#but he can’t help but fail

[selarina]

i think gojo tries to bake a cake for your birthday, messes up bad and transports the two of you to a small town bakery in Germany to get you a freshly baked infamous cake instead

#it’s about the little and the big things with him sometimes #he succeeds at the big things #it’s all he’s known his whole life #but ever since you made him that birthday cake for his 28th birthday #he couldn’t stop thinking about the taste #objectively it was decent nothing special but something about the fact that you spent your energy and time making it for him #made it special #and he wants to give that to you so bad #but he can’t help but fail #he fears he’ll never be good at the little things but he tries anyway #gojo satoru

[ikiprian]

Mr. Fenton is a competent teacher. Almost too competent.

If Mr. Daniel Fenton had any more than a BS (with a minor in education), Tim would’ve flagged his profile as a potential Rogue. That’s the way of most charismatic academics, at least in Gotham. (Got a PhD? Instant watchlist.) Instead, he’s Gotham Academy’s newest celebrity, as a young, passionate, out-of-towner substitute while the chemistry teacher’s on maternity leave.

Tim gets the hype. Fenton seems to genuinely love teaching, and is invested in the welfare of the student body. He hands out bananas during exam week, hosts a “study habits seminar” each month to coach effective learning strategies, and the third time Tim falls asleep in his class, he even pulls Tim aside to ask if he’s doing okay. With all the late work he accepts and the protein bars he sneaks Tim, he’s every teen vigilante’s dream teacher. He could’ve been Tim’s favorite.

In fact, Mr. Fenton was Tim’s favorite. Up until Tim walks into Mr. Fenton’s chemistry classroom for a forgotten textbook, an hour after the final bell.

On the board where tallied scores for today’s review game had been kept, “THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND DR. CRANE’S FEAR GAS: ANXIOGENICS, NERI’S, & YOU,” is now scrawled. A detailed diagram of the human endocrine system projects in front of a small crowd of adoring and attentive students.

Fenton is wrist-deep in the skull cavity of an anatomical model. A short tug, and out pops the brain.

It’s plastic. It’s fake.

Tim identifies the nearest emergency exit.

Fenton turns to the door, and in the dark classroom with the projector illuminating half his face, his eyes almost seem to flash red. “What’s up, Tim?” he asks. His friendly grin is too big for his face. “I didn’t know you wanted to join the Just Science League!”

[OR: Danny’s a science teacher at Tim’s school. Gotham’s a pretty wild place, even for someone who grew up a superhero in a ghost-infested town, so he takes it upon himself to start a club teaching kids how to manage themselves in the event of a crisis. These Gothamites are pretty hardy, but a little extra training never hurt anybody! And he suspects one of his students might be a teen vigilante, like he’d been, back in the day. As a senior super, it's Danny’s duty look out for him! Surely, this is the subtlest and most appropriate way to give the kid pointers.]

[Tim immediately assumes supervillain.]

#Danny can’t help being creepy it’s just the way he’s built!! #I like to think Lancer did these things for Danny when he was in HS #and now Danny's emulating Lancer :) #Passing it on! #Tim is paranoid but also like he is SO CLOSE to graduating so like. Does he even want to report this shit to Batman. What if the next chem #teacher's a jerk and Tim fails the class and he never gets his stupid diploma. Bruce already is insisting he finish out HS and maybe get #an ABA before he's allowed back into the company #and Jesus Christ does Tim hate school. He'll worry about Mr. Fenton's burgeoning army of Science Honor Society Rogues on his own time #dcxdp #dpxdc #prompt #tim drake #danny fenton #in case I write more of this let’s tag it uhhhhh #misunderstood mentor au #kipwrite

[nynevefromthelake]

Pomegranates! how the Greek mythology au turned aut

#art #sandman fanart #sandman #dream of the endless #hob gadling #morpheus #dreamling #greek mythology #another failed attempt to make darker and more eldritch dream #But I can’t help giving him the softest expression when he looks at hob #Because they are so in love your honour

[shewhowillrise]

AU where Bruce is dead, Jason is Batman, and Tim becomes his Robin. Joker kidnaps Tim and makes him Joker Junior and after Tim kills Joker, before sumcombing to his injuries of the torture.Jason vows no more partners. No More Robins.

Then gets transported to a Good Dad Fanon Bruce and Batfam universe (where Jason has stayed dead) He’s always avoiding Tim. He’s hanging out with Dick and Damian and Duke and Steph, but when Tim shows up, he clams up.

Tim confronts him, Jason breaks down. Because if he got used to having Tim around, inevitably when he gets back to his home universe, he’s going to feel the loss all over again.

There is no Damian or Duke in his universe to miss. Dick is still swinging on ropes with his parents, and Steph is a normal college girl.

All Jason sees when he looks at this Tim, is what he failed to save.

#Tim Drake #Jason Todd #Batfam #NO TIMJAY PLS #I’m always seeing Damian and Jay or Dick and Jay having brotherly emotional fics #give me a Tim and Jay one #where Tim gets to meet his favorite Robin #sure a different universe robin but it’s still Jason!! #only to be ignored at every turn #to be given the cold shoulder #and thinks he did something wrong #when all he’s done is try his best to help this Jason #and just the emotional outlash to Jason about ignoring him #only to get tears in return #‘I can’t get used to you because if I do #the moment I go back I will have to face the fact I failed you all over again’ #he knows of steph bc of cluemaster and keeping tabs on his family #duke might show up in this jason's life later but w/o joker he lives w hids parents still

[infinite-orangepeel]

duffer brothers: now joe, we’ve talked about this, if you don’t want to be perceived as the most ‘canon baby girl’ on the show—what do you need to do ?

joe keery *sighs*: not look so naturally breedable and submissive—

duffer brothers: exactly

#an impossible feat #he will try and fail #he can’t help it #joe keery #steve harrington #the babygirlification of steve harrington #baby girl steve harrington #steve harrington is babygirl coded #steddie #eddie munson #fruity four #stranger things #steve x eddie #steve st4 #st4 #djo #steve harrington/eddie munson #steve harrington headcanon #incorrect stranger things

[upsidedowneye]

#dan heng x reader #honkai star rail x reader #hsr x reader #my polls #help I have ADHD I can’t make these decisions #And yes the SP!Reader is still in prison while DH is getting his found family :)))) #The dentist doesn’t know how this happened and doesn’t dare question it (they also really like his mouth 😏) #There is also the option of Dentist that Committed Crimes!Reader x Dan Heng (Not srs) #Dan heng just is whipped for people who (hopefully) know what they are doing regardless of what it is. #Please he needs a partner with a brain cell so that he can be a brainless **** and ****** ******** #DH: “Free them they did nothing wrong :(“ #Random Offical: “They literally killed 2 preceptors” #DH who inherited DF’s habits of 1) being nerd and 2) being attracted to people who could throw him on his ass in a verbal and actual spar #He prepares a debate for the laws he knows all the loopholes to (thank you past reincarnations) #But if all else fail the Express would break them out #^ Blade is being benched for the sake of the narrative. His version of ‘being able to beat his ass’ just turns DH off 😔😔

[clownjacket]

Okay my crack theory for Lucy’s god situation:

What if instead of dying Lucy’s god became an archfey and fucked off, forsaking all of their followers. I could see that as justifiable for a minor god—maybe you don’t want your personality and existence to be dependent on a group of people small enough for a really big hurricane to wipe them out. Maybe you want to try your hand at self actualization, which you can’t really do as a god. Whatever.

But that would still mean Lucy’s grades would be screwed for the year, and the whole group would be switched to pass/fail.

Whatever god they’re trying to bring back seems like they want to stay a god, but would also only have a single living cleric so their nature would be heavily influenced by who that cleric is, and could still be controlled. Bringing back an established dead god with living followers probably reduces the risk of the god immediately dying or completely sucking ass/not being powerful like what happened with YES!(?), and we know the Ratgrinders LOVE minimizing risk. And choosing a dead god that represents something Lucy is actually passionate about preaching and proselytizing would make her work as a cleric much easier for her emotionally than, say, switching to Helio and just going through the motions, and bringing back a god would probably look good on college resumes.

Idk, that’s just an alternative theory to Lucy’s god dying based on what’s been established this season.

#fantasy high #the ratgrinders #ratgrinders #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #this is an idea I came up with while basically writing fanfiction in my head about a possible route Ivy’s story could go #that would make the ragtringers not evil / kind of justified #basically my ‘what if’ plot line is that Ivy’s god forsakes her during the sophomore spring project and that leads to her loosing her power #and the ratgrinders having to choose a pacifistic quest to go on because they no longer have a healer but can’t tell anybody #hence why they didn’t kill anything during their sophomore quest but seemingly still passed with a letter grade #(we know Ivy’s death was only reported after grading was completed—which means they wouldn’t have been switched to pass/fail) #Now Ivy is thinking about what grade to switch to before the end of the year so she doesn’t fail #all while covering up her god forsook her to the school until she has her replacement figured out #but WHOOPS something happens and she dies anyway…but with no afterlife she’s stuck as a ghost. The ratgrinders will all fail if they report #her dead right then-and Ivy doesn’t want that for her friends-so instead the ratgrinders disguise self as her and fake her cleric powers #with their own in class just enough to keep her from failing the year…then after grading closes they report her as dead to Augfort and ask #for his help in reviving her like he did the bad kids. But he tells them that he brought the bad kids back by taking their place in #the afterlife; if Ivy’s stuck as a ghost and not in an afterlife than there’s nothing he can do right now but he’ll look into it oh wait #his DAUGHTER is back and they need to bond nevermind here are some resources during this endless night that you can read up on to try to #find a way to bring your dead friend back on your own have FUN high schoolers I believe in you but it’s Ayda time! #so the ratgrinders did a bunch of research on their own and they found that a god could bring her back to life and the only one willing to #do that would probably be a preestablished dead god they brought back to life (similar to Kristen with Cassandra). This red god is just #the safest bet they found in the books to complete their plan #I won’t call all THAT a theory because it’s based on nothing but that’s my idea for a direction her backstory could go #also pretend whenever I wrote ‘ivy’ in this little end section I actually wrote Lucy #I canNOT believe I made that mistake #Cassandra save me

[athymelyreply]

These stupid bastards… I love them.

#I just finished the watch novels and oh my god #they’re so dumb they’re so perfect they’re so strange #im also obsessed with vetinari I can’t help it he’s weird and imposing and sexy AND a cane user? Yeah sign me up #havelock vetinari #lord vetinari #discworld #samuel vimes #sam vimes #vetvimes #discworld art #Vimes is putting on his “im belligerent” face but failing to contain his flusteredness #and vetinari is smug as all hell #sketchies #my art

[aerticent]

this is so Maven omg like

#everything he did was compared to Cal and even if he excelled in something it was always overshadowed by Cal’s achievements #he loved Cal more than anyone but he also hated him more than anyone #he wanted to badly to be better than him #to have something over him #He was smarter than Cal academically and he was still over shadowed #he got the throne and even with his allie’s it was clear that the majority were only with him due to their disagreement with Cal’s alliance #with the Guard #He ‘got’ Mare first and she still chose Cal in the end #everything he did was partially in an effort to be better than his older brother because for so long he was seen as worse #i’m just rambling #Maven’s deep love and resentment for Cal is so interesting because he can’t help but hate him #but at the same time Cal was the only person in his life who consistently showed him nothing but love #and even then all of his efforts to be ‘better’ than Cal he was still perceived as worse or as the last resort #Maven has multiple clear opportunities to kill Cal and yet everytime they either fail or he just can’t #these brothers man wtf #red queen #red queen series #maven calore #cal calore

[bleuneptune]

hey anyone else thinking about limited life and joel wanting to sacrifice himself so jimmy wasnt first out?? anyone also thinking about how lizzie died this season by doing what she said she would to help joel?? joel inadvertently breaking the curse but at the cost of losing his wife first??? is that anything???

#let me have this #joel inadvertently helping break the curse anyway #but also i think he felt soooo bad #bc he knew lizzie was helping him #but he already failed #and he didn’t tell her #him noticing first in the tab list before anyone that she was gone #and yelling for her?????? #stop #and when jimmy comes up singing she’s dead and his first thing he does is pull out his bow #but then he leaves without saying anything #i know i’m delusional #but let me have this #AND THEN HE LOSES JIMMY ANYWAY #SJBDJJSBDJS #secret life spoilers #worm i can’t wait to scream about this with you later ahhhhhh

[ziracona]

I’m going to be thinking about this

One panel of comic for the next 8 years of my life

#Batman #Two-Face #batman gotham adventures #TwoBats #kind of???? Batman/Bruce loves him so much I can’t get over the innate tragedy and love of this relationship like you know what??? #you know what’s ungodly good and fucked up???? that tragedy permeates every inch of Bruce and Harvey’s relationship more deeply than any #other element possibly could but one and the one thread thicker in the relationship’s entire being is love #it’s a tragedy it’s tragic but it is never /quite/ as fucked up and tragic and it is deeply deeply kind and sweet and full of love and the #kind of hope that only exists at all because of it. the way Bruce in BtAS immediately starts reading books on the disorder before he even #sees him again? the letting himself almsot get shot to get through? Telltale finishing his bloody fight in the ruined front hall of his own #home by telling him ‘I still believe in Harvey Dent’. ?? The way movie The Long Halloween Bats doesn’t even know Harvey /super/ well by most #human standards but Bruce has literally no friends and never had except Alfred and Gordon so to him this is one of his closest friends and #that’s not a joke it’s real? when he spends the entire last third of part 2 desperately trying to help and telling everyone Harvey’s his #friend and needs help?? it’s real. when he tells Gilda ‘he was my friend and I failed him’? when he compromises his code in a massive way #for the first time and let’s someone get away with murders so Harvey can retain the one little piece of anything he still has which is #having protected the perosn he loves? it’s real. he means it. that’s his best friend. #they’re so *makes incomprehensible upset hand gestures*

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Me writing the module evaluation for that one Professor…

#absolute freak! #can’t even be arsed to teach us in person just uses videos he filmed in 2020 #everyone is failing the quizes and assignments because he doesn’t explain them or help us #yesterday he sent us all a long ass email essentially calling us all idiots who wrote bullshit and that he laughs at our answers… #and like not to brag but in every other module I am an excellent student #like I get emails congratulating me on exceptional results from my other professors #so for him to act like everyone in that class is an idiot who doesn’t do reading or make an effort is ducking ridiculous!!! #literally bringing down my overall degree grade #anyways! sorry for the rant #I’m just pissed #university #uni #university life #uni life #university memes #mean girls

[timaeusterrored]

Quick Vax thought:

On one hand, I love the idea that he just likes being Kerry’s faceless husband, some guy that has a whole album about him and no one knows who tf he is. Some guy that Kerry Eurodyne is obsessed with.

But on the other hand… I really like him smiling when he says his full name. He likes being the hands in the picture, the guy that kisses Kerry in front of paparazzi but shields his face as to not be seen. He’s a Eurodyne and he flaunts it. He fucking loves every minute of it, and he knows Kerry is obsessed with him because he’s also obsessed with Kerry.

#he tries to be humble and fails every time he can’t help but smile #cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk v #male v #male v cyberpunk #vax eurodyne #eurov #kerry eurodyne #cyberpunk kerry #kerry #kerry x v #kerry eurodyne x v #kerry x male v #kerry eurodyne x male v #kerry eurodyne cyberpunk #male v x kerry #v x kerry #otp: supernova #random v headcanons

[badgertablet]

happy mother’s day to the Real mom of undertale: papyrus

#badger_yells #toriel whomst… #last i checked she could and would kill you #hid/didn’t explain important mechanics #basically tried to kidnap frisk and then threw them out permanently And only ever comes to your aid in true pacifist #also! does not answer her phone once outside the ruins #papyrus? impossible to die by him. he’ll always spare you and if you can’t beat him he’ll heal you and tries to accommodate for you #explains important mechanics both in and out of snowdin #almost always answers phone for hilarious commentary and assistance #and he willingly screws up all of his puzzles on purpose so you don’t die because it’s crap that they all ‘failed’ or had an easy solution #last but not least will help you with undyne etc and travels across hotland which he canonly hates to save you (but again only in true p) #papyrus #***AND WILL BECOME ABMASSADOR IN FRISK’S STEAD BECAUSE THEY #ARE BABY!

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

last post for the night i swear

the real tragic part about the whole science fair incident is that perpetual motion is impossible to achieve

ford’s machine would have never worked, regardless of whether or not stan had interacted with it

(warning i accidentally wrote an approximately 30-tag dive into ford’s character in the tags don’t click see more if you don’t want to read that)

anyway!! good night everyone ❤️‍🩹

#it’s also tragic because ford didn’t know #the impossibility of perpetual motion was discovered far before that point and yet he didn’t know #i mean. ‘he’s actually just so arrogant that he thought he could break the laws of physics’ doesn’t make any sense #his reaction to the situation really didn’t match that interpretation as far as i can tell #i don’t think it’s just a ‘oh no! my dream school (that i was essentially shoved into pursuing)!’ type deal #here’s what i’m thinking: #fact one- stan and ford were seemingly already drifting apart by this point in time. this is important to note #fact two- it’s really emphasized to him that he’s smart. that’s all they say about him really- that’s he’s a genius #fact three- filbrick does not even care enough about stanford to say his name. he calls ford his ‘ticket out of this dump’ #these last two points were likely heavily emphasized to him throughout his childhood #filbrick found out ford was smart and thought stan wasn’t. so ford became his plan to make money #ford is heavily bullied for his weirdness. his hands and his interests. being smart could ‘make up’ for this in his mind #he wants to leave. he outright states this- he doesn’t feel like he belongs and he wants to go somewhere he does (his own bermuda triangle) #so what essentially happened- i believe- is that ford internalized all these things #that his weirdness is bad and that he makes up for it by being smart and that he’s meant to make his family money- #-and that he wants out #his machine fails. this is a slap in the face to him. perpetual motion is impossible? #but why didn’t he know that? he’s supposed to be smart isn’t he? if he isn’t smart then what the hell is he? #what redeeming qualities does he have? how is he supposed to help his family now? he’s a failure isn’t he? #he spots a familiar bag. stan was here. suddenly he has an excuse- a reason to believe it wasn’t his fault #(and there’s really nothing to be at fault for but he doesn’t think that) #it’s easier to blame it on stan because of how distant they’ve grown. he can’t read stan as easily #and his reaction is suspicious- did he actually sabotage the project? is it…actually not ford’s fault at all? #they don’t speak to each other again for another decade #stan because he’s afraid of rejection #ford because he doesn’t want to face his own insecurities and emotions about everything #it’s easier to pretend that he wants to be famous and isn’t just doing it to make it his father money #and it’s easier to distract himself with things he loves than to feel all the guilt and hurt and frustration #and that. is perfect for bill to use to manipulate him #that’s my thoughts anyway. sorry for the rant was not expecting that to happen

[nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius]

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#that didn’t help. it made things worse. #high school failed me. my mother failed me. i failed myself and i’m still fucking failing myself #and i don’t have the willpower to do anything about it #i can’t focus i never have been able to i got through gcse on intelligence alonr i didtn have to work for it #and lockdown ruined me #i keep questioning whether my mothers right and i did choose the wrong degree #“you need to be on top of your game!” What if i dont want to. what if i just want to be me for once in my fucking life. #and i cant tell anyone #because nobody understands #could i have told him before he died? #maybe. maybe out of all of them he was the only one i could trust #because he never lied to me #he told me straight that he failed his a levels and STILL got into a good job because he knew how to work ppl #i dont know how to work people. i don’t know how to work myself #i trust people. i tell them whats worrying me and they use that against me #they make it my fault #maybe theyre right. maybe it is #so i lock myself away with my writing and ignore the issues until they get bigger and bigger and they crush me #idk how i’m going to face going back to uni #Zjust this constant stream of regrets #i just want someone to tell me i dont have to be perfect #and mean it #i dont have to be what they want me to be #ive always been isolated. it’s coming up to a decade since i started high school #And its just fotten worse