#but this was truly a delight to write

[little-pondhead]

Danny moved to Gotham.

Freakshow is touring in Gotham.

Freakshow knows Danny is in Gotham.

Danny knows Freakshow is still after him.

Danny's faith in heroes has been shattered.

Danny turns to the only person powerful enough to run Freakshow out of town, hopefully for good.

Danny turns to the Joker for help.

The Joker is looking for a new punching bag sidekick after Harley Quinn left him.

Danny is just the perfect person to be shaped by the Joker's hands.

Danny becomes the new Joker Junior.

#pondhead blurbs #dpxdc #how we feeling about this fellas #i think it's an ideal angst fic #but i don't wanna write it lol #the younger danny is the worse it gets #someone said that danny shouldn't be afraid of the joker because he's a clown and freakshow is a ringmaster. not a clown #if i find that post i'll tag the creator cause i can't remember rn #but i'm imagining danny who is heavily traumatized and scared and lonely #finding out that one of his worst enemies he hoped to never see again is hunting him and is so close danny has to check his eyes every day #just to make sure they haven't turned red #his anxiety is out of control and he's not about to go find a Bat or Bird to talk to #who would believe him anyways? he's a monster #but danny needs help cause he will not survive this on his own and he knows it #freakshow haunts his every waking dream #but freakshow isn't from gotham. he doesn't have the city's curses engraved into his blood. he never died and he's not truly teasing death #so danny chooses to plead for help from the only predator bigger than freakshow (in his eyes) who IS from gotham #danny goes to the Joker. prepared to offer everything but his free will and free mind. he can't give those up. it's all he has. #danny is a feral house cat asking a tiger to take care of a mountain lion for him by offering the tiger his own liver on a silver platter #joker is...delighted? maybe? no one is quite sure. but he takes what danny offers. #here is this little boy. almost the same age as the second robin when he died. pleading for the JOKER to be his savior. this will be fun

[essektheylyss]

I highly recommend local bookstores because nowhere else can you pick up a book that is no different from any other books around it, which include publications by such authors as Ursula fucking Le Guin, and discover only once you get home that it's printed in batches of 200 and doesn't even have an associated ISBN. This has happened to me multiple times, and it is the best. This is not ironic, it's the funniest experience and you really will only get this kind of appreciation and uplifting of local and small artists in indie bookstores.

And also those books will usually knock your fucking socks off.

#the copyright page on this book says #'copyright of original writing asserted by author do not reprint without permission but like tbh permission would be easy to get. just ask.' #truly incredible iconic showstopping award winning #i also got a book of palestinian folktales which I'm very excited to read #i did NOT know there was a poetry specific bookstore in seattle but like. if you're interested and local. open books in pioneer square #VERY lovely and delightful shop #megs is reading

[natjennie]

love love love love love the genre shift of "I am the kraken" era ed, specifically the darkness in his eyes when he pushes lucius overboard. and I just managed to put my finger on exactly why I like it so much, why it hurts so bad.

because, like with all legends or myths or rules or whatever, it only works if you have some kind of proof. you can only believe it for so long before you start to question, right? if there's nothing to back up the ruse, it falls apart. and we, the audience, are beginning to see blackbeard for what he really is, a ruse. a figment. a ghost, like ed says.

and it's obvious the people that know of him, izzy, jack, the pirate community at large, know enough of what they consider to be proof to be convinced. if it was just the flag and the image and the smoke with no actual consequences, they wouldn't be scared.

but, to this point in the show, we haven't seen blackbeard at all. he was peeking out when he planned to steal stede's identity, he meandered around when ed wanted to shoot up the french boat. he pops in to threaten that old man while they're treasure hunting. he says "I will still stab you in the face" to lucius. he makes like he's gonna shoot stede but, as many people have pointed out, we know the gun's not loaded. we hear these preposterous stories "he'd stick hot pokers up their assholes" "the blackie I knew would've snapped your neck for calling him that" but there's nothing tangible.

so, from an outsider's perspective, and presumably to stede's perspective, there's no proof. we're seeing through the facade, we can poke holes in the image, we believe ed wouldn't really hurt anyone. he's never killed directly since his father, he said so himself. he's harmless, really. and then. he turns on a dime.

suddenly we're looking up at him again, fearsome and powerful, his eyes are shaded by his set brow, he's got a darkness in his features that's bone-chilling. he shoves lucius overboard without hesitation. he goes inside and cuts izzy's toe off and feeds it to him. within minutes. we get absolutely no time to process that our suspicions have just been denied absolutely. we were lured into a sense of security only to have the proof dropped right at our feet. you thought the whole blackbeard thing was gone? think again. here he is. kneel and pray. yknow>!?!??!

#the idea that he was built up as an illusion in both the character's eyes and the audience's #its such delightful meta work mwah mwah #because i truly was lured in by the softness of ed in episode 9 #and early 10 #and it was just enough for me to forget that he has done and will do heinous things #ofmd #ed teach #blackbeard #my writing

[itwoodbeprefect]

how to do a straight romance: ex 90s idol single mom with a teenage daughter and giant money problems who inherits a male host club because she once blackmailed a gay man to write her into his will + the cool young loan shark whose family she owes money to and who keeps showing up in vaguely threatening ways trying and failing to collect on that debt until we learn he cares too much about his hair and doesn't have much experience with women and is immediately smitten when she is slightly mean to him, and then becomes the first man in fifteen years to genuinely ask her how she is

#admittedly there are many other ways. but i'm discovering that this is one fjkdfd #this is a mama gogo post and i'm only on episode 9 out of 12 but so far it's truly delivering on everything i expected it to be #based on the premise and what i know about the types of shows jojo writes and directs. and oh my god. the pure delightful chaos of it all #* #mama gogo

[goldkirk]

as I'm going back over my past history and items and journals and years, I come across all sorts of things, like the pencil I saved from that so-precious memory from second grade, and a pair of flip flops I've been missing for two years, and (tw for murder/crime/killings) the modern-high-school-AU-kidnapped-by-a-serial-killer story I wrote in late high school jdfsjdfsjkjlksfd

#i can't wait to find out what red flags I didn't see in my own self back when I last read this thing in 2015 hfdhfdhjsfd #also. there's gonna be like a good sentence here and there and then CRINGE. the whole rest of everything is just me still trying to copy th #breathing pace (essentially) and ways-of-describing-things of mainstream authors like I thought I was supposed to #so this'll be somewhat painful but also god what a joy and a gift and an honor and a delight to get to hold this close to my heart #and witness it with understanding and empathy and slow reflection and care like my past younger self deserves #i'm so lucky i'm alive to be here and do this #i'm so grateful i'm headed towards welcoming back and embracing the last little girl i was that still felt a lot of things #so excited for her focus and precision and tenacity and constant curious joy and movement to be back someday #i'm afraid people won't like the me i was before rule after rule and then dangers #but my god it'll feel so good to be the fully-flowing energy machine and dance and conduit again how will I have enough bother to care? #people who are good to each others' nervous systems cumulatively feel better and better #if i'm not good for you and yours then you really truly SHOULD go elsewhere and find someone who makes YOUR self feel right and light + war #anyway now that i wrote an essay in the tags as usual [nervous laughter] #personal #add to journal #words n rhythm #WHY DID I FEEL CAPABLE OF UNDERTAKING A STORY LIKE THIS #cradling my past self gently but also BANGING my HEAD against the WALL lmao #i'm proud of myself for writing and sharing this and its creative ideas. even if i don't like it now or feel ashamed or see mistakes. #anything. it mattered that it came to me and it mattered that i explored it and it mattered that i poured myself through it to help shape i #and it mattered that I left it on the internet so that now it still exists. i'm going to honor this story no matter what current me would #objectively think about it if it was written by anyone else. #this is a gift i give myself now. #this is a lot of what I learn and learn to do #trauma evolution #mosswrites

[acaciapines]

Clover has several conversations and learns some things they might've been better off forgetting.

new chapter! this one is a DOOZY, yall, its so fun!!! hope you enjoy!

#undertale yellow #uty #clover uty #martlet #starlo #martlet uty #starlo uty #i write #he he love coming up w Lore for my ocs <3 what writing is about truly #im obsessed w my fallen humans okay they truly made this fic that much more of a delight to write

[crossedwiress]

moodboard for sugar rush by molly (@burstingsunrise) <3

#as soon as i read this lovely fic i knew i HAD to make a moodboard for it #it's such a colourful fic!! with so many amazing visuals and sights and smells packed in !! a truly delightful read <3 #so anyways this is obviously thanks to molly for a) writing the fic and b) helping me smooth out the creases in this mb #thanks for creating something so fun and inspiring 🥰 #i'll never get tired of reading the niche content abt luke's neck it's always good fun #molly <3 #cake #my moodboard #fic recs #cake fic #e*creations

[fluxydrawings]

Ibvs is really fun. friend sent it to me recently n reread it along w/ me so we’ve been goin insane together recently its a time. thought id draw onea my fav parts from earlier in the fic lmao

credit to @onebizarrekai​ for the writing/characters!

#ibvs #isaac beamer versus the supernatural #nevin jovel #edward quinton #my art #fanart #doodles #nofin in my entire life wouldve prepared me for monika n the onceler #fic of all time truly #ive got a thing w/ highschool aus where they Gotta be silly u cant write serious hs au shit if u want drama in a school settin make it colle #ge. but This Fic completely bypasses that rule by bein SO fuckin batshit its delightful #isaac n edward are my fav parts in general ( unspriigningly. <-errorink enjoyer) #this moments rlly funny tho akjwerkjw #like ZERO hesitation akjwerjkwekjrkw #anyway go read it its fun

[jamiesfootball]

These are. Wonderful. I love them.

In the Red Dwarf reruns his mum used to make him watch, they called that kind of smile a 'pinball smile' -- made the whole world light up like a giant pinball machine. It was the same smile Keeley had worn in his kitchen after dumping him, when she agreed to still help with his promos. He couldn't make himself say 'no' to that face. He wondered sometimes if that were a Pavlovian thing too: wanting to do anything for Keeley when she smiled at him like that. Not all Pavlovians had to be bad, did they?

#jamie tartt #the 5+1 jamie falling asleep pavlovian fic #seriously these are truly delightful #i have been saving these and I will miss having them in my inbox #rose for a snippet #wippets #writing progress

[singsweetmelodies]

i want to thank you all for organizing these little fic exchanges because even if this fandom is alive and well, with them we get a sudden influx of fics and it is really a treat for us ❤️❤️❤️ (a reader who wishes they had the talent to write)

❤️

this is THE kindest, most thoughtful ask, anon - thank you so so much for taking the time to send it!! <333 it makes me smile so much to hear that all these events are doing what i always hope they will: creating a little flood of content that's a treat for everyone! that's all i've ever hoped to achieve with any of these events & exchanges, and it means the world that it's happening!!

so anon, you really are MOST welcome ❤️ but it would be terribly remiss of me if i didn't give a shoutout to the incredible people who have worked on all of these events with me - @boxboxbrioche, @welightitup, @redyellowstupid, @duquesademiel, @wolfiemcwolferson, @river-ocean - because all of the piarles events i've been involved in have been team efforts in the best way, so any thank-you to me absolutely has to go to all these wonderful people as well. i'm tagging you all here because to me, it's messages like this one that make all the admin and nonsense so well worth it - and i hope you all feel the same way ❤️ LOVE YOU LOADS!! and love you too, anon - thank you so so much for this very kind message, i really do appreciate it so much more than i can say!! <3333

#asks & answers #anon #lovely lovely anons ❤️ #WAHHHHH this was so kind 😭🥺 #it also takes me back to how; just more than a year ago; briony and i first met and we were like #''wouldn't it be so lovely if we could create a little community of piarles people who all love the ship & create content together?'' #and then we met tia and with her by our sides we all three got the ball rolling... #and look where we are now 😭🥺 #like tia said last night: it's like that hamilton song 🎶 look at where you areeee look at where you started 🎶 #and 🥹 #it means the world honestly #so truly: thank you SO SO much anon ❤️❤️❤️ #this ask means so much <3333 #ALSO! i know you said you're a reader and you don't really dabble in the writing side of things #but our piarles server (the Calamars Club) is open to EVERYONE who loves piarles!! #regardless of whether you're a writer #you are MORE than welcome to join just to be a part of a place where everyone loves piarles #& to get the info about alllll the events and exchanges even quicker; ofc 😉 #so yeah! if ever you do want to join us; anon - just shoot me a personal message and i'll be delighted to send you the invite link #🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️ #thank you again for this lovely lovely ask!!

[pokimoko]

hiii--- i know you mostly post/write about other fandoms but i just want to say that graceful degradation is probably one of THE best fics ive read of all time and i love it so so so much, it had me screaming into my pillow at like 2 in the morning. its such a unique and creative take on his backstory and the ANGSSTTT. oh my god...u are a genius

Thank you so much!!! Portal 2 was something I never imagined myself writing for, but I'm very glad I did, because writing that fic was a blast. It came out of my fondness for 'Flowers For Algernon' (which I read many years ago but has been stuck in the back of my mind ever since) and my need for a Portal fic that suited my particular niche of interests (which included, of course, my dear old friend angst). I'm so glad to hear you think of it so highly! That really means a lot 🥰

#ask #wheatley #wheatly portal 2 #portal 2 #portal #my fanfic #my fanfiction #I'm pretty sure i know who sent this so thank you very much for reccing the story to others. that was delightful to see :D #and yeah unfortunately i am very much a throw a fic grenade into the fandom and then run off kind of writer #(with some exceptions) #i don't imagine I'll be writing any more portal fanfic in the future but i am very proud of the one that i did do :) #it was really fun writing in a more humourous style than usual (in what ironically is one of my most devastating fics) #(which i suppose is very fitting to the nature of the portal games themselves. a true comedy of horrors) #if you're looking for other great portal fics i have to recommend you the OG good portal fic: Blue Sky by wafflestories (fanfic.net) #if you haven't already of course. there's a reason it's famous (that is to say wow it's good) #it was big inspiration behind me writing my own portal story #anyway! thank you again 100× over! i truly do appreciate your words 💜

[spaceratprodigy]

messy sketch but. them. :)

@hibernationsuit — 💕💖💕💖🥺💖💕💖💕

HELLOOO??? I AM SQUEALING!! LOOK AT THEM!!!! I am on the floor sobbing rn hello my friend I love you with my whole heart!!!!!!!!

#EVERYONE IS LEGALLY REQUIRED TO LOOK AT THIS #HOW DO I WORDS I HAVE NO WORDS #I am beaming so many heart and sparkle emojis directly into your mind rn like hello!!!! #you made this FOR MEEE???? #sobbing what did I do to deserve this kindness ily ilysm thank you I am going to stare at this literally all day long #holding them so gently in my hands looking at them w tear filled eyes #words are hard but know I literally have the biggest cheesiest grin ever on my face rn I'm so surprised and delighted!!!!!!! #I love them I love them sm!! look at them!!!!!!! hello!!!!!!!!!!!! my heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #you are literally such a treasure this has brightened my day so much I'm so serious ohmygosh thank you fr I'm so aaaaaaaaaaa #THEY'RE JUST SO CUUUUUTE #PICTURES TAKEN MOMENTS BEFORE A DIVINE FEAST #looking so respectfully #I'm incapable of shutting up rn I am truly incapable I can never stop screaming abt this this is my favorite thing ever rn #ur so good to me how do I ever thank you enough for being so lovely and wonderful every day???? #blowing you so many kisses rn so so much love to you so so much goodness to you now and always #okay okay I need to stop writing tags but the love in my heart is ongoing rn I am in SHAMBLES!!!!! #friend art #faith and max #captain of the unreliable #literally on my hands and knees rn #banging my fists on the table #I'M IN LOVE IMMMM IMMMM (getting restrained and pulled away so I stop screaming my heart out)

[orcelito]

What an experience to read a fic that has me so filled with delight that I HAVE to happy stim or I will EXPLODE

Had to straight up get up and jump around and thrash my arms and then kick my feet rapidly upon laying back down. Finally got it out of my system but. Man. Man . I'm fucking. Losing my.mind. going insane. In the best of ways

This fic's most recent chapter got me GOOD

#speculation nation #adding a link bc im so fucking. delighted by it. holy fucking shit #THIS is what i aspire to write when i can finally truly write vw #it is just so. WAAAAAAAAAH #ive been leaving comments every chapter but it's not enough. i need to eat this fic. #2 more chapters hfmsbfmdbxmbsnd i dont want it to ENDDDDD 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[landwriter]

like any catholic reflexively engaging in self-denial greedy little squirrel hoarding my nuts i always try to save reading the comments on a fic until the next day.

so i am only just now reading the comments on the death of translation & i feel so absurdly fuckin humbled by the response - especially from people who intimately know the experience of losing or rediscovering language, and home. thank you so much for sharing your experiences, and thank you so much everyone who's read it, some of you have made ME nearly cry this morning.

and once more!! - all language in the fic that isn't french or english or older versions of either is ENTIRELY there on the kindness and contributions of other people - i did not do any major research for this, i only accosted my friends and followers who spoiled me in return with czech and portuguese and german and welsh. i wish i could have included even more! language is beautiful but translating and explaining language is even more beautiful. it's such an act of love and i'm still floating about it <3<3<3

#sunday sap hours #the death of translation #my heart is so danged full!!!! what the fuck!! #(writes sentimental fic) (receives sentimental responses) me: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS?! #truly tho i gotta say something #because your comments mean the world to me! #also thank you to everyone who pointed out when they started crying i do take perverse delight in that kind of specificity #(but sorry for making you cry) #the sandman

[solarisgod]

Original characters, our most beloveds... Our mutuals' original characters, our most beloveds... Our mutuals' canon rewritten into original characters, our most beloveds...

#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ OOC . › #[ genuinely you guys have the sickest as fuck OCs out there... ] #[ it's also always a delightful blessing to see mutuals we first write with their canon muse write their OCs ] #[ like you BET we are always most looking forward to have the Starwake System / our other OCs interact with our mutuals' ] #[ just absolutely in love with the creativity and talents our starfriends have through their original works ] #[ to the OCs writers... the rpc and your mutuals are so blessed to have you with your original works and characters truly ] #[ thank you for your fantastic contents <3 <3 <3 ]

[elvisabutler]

I NEED U TO WRITE SOMETHING ABT THE VOGUE PHOTOSHOOT

something? oh you want something? okay this is like the tiniest of crumbs because working on something else. but sure why not because let's be real this photoshoot makes us all a little feral. tw: choking mentions some curse words, idk there's nothing major y'all.

this photoshoot is a unmitigated disaster from start to finish.

this is true across every version of you and austin that goes through this shoot. it's a mess.

yeah there's a bright spot or two and one of those bright spots sits on your dresser so you can see it when you walk into your bedroom every night. but that doesn't compare to everything else.

it is an unprofessional shit show. why you ask?

there was a set of poses you knew you were going to do, baz had told you because he wasn't about to send his elvis and his priscilla to the wolves especially knowing you two might have just gotten back together.

apparently after the first few they changed their minds. something about how your chemistry was off the charts and it'd be a shame to waste it. you wish they would have wasted it. austin wishes they would have wasted it.

there is a pose they wanted you to do that had austin walking off the set. or at least to a different part of the set to cool off lest her get you and him in a world of trouble.

she's not doing that, how many times do i have to say it?

it's not that bad, mr. butler. you have already done worse.

for my own private use something you said was fine since we're here all goddamn day.

yeah but you had your hand around her throat, i'm allowed to say she needs to-

when it comes to her you aren't allowed shit.

you step in finally realizing this is going to go nowhere good and you're the one who'd have to be doing it anyway.

that pose is not for any of you to see. that pose is for him and i only. i'm not having it plastered across the glossy pages of vogue. even if i get in trouble.

they find the two of you later on. austin spends the rest of the shoot so angry you're honestly a little worried for him. but he calms down about halfway to your hotel. mostly.

like i said. it's a shitshow.

you don't get in trouble though. partially because the photographer personally apologizes and partially because baz himself is the guest editor.

it does make vman's shoot far more pleasant.

#i truly enjoy how i said man i only have one comment about the vogue shoot in my inbox and then this comes through. manifesting lol. #i promise the vogue shoot is worth the wait. #that and cannes. #and probably vman. #feel free to send me asks about anything guys this truly delights me. #austin butler x priscilla actress reader #austin butler x you #austin butler x y/n #austin butler x reader #basically i promise in the fic they're gonna be perfect. you're all gonna love them. #ally answers asks. #timelines are a little wonky re: photoshoots and events but w/e we don't care. #ally writes