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egophiliac · 11 months
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finished up a pre-work warmup doodle, I promise someday I will draw characters other than Silver (look it's almost his birthday GOSH)
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arrietty-rune · 6 months
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silly void kids
Check my art here !! I draw a lot of Gumball stuff :D
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blu3b3rryj4mp1r3 · 1 year
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I know I've been just posting coloured sketches for quite a while, to my surprise people seem to like them? so maybe trying your best is always adequate even when you aren't able to do as much as you used to or could if you were feeling better, thank you for being kind :) here's some cmc centric stuff! (ab is saying "come on/let's go crusaders!" in swedish in that one sketch in the corner in case anyone wonders 🍎🌸
♡ ˢᶠʷ ᶦⁿᵗᵉʳᵃᶜᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵒⁿˡʸ ♡
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ilikemuffins · 9 months
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Winx theory ✨
In season 1, episode 8, the dancing girl that reminds Bloom of Daphne is actually Layla. Maybe, sneaking out of Andros to be herself and dance.
Source: my 8 year old brain.
Idk. My favourite trope is the found-family friends subtly crossing paths before they first meet. This fuels that - so I don’t accept constructive criticism.
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marygih · 4 months
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My headcanons
Miss Peregrine is very afraid of Grimbears (due to what happened in LOS)
Murnau was a cannibal
Caul knew that Bentham's statues were humans, but he didn't mess with them because he thought they were actually stuffed dead people.
Bentham's Grimbear was killed from the battle of LOS. (I had a theory that he survived and became a hollow unlike anything he's ever seen, but it's just a theory)
Abe must have seen Golan thousands of times and never identified him as a wight.
Emma, Millard, Fiona and Hugh must blame themselves for what happened to Charlotte.
Claire is afraid of Enoch's humunculi and wants them far away from her dolls and stuffed animals.
Olive sleeps on the bottom bunk bed, but instead of her mattress being on top of the bottom bunk, it is stuck under the top bunk, so that she doesn't need to be tied to her bed and can sleep more comfortably (I'll draw this later)
Caul was never punished for attacking Miss P when he was a child, which is why she is so resentful and says he was too spoiled, after all he did not bear the consequences of his actions
Ymbrynes feel pain when transforming into birds, all their bones change at once and their entire body is forced to shrink, probably the faster the transformation the less pain.
Ymbrynes feel the peculiarities of others, they cannot identify which one it is, but they feel that a Child is peculiar. So a ymbryne identified baby Jacob's peculiarity , so the peregrine identified Abe's Peculiarity , and so the miss P always knows when Millard is present.
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rookheeya · 1 year
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The Big Bang Theory S08 Ep08 "The Prom Equivalency" 
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lukreziaaa · 3 months
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“I think you and Leonard will be together. I think you’re the best couple I know.” “That’s so sweet. Why do you think that?” “Well, I feel like you guys make each other better. Penny brought Leonard out of his shell. And it seems like Leonard makes Penny think more deeply about the world. I don’t know.
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Together you two kind of make one awesome person.”
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buddiesmutslut · 4 days
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Saw a post that Tommy is Abby 2.0 & that feels SO REAL (older & more mature, introducing Buck to a different way of thinking, knows the job intimately, not quite as into him as he is into them 🫣).
I just hope Tommy leaves in a much better way, bc he gives off good vibes and I ADORE LOU.
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lunar-and-ardent · 3 months
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Some headcanons regarding Winx's appearance I like/have
While the cartoon doesn't really have different body types, there are some headcanons about Winx I really like (and it looks like some of them, mostly about Layla/Aisha and Musa, will become canon in the 9th season/reboot, so maybe I'm onto something!).
Bloom - the whole point of her character is being an average girl that turns out to be a fairy and a princess of the lost kingdom, so I think that she should look rather average (aside from her red hair + blue eyes combo, of course). You know, like 168cm tall and with nothing too specific/characteristic about her body shape.
Stella - as a kid I always wondered why Stella likes sunbathing so much, yet it is never visible on her body. This is why I like to think that, aside from winter and especially during summer, she is more or less tanned. I also like to imagine her as tall, like 178cm, to fit into this model-like archetype, but I think it would be nice for her to be a little chubbier and/or have a pear body shape. For two reasons. First, to have the most fashionable character not fitting fully into the conventional standards of beauty. Second, I think it would be interesting in relation to her being "the ugly child" (this one retrospection of her being like 10, in S2), showing her confidence.
Flora - her version from 1999, the conceptual one, had glasses and I think that she would look so cute in round ones. Plus a little more representation of people wearing glasses, and not a super-stereotypical one at that! For variety, she could sometimes wear glasses, sometimes contacts. Moreover, I like this headcanon in the community that she is chubby, with a round/apple shape, such strong mom friend vibes! Alternatively, I think that it would be also fitting for her to be like 175cm tall (you know, tall, but not super-tall) and rather skinny. I'm thinking rectangle/candle body type. I think that this could get the idea of her being shy. Of course, body shapes have nothing to do with your personality, don't understand me wrong! I'm thinking more about how characters are designed and the vibes they can instantly give. Oh, and she likes doing experiments, so maybe one went wrong, and now she has a prosthesis made from branches of trees? This could look cool, plus I'm pretty sure Flora would be like "well, stuff happens".
Layla/Aisha - for some reason I like to imagine her being tall, like the tallest of the group, maybe like 182cm. And of course with a toned body! After all, she's very into sport and dance, I think her muscles would be visible. An hourglass or a rectangle shape, I think.
Musa - while Layla for some reason is tall in my mind, I imagine Musa as the shortest one. Maybe because of her fiery temper, short characters with fire personalities are always entertaining. Plus, this would add the dynamic tall friend&short friend with Aisha. Also, a rectangle shape. Or maybe an inverted triangle?
Tecna - I think it would be funny if she looked like an ideal model. An hourglass shape, 180cm. Stella would be like "ohmygodgirlyoulooksostunningcanyouwearmyprojectspleasepleaseplease" and Tecna, just hella confused, would answer "...thanks?". The beautiful girl that has no idea how beautiful she is, just minding her own business.
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an official art of the reboot/season 9 for reference
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filmesbrazil · 3 months
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coffee-jelly544 · 1 month
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Domino timeline rewrite
Edit: after thinking about it more, I thought of ways to make it make more sense.
This is my rewrite for the Domino wonky timeline. I just need to advise on whether it makes sense and there aren't any plotholes.
Bloom is the second princess of Domino. Her parents were King Oritel and Queen Marion, with an older sister named Daphne, the current Keeper of the Dragon Flame. When she was born, the Dragon Flame chose her as its next guardian. She was raised for a few months on Domino when the Three Ancestral Witches tried to steal the Dragon Flame. Daphne fought them but the Three Witches combined their powers to curse her. If she were to use her Dragon powers, they would turn against her.
After realizing she wasn't going to defeat them, she grabbed Bloom and hid their presence inside the palaces hidden chambers that only the royal family new of.
Thinking that Daphne had somehow gotten away with Bloom, they froze the kingdom in ice. This ice reached Daphne and Bloom in the hidden chamber and froze them. For the next 300 years, the Dragon Flame slowly melted the ice. With whatever magic she had left in her weakened state, she transfered the Dragon Flame to Bloom and sent her to Earth. By doing so, this activated the curse, and she sacrificed her life. Bloom was discovered by Mike, a firefighter, in a house fire. He brought her home to his wife, Vanessa, and they adopted her. They raised for 16 years before she discovered she was a fairy.
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markiafc · 6 months
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to fulfill my promises to @ananeiah and to expound on @seventh-fantasy's post, there are many conceptions of enlightenment. because buddhism is a massive and old religion with a very robust canon, enlightenment goes by many names, it's articulated and imagined in many different ways. let's play the game of how many of them are adopted by the show...
popular metaphors that embody enlightenment include a refuge, a flame going out, or a firm island - because this world is often described as an ocean. all human beings are floating in the 生死苦海 sea of rebirth and suffering. to escape it, one must make their way to the island or to get on a boat. mahayana buddhism (aka. chinese buddhism) is literally named 大乘 the great vehicle, the primary idea being that enlightenment = to board a vehicle of transport, it will take you away. however, buddhism doesn't just envision this as an ambiguous vehicle. 乘 the vehicle specifically refers to a 船 boat.
the mortal world and the cycle of suffering is a sea and the way out is enlightenment, envisioned as a boat.
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an extension of this is the concept of 彼岸 the faraway shore (alt tl: the further shore, the distant shore, the other shore, or at times the opposing shore). it draws on the same notion of 苦海 the ocean of suffering. to achieve enlightenment is to swim to shore, where there is finally safety and stability, free from suffering. this is why the euphemism for enlightenment is to 度到彼岸 reach the faraway shore.
此岸 this shore, is this ever-changing world full of agonies. you wade across the 苦海 sea of suffering, and reach 彼岸 the faraway shore. this is enlightenment.
as @seventh-fantasy depicts in this post, the final shot of ep 40, and as seen in the bonus ep 40.5, this is where llh is. ep 40 ends with the camera moving further into the distance, moving further into the sea. and the bonus ep 40.5 makes it clear again that lxy/llh has found his way to a different beach. llh has crossed the sea to another beach. he is on another shore, the 彼岸 faraway shore, far from 东海 the east sea where everyone else is.
let's look even closer at this.
enlightenment is also conceived as a place: 淨土 the pure lands, 极乐世界 the realm of greatest bliss, and so on. one of the geographical markers of this idea is 西 the west. this "land" accessible only to the enlightened (佛 buddhas, 菩萨 bodhisattvas, and 阿罗汉 arhats) is also dubbed 西方淨土 the western pure lands and 西天 the western heavens, etc.
enlightenment is imagined to be westwards. the opposite direction and away from 东海 dong hai = the east sea. where the story began and lxy famously plunged into; he fell into the 苦海 sea of suffering located in the 东 east. from this starting point, llh makes a meandering journey to his final location in the show. he makes his way 西 west, towards enlightenment, and reaches a 彼岸 faraway shore, the enlightened "after" and what is beyond.
now that we're on the topic of the pure lands, it's worth mentioning that this concept is furnished with a lot of descriptions in buddhist sutras. it is a beautiful, glorious land brimming with lotuses. because, of course, the lotus is yet another ubiquitous image that represents enlightenment.
the lotus position is crucial to the buddhist practice of prayer cultivation, especially in 禅宗 zen buddhism that is built around the central practice of prayer. lotuses are motifs in buddhist art, and buddhist myths (the legend goes that lotus flowers bloomed under the buddha's feet when he took his first steps as a child). people practicing buddhism are referred to as 莲友 lotus friends, 芬陀利花 the white lotus is a synonym for the buddha. lotuses are also integral to buddhist canon; the pure lands are detailed to have seven 宝莲池 treasure lotus ponds. every buddhist has their own lotus waiting for them in the pure lands; it is believed the more you cultivate, the more your bud in the pure lands grows/blooms.
of note, every living thing residing in the pure lands are made from lotuses. in fact, buddhist canon states that the enlightened are reborn inside a lotus bud, similar to an incubation. their new body is reconstituted from lotuses and they emerge anew when the bud blooms. crucially, it is also stated that every enlightened in the pure lands will have 莲花座 a lotus seat. this is a vehicle of transport, usually likened to the magic carpet from one thousand and one nights. it is described as 随心所欲、飞翔自在 something that acts after your heart's desire, something that flies free. the lotus seat is about boundless, freeing travel.
this isn't comprehensive at all, there are tons of other ways lotuses come up throughout buddhism. but the connection to the show is straightforward and self-explanatory. the primary motif in 莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook is the lotus - a famous marker for buddhism itself. one of the dominant illustrations of enlightenment, the cultivation process to achieve it, and enlightened entities themselves.
the buddhist notions of rebirth are similarly heavily intertwined with the lotus. it is your body; you become it, it becomes you. from then on, you are surrounded by its image and its presence. you even have a lotus vehicle that becomes your main method of travel, a mode of travel defined by carefree contentment. sound familiar? llh's identity and his living carries major markers of enlightenment. it is one of the primary concerns of his character arc.
quick detour. a prominent moniker for enlightenment is the setting of the sun, as yet another epithet utilized by the drama.
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detour over. crazy connections time.
discussions of death and suicide is, to my knowledge, particularly prominent in japanese buddhism. but as a whole, a significant portion of buddhist canon and a good number of buddhist media deals with this too. dying as a means to get closer to enlightenment, equating death and enlightenment, the subject of suicide itself. characters seemingly pass away and become enlightened, or characters strive for death with this express purpose as death is connected to enlightenment. this is true. one does not necessarily cause the other, but the concepts are interconnected in buddhism. it comes hand in hand, dissecting one means dissecting the other and vice versa.
most buddhist texts and masters do not condone a direct correlation, suicide is not the way to enlightenment. there is no buddhist value to killing yourself. but the key exception lies in one of the most important buddhist texts: the lotus sutra.
"These include several themes dealing explicitly with death, such as how suicide was committed to speed up rebirth in the Pure Land based on the sanctioning of voluntary death as a superior form of sacrifice in Chapter 23 of the Lotus Sutra ..." [1]
the chapter 23 in question talks about a bodhisattva who turns himself into a human candle and burns himself up, in offering to the buddha. there is more to the story, but it mainly functions as a lesson about cultivation and enlightenment.
in the canon about buddhist suffering, there lies a subset dedicated to physical pain and torment. there is a heavy focus on our 5 senses, specifically (that's a whole separate topic i won't go into here). very briefly, to suffer is to experience the world through our 5 senses. to live as a human being is to suffer in a sensory way.
buddhism aspires to transcend this flesh and blood suffering. so annihilation of one's body is an essential step to achieve enlightenment. usually, this theory centers natural death and decay. you accept that you are always aging, your senses will lose their edge, your body is always subject to illness, injury and other failings. let the body waste away, it will do so regardless.
hence, the human body is set on a course of gradual deterioration. this suffering is processed through our 5 senses and is defined by them. in the face of this, the lotus sutra is the only notable buddhist text that looks kindly upon "voluntary death" to transcend it.
similarly, llh accepts the effects of bicha on his body. it mimics the natural decline of the human body, accelerating the degradation of his senses, his immune system, and his physical capabilities in general. his experience of this form of suffering is also emphasized through a period losing his sense of sight. it is a very buddhist torment. but at the end of the day, it is still a man-made, unnatural cause generating this effect. accepting this is not the same as accepting 生老病死 death via age, sickness and other natural processes.
llh embodies the sentiments and themes in the lotus sutra when he consciously chooses to let bicha run its course. he chooses to die, it is a "voluntary death". let this destroy his body. let this suicidal choice (though its more nuanced than simply suicide imo) free him from buddhist physical suffering. thus bringing him closer to peace, a version of himself that will be happier.
finally, enlightenment is about ambiguity.
凡人 the common people are incapable of comprehending enlightenment. it is understood that the human senses and the human mind is too inept and unrefined, too clouded by illusions, to grasp it. there are a million ways to express it, depict it, and name it. but there is a consensus across buddhism that these are simply aids for the common student of buddhism, and they are not accurate to the truth. at the core of enlightenment is an abstraction, an inherent unknowing.
it is, by definition, a departure and a continuation. it is a removal from this world and a transition into another place, another realm. all at once, the phenomenon straddles a greyness between an ending and a beginning. it is unclear whether the enlightened has left, or is it the common man who is so lacking he cannot recognize or even perceive the enlightened? in the theory of enlightenment, buddhism accounts for both factors. but we will never know for sure.
where do the enlightened go? where are they, where have they gone? these are questions buddhists often ask and explore, and it is also the question that the remaining cast engages with. what is enlightenment, exactly? there is a suspicion, some notion of what must have happened. it might be death, it might not be. only the enlightened can answer this, everyone else is left without clarity.
in the end, the seekers get close to the answer but there is no real fruition. and so the search lasts indefinitely.
that, too, is part and parcel to enlightenment.
as for how enlightenment narratives function, i leave you with this.
"Nirvana provides the full stop (period) in the religious story; it gives what one might call, to use Frank Kermode's well-known phrase, "the sense of an ending" - that is, a real ending and not a mere breaking off. Such an ending is only possible within a narrative.
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Nirvana, I want to suggest, is a moment within a discursive or practical dynamic, a formal element of closure in structure of Buddhist imagination, texts, and rituals. One might say that nirvana has primarily a syntactic rather than semantic value: it is the moment of ending which gives structure to the whole. The fact of narrative structure and closure provides a meaningful and satisfying resolution, although in itself nirvana has merely the formal value of a closure marker.
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Earlier I called nirvana the full stop (period) in the Buddhist religious story; now I can add that it is a full stop in an eternal story, a full stop which brings closure to individual lives in a master text which itself can have no final ending." [2]
Sources:
Tragedy and Salvation in the Floating World: Chikamatsu's Double Suicide Drama as Millenarian Discourse by Steven Heine ↩︎
Nirvāna, Time, and Narrative by Steven Collins ↩︎
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v2is-baby · 1 year
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Do you think v1 and v2 knew each other before hell? And if so what do you think their relationship was like?
I doubt they actually met because V2 prototype wasn't a thing while V1 was still relevant and being tested. Once the war was over and the money invested in the first prototype became a problem, the company just stopped spending much time in V1, keeping it dormant, deactivated while simultaneously used to prepare their next project, V2. Surely maaaany things were taken from the first V model and adapted to the new one.
There was probably a lot of pressure set upon the company's engineers and robotic specialists to take as much advantage from V1 for V2's design. We cannot afford new, innovate ideas, just copy what we have and program it differently. Go for a cheaper, less warfare oriented technology, people need protection, not a weapon. Cannot sell this thing otherwise.
Considering V2's meant to accomplish a different function, it was programmed and tested several times. Since it's function is to protect, a good machine needs a flawless, unquestionable, integration of Asimov's laws, a flawless execution and a flawless calculation of priorities. Variables must always aim to what's best for a person's sake. V2 was surely learning a lot, especially morality, creativity at decision making, among other things such as fixing one or two things in their body. And well, people talked, commented about V1 and how V2 was designed around it. Being meant to serve people made it a good listener. It loved to listen, to learn, to surpass the expectations.
Comments such as "V2 performs identically to V1 in combat but doesn't know how to exploit it's durability" (of course it doesn't know, V2 fights like V1) may have been a common critique to hear for the second prototype. The machine probably never had the chance to see their predecessor, however it knew it had to prove it's worth to be considered good enough to salvage the company.
Oh, how much they loved people when V2 achieved little things by itself, by utilizing its creativity and highly adaptive program. The nice comments were nice, but it always knew that, deep down, people were still comparing it to V1. And V2 never understood why V1 was such a great comparison point besides similarities in their designs.
When they finally met, it turned out V2 was better at so many things except one. A flaw that didn't come from themself, but from their creators. Because they adapted all possible aspects from V1 to V2, except one.
Something V2 would never be able to change because it wasn't it's own incapability but a limitation by design. And that's just so unfair.
And to apply salt to the injury, they're retrocompatible.
Wouldn't that fill you with resentment?
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mxdnights0 · 3 months
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BREAKING NEWS
Im tired and writing so much my fingers feel like they are going to fall off. none of it is for the next chapter for either of my fics, its all for future events that aren't for at least another 4 chapters.
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@kwiwrites @kat-xox @cullenalices @marzst4rz @kris-076
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kirric-the-fan · 4 months
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Otona precure theory: Thoughts about power of hope precure and the endgame direction it's going regarding the cures:
Under the cut
So we know the flowers are bad news. This week Nozomi is facing some of the first serious side-effects of using her powers, and we know that whatever is happening to the flowers might be progressing regardless of how much they're using their powers (the fact that Nozomi worsened and her petal fell when she wasn't using them).
Which kinda makes sense
cus y'know, flowers die eventually.
(In fact, I was wondering if that was what actually happened to their rose garden powers in the end. The curemo's disappeared because the flowers naturally died. They just didn't notice because they weren't using their powers at the time.)
So:
One of the things I was thinking might happen is that the cures, or Nozomi in particular, might have to lose, or entirely forget their cure powers altogether to be saved from the time flowers.
Reason? The ending. I know the outro is a callback to the older outros, BUT I think that first section coming after a 'shit, Nozomi has to forget all her cure stuff' finale, is perfectly placed to kick us in the heart. The waking up. The tears. The song. It's almost worryingly in place for that to happen.
The only reason I've discounted it as a theory so far is that I didn't think Toei would want to eliminate any cures from their roster, even on an adult show. Why would they? They get more money from having more cures out there, and, we know from the existence of otona precure at all, that they want to keep cashing in.
So I didn't think it'd be a direction they'd take.
Until I remembered that the Rose Garden forms aren't the only cure forms these girls have.
And where did they get their other powers? The indebted Palmier Kingdom, who definitely has a king with an invested interest in protecting Nozomi and co.
Even Saki and Mai have alternative cure forms they could fall back on (although I would be a bit annoyed to lose Bloom and Egret).
(and hey, it gives the bank a chance to push more merch out for the two variants)
So I wonder if that's something there.
Thoughts?
(edit to add: I just realised that the other adult precure season we are waiting on also involves cures with multiple cure forms. Coincidence? Cash grab? Or something else?)
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allzelemonz · 1 year
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Free Comics: Stuart Bloom X Male Reader X Barry Kripke
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Prompt: Tropesgiving Day 5: Love Triangle Pronouns: He/Him, reader called ‘boyfriend’ Physical Sex: None Mentioned Rating: T/Moderate Themes Warnings: Barry is an asshole, Stuart stares a lot, Reader enjoys Silver Age DC, mentions/hints towards sex, hint of poly ending, Captain Sweatpants being a good guy Summary: Stuart and Barry are both flirty towards you, but when Barry finds out someone else is flirting with you he feels the need to do something about it. You have no problem laying out their options for them.
When Barry first noticed the number of comics increasing in your house he just thought you’d gotten a raise. When you told him that the comic store’s owner had a crush on you and wouldn’t let you leave without a free comic, he kinda got a little angry.
Angry by Barry’s standard is confrontation heavy. So you just refused to let him go to the store with you and told him it wasn’t any of his business. Barry has had every opportunity to ask you out, but he never has. Instead he lounges around as a friend with a special interest in if you’ve flirted with anyone on a given day.
So when Barry shows up at the store you don’t even notice right away, you're too enveloped in your new issue. Barry enters with one intention: get the guy out of the running for a thing he’s never going to have the courage to do. He looks around the shop and spots you in the back, from there he finds the owner to be the guy leaning on the counter with his head resting on his hand as he stares at you.
“You Stuart?” Barry asks.
“Oh, uh, yeah.” Stuart stands up straight - well, straight for Stuart. “That’s me.” He gestures awkwardly with his hands before dropping them back to his sides.
“You’re the owner?”
“Yeah, can I, uh, can I help you with something.”
Even as he talks to Barry, Stuart still tries to catch a glimpse of you through the one other person in the store that has decided to stand just perfectly to block his view. Barry sighs in annoyance.
“I’m gonna need you,” Barry takes a step to the side, further blocking Stuart’s view of you. “To stop flirting with my boyfriend.”
“What?”
“You’ve been giving him free stuff. I wouldn’t be complaining if you weren’t trying to get in his pants.”
Stuart lets out an awkward laugh and raises his hands slightly in defense. “He never mentioned he was dating anybody.”
“I’m not.”
The men both turn to see you, freshly completed comic book in hand.
“You’re not?” Stuart asks.
“He is now.” Barry wraps an arm around your shoulders, earning him an elbow to the ribs.
“One, I am not dating Barry. Two, Stuart is just as welcome to flirt with me as you are. Three, if either, or both, of you want to ask me out properly without being morons, I will be looking through the DC Silver Age.”
As you walk off and begin rifling through the case of comics the men look at one another. Barry holds his side, still in pain from the elbow you gave him and Stuart finds it hard to stop the heat rising to his ears.
“Who do you think can get over there faster?” Stuart wonders out loud.
“Nah, I have an injury. We’re not doing this.”
Stuart looks at the ceiling in thought for a moment, then back at you and takes his chance at rounding the counter. Barry beats him to you due to the shorter distance. Before either of them can speak you hit Barry in the head with a comic. Not rolled up, you’d never do that to a precious classic issue like the one in your hand.
“Key word, properly. If neither of you are going to focus on anything other than possessiveness, then we can work this out later.” You lecture as if they’re toddlers.
“He started it.” Barry mutters.
“Shut up, Barry.” You snap. “Stuart, I’m free on Friday. Barry, I’m free Sunday.”
“You’re gonna go out with both of us?” Stuart raises his eyebrows with the question.
“Show me what you’ve got.” You put the comics back in their box. “Unless you both want to come with me right now for a movie that could lead well into the night.”
There’s a suggestiveness to your voice that keeps both of them quiet as they think it through.
“Screw it, let’s go.” Barry caves first.
“Hey, Sweatpants, lock up when you’re done.” Stuart tosses Captain Sweatpants the keys and follows you and Barry out.
Captain Sweatpants, being the dutiful citizen that he is, flips the open sign to closed and checks himself out before turning off the lights and locking up behind him. He takes the keys with him, knowing he’ll be here before Stuart tomorrow morning.
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