilting his head in curiosity. You blinked, not expecting that to be the question he would ask. It seemed like he already knew it was.

“That depends,” you said, toying with your straw as you looked down at the ground to avoid eye contact. “Would you still like it if it was?”

Your attention was pulled from your shoes by a hand lifting your head, forcing you to look up at Rodrick. He leaned in to kiss you, just for a quick second, as if he was scared of you freaking out. But you were left in a daze as he pulled back.

“I’d like it a lot more if it was.”

Overwhelmed by what had just happened, you flung your arms around Rodrick and kissed him again. He stumbled back a step but caught you by the waist, kissing back eagerly. The world around you seemed to disappear.

“Ahem.” Slowly and reluctantly, you and Rodrick pulled away from each other to see Steph looking at you amused, Hailey and Dylan standing behind her. “Mom made us all a snack, unless you guys are too busy sucking face.”

“Oh, shut up, Steph.” You said with an embarrassed laugh. Your friends headed to the kitchen, but you and Rodrick slowly trailed behind to sneak a few more kisses to each other.

***

Rodrick Heffley Taglist: @tweedledipshit

#agaypanic #rodrick heffley x reader #rodrick heffley #diary of a wimpy kid x reader #diary of a wimpy kid rodrick

[dawningfairytale]

💝(A headcanon about their love language), 🥇(A headcanon about what they’re best at), 💄(An appearance headcanon), 🎶(A headcanon about music) for grace ?

💝 - a headcanon about their love language

I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS!!! i believe that grace’s love language is physical touch. not only bc she gives steph a massive hug at the start of ac, not only bc i think it’s a fun interplay between her feelings on intimacy and how she expresses love, but also because i think it comes so naturally to her. i think she likes having something so tangible and clear in love. i also think there could be something about her parents not being physically affectionate towards each other, but are towards her. and also bc that’s just what her type of affection drifts to when i write her. i also think that she gives love in acts of service and it’s partially because she has this desire to do thinks and be an active participant in life but i also think it’s like. about 10% her thinking it was more righteous

🥇- a headcanon about what they’re best at

i think she’s the best at organising the shit out of something. if there’s an event, or a church thing (or a prank), she knows what is needed she knows how to delegate she’s good at keeping track of everyone’s task and course-correcting when necessary. sometimes her ideas aren’t the best, but she has the authority for everyone to keep going along enough until it’s fixed

💄- an appearance headcanon

this is all about her hair!! i think she keeps it on the shorter side because she hates how it feels on her neck if it’s any longer. she has since childhood. i think the butterfly clips were an end-of-the-day prize by like a substitute teacher or a sunday school teacher who wasn’t normally on when they were 13 and everyone else was like “no they’re childish and girly” but she kinda liked them so she took them and tried them on and realised that she liked them and has worn them ever since!!

🎶 - a headcanon about music

if i keep this all about christian music i think it’s a little bit of a cop out, but i know that she does listen to veggietales tunes regularly (i would have also said colin buchannan but i think that’s a little to niche aussie christian of me). i think her favourite christian music is the upbeat stuff, and she does not care for when the slow reflective stuff plays in the service (she justifies this judgement by saying something like “shouldn’t we be energised and jumping with joy for Jesus?”). that is in my mind an extension of her just not liking slow songs. i can’t think of any specific artists, bc my non-musical theatre and eurovision stuff is a bit more on the pop punk side, but i think she heard hot to go bu chappell roan from steph and that’s her favourite secular song. violin player.

#ACHILLES THANK YOU SO MUCH IM FROTHING I HAVE SO MANY TBOIGHTS ABOUT MY GIRL TY #grace chasity #grace npmd

[lazaruspiss]

cant sleep. looking thru my notes app. found headcanons.

Music

Dick: "Nice Nirvana shirt. Name a song other than Smells Like Teen Spirit." (Listens to rock and music for depressed people, but switches to top 40 when any of the "kids"* are around. He has an image to maintain.)

*past and present robins & any of the various other heroes he's mentored

Jason: unironic tswift enjoyer :/ and heavy metal or smth. he also has an image to maintain.

Tim: punk covers of pop lyrics. and various recs from kon.

Steph: whatever the hell she wants, I'm not gonna tell her what to do.

Damian: classical music + vocaloid

TV shows

Dick: true crime specials and whatever's there when he turns on the tv.

Jason: pride and whatever-the-fuck, say yes to the dress, and cooking competitions. has horror movies and crime procedurals to put on when he has company.

Tim: rick and morty, those mystery shows that my mom+sibling are always watching that i can never get into, and the walking dead.

Steph: she's one of those adults who rewatch their childhood favorites a little too often. also big on reality tv.

Damian: tv is for idiots (shoujo romance anime) (he gets very upset when they deviate from the original manga) (ohshc ending hater)

[urmumsdrycooch]

TᗯO-Iᑎ-OᑎE ᖴOOT'ᑎ'ᗩᔕᔕ ᑕᖇEᗩᗰ

Steph Gingrich x Fem!Reader

Summary: You and Steph reminisce over your Blackwell days.

Warnings: Swearing, mention of Rachel and Chloe’s death.

The news had just hit Steph and me, and ever since the phone call two hours ago we've been sitting in silence in Steph's apartment. Chloe and Rachel, the two used to be our friends. Once we heard about Rachel's disappearance, we assumed she took off to be the Hollywood persona she was. That's what we hoped. But, dead in the ground of a junkyard, it's fucking disgusting.

I know Steph left Arcadia to get away from all of life's bullshit, to escape its effect on her. Even though she shared good times whilst there, it was too much for her. And now, somehow, someway, I've managed to find my way back to her. Then this happens. Karma's a bitch.

I never got on with Chloe, we'd try to stay away from each other. I always thought of her disrespect and rudeness as uncalled for, even after hearing about her past. We'd argue when I call her out for it and Rachel being the hero she is, was. She'd bring the peace again as if it were magic. Rachel and I were close, I'm sure at some point I liked her in a more-than-a-friend way. But who wouldn't? This is Rachel Amber we're talking about.

Though I do remember mine and Mikey's curiosity over Steph's attraction to the girl, we never dared to question it though.

These positive thoughts of the two friends I loved now fill my mind. The fact their lives were taken from them before they had the chance to live, to escape shitty Arcadia Bay and get out into the real world. Chloe was going to be some punk car mechanic or tattoo artist. Rachel was going to be a model, actress, singer, dancer, you name it and Rachel Amber will be perfect at it. We'd all keep in contact, go out for drinks, live together, and do cool shit like that.

A rage I attempted to control flows through my veins, forcing my hand across the kitchen counter and whacking off my glass of water. My breathing remains heavy while I watch the glass shatter, and then the water that begins to spill over the floor.

I feel Steph's hand on my shoulder, trying to calm me down, and surprisingly, it does. She leads me over to her couch then she wanders off to clean up the mess I made. "Sorry," I mutter.

In my peripheral vision, I watch Steph shuffle around the kitchen getting up the glass while allowing my fingers to massage my temples as my face falls into my hands.

Once the mess was cleaned up, Steph takes a seat next to me and releases a heavy sigh. "Remember Warren?" She questions, confusing me for a second.

"Yeah, I do..." I answer, awaiting to find out what she was on about.

"Well, what was that all about?" She lightly chuckles with a curious eyebrow quirked.

"Huh?" I respond, the girl frying my brain.

"You two were definitely hooking up." The assumption that left her mouth sent me into a choking fit.

"Steph, what are you on?" I question.

"Warren would always bail on our DnD sessions saying, 'Oh, I'm meeting Y/n in her dorm.' So, that could only mean one thing. And if I'm being honest Y/n, I thought you had a better taste than that, bad enough him being a male." She explains.

I fall back into the couch, palming my face. "Oh my God."

"What?" She laughs

"He was tutoring me."

"Oh, so you're into role-play, no wonder you're LARP character was so accur-"

"Steph!" I shout, covering her mouth with my hand. "In science, he was tutoring me in science... and math too. I was doing like, worryingly bad, and I had to do something before my parents found out. Ms Grant suggested getting a tutor, so Warren offered."

"Okay, at least you weren't sleeping with that nerd." She huffs, her once suspicion now proven a lie.

"Yeah, on that topic. How about your little wet fantasy for Rachel. The single most obvious thing ever." I laugh, and Steph immediately goes red.

"That wasn't like that, she- well I li- no- It doesn't matter!" She blurts out in embarrassment.

We return to the silence again, enjoying the aftermath of the previous moment. All until I hear Steph release a huff, "I had a little thing for you too, you know." She admits.

All of a sudden, my breathing stopped, it felt like my blood flow froze, my heart malfunctioned, and my whole existence was put on hold. No way, she couldn't have. I saw the way she looked at Rachel, it's not possible.

"Maybe even more than I did Rachel," Steph adds, with a slightly amused tone, as if it was only a recent realisation. I gather myself, fixing my posture and clearing my throat.

"Really?" I ask, curious to find more of this. Shit, maybe I sounded too curious.

"Yeah." She assured me, slightly more urgent this time, maybe she shared too much? Maybe I could, I don't know... return the favour.

"You remember that one Valentine's day, you got that bouquet of flowers," I mention, this should be good.

"Yeah, I was fully convinced it was secretly Rachel, but obviously it wasn't." She sighs disappointed.

"What about it?" She asks, bringing her knee up on the couch to rest the side of her face on.

I let my hands fall into my lap, my thumbs fiddling as I think of a response. "Uh, well- I sent them." A small silence falls between us once again. "I was also the one that dyed the sprinkler system and fountain pink that day, and the whole Principle Wells lifetime supply of gingernut two-in-one foot'n'ass cream gift thing, yeah that was me too."

"That was all you?" She questions cheerfully, eyes wide open with a beaming smile, "Damn, that got me out of like two tests, I could kiss you!"

I freeze, my smile frozen solid, and Steph's hands rested on my shoulders. Her smile remains big, slowly falling into less of a joyful one and into more of a lovingly one. I feel her fingers begin to twitch on my forearm, forming goosebumps on my skin. "Can I?"

My mouth falls slightly open, ready to respond to the DJ, but nothing comes out. I attempt to find the right words, but all I can manage is a small "That'd be quite nice, thank you."

That'd be quite nice, thank you? Really Y/n? What year is it, the 1400's? You've really messed it up now.

A small chuckle leaves Steph's lips.

See, look what you've done.

Before I can react, Steph was leaning in closer. I push my head the short distance to hers, our lips melting into each other with a soft kiss. My hand slowly makes its way through Steph's hair, while she brings her hand down from my forearm to my jaw, the other arm doing the same.

She rubs her hand up and down my side slowly before we detach our mouths for very much needed air. We rest our foreheads together, lips still touching, taking heavy breaths. "Should've done this three years ago." I smile, leaning back in to reconnect out lips.

#life is strange #life is strange: before the storm #life is strange wavelengths #steph gingrich #steph gingrich x reader #rachel amber #chloe price #warren graham #mikey north

[dastiel4ever2111]

First up among my parents/kids are Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon. In my stories, Linda and Vince aren't a couple they are just best friends who have had kids together. Linda didn't really stick around to raise the kids, except for Stephanie whom she raised separately from the rest of the boys. I owe a lot of these ideas to @lchimelightgoddess as well.

In my stories, Vince is with Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff, ugh those three are always going to be special to me. They didn't get together until after all their kids were grown up though. Vince is happily retired and Hunter and Steph run the business in most of my stories nowadays. In my older stories, that was not the case.

Mark Callaway McMahon is the oldest, he is not biologically related to Vince or Linda. Vince adopted him and Kane after Paul Bearer disappeared.

Glenn Jacob Kane McMahon is Mark's biological brother and Vince adopted him along with Mark. Mark and Kane are only half brothers, Paul Bearer is Kane's biological father.

Hunter Paul Helmsley McMahon, the first one Linda and Vince had together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4Ub7y4r04 is heavily inspired by the whole illegitimate son angle done by WWE.

Stephanie is technically a McMahon but only because Linda adopted her. She and Hunter aren't actually related, they weren't raised together either. She also has no relation to Vince or Linda, we don't know her real parents.

Shane McMahon, I used to have it where Punk and Shane were twins but I decided to drop that.

Phillip Cedric McMahon (CM Punk) - heavily inspired by this segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ucR7Dc-0yk thank you, Coachman.

Mark and Phil have always been close. Phil didn't really get along with Hunter, they butted heads a lot. I would say their relationship got better after Punk left WWE.

Hunter and Shane are very close.

I do not own any of the pictures shown, I just found them on Google. I have decided on posting these collages I made and a little background on the families. There are a lot but this is how I've decided on doing it.

I hope you look forward to learning more about my AU and everything.

#McMahon Family #triple h #cm punk #vince mcmahon #undertaker #kane #stephanie mcmahon #linda mcmahon #shane mcmahon #illegitimate child angle wwe #wwe #Dastiel's Alternate Universe #alternate universe

[real-time-twilight]

Twilight vs. Life and Death #4

🍏Life and Death🍏

My mom says we look so much alike that I could use her for a shaving mirror. It's not entirely true, though I don't look much like my dad at all. Her chin is pointy, and her lips full, which is not like me, but we do have the same eyes. On her, they're childlike--so wide and pale blue--which makes her look like my sister, rather than my mom. We get that all the time and though she pretends not to, she loves it. On me the pale blue is less youthful and more... unresolved.

    Staring at those wide, worried eyes so much like my own, I felt panicked. I'd been taking care of my mom for my whole life. I mean, I'm sure there had been a time, probably when I was still in diapers, that I wasn't in charge of the bills and paperwork and cooking and general level-headedness, but I couldn't remember it.

Was leaving my mom to fend for herself really the right thing to do? It had seemed like it was, during the months I'd struggled toward this decision. But it felt all kinds of wrong now.

   Of course, she had Phil now, so the bills would probably get paid on time, there would be food in the fridge, gas in the car, and someone to call when she got lost... She didn't need me so much anymore.

🍎Twilight🍎

My mom looks like me, except with short hair and laugh lines. I felt a spasm of panic as I stared at her wide, childlike eyes. How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself? Of course, she had Phil now, so the bills would probably get paid, there would be food in the refrigerator, gas in her car, someone to call when she got lost but still...

So here again we have Beau using up a lot more page space to say basically the same thing as Bella. I notice that Beau's narrative uses present tense more flexibly. This could be part of the Things She Wished She Thought of Earlier category since there's so much more detail.

The shaving mirror line is clunky and very solidly fits in the Beau is a Boy category.

The first really big difference is that Bella and Beau are not just different in terms of personality but also physically. Bella has Charlie's eyes while Beau has Renee's-- and yet both Bella and Beau are said to look like Renee, except that her most elfin features are absent from Beau and I think that's a shame because I can just hear Edythe in her genderswap midnight sun narrative waxing poetic about how oddly delicate Beau's features are for a boy and perhaps this fuels her protector complex. I guess this goes under Catch-All since it seems like an alteration for alteration's sake.

"But it seemed all kinds of wrong now"-- this for me falls under a very specific Sub-section of Beau is a Boy that I like to call Steph got Punked. Smeyer talks about asking her teenage sons (Gabe, Seth and Eli) to give her a window into the mind of a teenage boy and I think, in the process, they took an opportunity to pull one over on their mom by advising her to use all sorts of cringe "Hello there my fellow kids" phrases, and this is the first but certainly not the last.

Lots of little changes in this last paragraph. First of all Beau says the bills will get paid on time. This seems like a Second Editing Run change, otherwise it implies a greater level of negligence on Renee's part. Beau just says fridge rather than refrigerator: I think this is Beau is a Boy and part of the idea that he speaks more casually than Bella. Bella refers to "her [Renee's] car" while Beau refers to "the car". Perhaps this implies that Beau's name is on the title as well as Renee? Or perhaps Beau tends to just think of things like the car and the house as being generally belonging to their family while Bella thinks of them as being Renee's? I may put this in the Beau Developed Differently category.

And finally Beau has an added line here that seemingly is more resigned to the idea that he doesn't have to take care of his mother anymore, while Bella remains unsure and this honestly, seems like it should be swapped around because Beau is consistently more worried about Renee than Bella is. I'll put this under Catch-All.

#twilight saga #twilight renaissance #twilight 🍎 #life and death🍏 #bella swan #beau swan

[protagonistheavy]

So, Life is Strange: Before the Storm... HAD to be a rushed product, right? I only just recently got around to (watching) a playthrough of it and wow, that final episode is hugely lacking. It absolutely feels like there should be at least one whole other episode to round things out and for the consequences of your actions to pan through. So many plotlines that were promising just drop dead, and almost every character gets short-shafted for the spotlight -- I can't even remember half of these characters' names because they have so few interactions.

A lot of this is in exchange for giving more time to Chloe and Rachel, but even their plot seems so rushed and quick. It's hard to find romance genuinely between these two characters when their whole history unfolds into a major drama over the course of, like, 56 hours. Rachel feels so back and forth that I was always uncomfortable with her, and the nature of LiS games make me inherently suspicious of characters and their motives, since this series knows pretty much nothing else except twist villains. Maybe if there was a bit more casual time spent between the characters, and not so much huff and drama? But after all these episodes, I'm hesitant to say I want more Rachel Amber on screen lol.

But at least she's a fine, developed character -- I just spent too long scrutinizing her. Everyone else? They just feel like ideas for characters to put into the game. Playing D&D with Mikey and Steph was one of the coolest moments and I had hoped we'd get a second session, buuut then the plot happens and we never get to just hang out with these guys again. Mikey's brother is EXTREMELY awkward, but to his credit, I think my issue with him is that he's very different depending on your choices -- I probably need to see some alternate routes to really understand who he is... but at least in this playthrough, it felt like they were writing him on the spot.

Nathan is also a really weird issue in this game. I just dont get why Dontnod is so persistent on making Nathan also a victim, forcing us to sympathize with him so much, when we KNOW he's a school shooter. Like sure, he isn't a shooter in this prologue, but we know what he becomes! And while I appreciate some concern existing for how exactly people like Nathan come to be, his inclusion here feels immature and shallow. It feels rather uncomfortable for the writers to try so hard to tell the reader, "He's not all bad! He's human!!!" considering they were already doing this in the first game. And what about the girl that follows Nathan around? What's her deal? She's a new character for this story and not a great one lol. She exists just to give Nathan a sympathizer, to guilt-trip readers that still felt friction against Nathan that they should at least feel bad for his little girlfriend. What happens to her? Nothing! She just disappears from the plot, same with Nathan.

I think what ticks me off most about this prologue is that it does nothing a prologue should be doing. Do we learn about the Prescots? Do we learn about Jefferson? Do we learn about the origin of these powers? No, but thank god we learned how Chloe got her shitty truck. For goodness sake, Frank is such a major part of this plot, and even he gets screwed over, because we never even learn what got him and Rachel together before she went missing -- a critical part of the original story!! It's so frustrating to have this chance to see how shit came together, but instead of learning more about the base game, we're treated to a melodramatic sidestory, involving a girl that just couldn't keep her shit together after finding out about her dad cheating. It's totally unrelated and not at all what I think LiS fans were wanting when given a sequel.

And one last thing about Rachel Amber, man, I really just didn't vibe with her. I think my big issue with her is something similar I have against Chloe, and that's that I don't quite understand what makes these girls "punks." They're more like... rebels, and even then, not very fascinating ones. Rachel Amber comes from a very privileged home where she had almost no problems in her life... so it's really hard to sympathize with her when the only dilemma in her life is just her dad cheating on her mom. And yeah, that sucks, but maybe I'd feel more for her if her reaction to that wasn't to recklessly cause a whole forest fire. Ugh, maybe Im thinking too much about it, but seriously, that moment put a wedge between me and Rachel for the entire game -- I just felt so bad for the forest animals lol, like wtf, they didnt deserve that and Rachel never once feels bad for destroying a whole swathe of nature + endangering the lives that have to go and fight it.

This plot really needed to be slowed down or given more space to breathe. I was agasp when I realized it was the ending of the game and everything was just getting summed up anticlimactically. The fact we can't even get a solidified fight between Frank and Damon also tells me that they had to hurry up and finish this with as little budget as possible. Such a shame considering LiS is full of mysteries with so much promise, but virtually NOTHING from any of these games is intent on actually exploring any of it -- and at this point, it's outright too late, as the greater plot of the games has just moved on.

[awakenee]

hsmtmts . ep 101

july 5, 2022 - 8:07 pm cst

i had to scroll through my "continue watching" d+ list for a solid minute before finding hsmtmts 💀

woah, the first episode is 40 minutes long?? i knew it was the longest out of both seasons (or at least i think so) but wow

the "we're all in this together" intro gives me strong deja vu hsm flashbacks lol

this intro music is so iconic

ew, i changed tabs and suddenly my subtitles are on the left

is it bad that i didnt realise these were ricky and big red until a few episodes shy into season two

"aHAHA"

"first costume change" icon

"junior year, baby" reminds me of "september 1st, 1989. dear diary:"

spoiler alert: big red did not grow a mustache.

oh look, my subtitles are back to normal

AYE, MY FAVORITE BACKGROUND DANCERS ARE IN THE BACKGROUND. NICE. lauren and steph and someone else whose name i dont remember i think

"today's the day we start over" poor ricky

back when i first saw this thing and nini was showing kourt her music man stuff i didnt think anything of it but now that im a theatre kid this gets me all excited and peppy

"i know who that is, nini!" yes, it's shirtless ej looking like he just saw someone take a big dump

omg olivia is such a baby,,, i miss her

gina just passed in front of kourtney lmao

"yo nini" sounded like "young nini"

the office moment

ricky seems so dumb rn,,, my poor, poor boi

gina's still in the background

also i've never seen the office

why does nini know whether ricky's feet stink or not and why does she think it's cute

nini has a lion plushie in her bed, i think it's featured in the hsm con novel

NINI MY LOVE,,,,

AHHHH ITIKYK

this is so sweet i cant

unrelated but i just got an email offering me 1776 broadway orchestra seats from 99+, pretty neat

are people commenting on this video live, or...?

why is ricky's IG username "@skateratricky"

ok but nini resting her head on ricky's shoulder

dear @missschmotzer who commented "why are you always in the ensemble?!?!!", wouldn't we all like to know that

"davidgutierrezslc" is that the principal,,, imagine

seb my love

argh nini is so pure i want to hug her for eternity

help she sounds like she's going to cry

RICKY YOU LITTLE SH-

who in sh has a back to school kickoff

"you're blowing me off for some theatre punk" ricky, all i ever want in my life is a theatre punk to love me.

yes, idk whether to spell it theatre or theater

"at a lake???" KIKIWAKA KIKIWAKA

spoiler alert 2: kourtney never dismantles the patriarchy

lmao gina is staring at nini and kourt as they walk away from ricky and big red and making an "OHHHHHHH" expression

"love is dead" ricky,,,,

"fRiDaY!!!!!!!"

ok but why would you wear your cheer uniform to the first day of school? im not american so maybe that is normal over there but still,,,

may the guy with the glasses rest in peace after being smacked with that t-shirt

way too many "high school"s in one sentence

i want to have carlos' confidence

nini right before the opening card rolls in is me during social studies thinking about my plans to land on broadway one day and become the next patti lupone

oh god that step carlos is doing is so familiar to me,,, i'm getting lion king flashbacks

OH YES HERE IT COMES ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC LINES FROM THE SERIES

AHAHAHWHEHEHYY YES GO CARLOS

"i pay for ad free spotify"

is "sue me" the equivalent of "fight me"????

can we talk about how this series has had plot holes since the pilot? miss jenn's financial issues were never brought up again

we dont have hall passes here so...

oh boy im only 8 minutes in and this is already a big ass text block

mr mazzara looks so annoyed oh my god

carlos looks so happy when she says "watch out world"

WAIT WAIT WAIT. i just noticed something. miss jenn's office number is B110, and i'm, like, 99.9% sure that's the number of the dressing room in which ricky and nini kiss. how does that work

"hollywood dream world" no, sir. hollywood and broadway are two very different things.

"we're the east high leopards. always have been. 😎😎😎"

their lunch is so nice

kourtney is me @ my mom

okay i actually agree with nini on this one,,, that dress would've been too much

"bAbE"

*natalie and seb gasp*

more featured dancers in the background

i wish someone would slide pizzas under my door

wtf nini's so short

isn't playing sports and doing theatre at the same time illegal? /j

ok but i love ricky's jackets

my dude why are you making faces to yourself

nini was one of the most amazing trees featured in the pictures evan was sending to connor, duh /ref

uno destroys friendships and relations, this goes against the rules of the universe

ywbf flashbacks

do dreams ever mean anything

mike dropping the raw chicken on the floor >>>>>>

ouch

my ricky needs therapy counter is officially on 1

i want big red's gaming thing

yeah, ricky, i think that's weird too but i'm still a raging theatre kid

"it's about zac efron dancing with a basketball" well, he's not wrong

angsty ricky

ricky's hair >>>>>> troy's hair

ricky looks like a deer in headlights lol

gosh, that's intimidating

ej, kindly, shut up

THE SUBTITLES JUST LISTED CARLOS AS "woman"

dancing, the bane of my existence

dancing isn't that impressing in hsm tho

"that was the warm up????" mood

"not with a friend" my anxiety says no

GINI GINI GINI GINI

understudies are the best

help, nini looks so scared

"new lab" those computers look kinda outdated, no offense

i want to smack mr mazzara and ricky

steph: *squeals*

"i'm dying, i'm deceased"

isn't adding a new song to the musical illegal? coughs in the s2 menkies

how does gina know which scenes are they going to give her???

omg seb looks so nervous and cute

go nini

GO SEB

seblos moment

"your chosen-last-for-dodgeball" hey, that's me!

ricky's a criminal guys

help, i know ricky's gonna barge in and i'm getting so much second hand embarrassment right now

seb my love

nini looks so in love with him

pretty sure that's less than 16 bars

run richard, run

ok but gina would be an amazing gabriella, just think about it

NINI BRITISH ACCENT

where's my supportive theatre punk

nini my beloved

*war flashbacks*

ricky i want to slap you into oblivion right now

yeah, nini, be more chill!!!! tAkE yOuR hAnDs oUt oF yOuR pOcKeTs /ref

i want nini's bedroom

the background music is depressing

RCIYK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ricky you little sh

ACTUALLY, CARLOS, TROY NEVER ARRIVES ON TIME. THAT'S SOME GREAT CHARACTER WORK RIGHT THERE.

shut up ej

YES AHHHH

getting so much nostalgia from this

why are you guys shoving cellphones in her face

oh my god this is so awkward

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GO

oh my god im so proud of my little baby nini

ok, hear me out. i love s1 nini so, so much but i just dont think she's right for gabriella if you get what i mean?

great timing, light people

"i only needed 32 bars" that was like 32 bars ma'am

we love a supportive big red

ricky ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sir, you're supposed to be off-book

what are you doing

miss jenn really went for the underdogs

this is making me feel so many things

ricky needs therapy counter: 2

to be continued because of the character limit

#hsmtmts analysis #hsmtmts fandom #ricky bowen #gina porter

[divinegrey]

𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 / 𝚟𝚒 𝚡 𝚏!𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛

happy sunday! this is totally inspired by steph gingrich aka my other wife bc life is strange true colors is a fucking fantastic game and you should go play it.

arcane masterlist

prompt: hi! is it possible for u to write abt vi working in a music shop/record shop? she flirts w girls by giving them music recommendations :’) [requested by anon]

words: 970

warnings: vi being hot and flirty

The music shop isn’t really interesting in itself. Sure, you can get any vinyl you want (and you always do, considering you’re a bit of a collector), scope out the radio booth, or look at the range of instruments available for sale. It’s the town's number one stop for anything music-related, but you, a person who can’t play any instrument to save your life, probably go there more often than anyone else does.

Probably because of the worker who runs the place.

Vi. That’s her name. You’ve said it to yourself dozens of times after the first time you met her. She cracked a joke when you pointed out the tattoo under her eye, and even though it was one of the stupidest things you’d ever heard, you couldn’t help but chuckle at it.

So here you are now, pushing open the door to the record shop to peruse at the new stocks they have. It’s relatively quiet— and by that, you mean you’re the only person inside when the bell over the door chimes to announce your arrival. The red light over the booth tells you one thing; Vi’s working the booth with her tunes. You walk over to go look, just out of curiosity.

“So if you want some of the best ice cream in town, ski right over to the doors of Avalanche Ice Cream. It’s winter, so brain freeze is guaranteed,” Vi says into the microphone, headphones over her ears as she recites the ad on the spot. “Up next, we’ve got one of my favorite tunes to educate you young punks about what real indie is.”

A random song starts playing. You smile at Vi when she glances over to see you. She presses mute on her soundboard and hangs up her headphones. A second later, she’s out of the booth and grinning that classic, cocky grin of hers.

“Back for more already? Spending sixty bucks on a collector’s edition vinyl yesterday wasn’t enough for you?” Vi puts her hands on her hips, her clunky docs landing on the floorboards with heavy thumps. You snort.

“You ever think I’m here for something other than vinyls, Vi?” you ask, folding your arms over your chest and raising a brow.

“Oh?” Vi spares a glance behind her back at the booth. “Here for some exclusives? Lucky I like you, Y/N. Come on.”

She takes your arm and drags you into the booth behind her. You stay quiet when she holds her finger up to you, sliding the headphones over her head.

“Alright, hope you all enjoyed that song. I got another one coming right up, some of you might already know this. It’s MAMMAMIA by Maneskin,” Vi says, putting the song on the queue. You hear the high-tempo music play through the speakers. You’re a little impressed, but not really, because you did order the vinyl for this album last week on back-order.

Vi comes over to you, shoulders shifting to the beat of the music. She starts mouthing the words to you, offering her hand. With an eye roll, you placate her by letting her spin you around.

“You wanna handle me, but I'm a bit too much,” Vi sings to the music, a wink tossed your way before she twirls you. “I'll burn all the place down, 'cause I'm too fucking hot!”

Before you realize it, the song’s over and your face might be a little red. You blame it on the impromptu dancing, but really, it might be connected to Vi singing a song about fucking straight to your face. She’s brazen like that, you’ve learned. You listen to her radio station whenever you can and she’s about as flirty as one can get while being a radio host. People dig it. Specifically, the ladies dig it.

“So, you play that song for any girl whose pants you wanna get into, or?” You ask, doing your best to pretend that you aren’t flustered (you are). Vi’s hot. She knows it. She’s confident about it. Probably one of the best things you like about her in the time you’ve come to know her as one of the folks in your little secluded town in buttfuck nowhere.

“Only the ones I like,” Vi replies, pressing a random button to queue another song. She turns to you. “So? Did it work?”

“Technique was rusty,” you retort.

“Ouch, tough crowd,” Vi replies, tossing her hair to the side. Some strands fall out of the messy bun she must’ve thrown it in this morning.

“I’m not easy to please, Vi,” you reply. Vi huffs.

“Not a problem for me. I can take my time,” Vi says, accented by a wink. The silver of her nose ring glints in the low lighting of the radio booth. She raises her arm and puts it over your head against the wall. “How about it, cutie?”

“Take me out to dinner, then we’ll see,” you say. Vi’s mouth curls up in a grin, and despite all of her bravado, you know this one is genuine. The wrinkles by her eyes speak volumes. You lean up and give her a kiss on the cheek before patting it. “Get back to work, slacker. Meet me at the bar tonight, seven o’clock.”

“The one on the end of Main street?”

“You know it. See you then, Vi. Don’t be late,” you say, pushing her off of you. You step out of the radio booth.

Vi puts on her headphones. “This one goes out to all the pretty girls but for me, one in particular. Here’s Beauty, by LOVE SUPREME.”

You listen to the song as you walk out of the shop, a broad smile on your face with the promise of a date with the hottest woman in town. How’s that for scoring the bag?

~~~~~

A/N: i miss steph gingrich

#vi x reader #arcane vi x reader #vi x you #arcane vi #vi #arcane vi imagines #arcane netflix #arcane imagines #arcane

[hintofelation99]

What is everyone's groupchat/text chat name? Like how Hal is Ring Ring Motherfucker etc etc

Tbh the list grows every day, but here’s what I have as of right now (as a side note—in the early chat posts all the batkids had just their usual vigilante names, so some of the ones I’m about to list might not be in a post yet):

Roy/Arsenal -> Arse/Arse ~ It just fits him so well it had to be used twice

Harley Quinn -> Aunty Harls ~ Bruce does not approve.

Bruce/Batman -> B/Batman ~ He refuses to participate

Barbara/Oracle-> Barbie/Know-it-All ~ She’s the mastermind behind all this and makes sure that Bruce keeps all the contact names.

Clark/Superman -> Smallville/Big Blue ~ His names were chosen by Lois and Dick.

Damian/Robin -> Demon/Blood Son ~ Jason voted to call him lollipop guild, Damian violently refused.

Cassandra/Black Bat -> Caassssssss/Silent but Cuddly ~ Her original Vigilante nickname was Snëki snäkē, but the new one is more fitting.

Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy -> CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL ~ She picked this, but Harley will probably give her a new one soon.

Selina/Catwoman -> Crazy Cat Lady/Kitty kitty ~ I’m probably gonna change hers soon but idk what to yet.

Dick/Nightwing -> Dickhead/The Good, the bad, and the booty ~ His vigilante name was v recently changed from Flippy Boi.

Constantine -> Gutter Mage ~ He has canonically been called this, also his recent increase in appearances is due to me reading a lot of the old hellblazer comics (they can be a bit problematic at points but some are surprisingly relevant to current events in the US)

Diana/Wonder Woman -> Prince(ss)/Jason’s favorite ~ She’s a proud aunt who adores Jason.

Jason/Red Hood -> Jaybird/Pew pew ~ He likes to mock Bruce by saying ‘I am Pew pew’ in a Batman voice.

Kon/Superboy -> Konkonkon/Token Punk ~ When Constantine saw Token Punk he asked Kon about it and they ended up bonding over punk music.

J’onn/Martian Manhunter -> TBD/Lean Green Fighting Machine ~ I don’t often think of him interacting with everyone as a civilian so he might not get a civvie name.

Barry/Flash -> TBD/Lightning McQueen ~ I’ll probably have a civilian name for him soon, just hasn’t come up yet.

Killer Croc -> Monch and Cronch ~ Don’t ask me why/How Waylon has a phone.

Oliver/Green Arrow -> Olly Olly Oxen Free/The Other Green One ~ He was a little bitter about his civilian name but Babs won’t let him change it (she is the keeper of names).

Duke/Signal -> Pretty Pretty Shiny Shiny/The Duke ~ Apollo might change his name soon. Ik they haven’t interacted in comics (at least not that I know of) but I like to imagine Andrew (Apollo) is to Duke as Diana is to Jason.

Steph/Batgirl -> Stephers/Pörple people eater ~ I always forget that I was reading her batgirl arc when I first added her so I made her batgirl instead of spoiler, Ik this lines up better but i do prefer the traditional spoiler Costume.

Riddler -> Riddle Me this, Why am I Here?? ~ He doesn’t understand why he is in their contact list.

Hal/Green Lantern -> TBD/Ring Ring Motherfucker ~ He hasn't entered civilian conversation yet, but maybe soon.

Dinah/Black Canary -> TBD/Scream Queen ~ Right now her civilian contact is Scream Queen, but I'm gonna switch that around and use something else for her civilian name

Billy/Captain Marvel -> TBD/Sparky Sparky Boom Man ~ Billy still thinks no one knows who he is. He is wrong.

Damian's Bestest Friend/Superboy 2.9 ~ The first one was just to annoy Damian. The other was supposed to be Superboy 2.0 but he messed up and now Barbara won't let him take it back.

Wally/Kid Flash -> Walls/The Real Speedy ~ Roy does not find this amusing.

Tim/Red Robin -> Timber/Yum ~ Now if Tim ever passes out they yell Timber, he is not amused.

Zatanna -> Witchy Woman ~ She's the only reason John joined the group chat. She's also the only reason why he no longer has a flip phone. He now has a Blackberry Curve.

Right now that's all of them. I am going to add Boston Brand, no clue how or why he'll have a phone, I just like him and want him to be along for the ride. His name will probably be something like "I GOTTA PHONE" or "Ghosts Have Rights Too". I'm definitely gonna add others (Midnighter and Apollo, my favs) just don't know who or when yet. But if there's anyone you rlly wanna see just lmk and I'll see what I can do :)

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[incorrectbatfam]

I'm in a mood™ so i was wondering if you had any hcs of the batkids growing up together? (babydamibabydami)

I've done this before in this ask but I'm more than happy to add on!

(Also screw canon age gaps, I'm doing what feels right.)

Bruce, Talia, and Selina are all co-parents in a poly relationship

Duke likes to finger paint

Babs got a used accordion for fifteen bucks at a garage sale

Damian's first "real" food was Talia's rice pudding

Wayne Enterprises has an entire floor dedicated to looking after not just Bruce's, but all the employees' children. Carrie declared herself the "Queen of the Fourth Floor"

At one point Tim was getting bullied so Dick drove Cass, Jason, Harper, and Cullen to the bully's house in the middle of the night and the five of them stood outside their window with plague doctor masks chanting in Latin until the bully swore to lay off

Just like how Damian's first word was Jason's name, Damian's first steps were toward Jason after a bad day at school

Dick is lowkey jealous knowing he's not Damian's favorite sibling

Steph and Duke made a go-kart out of a red wagon, and that's how there's a Duke-shaped hole in the fence

Cass owns fifty water bottles but uses the same one every day

Bruce chaperoned Dick's junior prom

Selina gets each kid a cat on their birthday

Babs came to class late with coffee one time and the entire class now calls her the "Starbucks white girl"

There's an under-the-table vegetable swapping system at dinner, where the kids trade out the ones they don't like for the ones they do. The ones nobody wants are mashed up and given to Damian

Carrie is the champion nose-picker

Steph and Duke were born just a few hours apart at different hospitals, and are therefore known as the twins

Tim is not allowed to use chopsticks. Not even the little kiddie ones

Cullen once brought an entire head of lettuce to school as lunch

Bruce plays classical music around Damian, but Jason counteracts it with trashy punk rock

Bruce: "Studies say it helps babies grow intellectually"

Jason: "He's not supposed to grow, he's supposed to be our baby brother"

Duke likes cherry tomatoes over regular tomatoes because they're colorful

Harper got her motorcycle license before her driver's license (thanks to Kate)

Dick slices his string cheese. Wally bites into his. Babs is horrified by both

Nobody remembers the last time Bruce Wayne was seen not wearing a baby carrier

When Duke eats salads, he imagines he's a giant consuming an entire land (and the olives are people)

There's a five-year gap between Jason (age 12) and Tim (age 7). The reason is since Bruce adopted them in birth order when they were babies, he planned to stop at five kids, but then Jason got irrationally angry about being the youngest so Bruce got Tim and it all spiraled from there

Harper once melted an entire stick of butter and convinced Cullen to drink it

Dick once tried to sell Jason on eBay

Damian is very territorial. Nobody can touch his stuffed animals—even for washing—unless he gives them explicit permission

Tim once tried a cheese taste test with Damian, and that's how they learn Damian is lactose intolerant

Harper once bought thirty pounds of beef jerky online (she accidentally typed a 0 after the 3)

Talia helps Jason with Arabic homework

Damian produces the stinkiest farts

All WE employees get six months paid maternity/paternity leave

Tim and Kon got "married" on the playground with Jason as the officiant, Steph as the flower girl, and Duke as a ring bear (he dressed up as a bear and brought Ring Pops)

Steph and Duke are kept on child leashes when they go to the amusement park because they keep trying to get on rollercoasters they're too short for

Jason's also kept on a child leash, but that's because he tried to take the head off every costumed mascot at Disneyland

Even though the ingredients are the same, Dick inexplicably makes PB&Js better than everyone else

Kate can clear ten hot wings in sixty seconds

Bruce has appeared on the cover of more parenting and family magazines than celebrity and business ones combined

Instead of using her skills to hurt people, Talia uses them to protect her newfound family

Alfred secretly joined a senior citizens book club to brag about his grandchildren

Someone once said to Selina, "You know he's always gonna pay attention to kid kids first, right?" To which she replied, "I wouldn't have picked him if he didn't"

#ask #anonymous #batfamily #batfam #batclan #batman family #batkids #batsibings #dc comics #headcanon #tw food mention

[batarangsoundsdumb]

guess fucking what? my inbox is so fucking full right now i'm unloading all of this shit in one post.

For the 11th gotham memes: gothamites react to bruce being jacked in a tiktok he made with kids, like super yoked, ripped as hell

fucking hilarious thanks. i think i did it in one meme post, but i genuinely don't remember which one

i dunno which of the batfam would do this but one time i was sleeping over at a friends house and ended up on the floor bc the bed was so very small and i just stayed there because the rug was soft

that's a drunk jason move i don't know what to tell you

tim and jason are "i listen to pop punk" solidarity. whenever jason highjacks the batmobile theyll go on long ass car rides blaring mcr and paramore and then never talk about it again

as they should!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tim: no jason it's my turn using the aux cord i gotta put on my jams jason: don't you dare put on weird shit tim: don't worry, you're gonna love this *plays fearless (taylor's version)

hear me out hear me out, red hood stans 🤝 nightwing stans t h i g h s

holy shit yes.

SNL au: Bruce breaks character when pretending to superman and says something like "I'm not superman! You've seen his gps!! It's from 2001!!!" @sabeanybabe

superman flies past the snl building the next day just to say 'actually it's from 2005, i'm not a heathen'

does your back hurt from carrying the batfam fandom

it hurts more from the exotic rock collection i keep in my backpack, but thanks for the concern.

I love your posts by why would you always leave the best parts in the tags?

as a treat for the people that check the tags ;) (and also because i'm committed to the short post aesthetic)

somehow your playlist was everything i never knew i needed. i mean it. this is my new favorite playlist.

and don't you dare get a new favourite playlist!

babe ur stoner tim playlist is exactly too perfect, earth is literally blessed by ur existence

babe thanks so much! i love my stoner tim playlist because it's just my usual playlist but people think it's an artistic choice that i put taylor swift and britney spears in there, when it's just what i unironically like listening to

JANDKSKDK BILLY RAY CYRUS ON THE STONER TIM PLAYLIST I LOVE IT IT

again it's not even an ironic choice, i know every single word and i genuinely like the song

The last chapter of Fundamentals of Casework has me crying at work. Thanks I love it @dudelookitsalesbian

oh babe, i'm sorry, but also, not sorry i love chapter 4 so much it's my lovechild with the 'mental illness' tag

soooo....stumbled on your tumblr by some stroke of fate??? read your DC fanfic first. which is PHENOMENAL btw. then found all the batmemes; the funniest thing EVER bc everyone forgets about regular old gothamites. kept scrolling and your blog pops up as recommended. clicked on the ao3 for shits and giggles and waddaya know?!?!? it's YOU!!! you're LEGEND!!!! ever seen that meme? it's a video of a cat that got into a baseball field and the two announcers get really invested in his escape attempt and start giving a play by play of the cat instead of the game. memeable moment: "GREAT stuff from the Cat!!!"

i seriously think about this ask every single day and it's so fucking funny to me that i've never seen the meme you're referencing, but i still find myself going 'GREAT stuff from the Cat!!!' whenever i see something funny. but wow i'm glad you liked this steaming pile of garbage

Fav dc character overall? And fav batfamily character?

don't ask me to pick between the loves of my life, but i can tell you i've cried about every single batfamily member and also wally west (my beloved)

What's your opinion on fans having a problem with batfam being "too big"? And some even claim that batfam is just "Bruce Alfred Dick Damian" and the rest of them are just "friends and allies" (source: reddit) Personally, I like batfam because of this reason but idk

stupid. a family can never be too big. i'm not that big a fan of like huge batfam stuff with everybody from every single universe, because as much as it's funny for bruce to have like 30 kids, it just feels a little too OOC for me.

This is the best tag I've seen involving the batfam, thanks for thinking of it

This is canon now @nctxrejects

lmao yeah i think at that point alfred has had to sit through like at least a dozen coming out talks and just has a pride flag collection in the attic that he pulls out whenever a kid comes out

idk why batfam hits different as compared to any other superhero family

bc it's found family and usually the other superhero families are almost all genetically related in one way or another

I don't know if you watch the umbrella academy but I saw your last post about batcest and saw the similarities. But the thing is (although I think it's weird) in TUA, they addressed it by saying "they were raised as weapons, not siblings" or something along those lines, which is simply not the case with batfam.

yeah i watched tua but i also thought it was ridiculous and they still treated each other as siblings so i didn't like the luthor/allison thing, and am glad they stopped doing that shit bc it fucking sucked.

Hot take: Batcest shippers are the same people who believe adopted siblings are not actual siblings

smoking hot take: batcest shippers are the people who watch 'my sister got stuck in the washing machine' porn

Duke was adopted by Bruce?

not technically no, but do i, tumblr user batarangsoundsdumb, look like i care?

True story but I had to change my freaking name because it used to be "Damien" and most people would go "OH LIKE DAMIAN WAYNE" like please I'm just tryna live

true story, but i don't actually think of damian when i hear the name damian, literally the first thing that pops up is damian darkh like bruh what?

apparently dc comics company supported comic stores by giving out new titles and stuff during the beginning of the pandemic to help them run and I just think that's wholesome

ah yeah that's so fucking cool, still don't like dc, the company, because this world is a capitalist hellhole and we're all owned by warner brothers or disney with no in between.

ayo looking at tumblr head canons and finding out bruce is actually a terrible father is a punch in the gut

lmao yes, in like 50% of comics bruce is a terrible father and it gives me whiplash

oooh I just saw the jason todd vs winter soldier post and the real question is: batman vs iron man

while iron man has like hundreds of cases of armor, batman could throw out an emp and have the guy dropping out of the sky in 2 seconds.

dickfast = fastdick = quickdick = quickie

magnum hot take

hey bata(?) just thought I'd let you know I have copied the obnoxious emoji and Billy Ray post for use on simping men going forth

thank you 😘🌷 (@spacebarsidecar)

why would you do that to your followers???? i get why i did it, but why would you???

what is scarecrow made the nightwing funko pop himself, like those diy-ers that paint over other ones

oh god no, horrible take, horrible take, that's a disgusting thought oh no

I see your HC that Bruce and Oliver fucked and raise you this: Dick and Roy ALSO fucked

yes they did and it was a horrible moment for jason to find out dick has fucked both of his best friends

"at this rate bruce adds like 1 child to his family every decade or so" Duke is introduced in 2013, Damian as Damian, not as an unnamed child, in 2006. And he is already 14 years old, Robins rarely remain Robins after 16 😬 It looks like a new Robin and Batkid will appear in a couple of years

i mean i can't wait? but somebody will probably die first tho, we're due for another major character death. my money's on either cass or duke this time.

BRO you're so right all of your Bruce's ex headcanons are amazing but they aren't ships, that's kinda wild. Like I don't want any peeks into how their relationship was I just want to see everyone make fun of them

lmao YES it's just i love bruce being a slut, like good for him.

I am in love with your posts your honour thank you

omg thanks are we like,, gonna kiss now?

The justice league needs to have a meeting to discuss how many of their members/partners have slept with bruce. Because through a combination of cannon & fannon (if DC wasn’t homophobic) we have AT LEAST: 1) clark 2) lois 3) oliver 4) dinah 5) john

Thats not counting villains or random civilians @dudelookitsalesbian

yes yes yes, they'll have a yearly meeting about how many of their collective exes could be out for revenge and batman's list just keeps getting longer.

tim was like "i'm drake now" and everyone was like ahh so your fursona is a dragon and tim was like pffffft no. ducks.

and what about it?

when steph's fighting livewire and she zaps her with lighting and nothing happens and then they both just. stand there awkwardly for a second and talk. yeah i couldn't stop laughing at that batgirl steph is the BEST

oh yeah that was fucking hilarious and i think it would be so cool and sexy of dc to give steph a little comic series,,, as a treat

Hi I absolutely adore all of yours "Bruce and Oliver very badly pretending they didn't fuck each other" memes

lmao i do too

I need you to know that “Bruce Wayne had frosted tips” is one of my favorite Bruce takes of all time it’s so galaxy brained. you’re right and you should say it

he also painted his hair blonde once when he was travelling and in conclusion, this is why he's being blackmailed by the gotham gazette.

you know my thing about gordon being branded as the only good cop in gotham is its a load of shit like arguably he's a good person and not working to screw people over or anything but the fact that he also works w. batman makes him a shit cop. like yea batman is better than the mob but its still illegal its still an abuse of power he just not making bank

babe, all cops are bad cops. (but yeah youre absolutely right, working with vigilantes makes you a shit cop, but also working against vigilantes just makes you an asshole cop yanno?)

ruh roh i think i’m about to add “so not yeehaw” every time i don’t like something

that's a very good vocabulary upgrade

somehow i feel like steph already knew. like babs obviously knew but i feel like bruce got high/drunk in front of steph and started telling his boarding school stories and steph was just like “oh you fucked up i’m never gonna forget this”

steph and bruce have weird uncle/rebellious niece dynamic and they just hang out sometimes and bruce will be like 'i once broke my arm when i tripped over a hedge when i was drunk so oliver drove me to the hospital on an electric scooter' and steph will just have to sit there with that knowledge in her head.

Hello I just wanted to tell you you are So right in all your steph opinions bc she is, in fact amazing and I think that's very sexy of you. Ps. Your Bruce/Oliver fic is hilarious

babe, thank you so much and yes steph is amazing and i love her and she deserves the world and she's the best member of the batfam hands down. also thanks

In Supersons we see a couple of kids that are implied to be Damian and Jon's children and the boy has laser eyes and can fly, so I asume he's not adopted. The girl, who calls Bruce grandpa, can also fly, btw. So it's canon (probably by accident) that Jon can have kids and he must have married one of Bruce's kids. (I'm hoping for Damian, mostly because any other of his children would be waaaaaaaaaaaaay too old.) @artemisa97

lmao that was probably an accident seeing as jon is a 17 year old superhero in the year 3000 (by the jonas brothers)

You know, I'm a die hard fan of your memes, but I gotta say one thing: if Gothamites actually took gas mask everywhere with them, then the Scarecrow would just be a weird dude in a weird costume, and not a villain oh so scary. DC really should just takes notes from you.

bold of you to assume there's no gothamite anti-maskers

How does it feel being the funniest person on this app?

horrible, next question.

I can't listen to Green Day or Billy Joel without thinking of your post about how Bruce got arrested at a Billy Joel concert @nightwings-kid

yeah that's your mistake, i on the other hand can't enjoy billy joel without thinking about the glee rendition of 'uptown girl'

I've FINALLY been watching the Batman animated series and I gotta say, after watching "the gray ghost" I am CONVINCED that Batman is a closeted super hero geek who was 100% freaking out the first time he met Superman and is just REALLY good at hiding it.

superman: so what do you do in your free time? batman, thinking about the superman fanfiction he's writing on the batcomputer: i have no free time

bruce and oliver be like boyfriends to co-workers 401k (do the justice leagues get 401ks??? not that bruce and ollie would need them, but-)

lmao yes just 400 thousand words of bruce realising 'oh dip oliver is such a fucking dumbass' (also i don't know what a 401 k is but i assume they don't?)

Gothamites would totally boo superman as he saves Gotham while batman is out. @meenje

he's like 'okay think about that next time you want to be saved from an alien octopus'

I just took long break from dc comics and I come back to see ric grayson ??

i think it's very cool and sexy of dc to see dick and just think 'you know what? let's just give him a traumatic brain injury' and then didn't develop his character in any real way

SPEAKING OF RIC GRAYSON, gothamites making confused memes out of ric grayson is much needed

'dick grayson is my taxi driver? can anyone explain what the fuck happened he looks like an italian plumber?'

i hate to say it but batfam are def "marvel characters" in that sense they are characters who are human but become superheroes unlike most dc characters who are gods trying to be human maybe this is why I like batfam

fair enough

#this is only like half of it #but at least you can get like a few answers #yanno fuck it #bataranswers #ask #asks #anon

[storyshark2005]

Fic Excerpt - pre-TimKon in “East of Eden”

In which Conner gets a haircut while Tim watches. Steph eats Funyuns and strategizes re: superhero dresscode.

Steph turns her sparkly gaze on Conner, a fish hook smile pulling up the corner of her mouth. “Oooooo, Superbaby’s getting a fresh cut too?” 

Tim growls in annoyance. 

“You’d look hot with an undercut.” Steph nods wisely. 

“What’s that?” Conner tips his chin up as Alfred snaps the apron into place.

She pulls a purple phone case from her pocket with one of those phone gripper things that look kind of like a ring pop. It’s yellow and says, “SPOILER ALERT!” 

“See?”She angles the screen toward Conner, showing a google image search with a bunch of headshots. “Short on the sides, and with your waves on top, ohmygod, you’d look SO cute!” 

Conner looks up at Tim, studying the screen intently. He looks up after a quiet moment, shrugging. “Alf can do whatever you want, he’s a pro.” 

Conner nods, cheeks a little hot. “Yeah, okay. You can do that one.”

Alfred nods in approval, and Steph squeals. She dumps her bag on the ground and noisily drags over a couple of dining room chairs, slapping the seat and calling Tim over, sit with me babe! She pulls out a bag of Funyuns and folds her gum into the foil packaging, and begins chomping into the onion chips loudly.

Alfred switches on a trimmer and tilts Conner’s head to the side. Conner closes his eyes and feels his hair fall like leaves.

Steph and Tim chat and laugh, and it lulls Conner into a comfortable warm place, Alfred’s fingers directing him in simple, wordless motions. 

Steph murmurs, and Conner catches the back half, “like some red pants or something.” 

“Red pants?” Conner opens his eyes. Alfred switches the trimmer off and picks up his scissors. 

“Duh. Superheroes don’t wear jeans. I’m thinking like, red spandex--” She pulls her hand from the Funyun bag and draws an imaginary poster in the air, like it was a headline. “You can wear your leather jacket, and we could get you some sunglasses...and maybe something cool like a yellow belt, or like a garter around your thigh--” 

“A what?” Tim chokes. Conner listens intently, as Steph seemed an authority on cool.

“It’d be like a cool pop of color,” Stephanie nods. “Like some straps, a thigh holster. We’d get you some leather boots. I’m seeing you in tights and just like...it’s very punk rock. With just like a little bit of a bondage vibe--” 

“Miss Brown,” Alfred stops cutting, giving Steph a stern look. Tim is choking on a Funyun.

“It’s a vibe--” Steph leans over, pounding Tim on the back. “You okay Timmy?”

#stephanie brown #timothy wayne drake #tim drake #conner luthor #conner kent #kon-el #superboy #timkon #fanfiction #east of eden fic