#so now i’m emo over jason again

[queenvic]

jason without glasses: hot guy(tm), mysterious, too cool to approach

jason with glasses: nerd, nicest dude you’ll ever meet, sweetheart

#this is literally all fanart i’ve seen of jason #put jason in glasses and BOOM soft boy #if you can’t tell some pjo fanart appeared on my ig explore page #so now i’m emo over jason again #will i ever get over it #jason grace #pjo #hoo

[havendance]

Finally returning to my version of the AU where Jason lives because Dick dies:

Let's get this out of the way: this is not an AU where Dick dies in Ethiopia instead of Jason. In fact, in this AU, no one makes it out to Ethiopia at all. 

I'm still doing my NTT reading, but we're going to mess with the timeline somewhat. Jason is benched because of the whole Garzonas incident, but before he can run off to Ethiopia and get himself killed, Dick Grayson dies. 

The Titans aren't in space because that complicates the timing and logistics and whatnot, so instead, let's say, hmmm, Brother Blood did it. 

Bruce takes the news extremely poorly of course. Jason is now benched indefinitely because Bruce expresses his emotions through being controlling. Bruce also proceeds to go and try to boss around the Titans and take down Brother Blood. The Titans, who are also mourning their friend and have little love for Batman, don't take kindly to this. The following clusterf*** of a situation leads to Brother Blood manipulating circumstances in his favor so that he gets away with killing Dick, somehow. 

Following that disaster, no longer having the outlet of action, Bruce begins to sink into despair. He fights crime by rote and the mix of rage and despair his grief takes means he doesn't particularly care about the condition that both he and the people he fights come out in. 

Meanwhile, Jason is also upset. He and Dick had their rocky moments, sure, but they still had something that was almost brotherhood. He's upset that Dick is dead and guilty because part of him thinks he should feel worse. He fights with Bruce in the aftermath (words only, not blows) over the way Bruce is handling it: the way that he benched Jason and is pushing him away. Bruce responds by doing this even moreso. Jason in turn responds by purposefully avoiding Bruce. It's quite some time before they're in the same room as each other again. 

Tim is in school when he hears about Nightwing's death. For maximum angst, lets say that he died on live television while Brother Blood arranged things to either look like he was only acting in self-defense after the misguided and out of control Titans attacked him, or that it was a tragic accident that he tried and failed to stop. Maybe he fell to his death.

Tim also takes this poorly. Nightwing was his hero. His nightmares come back, his grades start to drop. He sneaks away from boarding school to attend Dick Grayson's funeral (mostly a closed, private ceremony, but he hides in the back) and again to visit his grave after one too many sleepless nights, leaving a copy of the picture of them at the circus.

(I know A Death in the Family takes place in the spring, but we're putting Dick's death in the fall in this AU for school year timeline purposes.) 

The school calls Tim's parents about this and they're so worried about it that they decide to cut their business short and come home early. This would've been a good choice on their part if this weren't also a 'Tim joins the Batfam AU'. As it is though, I need to make Tim an orphan somehow and they both die in a tragic plane accident, or maybe in a car crash on the way to the airport. 

This devestates Tim even further and he becomes very depressed :( 

But back to Jason. Frustrated with Bruce and his own roiling emotions, Jason decides to cope with his grief in the traditional (very healthy) bat way by putting on a mask and fighting crime. Since Robin is still benched and Jason is still avoiding Bruce, he puts together a new costume. It's probably very emo and edgy with lots of reds and blacks; he calls himself, hmmm, let's say Corvus (Latin for crow) to stick with the bird theme. 

While sneaking out at night to dispense vigilante justice, he runs into none other than the Huntress! 

Helena can see some of herself in the kid, in the way he fights like there's  something trying to break free, the way they share similar ideas about what Justice sometimes entails. And besides, he's a kid, she doesn't want anything to happen to him. So she takes him under her wing. 

With her coming off of a two year hiatus, he's got nearly as much experience as she has. Helena can offer a certain maturity and more life experience. Jason, in turn, knows more about detective work. (He was trained by Batman; She's self-taught) 

Jason confides in her that he wants to kill the man who killed his brother. Helena's torn because, on the one hand, that was what she was after. That was what she did. But on the other, Jason's a boy. He's still young. She was an adult when she did it. She knew what she was getting into. She doesn't know if Jason does. 

(Also, I think I've heard that Jason having mommy-issues were a thing? Maybe play with those?) 

Tim, meanwhile, is in foster care probably, but has definitely been transferred to the public school system and has ended up in none other than Helena Bertinelli's English class. 

(He doesn’t know that she's a vigilante and is too depressed to find out.) 

In the habit of sneaking away to visit Dick's grave, he runs into Jason once. 

He met Dick once, he says when Jason asks him why he's there. It's kind of stupid, he admits, he didn't even know him, so why does his death hurt so much? 

I'm going to borrow an idea from scintilly's one dick & tim au now and say that there's that one corrupt Drake Industries executive who's embezzling money and framing a 13 year old orphan for it. Tim is too depressed to really clock when the police start asking pointed questions, but Helena is getting a bad feeling about how the cops keep pulling him out of class to question him. She begins to investigate and Jason joins her. 

Jason and Helena uncover what's going on and this somehow culminates in a cool action sequence where Huntress and Corvus have to save Tim from a hitman that the exec sent after him or something, idk 

The important part is that, when everything's done, Tim gets a good look at Huntress for the first time and has just enough adrenaline flowing through his brains to make an intuitive leap. 

"You're my English teacher," he says. 

When pressed why, he admits that he was her meeting with Jason once after school. (He doesn't name Jason, he gestures at Corvus.) When asked why he knew it was Corvus, he's like "Well, you used to be the new Robin." 

Jason takes offense at being called the new Robin (he's been doing this for two years!) and also wants to know how Tim recognized him out of costume. 

Tim clams up. When pressed, he starts crying and rambling about quadruple somersaults and how everyone who could do them are dead and Jason eventually pieces that together with what he remembers from that one time he met Tim at Dick's grave to figure out what's going on. 

And if he knows Dick's ID and he knows Jason's then... "Do you know who Batman is?" he asks. 

Tim, still crying, nods. 

Jason swears. Well, they can't just leave him alone after all of that can they? 

I can get a fostering license, Helena says. 

Jason shakes his head. I know a guy, he says. 

Is your guy Batman? she asks. 

Jason's like, you don't know that. 

(It is Batman) 

So they drop Tim off somewhere safe until things can be finalized. (Tim makes many promises about how he isn't going to tell anyone anything) and Jason goes off to talk to Bruce for the first time in forever. 

While all of this has been going on, Bruce has continued to self-destruct: he's constantly coming home beat to hell, the GCPD are whispering about maybe taking down the giant bat spotlight they unofficially have on the roof, etc etc. 

Jason hasn't been in the same room as Bruce in over two months because of grief and also the whole hiding the fact that he's been sneaking out as an unsanctioned vigilante thing. When he finally seeks out Bruce to talk to him about Tim, and sees how bad of a shape the man is in, he breaks down. 

Look, Jason's been going through a lot and that's his dad who looks half-dead. Jason doesn't want to lose a father as well as a brother. 

They finally get to have a heart to heart where Jason talks about his feelings and admits what he's been getting up to. Bruce listens and remembers that he has more than one son and promises to try and do better by Jason. They hug. It's all very sweet. 

Then, when that's done and Jason remembers why he went looking for Bruce in the first place, he's like, "So, uh, there's something else..." 

Congratulations, Bruce! It's a boy! 

So Tim becomes fostered by Bruce Wayne, Jason goes back to being Robin, and slowly things get better. 

Jason continues to go hang out with Helena, and Tim stays as a student in her class. They all hang out together sometimes and Helena shows Tim how to use a crossbow. 

Reusing one of my old ideas and going with Tim becomes Robin during No Man's Land when he and Jason run away into the restricted zone as Batman & Robin 2.0, only in this version they also team up with Helena during it. 

I also feel like Tim's Robin costume should integrate the color blue in it somehow to honor Dick. 

Ummm, skip forward some to get to the part of this AU I was originally thinking about (making fanon Jason & Tim about Dick & Tim) 

Dick Grayson is resurrected somehow by Brother Blood. Unfortunately, this means that he is brainwashed and evil. 

(Part of me wonders if this should be a mainly Teen Titans story since Dick died under the Titan's editorial) 

Anyway, Dick, probably called something edge like "Bloodwing" or something, is sent to kill Robin. While attacking Tim, he sees the picture of him and his parents with Tim at the circus and it causes the brainwashing to crack.  

Instead of killing Tim, he kidnaps him and brings him back to Brother Blood's cult. They proceed to have a very bad time together and probably develop a codependent relationship between brainwashing sessions and cult stuff and, idk, other whumpy stuff. 

The rest of the Teen Titans show up and save the day. Dick and Tim get deprogrammed. There are lots of tearful reunions between Dick and his friends/family. 

Happy endings (until the next major event that is) 

#jason todd #tim drake #helena bertinelli #the cooler gotham antihero #my au ideas #jason lives dick dies au #carthago delenda est #dc #bats + birds + affiliated

[absolutewhore101]

Can we go home?

Pairing: Steve Harrington x GN!Reader

Summary: Steve takes you to a party that quickly goes south

Warnings: Jason, description of a panic attack

Word Count: 1k

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Being an introvert was fine. You were perfectly content with the way you were. Steve was, too, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t try to drag you to each and every outing that he made. 

He’d managed to bring you to a few parties, just some small ones, and they were fine. You had fun while you were there, and Steve left when you wanted to. 

Maybe parties could be okay. 

That reasoning was how Steve had managed to drag you to a party that somehow had every high school and college aged kid in all of Hawkins in attendance. 

You and Steve knew as soon as you showed up that you would be glued to his side. And that was okay. 

Walking up the door was a nightmare. There were couples making out on the front lawn, guys playing some weird drinking game that included a garden gnome, emo kids reciting bad poetry - there was everything. 

The front door had been left open, allowing anyone entrance. You tightened your grip on Steve’s hand as you took in just how many people were crammed into the small living room, nevermind the rest of the house. 

You scanned your eyes around the crowd, trying to see if you recognized anyone, but it was hopeless. Even if you did know someone, you wouldn’t be able to tell. 

Steve eventually found the group of kids that he usually hung around, and made the two of you known. You were immediately welcomed into the circle, trying to comprehend their intense discussion of the latest Hellfire meeting. 

Eddie was standing being Dustin and Mike, listening in with a small smirk. He glanced up and met your eyes, smirk shifting into a smile at the sight of you. 

You smiled back, and he walked around to where you were, pulling you into a quick hug. 

“Hey! It’s been so long since I last saw you, how are you?” He asked you. 

“Eddie, it’s been like 3 hours. Give it a rest.” You responded, playfully rolling your eyes at him. 

He held a hand to his chest, pretending to be hurt. 

“You wound me, Y/N. Truly.” He said dramatically. 

You laughed with him, leaning back into Steve to support you. He glanced down at you, smiling slightly before Dustin called his name to get his attention once again. 

You were about to speak up again when a loud voice cut through the crowd. 

“Jason! What the fuck?!” 

The voice belonged to none other than Chrissy Cunningham, causing Eddie to quickly make his way closer to see what exactly was happening. 

As it turns out, Jason was standing in the middle of the living room, locking lips with some girl that no one recognized. You weren’t even sure that she lived in Hawkins. 

Eddie gently grabbed Chrissy’s hand, pulling her away from the scene and towards the stairs. 

Steve moved his arm to be around your waist. Now that he was sure Jason was here, he didn’t want to take any chances. You gratefully leaned further into his side, pressing your cheek to his chest. 

Eventually, you managed to get a break from Dustin and Mike’s heated argument over who had a better girlfriend. 

The kitchen was less crowded, and gave you some room to take a deep breath. 

“You okay?” Steve asked. “Do you want to leave?”

You shook your head. 

“I’m okay for right now. I wish Robin was here, though.” You answered. 

“Well, if it isn’t your lucky night?” Robin spoke from behind you. 

You spun around, quickly wrapping your arms around her neck in a tight hug, hers wrapping around your waist. She gave Steve a smug look, and he rolled his eyes in response. 

He signaled to Robin that he was going to the bathroom, and she gave him a thumbs up. 

After a few moments, you pulled back, looking over your shoulder to see that Steve had disappeared. 

“He went to the bathroom.” Robin explained. “But, now you get to hang out with me!”

You laughed, walking towards the fridge to find a bottle of water. You bent down to look on a lower shelf when a low whistle sounded from behind you. 

You closed your eyes, praying that it wasn’t who you thought it was. 

“You’ve been holding out on me, Y/N.” Jason spoke. 

You quickly righted yourself, turning around to see him leaning against the doorframe. Your eyes cut over to Robin’s, who was standing there with as much of a shocked expression as you were. 

You were silently begging Steve to hurry back, or for Eddie to reappear, but neither happened. 

“Shut up, Jason.”

“Now, that’s no way to respond to a compliment, is it?”

“If that’s what you consider a compliment, I’d hate to see what you think is an insult.” You said, rolling your eyes. 

“Someone really oughta get that mouth under control. Maybe fuck the brat out of you? I’d gladly do it.” He sneered, taking a step closer. 

“What the fuck did you say to her?” Eddie’s voice cut through the tension, and everyone turned to see him standing next to Robin, a heated expression on his face. 

“Nothing that concerns you, freak.”

“Oh fuck that.” Eddie said, taking a step closer and quickly throwing a punch, hitting Jason right in the jaw. 

Before Jason had the chance to hit him back, his friends dragged him out of the room.

Your breathing was beginning to speed up, and your vision was blurring. 

Shit.

“Eddie, go get Steve.” Robin spoke, walking closer to you. 

It felt like the room was closing in on you. There were too many people. It was too hot. You couldn’t breathe. Why were there so many people?

“Y/N? Shit, Robin, get everyone out of here.” Steve said. He walked closer to you, guiding you to sit on the ground. 

“Steve?” You managed to get out, reaching towards him. He got the hint, pulling you into his chest to calm you down. 

“I’m right here, honey. I’ve got you.”

Your breathing eventually slowed, and the tingling in your arms and legs subsided. 

“Can we go home? Please?”

“Of course. Come on.” He stood the both of you up, wrapping an arm tightly around your waist, leading you out of the house.

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Tell me your thoughts! Thank you for reading :)

#steve harrington x reader #steve harrington x y/n #stranger things 4 #stranger things x reader #steve harrington fanfic #stranger things fanfic

[scullymurphy]

Hi! Just wanted to pop over and tell you how much I LOVE your stories and the way that you write! I love it all: the angst, the humor, the amazing way that you shape your characters, EVERYTHING! ALSO I love the way that you weave music into your stories. I am curious to know how music influences your writing/how it factors into your writing process. Do you associate certain songs/artists with stories/characters that you write? Lots of love, and thanks for sharing your beautiful stories! xo KP

Ahh what a delightful comment and question to answer! Thank you so much. Music is a HUGE part of the creative process for me. I’m almost always listening to it (other than when I’m actually writing b/c it’s too distracting - ha!) and lyrics, melodies, or just the feelings certain songs evoke can build pictures in my mind. I’ve definitely launched entire stories on the backs of songs -- particularly Bending Light and Unexpected Best Night Ever. BL was predicated on a lyric by an indie/emo band called Pinegrove that goes, “What’s the worst that could happen? End of summer and I’m still in love with her,” which just encapsulated Draco’s whole mindset plus the summer setting of that story. UBNE is all about Draco being a rockstar and is named after a sadly now-defunct YouTube Music playlist that I loved. Teach Me How to Forget is named after a Jason Isbell song and very influenced in tone and spirit by the album Harry’s House by Harry Styles. Just Like Christmas is an old-fashioned songfic based on the classic indie Christmas tune by Low. And sometimes when I’m writing a scene, a song will inform it so completely that I listen to it on repeat to keep myself in the zone. Never Tear Us Apart by INXS and Pitseleh by Elliot Smith come to mind for different scenes in Bending Light. And I’m convinced T Swift wrote Snow on the Beach for a scene in Falling Dark (LOL). 

AND in the non-fic arena, I just finished my second OC novel and it’s about musicians -- one famous and one his biggest fan -- who have to live next door to each other for a summer and try (for various reasons) not to fall in love. I’m shopping it around to agents now, so keep your fingers collectively crossed for me!! 

Thanks again for this wonderful ask. I really enjoyed answering. xoxo ~Scully

#i love asks #i love my readers #music is magic #seriously it's my biggest influence

[a-wins-a-win]

okie so ur guy finally got around to watching Bare : The Musical (mouse!! why?? because!! I love comparisons <3) and anyway. thought I’d document my thoughts

tldr; I think I would like Bare: The Musical as a standalone story, but as a Bare: A Pop Opera adaptation/re-interpretation I think it falls short in a lot of ways.

it gets a bit long so under the cut, if you wanna skip the dot points i summarise/reiterate down the bottom of the post

okay no but the photographic memory detail is kinda interesting. kinda sad in a lot of ways too if you think about it

the audio quality is Not It so forgive me if I don’t pass judgement on any of the songs

“Jason you act every day.” “I didn’t fool you <3” they’re cuties // they are SUCH goofballs here! they’re so dumb! teenageboycore if there ever was! I love them <3

it’s so WEIRD to hear a lot of these lines out of order / in a different context

ALSO the lack of singing during auditions is throwing me off

“Do you think your sister’s bi?” “…” “Bipolar?” I laughed—

Matty Patty babey boy!!! he’s so… he’s so something. idk if I like it yet. im very used to introvertedly anxious Matt but this Matt is such a lil cutie

WHOAH OK Portrait Of A Girl is way early

but I think I like a lot of the lyrics - “You don’t have a clue / what she is doing with you / what she is doing to you.”

actually no this is a crazy interesting take on Matt & Ivy and I’m OBSESSED with the way we get to see Ivy’s actual introspection on it in this context

ohhh okay. so it’s That kind of basketball team situation for Jason (+ Peter !! goddamn they really hate that kid)

the art class is a fun character device ! (also I’m screaming over the Math Book exchange)

i am intrigued by the Romeo & Juliet casting in this version ngl

I knew that they merged the Nadia & Lucas characters (lowkey I hate it! I think it does a huge disservice to Nadia + inevitably the McConnell dynamic) but it’s still weird to see it . That said “Out Of Your Mind” [as best as I can approximate what the song’s called??] is kind of a vibe

he was named after Peter Pan r u kidding ?? i am so so intrigued to meet Claire Simmonds in this version now

ohhh nooo I am having FEELINGS over Best Kept Secret (as I always do) but DAMN

“If the word were different and if wishing made it so […] I’m trying just as hard as you!” jason mcconnell you will be the death of me

im SICK why is everyone so MEAN in this version

EMO PUPPY DOG MATTHEW LLOYD I LOVE YOU

^ also goddamn that whole scene was An Exchange. interesting take

“You Don’t Know” is beautiful tho*

“I hear ya.” “Do you?” any glimpse of snarky/sarcastic Peter is a relief (not sure that I’m quite here for this Peter characterisation) . Also the Peter-Diane friendship is somewhat iconic

JASON is the birthday bitch!! that’s. something.

oh okay! this Portrait Of A Girl/Boy reprise is so intriguing to me. this version of Ivy in general is so intriguing to me

snarky Peter Simmonds you are everything to me <3

i miss ‘Are You There?’ hopefully it comes back to me later, I am desperate to see this Peter & Matt have a meaningful conversation

i could honestly not discern most of those lyrics but whatever they replaced 911! Emergency! with seems unnecessarily extravagant? for very little payoff

“Peter did you learn the entire script?” “Maybe.” no I love that for him though. i’m struggling because I like a lot of this Peter’s little character MOMENTS, but OVERALL I don’t like him

again the lack of singing is throwing me off

“I’m NOT your boyfriend!” OWCH

“Your world might not stop!” ohhhh okayyy i am. going a bit insane. over this mcsimmonds.

EVER AFTER !!! EVER FUCKING AFTER !!! (or whatever this version is officially titled)

what is the general consensus on Jason having Role Of A Lifetime?? bc aside from the title not making thematic sense for his character... idk it could just be the delivery but i don’t hate it

i am Not Here for the Nadia-likes-Matt subplot, tbh. i think it’s silly.

there is something so so desperate & violently destructive about this Jason - and it isn’t even like. hidden behind this facade of effortlessness that Pop Opera Jason puts up, if that makes sense?? (yes I am upset that he kissed Ivy first even if it makes sense for this version of Jason)

what an act 1, ngl. I am so anxious for act 2.

oh ok that’s a bit cute

“What if I told the world your story? / What if I told them what you’ve done? / What if I went and shared your secret? / What if I let them know I’m someone?” OH OKAY!!! this Peter is A Character!! and he’s fascinating!!

“I am gonna win… yep, I promise.” oh ow okay that hurts

“What If I Told?” [again guessing at song titles] is doing irreparable damage to my psyche /pos and I can feel it happening in real time

oh shit! i forget that they’re not even roommates in this version!

i feel like this version of the story (or at the very least ‘Touch My Soul’ or whatever it’s called here) is really capitalising on the Ivy-Peter similarities in the way the characters are being played

ARE YOU THERE? <33 WHY ARE YOU SO LATE IN THE STORY???

“Are you there? What did I do wrong? / Tell me and I’ll fix it, get us back where we belong.” screaming crying throwing up what the FUCK

disappointed in the lack of patt meter tho ://

NO BC THIS CONTEXT!!! of Sister Joan putting Peter in!!! i actually quite like it!! i kind of hate the stagings where they have Peter like. butt in, for lack of a better phrase to use. bc that’s so uncharacteristic for him, I always read that scene as he’s stage whispering the lines/doing the motions for Diane to follow along with and he just sort of ends up in the Actual Scene accidentally

ough. the mcconnell siblingsism… it’s missing and it makes me sad

“I don’t wanna be here anymore.” OH NO OH NO I DON’T NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF PETER’S SUICIDALITY NEXT TO JASON’S SELF-DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES AND THE WAY THIS STORY PLAYS OUT !!! IM GONNA BE SICK !!

“God Don’t Make No Trash” isn’t my favourite song in the show or anything but I do miss it a bit, even if the replacement song works for Sister Joan + this Peter

ok no now I’m upset do we just not get to know anything about Peter’s mother at all in this version?? look with this version of Peter I don’t feel like she’s a necessary piece of his character/story but still. would’ve been nice

“I have plans, I’m not that girl.” // “If I can’t, then why should he?” Ivy !! i am back and forth on this Ivy! i like a lot of it but I also don’t like a lot of it, those lines tho are so everything to me

“So talk to him.” “We don’t. Talk.” rip to the mcconnell siblingism. like I suppose it makes sense? given the vague family dynamic this musical gives us, but still. I miss them <\3

there is something so physically painful to me to watch Jason have such obvious emotional stress fractures

the lack!! of singing!! is so wild!!

oohhh this Matt is so fucking vindictive - “Is this just another thing you’ll try for the day?” SCREAMING

OH FUCK OKAY

oh I’m gonna be sick watching this meltdown

again!! the absolute sick dog violent desperation radiates off Jason generally but FUCK ME it’s so bad here - like I really truly believe that in that second right after Cross that this Jason made the decision to kill himself**

love the R&J costumes in this version tho ngl, they’re a bit cute

oh shit he’s really just. Dead. like obviously he’s dead in the Pop Opera as well but without Queen Mab it really does just feel like. you blink and he’s gone without any sort of buildup/unravelling

i feel like they definitely tried to recycle a bit of the early versions of the Father Flynn storylines for Father Mike here - like they don’t explicitly go for the queer angle but it feels a little bit alluded to, imo

the fucking bookending!!! i’m such a sucker for that shit

oh. okay. it was certainly A Watch - definitely interesting! full of odd character choices I didn’t love, most notably the basketball team and the way that side plot played out, also the merging of Nadia & Lucas’ characters. I think it does a huge disservice to Nadia’s character, the McConnell twins relationship, Nadia & Peter’s relationship, & I like Lucas as a character (& a plot device) so it really feels like a lose-lose situation. And I would’ve liked to have Peter’s mother at least alluded to, especially given how much more Sister Joan seems to fill a motherly role (and it would’ve made sense thematically! Given his hypothetical conversion with Jason’s mother in You & I, coupled with Diane’s whole spiel about her mom being her best friend - it’s a missed opportunity imo) (even tho as established for this characterisation of Peter it’s not quite so necessary)

that said! credit where credit is due - I am supremely intrigued by the characterisation of… okay most of the cast now I’m thinking about it. Would definitely like to do a comparative character breakdown (let me know if anyone else would care for that at all).

Emo puppy dog Matt Lloyd you are so special (it’s such a silly way to play him!! the show all but eliminates the academic part of his and Jason’s rivalry and THAT makes me sad bc I think it would be so so interesting to play into the rivalry more with this Matt and this Jason - but the way Matt & Ivy’s relationship exists in this version of the show, the absolute lack of any academic focus At All [which?? like they are At School, that SHOULD count for something] and even the play part feels somewhat lacklustre in so regards to the Matt vs Jason element, which again I think is a mark against B;TM)

as I said above - I think I would like Bare: The Musical as a standalone story, but as a Pop Opera adaptation/re-interpretation I think it falls short in a lot of ways. Which is another point - it’s so so crazy to me that The Musical is the adaptation of the Pop Opera, not the other way around. Which kind of sucks! because I think making it into a book musical, not a sung-through show, does give a little more breathing room for character & relationship work and development, but it just seems ill utilised, to the point where it doesn’t even seem to match the Pop Opera, let alone improve/expand on it. Because all the extra dialogue time had to be spent on reordering the story beats so we ended up losing time with the characters in a way.

or at least that’s how it read to me - obviously I am not a professional reviewer/critic so don’t take my word for it, I just wanted to talk it out. or shout it out into the void, as my tumblr may be. if you read this whole thing?? shoutout to you, I love you <3

#the ass quality audio made this somewhat difficult. if anyone has a version that doesn’t sound halfway underwater it would be appreciated #LISTEN I hear y’all when you say it’s not as good as BAPO and I believe you! #but I love to compare and contrast. so. #* worth sacrificing the Pop Opera characters of Nadia & Lucas for? idk. probably not. #** of course the whole Two Households but still happens - which is I guess Jason trying to bargain and like. delay the inevitable. - #but I truly think that I’m the second after Cross Jason’s suicide was pinned to the universe’s cork board #as I say credit where credit’s due I did like several things about the musical! it’s just. second fiddle to the pop opera (for good reason) #yeah. if anyone else has thoughts throw them my way bc I definitely think it’s an interesting comparison #mouse talks bapo #bare a pop opera #bare the musical

[atopvisenyashill]

what are your asoiaf/hotd ships?

i am a multi shipper and my criteria for a ship is “i think it would be interesting” so that doesn’t mean i inherently want it to happen in canon, it just means they have a dynamic with some romantic tones in it that appeals to me - sometimes in a “they would be sweet” way and sometimes in a “oh they would make each other much much worse excellent” way. also - there’s just so many goddamn characters in asoiaf, very good chance i’m missing a ship i like. so anyways i italicized the ones i really enjoy let’s go -

house of the dragon

Rhaenyra/Harwin

Viserys/Daemon

Jace/Addam

Rhaenyra/Daemon

Rhaenyra/Laena

Essie/Sylvie

Rhaenyra/Aegon II

Gaemon/Aegon III

Baela/Cregan

Jace/Cregan

Laenor/Joffrey

Aegon/Helaena/Aemond (sometimes daeron is there but idc about him he’s boring lol. all the war crimes none of the mommy issues of his older siblings).

Alicent/Rhaenyra

Sabitha Frey/Black Aly

Rhaenys/Corlys

Daemon/Laena

Laenor/Daemon

Aemond/Alys

Rhaena/Jace (mostly bc of a fic i read tbh haha)

Jace/Nettles

also fuck alyn oakenfist all my homies hate alyn oakenfist

asoiaf (main series ships)

Sansa/Brienne

Sansa/Theon

Theon/Robb

Brienne/Jaime

Ned/Cat

Jon/Sansa

Cat/Brienne

Cat/Jaime

Cersei/Cat

Jon/Sam

Arya/Gendry

Thoros/Beric

Davos/Stannis (with Salladhor being super jealous in the background)

Davos/Stannis/Melisandre but like that caleb gallo meme “we’re in a gay centric semi non sexual throuple” no one knows what meli gets out of it but if you imply she’s not an important part of the throuple they start throwing shit at you

Robb/Jeyne Westerling

Oberyn/Willas

Jon/Young Griff

Joanna Lannister/Loreza Martell

Rhaella/Elia

Oberyn/Ellaria

Elia/Rhaegar

Renly/Loras

Ned/Cersei

Sansa/Jeyne Poole

Jon/Sam/Gilly

Sansa/Margaery

Jon/Ygritte

Sam/Gilly

Cat/Jason Mallister

Roslin/Edmure

Dany/Rakharo

Arya/Edric Dayne

Jon/Satin

Ashara/Elia

Arianne/Aegon VI

Jon/Arianne

Grey Worm/Jeyne Poole

Willas/Ellaria

i would say probably my favorites are nedcat, braime, throbb, and thoros/beric, i find their dynamics so romantic and tragic, like when i think about them i feel physical pain and that is what i need in a ship.

i did also really enjoy grey worm & missandei in the show even tho the ending was bullshit. and dany/jorah is marginally less creepy mostly bc of the actors chemistry lol so i am known to get slightly emo over show only jorah/dany but that’s bc their dynamic is also wildly different in the show, and also it’s ust that they gave me iain glen and harry lloyd in that amazing “yet here you stand” scene and i’ve been chasing that high ever since aksjsj

asoiaf (historical ships)

Nymeria/Mors

Elaena/Michael Manwoody (ONCE AGAIN ALYN OAKENFIST IS MY ULTIMATE OPP)

Duncan the Small/Jenny of Oldstones

Myriah/Daeron

Maron/Daenerys

Naerys/Melissa

Rhaena/Elissa Farman

Rhaena/Maegor

Rhaena/Elinor Costayne

Daeron/Jeremy Norridge

Elaena/Daena

Baelor/Maekar

Maekar/Dyanna Dayne

Aegon V/Betha

there’s some eras i haven’t really dug into yet that i want to, so i’m sure i’ll get interested in other characters too, and my reread will likely throw some other shit in my brain as well. but this is what i could think of for right now.

#asks #like i’m definitely missing some there’s a million characters aksjjd #but i guess these are the ‘main’ ones #there’s actually a dead dove don’t eat one i read a lot for aksjsjsjs that i did not list

[eyes-of-mischief]

weekly fic recs | 25

fandoms: bnha, bsd, dc, knb

bnha

area cryptid upset no one bothered to inform him of his tragic backstory by crimsonseekers

“My life is a nightmare,” Dabi muttered blankly. “Nah, this is hilarious,” Hawks said, and while he wasn’t explicitly laughing, Dabi knew that those weird little chirps he was letting out were pointed at him. “Imagine if we go through all this effort and you don’t even have some sort of dramatic background or tragic backstory to justify you being this emo, you’re just a hot topic junkie or something.” “That’s fucking worse.”

Or,

Dabi has amnesia and keeps reading conspiracy theories about himself in an attempt to figure out who he is, gets the League in on it, and they dismantle organized crime, revolutionize society, and ravage the hero system in the process. Hawks suffers.

repeat by beeclaws

Work. Check the cameras. Keep them alive.

Aizawa keeps his head above water.

Part 3 of rescue

Riddles in the Heart by PitViperOfDoom

The law is clear: whoever correctly answers three riddles will marry the prince, while all who fail are to be executed. The people live in fear as more challengers try and fail, and the throne grows bloodier with every passing year. But a young prince, nameless and in exile from his home, believes there may be more to this brutal challenge than meets the eye.

Of course, there's only one way to find out: ring the gong, and take the trial.

bsd

Day by Day by bloodsvgarr

(explicit)

When Chuuya wakes up in an unfamiliar room, with an unfamiliar man who offers to make him breakfast, he will have to figure out just how he got here, and why. Nothing is as easy or as simple as it seems, and nothing makes sense. There's far too much that he doesn't remember, and everything's confusing. So what will he do when he realizes that the unfamiliar man is actually someone very close to him? What will he do when he realizes he is no longer able to recognize his own home?

Murder Mystery Matchmaking by dgalerab

(mature)

When Ranpo is ‘kidnapped’ by Poe and given the opportunity to meet his friends and solve a case, he isn’t expecting every single one of them to be a better match for Poe than Ranpo is. He certainly isn’t expecting Poe’s friends to be as invested in their rivalry as Ranpo is. And there’s no way he could have ever expected the peacock.

dc

yeah i have 2 dads AND im bisexual get rekt (and other tweets by superheroes) by kryptonianmenace

A series of stupid moments slapped together. A social media AU.

Jacket Weather by Sohotthateveryonedied

“Okay,” Jason says. He steps forward again; Tim steps back. His heel teeters off the edge now. Jason goes very still. “Do you…want some help getting down from here? I can help you. We can go together.” He holds out his gloved hand expectantly, hopefully.

Tim looks back over his shoulder at the roaring waves below. “There are probably people somewhere who need your help.”

“That’s why I’m here with you.”

“I don’t need any help.”

“It kind of looks like you do.”

knb

Fair Play by Re_Adrienne

(explicit)

Over a week after winning the Winter Cup, Kuroko finally gets his reward.

Steel Swallow, Copper Phoenix by Siana

(explicit) (rape/non-con)

A political marriage with the firstborn son of the Teikou clan is what is supposed to make the rebellious family finally fall in line. But what Akashi Seijuro, 24th Emperor of the Rakuzan line, gets with Kuroko Tetsuya is not at all what he bargained for. It might be just what he needs though.

In the midst of lies and intrigues, will these two find their way to each other, or will the tragedies of the past separate them forever?

It reminds Tetsuya that, if tradition holds true, he will never see the outside world again. A prisoner or a Queen, the difference is often negligible.

#these are actually leftovers i couldnt fit into prompt posts shhhh #weekly fic recs #no prompt #bnha fic recs #bsd fic recs #dc fic recs #knb fic recs

[servin-up-surveys]

survey #045

“it is being buried in wet sand, with a music box in its hand”

Your best friend gets arrested for shoplifting. Are you shocked? I'd be stunned. Would you wear uncomfortable clothes just because they were stylish? Why or why not? No. I just don't give a rat's ass about what's in fashion and what's not. I care about what's comfortable and visually appeals to me as an individual. Have you ever made fun of someone’s name? No, that's very rude. How much money do you usually get from digging in the sofa cushions? I have literally never done this. You won't get anything outta my couch, anyway. Do you truly believe that miracles exist? No. There is always a scientific explanation for how/why things happen. Would you investigate the paranormal if you had the opportunity? 150% fuck yes. I actually think I'd be quite the good investigator for a few reasons, or possibly too sensitive to it as an extreme empath, which is the type of person spirits supposedly favor communication with/through. Do crop circles fascinate you? I guess? I can't say I believe in them being anything abnormal, though, but then again I haven't looked into this topic at all. Are you familiar with the "Emo Kid Song?" I only know it includes a lyric joking about cutting oneself so I automatically don't like it. Have you joined a site just because your friend joined? Possibly? Idk. Have you tried to stay in contact with someone, but they ignored you? HAHA this was 120% Jason towards me after the breakup. I was so desperate to remain friends, and at first he tried too, but it just wasn't working. He wanted nothing to do with me. Have you ever seen a coyote in real life? Uhhh I think so? Do you have anything locked up in a vault? No. What was the best job you've ever had? I've never had a job I liked. Magenta, aqua, or coral? Coral. Would you rather be a wedding photographer or a nature photographer? NATURE. Once upon a time I wanted to be a wedding photographer because the income is fantastic, but it's just not something that's fun to me. Like, I've shot a couple weddings, and neither were fun. They were exhausting and stressful. Nature, on the other hand, is calming and exciting to take pictures of. Have you ever had an ulcer? No. Did you pull an all-nighter last night? No, but I was up very late because I couldn't fall asleep for the absolute life of me. Do you read for pleasure? Yeah. I haven't really read since I've had a laptop again, though... Are you humble? I think so. Do you like to research things? I do, yes. What is your favorite type of donut? Probably glazed. Or chocolate frosted, or cake/plain... Idk, I like donuts lmao. Peacocks or lions? Lions. I love their loyalty to one another. Which name do you like better: Jessica or Jennifer? Jessica. Have you ever looked down on someone because you thought your religious views were superior? No; I may not like religion at all, but that's not a good reason to act like I'm hot shit just because others find comfort in it. Would you rather know everything the universe has to offer, but in exchange, lose all emotions or remain the way you are now? Well that's fucking easy, hell no. Feeling is important to me. If you could live and be healthy without sleeping, eating, or drinking, which would you cut out of your life? Um... sleeping, I guess? This answer would really change with the day. Would you rather burn or freeze to death? FREEZE. Burning alive sounds so fucking excruciating. Freezing would be a lot slower, sure, but I'd still prefer it over roasting. If it meant it would solve all world hunger, war, disease, and bigotry, would you spend the rest of eternity in Hell? If Hell was actually real, I'm pretty sure I would. That's something worth sacrificing myself for. Could you live without having sex ever (again) in exchange for eternal youth? You're asking someone who absolutely doesn't want to live forever. Have you ever watched a full length pornographic movie? No, porn is absolutely not my thing. I don't wanna watch five seconds of it. The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Stones. What was the worst nightmare you ever had? My dad doing something to me that we're not getting into. Do you think that Christians (and other religions) can believe in evolution? I don't give a shit. After a shower, do you get dressed in the bathroom or your room? I get dressed in Mom's room now that I use her bathroom to shower. Do you like stargazing? omg yes Do you wear socks to sleep? omg no but Girt does and I think he's an extraterrestrial for it like wtf that sounds SO uncomfortable. Have you ever been in prison? Hell no, let's keep it that way. Whose was the last bed you slept in, other than your own? Uhhh... my sister's, I think? Do you ever want to own a house? It'd be nice one day. How do you feel about men? I'm scared of them. Do you know any police officers? No. Do you have someone who considers you their best friend? Girt calls me his best friend. :') Do you know anyone who plays bass? No. At least, not that I know of. Have you ever been in a polygamous relationship? No. What is your main hobby? Doing stuff on the computer. Do you like art? I genuinely think it's one of the greatest joys in the world, so yes. What’s your favourite game? Silent Hill 2 and Shadow of the Colossus are where it's fuckin AT. Have you ever had a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend’s mom or dad? No. Are you afraid of frogs? No, I love them! Who are some of your best friends? Besides Girt, Mazzy and Tez. Who’s your favorite athlete? I don't have one. Do you tend to use a ‘baby voice’ when you’re talking to pets? Duh. When was the last time you talked to one of your exes? Months ago. The last time you kissed someone, were your hands around their neck? Pretty sure no. Why did you even kiss the last person you kissed? He was about to head home. How old is the last person you kissed? He's 28 for a couple more months. Have you ever been called a tease? Yes. When is the last time you got sick from drinking too much? Never. What’s the last song you listened to? Hi I am absolutely fucking obsessed with "Spieluhr" by Rammstein sobs Are you one of those people who gets jealous of boys/girls your current bf/gf dated? No; I've never understood this. Like, why would I? They broke up over something, didn't they? Do you prefer McDonald’s or Burger King’s breakfast? I've never tried breakfast from BK. We don't really go there, period. Do you scrape the mold off bread or eat around it? LKAJL;AKSDFJLKASDJFLKAWDJEQW HELL NO I fucking hate mold to like a phobic degree. I can't touch it. Have you ever been around someone who was high? Yep. Have you ever been hit by the opposite sex? No, thank fuck. Do you think you are a good boyfriend/girlfriend? I sure try to be. Girt tells me a lot that I am, but I feel like I could be way better if I was a more capable adult. How many states have you lived in? One. If your girlfriend/boyfriend broke up with you tonight, what would you do? Don't fucking go there, I can't think of that. Do you think you’ll be married in 5 years? Hm. Probably. Have you accidentally sent a text to the wrong person? omg yes Do you ever hang out with someone of the opposite sex? The only person I hang out with is the opposite sex. Do you call anyone baby? Rarely Girt. It's not my favorite term of endearment. Are you afraid of roller coasters? YES. Are you scared of snakes? Nope. Have you ever spoken to a homeless person? Probably at some point, idr. Were you ever with someone while they died? Animals, yes. It's the absolute worst. Have you ever thought about hitchhiking across the country? Definitely not. Would you still love and stay with your significant other if he or she had to have a breast or testicle removed? Duh? Doing otherwise would be incredibly shallow and a total asshole thing to do. Have you ever done something bad but you don’t regret? Yes. Do you like getting hurt? I'm not masochistic, no. [TW: SUICIDE] Have you ever thought of killing yourself? I've tried to before. Who’s the person who first comes to your mind when someone mentions “love”? Girt. Are you too forgiving? I know I am. Are you looking for a boyfriend or a girlfriend? No; I'm very happy with who I'm already dating. If you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, do you remember the day you fell for them? I sure do. Who was the last person you couldn’t take your eyes off? LOOK MAN I was listening to/watching the video to Emigrate's "You Can't Run Away" again earlier and BY GOD Richard is hard to look away from in it lmao The highlight of your week? Honestly, how excitedly Ryder ran up to hug me at his birthday party. I hadn't come with Mom to babysit like I normally do on Fridays, and he'd really wanted to see me. It means so much to me how much he loves me. Have you ever been called a bitch? Yes.

#lyrics: ''spieluhr'' by rammstein #survey #surveys #random surveys #random questions

[ohfuckohfuckohfuck]

my life is procrastination

The last…

time you swore?: FUCK. right now

time you said something you regret?: i say a lot of things impulsively but i don’t know if i regret it

time you did something you regret? whenever i was last intimate with a man

time you got in a physical fight?: never

time you got hurt physically?: pfffffft i am accident prone

time you got hurt emotionally?: i can’t answer this without sounding really emo

time you had sex?: dude... SO fucking long... by choice, obviously

time you had oral sex?: same

time you said I love you?: earlier today

time you cried?: i am a crazy person i am always laughing or crying

time you lied?: uhhh... i suck at lying.

time you were sick to your stomach?: i make myself feel sick all the time but i haven’t actually thrown up since january 2011

time you had your heart broken?: years and years

time you hugged a family member?: i really don’t do hugs unless it’s with someone i feel romantic/sexual about. autism ;)

time you screamed?: a few days ago into a pillow but i don’t know why

time you laughed?: probably like 5 mins ago

person you hugged?: damn... i don't know, which is kinda weird

person you kissed?: some dude last year, would not repeat

person you had oral sex with?: n/a.

person you had sex with?: one of the most annoying people on planet earth

person you fought with?: i don’t really fight with people. my friends and i may disagree about shit but i don't know about FIGHTING

person you cried over?: everyone, always

person you cried in front of?: maybe my best friend?

person who made you cry?: myself, of course

person you hated?: i don’t hate people like i used to but i hold intense grudges. i guess i hate my r*pist?

person you loved?: hehe probably my r*pist. gotta love that trauma bond

person you said I love you to?: my dad

thing you regret doing?: i guess drinking lots of espresso again was probably a mistake

thing you ate?: i only eat at night so uh... half a hot dog bun yesterday

thing you drank?: sparkling water

shirt you wore?: i’m wearing a black hoodie

swear word you said?: fuck

song you listened to?: “failure is the best revenge” by the vandals

thing you bought?: sparkly eyeshadow

fast food place you ate at?:  it’s been so long, i don't know? maybe in-n-out or t bell

alcoholic drink you drank?:  i’m gonna guess beer

drug you did?: weeds

tv show you watched?: game of thrones

movie you watched?: don’t worry darling. so bad :(

country you visited?: germany?

shoes you wore?: my sick ass neon and black sneakers i got for hiking

thought you had?: man i love those sneakers

website you visited?: this one duh

gift you bought?: a boring lil gift card for makeup

gift you recieved?: i receive many gifts

color nail polish you wore?: oof, i need to get my nails done

person you texted?: jason

time you cried yourself to sleep?: i literally cannot fall asleep crying

person you had a crush on?: a human that is not a robot

dream you had?: i was having a huge party and somehow told people we were gonna take a bus to nyc but then realized we weren’t in NJ, we were at my house in CA and that would take days

nightmare you had?: it was bad and sad

time you woke up in tears?: not a thing

time you felt so happy you cried?: probably something duck related

laughed so hard you pissed your pants?: i have pretty strong pelvic floor muscles, so... never

felt like you couldnt breathe?: whenever i last had an asthma attack

movie you saw at the theatre?: NOPE

movie you cried at?: basically i get so excited when i watch my all time fave movies that i cry but in a happy overwhelmed autistic way

time you felt vulnerable?: always?

time you felt loved?: i know i am loved

time you felt needed?:  i am always needed

time you felt ashamed?:  i am always ashamed jk but probably semi-recently

time you hurt someone unintentionally?: that’s one of my cutest autism quirks

person who made you laugh?: me

person who made you feel loved?:  my friends

place you had sex?:  hm... i think it was just a bed. kinda boring. but i was bored anyway. men.

time you showered?: earlier today

person you slept in a bed with and didnt have sex?:  last fall, some person

time you blushed?: all the time

person who made you blush?:  cute people

person who made you scream?: me

time you thanked someone?:  today?

[geowrites03]

Smile pt.3

Damian Wayne x Joker’s daughter!reader

Summary: When Damian is kidnapped by the Joker y/n has to team up with the Batman again.

a/n: also I’ve decided to make Jason kind of like an overprotective older brother kind of figure to y/n idk why but oh well.

Part 1 Part 2

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Damian seemed off the next day at school, all of the smiles he gave me was soft but there was something about it that I didn’t trust. This didn’t seem like him, not only the fact that he wouldn’t be smiling at me after what happened last night in the street, but his smile seemed like somebody else’s. It was a sick, sadistic smile, definitely not Damian’s.

At lunch he was getting clingy and weird, so I hid in the bathroom. When I came out though he was there waiting.

“Come on I’ll walk you to class.” He held out his hand for me to take, I just looked at it then walked off. He should know that we have a free period now, it’s usually when we’d sit outside and draw together in silence. How come he doesn’t remember?

Usually if I walked away from Damian he’d understand that I needed space, but he kept following me. There was only limited places I could go so I went back into another bathroom. I walked into the furthest stall from the door and pulled out my phone to call Jason.

“Jason! You need to control your rat of a little brother.” I whisper yelled into the phone when he picked up.

“What? What’s going on?”

“Damian’s being fucking creepy.” Just as I say that I hear the bathroom door open, I duck down and check under the stall to see if it was Damian, and of course my suspicions had to be correct.

“What the fuck do you mean?” This definitely isn’t him, he wouldn’t just come into the girls bathroom.

“He’s being weird and perverted. He was clinging to me in class and lunch so during lunch I hid in the bathroom but he was waiting. Then he started following me around school when I was trying to get away from him.”

“That doesn’t even sound like him. Is he still following you?” He now started checking all the stalls, if it was Damian he would instantly know that I chose the one furthest from the door.

“Well not since I went into a different bathroom but now he’s actually in here and checking the stalls. I don’t think it’s Damian at all now.”

“Are you suggesting that Damian was replaced by an evil robot, because damn that’d be so sick!” Damian finally reached my stall and banged on the door.

“Not sick for me.” I whisper shouted, there was no use though because he already knows I’m in here.

“Y/n I know you’re in there!” He screamed through the stall door while banging on it. He didn’t even sound like him.

He banged the door again and it nearly came off so I hung up the phone and shoved it in my blazer pocket, unlocked the door and tried to push him out of the way so I could run. When my hands collided with his chest it sounded like metal. Oh I hate it when Jason’s right.

He tried to grab me so I quickly ducked and manoeuvred out of the way and ran out of the bathroom. I ran into the cafeteria where my bag still was on one of the seats. I picked it up as I ran passed and threw it on. I kept running straight for the doors.

I quickly burst through the doors and ran through the streets. I ran through an alleyway, jumped over the fence, then climbed onto different windowsills until I got to Selina’s. I opened the window and climbed inside, I closed the window to look out to see if fake Damian was still following me, I saw him jump over the fence and look around confused he then continued to run down the alleyway.

“So, you gonna explain why you just broke into my apartment or are you going to keep staring out the window like and emo kid trying to escape their emotions?” I turned around to Selina to explain what happened in detail.

“So there’s an evil robot that looks exactly like Damian Wayne chasing you and you come here first?”

“Here was closest and when I’m being chased I don’t want to run too far.”

“Okay well, calm down and we’ll figure something out.” She placed a cat in my arms for me to pat to calm down while she went and made a call.

I took off my backpack and slowly slid down the wall to sit down on the ground as my breathing got heavier. Where was the real Damian? Was he okay? Did my father break out of prison and kidnap to tie him up in an abandoned warehouse and beat him like he did with Jason? Selina walking into caught my attention and pulled me from my thoughts.

“I called Bruce, he’s on his way with Tim so we can find Damian. Okay?” She was using a calm, quiet voice, to not overwhelm me more. I could only slightly look up at her with teary eyes and nod. I just want Damian to be safe.

~

I don’t know when , but I eventually fell asleep crying and I was now on Selina’s couch. When I sat up I saw Batman and Red Robin talking with Selina in her Catwoman suit.

“You’re up, are you ready?” I looked at her with a blank face and stood up while gesturing to my school uniform that I was still wearing.

“Yes, I am so ready to go save Damian in my school uniform.” She just shook her head and told me to go get changed.

While changing into my suit i noticed that the blinds were still open so I moved to close them, I quickly looked out before closing them and saw fake Damian. He scaled the building and got to the window.

“Oh fuck!” He broke the window and came into the room then punched me. I kicked him away from me and he went through the door. While he was busy getting up I quickly finished getting dressed.

He lunged at me again so I flipped over him and out of the room to where everyone else was. He was close behind me though and yanked me back by my hair. This is when Tim sprung into action and started fighting the robot.

I went to my bag and got out my retractable bo staff. I told Tim to move out of the way, when he did I hit the robot with my staff in the chest and sent an electrical wave through it and electrocuted him. He fell to the ground with a thud and they were just looking at me in somewhat shock.

“Do you have electrical powers or was it the staff? Also, since when do you use a staff?” Tim spoke up while moving the robots head with his foot.

“Electrical powers, and I’ve always used a staff just not when my father and I were fighting Batman and Robin.”

“Well, now that that’s covered up and the fake Damian has been taken care of let’s go find the real Damian.”

~

We pinpointed Damian’s location using the tracker his father implanted in his arm. We found out that it was actually one if my fathers warehouse’s. Did he escape prison without anyone already finding out?

When we got there our suspicions of Joker breaking out of Arkham were confirmed, as well as Poison Ivy already out as well. Bane was also there as well as a bunch of goons. Joker ran off to a room in the back then Ivy made the first move shooting a vine towards me, I went to cut it off with my sword but I didn’t have it, I only had my staff.

The vine wrapped around me and pulled me towards her, she then threw me to a nearby wall. Bane lunged at Batman and landed the first blow to his torso knocking him back. The goons split in half and went for Catwoman and Red Robin.

I was continuously fighting off Ivy’s vines and blows. My watch beeped to signal 4:43, that means have 1 minute and 44 seconds to find out who to use my special ability on. My special ability doesn’t have a name but what it does is when the time is on an angel number, including seconds, I can touch some and say ‘Night’ and they’ll drop to the ground passed out for two hours and if they have powers I will be able to use those powers for the two hours that they’re knocked out for.

I looked around and decided that if Bane wasn’t taken out fairly quickly then we wouldn’t be able to move through this group at all. Not that I doubted Batman but, he seems tired and Bane’s clearing got him in a bad situation, so I might as well take the weight off his shoulders.

I fight my way away from Ivy and flip through the group of goons and take a few out on the way over to Bane and Batman. One goon tried to tackle me but I shocked him through my staff and knocked him back. This took 1 minute and 39 seconds so I sped up and flipped onto his back. 4:44:41

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2

1

“Night.” All I did was whisper it in his ear and he dropped to the ground like a bag of very big potatoes. We run to the group and take out a few goons. Pretty soon we were all done fighting them and ran into the room that the Joker was in.

When we got in the room we saw Damian chained to the roof, feet just dangling above the ground. My father soon came into the picture holding a crowbar. He took a swing to Damian’s stomach and Batman went to lunge at him but I stopped him.

“It’s fake.” I picked up a piece of metal and threw it towards them but it just went through them. “Well, this one is, but somewhere this is actually happening so we have to be quick.”

“And who put you in charge?”

“Nobody, I’m just informing you.”

“Okay then. We should split in half, Red, v/n, you two go that way and look for Damian.” We nodded and ran off down a oddly placed hallway.

“He most likely won’t be up on this level.” I said to Red and took a sharp turn to the left and down a flight of stairs. I realised he wasn’t following anymore so I look back to the top of the stairs but he was gone. “Red Robin?!”

I ran back up the stairs to find him but my mind couldn’t stop thinking about how much trouble Damian’s still in plus there’s another mysterious force pulling me down the stairs as if leading me somewhere. Hopefully to where Damian is, I hesitantly went back down the stairs, deeming Damian more important.

‘Right’

I look around to see where the voice came from but nobody’s around me, weird. For some stupid reason though, I followed the directions the voice was telling me. I took a right and continued to follow the voices other direction until I saw a door, another staircase, and dark hallway.

‘Choose’

What?! Why is it leaving me now? I could’ve figured out the rest by myself, but this? Hell no! I was lost in thoughts and contemplations until I heard a scream. It came from the door so I opened it and ran in.

Damian’s POV~

“This is what you get for EVER thinking about my daughter!” He swung again and hit my torso. I coughed up some blood and spat in his face. “I see, you’re not looking to be your own Robin either, you’re just a repeat.”

I knew he was trying to rile me up so I didn’t react. He was clearly getting angrier each time he didn’t get a proper reaction. He dropped the crowbar and walked over to the other side of the room. He stopped in front of a tv and turned it on, it showed camera footage of a dark room with 3 silhouettes in chairs.

When I managed to focus my eyes a little better I could see that it was my father, Selina and Tim in their costumes tied up and blindfolded.

“Don’t hurt them!”

“There’s a reaction.” He flashed a smile and walked back over to me, he grabbed my chin roughly and made me look at him. “Don’t worry I won’t hurt them, as long as you stay away from y/n.”

He let go of my chin. I really don’t want to, I know that I can’t stay away from her, but he’ll hurt my family. He might even hurt her if I don’t stay away from her though.

“You broke her heart ya know.” I looked up at him with a questionable look. “When you left her alone on one of the most crime ridden streets in Gotham. She was left crying on the streets.”

I already felt bad leaving her there but now hearing that she was actually crying. It was sad for me, but it must’ve been heartbreaking for her.

“You know she doesn’t like to be alone, Damian. Bit you still left her there. Why?” That’s the thing, I don’t know why. It was only after I walked away that I realised I did love her.

He picked up the crowbar again and swung it at my head but stopped just before he hit it causing me to flinch. He laughed at me and started beating me more.

He stopped abruptly, but I still heard a crowbar hitting flesh. I opened my eyes to located him, he was on the ground in front of me. Y/n had the crowbar now and hit him in the torso a few times, before untying me.

As soon as my arms were free I hugged her.

“I’m sorry.” I squeezed her tighter.

“It’s alright, but we have to find the others.” I nodded and followed her. We ran down multiple halls and up many stairs. Jeez how far down was I? When we got to the room, y/n went to take down the guards while I untied everyone.

“Thank god, are you okay?” My father saw my beat up face and hugged me. I winced and pulled away a bit.

“I’ll be fine.” He nodded and we all started to leave.

y/n’s POV~

When we were going to leave Jason dropped down in his Red Hood costume.

“Y/n! Are you okay? Is this the real him?” He tapped Damian on the head and stood somewhat in between us. Damian just looked at me confused.

“Yes it’s him, Jason.” I sighed.

“Am I the only one confused here.” I looked at him and explained what happened earlier today. “Wow what the fuck.”

“Yeah I know. At least a fake you being practically attached to my hip made Jenna jealous.” Damian laughed but everyone else looked confused.

“Who’s Jenna?” Jason asked.

“Don’t worry about it.” Damian and I both laughed to each other as we all made our way to our homes.

Jason was the first to part from the group, then Tim decided he was going to stay at a friends house instead of the manor so he left second, and once again Bruce and Selina ran off together to god only knows where.

“Do you want to go get some dinner?” He looked down at me.

“Depends, Wayne, are you asking me out on a date?” He chuckled and shook his head.

“Depends, Quinzel, do you want it to be?” I looked at him and smiled.

“Sure, why not.”

~

“How did you even find out about me being Robin?” We had already left the restaurant we ate at and were now on top of a random building talking the night away.

“Well, I had my suspicions ever since you drew our swords.” He chuckled and shook his head. God, he’s so pretty.

“Damn really?” He looked down at me shocked. “I only found out you were v/n when I compared your smile.”

“You remembered my smile so well you were able to figure out that I was v/n?”

“Yeah? And?” He playfully rolled his eyes and looked into mine. “It’s one of your best features.”

“And you said you didn’t love me.” I jokingly scoffed and nudged him with my elbow.

“I didn’t say that I didn’t love you.” His eyes fluttered around my face. “I said that I didn’t know. But I know now. Y/n I love you.”

“But do I still love you? Or did my last confession have an expiring date.” I hummed and tapped my chin faking a thoughtful expression. “I’m just kidding. I love you too Damian.”

“So… are we like- dating now or…?” I leaned in and cupped his cheeks so I could give him a light kiss on his lips.

“Do you want to date me?” He nodded and leaned down to kiss my lips again.

The moment didn’t last long before we were quickly running in the rain to the closest place we knew, Selina’s apartment. We quickly climbed into the window and went to the spare room that I’ve been sleeping in since my parents were locked up.

“If you two are going to do anything use protection!” We just laughed and denied he accusations.

“Wanna watch a movie?” I ask him and get out my laptop from my bag and sit down next to him.

“Yeah sure, what movie?” I thought for a second and giggled to myself I have the perfect movie, that he’ll hate, in mind. I quickly put it on and it loaded up. “Are you kidding me? Kissing Booth?”

“What? It’s not that bad of a movie.” I whined head butted his shoulder.

“You are unbelievable.” He laughed and wrapped his arms around me.

“You know you love me.”

#damian wayne #damian wayne x jokers daughter!reader #damian wayne x reader #damian wayne x y/n #damian wayne x you #dc reader insert #damian wayne x villain!reader

[takaraphoenix]

Ship game!! What about Nico and Will?? It’s pretty popular, but I don’t think I’ve seen you write much of it…

That's an interesting one in that I have vocalized my reasons for disliking it way back when it first became popular but instead of just linking that, it has been years so I think it's time for an updated version.

Firstly: This post is gonna be properly tagged and not crosstagged so if any shipper comes across it and feels the need to bitch about it, just don't; your lack of curating your own tumblr experience is not my problem! ;D

Now, there are three key factors that play into my dislike of this ship: How it was written, what it represents, how the fandom around it acts.

1. It’s rushed and uncomfortable

In BoO, it was incredibly rushed. They had literally five sentences of interactions before they walked into the literal sunset together. Five. It was just entirely born from Riordan's Noah's Ark Complex, where he just can't let people be single. The series was ending and he needed Nico to have an endgame so he rushed into some random romance with zero build-up.

The way their interactions went down was also severely uncomfortable for me. Will was acting so offended by Nico not wanting to go to camp and be friends in an entitled way that he had no right to be, he downright guilt-tripped Nico about how he had wanted to be friends. Nico has been just so severely traumatized at such a young age and his coping mechanism, as unhealthy as it was, was to run away and hide. Will acted like Nico not wanting to form attachments to people who could potentially leave him again was somehow just an Edgy Emo Decision and not a direct reaction to his trauma. His entire approach to Nico was basically all these hippie posts of "Don't have depression!! Just go out into the sun and stop being depressed!", which is already a bad take with non-medical people but he's supposed to be a doctor (and let's not get into the shadiness of him technically being Nico's doctor).

There is also an inherent "I can fix him" angle to this ship and to me, only few ship dynamics are more uncomfortable than that. If you want to fundamentally change a person's behavior and personality, you... don't actually want to be with this person.

Now, here's where my points overlap, because the following parts of their writing that bothers me also stand for what this ship fundamentally represents.

2. Solangelo is a queer ship written by and for straights

I'm a queer woman and as a queer woman, I want queer wish-fulfillment, not what straights want out of queerness. I'm kind of tired of that, I've been sitting through it for enough decades now. That's, of course, not to say that no straight writer can give proper queer representation, but far too often do straight writers - even the most well-meaning ones - project straight desires of queerness into their queer representation.

Let me explain that closer through this ship.

Nico's been in love with Percy for years and I'm going to do my best to not hijack this post with some Percico agenda; that's not what this his about, this isn't some "my ship is better than your ship" ship-war nonsense. It's simply a canonical fact that Nico has had romantic feelings for another character for years.

A character who, in this medium, is heterosexual. And if you're queer, you've been there. In love with your straight best friend. It's a cliche, but it's a cliche for a reason.

We have also all been well-meaningly rejected by said straight friend.

And here's the straight desires for you: The queer person who was in love with a straight person just immediately stops having those feelings and will then as quickly as possible fall in love with the next queer person they meet to be happy and no longer uncomfortably in love with a straight person, because that thought makes the straights uncomfortable.

Queer wish-fulfillment would be for Percy to return those feelings, for the queer character to get his first love, to not be rejected. That thing queer teens always dreamed about for themselves.

Aside from the wish-fulfillment angle, the pacing is another problem. Let me repeat, Nico was in love for years. But a five sentence conversation with Will once causes a crush on Will and we see him physically turn away from Percy and toward Will just immediately to rebound and actually fall out of love with Percy and in love with Will. Anyone who's ever been unlucky in love will attest to just how unrealistic and ridiculous the pacing here is.

It's also straight queerness in another respect; Nico has been the first ever queer character we meet in that world. He loves a straight guy - and to get over that, we introduce the second queer character. Because heaven forbid there are multiple queers to pick from. No, in straight-written queer romances, there is always that one main queer and then they introduce a second one and the two just immediately hit it off and develop a romance like all a queer person needs to form attraction to someone is the confirmation that the other person shares your sexuality.

Also the notable gay guy on gay guy ship here, whereas the more queer-wish-fulfillment option would have also included more nuance to the queer experience, because Percy doesn't have to be heterosexual just because he has only been with girls so far. It's a very old-fashioned - think 90s and early 2000s - kind of straight-written queerness that there are only exactly two homosexuals and that those two homosexuals then pair up.

And, listen, I'm not immune to these outdated straight-written queers entirely, I have many such ships that I grew up with that I am still fond of because they were groundbreaking at that time and they weren't outdated yet back when they happened in said 90s and early 2000s. I am however a grown woman now and just like I have grown, so has queer rep so I am not as easily baited into falling onto my knees in gratitude for canon rep. You have to go with the times. And this ship, by all that is given to us, is just entirely outdated straight-written rep.

Which, I mention earlier that even straight-written rep can be good. If the author tries. Riordan doesn't really try though; he does the bare minimum when he writes any of his rep - and there have been many, many more qualified voices being very vocal about his depiction of people of color and, as a woman, I've been vocal about his depiction of women. I don't want to derail this post with all of that, but I do think that it bears mentioning that Riordan doing rep but only doing a bare minimum and not putting in the necessary work to deepen the representation he wants to give is a repeating pattern that has been pointed out many times by now.

(I’d also like to point out that no, it is not just the ship and not just the listed instances that make it straight-written rep for straights. It’s Nico’s entire queer arc, starting with his forced coming out. A severely traumatizing event that is completely brushed over because the straight author doesn’t understand the impact this has on queer people. Not to mention the framework; Nico’s coming out isn’t Nico’s story, it happens in Jason’s POV, it is given to us through the POV of the straight bystander who gets to be Best Ally by assuring Nico that being gay is okay. This kind of coming out is not a queer wish-fulfillment, it’s a straight wish-fulfillment of getting to be the straight savior, the ally to show the gay the light of acceptance. And, additional to the ridiculous pacing of how fast Nico gets over his love for Percy, Nico also gets over years of internalized homophobia just because of, I don’t know, Jason’s few encouraging words and the fact that Will paid attention to him? For a gay kid who was in the closet all his life, the nonchalant way in which he publicly confessed his crush to Percy at the end made absolutely no sense and was written as basically a joke, finished off with Nico literally high-fiving Percy’s girlfriend despite those two never having seen eye to eye before but this is straight wish-fulfillment so all straights are Super Allies, because that’s the way straights want to see themselves, even though Annabeth has shown before just how jealous she can be and she most definitely wouldn’t go around high-fiving people who confess to her boyfriend. Nothing about Nico’s queer arc in HoO felt natural or queer or satisfying.)

Sure, Solangelo on a surface level is big because it's a canon queer couple in a YA book-series and kudos for that and yay for the kids who get to grow up seeing queers in YA books, but I actually do think that kids growing up with books written in the 2010s shouldn't grow up with 1990s levels of representation, because the 2010s overall are actually at a far more nuanced and better level of representation when it comes to queerness. And I do reserve the right to quit on too straight-written and too outdated queer rep in a landscape where I can get more satisfying representation elsewhere; we don’t live in times anymore where you necessarily have to love every bit of rep because it’s the only one you get.

Now that we've gone through my first two gripes, let's wrap this up with the final point, because it also directly ties into this.

3. The new wave of antis hiding behind this ship

A huge part of the fandom is so busy kissing Riordan's ass solely for giving them queer rep at all they think that both the author and the ship are beyond flawless and that kind of attitude is not good. Just because an author includes rep doesn't make either perfect. Absolutely no one is beyond critique - especially not when said critique comes from the very people the author is representing. And even beyond any "valid" critique on the ship, quite frankly, someone should also be allowed to just not like it, without any reasons given at all.

But there is a certain... protective obsessiveness about this ship that doesn't allow a not liking. Very similar to how PJO bore this mindset around Perc/abeth already. It's okay to have OTPs, even OTPs that you have a blindspot for and just don't want to see any flaws in. It is however not okay to then go around attacking people who don't like the thing and mind their own business.

Solangelo's bred a new generation of antis in this fandom. And, particularly with the fact that this post too receives an "anti" tag, I feel like there needs to be a clarification (because tumblr likes to forget what actually makes an anti). Not liking something doesn't make you an anti, venting in properly tagged posts doesn't either; it's the people who harass others, who seek out the content they dislike to then complain that it even exists and who actively try to make others stop creating for it - those are antis.

And with Solangelo's popularity, there was a high rise in Percico antis, who sought it out, were unnecessarily nasty about it, harrassed creators and tried to enforce some kind of "Solangelo supremacy" that won't allow other ships for the characters.

I've been in fandom long enough to be perfectly aware that not all Solangelo shippers count into this category and that there are completely normal and nice Solangelo shippers, but this is a Venn diagram where the overlap between Solangelo shippers and antis is too large to not widely associate the nasty people with the ship itself. (I've been there myself, shipping the very ship behind which a fandom's antis all hid. The second-hand embarrassment of having these people give the ship a bad name is horrendous and I do feel bad for all the normal Solangelo shippers.)

The more often I encountered these people, who made Percico bad (sometimes in wildly ridiculous manners that bent and deliberately misinterpreted canon) and who in the same breath praised Solangelo high, the more tired I grew of that ship. It's a simple game of association, really. You see that linked to the gross and nasty behavior and you start associating the ship itself with that gross and nasty behavior - and with all the things I said before that already weighed into my dislike of the ship, this just was the final tipping point, really.

And that's it. That sums up why I dislike Solangelo. It was hastily rushed, uncomfortable in its execution, it is outdated rep that very much feels as straight-written as it factually is and it does not feel aimed at me as a queer person but rather at the straight audience and it has gathered a cult following of quite uncomfortable people who on their own would be reason enough to avoid it so you can avoid them.

Send me a ship and I will explain why I do or don't ship it

#Anti Solangelo #PJOverse #Riordan Critical #Shipping #Ship Ask Game #send me asks #it IS both a positive AND negative game #and I gotta admit #it is nice to put these things #into proper words #every once in a while

[lesbiansouplol]

October Writing Prompt Challenge!

Writing prompts/one shots. 1/1

Ship: Solangelo!

Summary: Will did a bit of a stupid, but Nico is there to pick up the pieces, and also Will’s self esteem. Also, cuddles. (Sorry I’m not good with summaries)

Genre: Hurt/Comfort, because let’s be honest with ourselves, we are very hurt, and these kinds of fics are our only comfort. :D

Warnings: Self Esteem issues, running away from home, mild hypothermia, crying, very, very mild swearing, and being sensitive to touch.

Word count: 2,270

Nico’s POV.

Gods, I was tired. I swear I have the best dad in the world with his constant favors to pull, and the random “family” dinners in the underworld. Because nothing screams “family” like Hades sitting stoically on one side of the table, and Persephone sitting at the other side complaining about anything and everything she can think of, including me.

I was coming back from one of those dreaded dinners when I saw one Will Solace milling around outside my cabin.

We had gotten closer since he asked me to stay at camp after the war. And he did somehow manage to make my time in the infirmary not nearly as terrible as I was expecting. He had this unnaturally bright smile that really made you feel like everything was going to be okay. Everything was fine; Will was there to save the day. Every. Single. Time. This did mean he got little to no sleep, and he liked to skip meals and take other people’s shifts. He’s caring to a fault, but always seems fairly happy with himself about it.

We hung out a bit, and despite what I’ve been told is an “overwhelming aura of death”, he always welcomed me back into the infirmary with open arms, whether it was to get a cut looked at, or just to talk while he restocked, or did just about anything to keep himself busy.

Unfortunately, he left to go home just a few weeks after the summer was over. With Jason gone, Percy and Annabeth on some trip, and Hazel staying busy at camp Jupiter, I was alone again. Back to being the “Prince of Darkness” and the emo, scary kid everyone stayed away from.

But here was Will, sporting a hoodie and some jeans instead of his usual khakis and embarrassingly loud Hawaiian shirts. He seemed less… Will than usual. His shoulders were hunched, and he was hugging his stomach like he was sick.

“Will?” I called.

He turned to face me. “Nico!” he shouted and ran towards me. I almost shadow travelled away before he hugged me, but for whatever reason, I hesitated just long enough for him to grab me. “I’ve been looking for you for hours! How the hell is it so cold in October?” He said slowly, almost slurring his words.

I grunted a bit and he immediately let go. “Sorry, I forgot about...” he couldn’t seem to think of the right words.

“It’s okay.” I said, finally getting a good at his face. His freckles had faded a bit over the last month. He seemed a lot paler too, almost like he didn’t see the sun in the past month either. But most concerning of all, were his eyes. They seemed so glassy and red, he clearly had been crying.

“Are you okay? Aren’t you supposed to be-“ I grabbed his hand, he was freezing. He was far, far colder than any living thing should be.

“Sorry,” He said again. “I don’t… feel… my head’s going all fuzzy.” He squeezed my hand tighter and put his other hand to his head. “I think… I’m gonna go to sleep.” He looked around like he was waiting for a bed to show up out of nowhere.

“Nonono, no sleep right now Will. Here, come with me.” I said, pulling him towards my cabin. He looked like he was about to fall over, but followed anyway. I just kept thinking: if I can save the world who knows how many times, then I’m not letting this bubbly, ray of ever so determined sunshine get hurt on my watch.

After getting him inside, I did my best to get him to sit on the couch in the main area of the cabin, he kept trying to lie down but I kept sitting him up again and repeating the same jumbled combinations of “sorry”, “please”, and “c’mon, William.”

I dragged the couch closer to the fireplace and silently thanked my dad for making fun of how scrawny I was a few years back. I lit a fire, knowing full well that the fireplace was really only for offerings to Hades, but Dear Old Dad will have to understand just this once.

I ran over to the many unused bunk-beds and grabbed as many blankets as I could hold, bringing them back to the couch to the semi conscious idiot from Texas. He seemed strangely content watching the flames, still shivering every few minutes, which I’m pretty sure I a good sign?

I’m not a healer by any means. My understanding of how to be healthy is pretty baseline; people need food, water, shelter, and sleep to function. But, I can tell when someone is dying. I know when a condition is getting worse. I get this feeling in my gut, and it gets stronger and stronger the worse someone’s condition gets.

Outside, I was sure that was the feeling I was getting. The far off look in his eyes scared me more than anything. But after I drowned him in blankets and he muttered his thanks, a completely different feeling started welling up in my chest. Something was wrong.

He sat up on the couch and started shaking his head. “Sorry, and thank you for all this.” He said, gesturing to the fireplace before leaning closer to it and putting his hand out.

I came closer and sat down next to him, shrugging. “Just don’t scare me like that again.”

He gave a half-hearted laugh and smiled at me. “I promise.”

I met his eyes, still glassy, like any second he could burst into tears. “Are you… okay?” I asked, only for him to look back at his hands before answering with a small, almost embarrassed “Not really.”

I was surprised by the honesty, usually it would take a bit of nagging before he’d admit he was tired, or needed a break from work, or anything along those lines. I had so many questions, like why was he at camp? What happened that has him so upset?

But there was only one question I really needed the answer to:

“Is there anything I can do?”

He looked at me with fresh tears in his eyes, almost unable to speak. He nodded. “Hug?”

Maybe it was the fire, or the blankets, but my heart melted there and then. I put my arms out, and he moved a bunch of blankets out of the way and wrapped his arms around me and buried his head in my shoulder. I felt his tears on my shirt as he shook with silent sobs.

I don’t tend to do well with physical affection. I guess I’ve had far too many encounters with monsters and people where if they managed to touch me I was most likely about to get hurt. Touch was something that made me panic, not a love language, or a gesture of affection. But as terrible as this situation was, this didn’t feel dangerous. It felt safe, and my heart cried out a little, knowing that the last time I genuinely felt safe like this was with Bianca.

I started rubbing circles into his back like Bianca used to do to help me when I was sad. After a few minutes Will stopped crying, and a bit after that he was asleep. He was warm enough at that point; I didn’t have the heart to wake him up.

I slowly and tactfully repositioned myself to be a little more comfortable, and before I knew it, I was fast asleep as well.

I woke up; Will was still soft asleep beside me. Hard not to feel like a bit of a creep as I watched him sleep, it’s just not every day I got to see Will so peaceful. He was always bouncing from one thing to another, sometimes I found it hard to believe he didsleep, and wasn’t some sort of super-human. But there was something so beautiful and calming about seeing him like this.

Unfortunately, good things don’t last forever, and Will started waking up. I probably should’ve moved or something, but he rolled away from me and onto his back before letting out a long sigh and opening his eyes.

He looked over to me. “Hey.” He smiled.

“Hey.” I replied. “Are you feeling any better?”

He sighed again. “Probably? It’s been a rough couple days.” He started sitting up. “Thank you for everything, though. I really appreciate it.”

Sometimes reading social situations is hard. I guess that’s what I get for isolating myself and never talking to people. “Why are you here?” Was the genius sentence my brain decided was the best way to explain my confusion.

Will looked a bit hurt, but explained his part nonetheless. “I looked in the Apollo cabin, but no one was there. I didn’t know where else to go.”

“No, I mean, at camp. Aren’t you supposed to be in Texas with your family?” I asked, making sure my tone was a bit kinder than last time.

“I…” Will looked down at the fireplace. “I’ve decided not to stay with my family this year.”

That didn’t add up. “But you were so excited to see them again, right? You wanted to meet the twins and everything?”

Tears started welling in his eyes again. “I was, and the twins are adorable. But It’s safer for them if I don’t stick around.” His voice cracked halfway through what he said, making my theory that much more convincing.

“Did something happen? Are they okay?”

He swallowed the knot in his throat and spoke as clearly as he could. “It was easier before, it was just my mom and me, and I’m not going to kid myself and say I’m a super powerful demigod who gets chased by all the monsters, but when they did show up, it was easy to protect her, and we’d move, or we’d clean up the mess. We were adaptable. But Todd, -my step dad- he doesn’t get it. And I can’t protect him, my mom, Andy, and Avery all at once. And sure, I can patch them up afterwards, but what good is a healer when there’s an actual fight happening? I love them too much to put them in danger like that.” He explained. It sounded a bit like something he had been repeating to himself in his head, waiting for the opportunity to give it a voice.

“So you… what? Packed your stuff and left?” I asked.

“No! I…” He met my eyes. “Yeah, sounds pretty stupid when you put it like that.”

“How did you even get here? You don’t have your own car yet.”

“I walked a bit of it, hitch-hiked most of it, and took some buses” he said, looking away again. “None of that matters though, as long as they’re safe.”

Without much thinking, I grabbed his hand. I wasn’t sure what to say, or how I could help.

“I’m just… They’re better off without me.” He finished.

“Will…” I waited until he met my eyes again to continue. “I don’t think there’s anyone who would be better off without you.”

He gave a weak smile. “Thanks, but you’re just saying that to make me feel better. I have to face the facts-“

“No.” I interrupted. “I said it because it’s true. I don’t know a single person that would be better off if they didn’t know you. This whole camp would essentially fall apart if anything seriously bad happened while you weren’t in charge of the infirmary. So many people would be dead if not for you, including Annabeth, who I’m sure I don’t need to remind you, is one of the seven from that big prophecy. So you basically saved the whole world with that one. And you’re the best healer we have, so don’t even get me started on that little ‘not saying I’m a super powerful demigod’ crap you said. You’re not just powerful, you’re an invaluable part of everything at camp. You overwork yourself constantly trying to do what’s best for everybody. You’re one of the most amazing people I know, and I will not, no, I can’t listen to you talk down about yourself.”

The panic hit when he stared back at me, eyes wide. “I… that was a lot, sorry. You just shouldn’t… ugh I don’t know. Forget I said anything.”

He squeezed my hand. “Thank you, thank you so much. You have no idea how much I needed to hear something like that.”

I felt my cheeks turn bright red. “I… uh… you’re welcome.”

He hopped up, off the couch. All of his hyper, bubbly personality returning. “Time for breakfast!”

The super-human, always on the go, morning person I had befriended over the summer had returned… just in time to remember how annoying he can be. “It’s only nine o’clock!” I exclaimed, flopping back down onto the couch. “More sleep.”

“No can do, sir. You don’t get to sleep the day away, I’m afraid.” He grabbed the blankets and started walking off to put them away.

Naturally, I jumped up to take them back. “Hey! I was using those.”

He looked back, and with a smug smile dropped the blankets on a nearby chair. “Oh, great! You’re already up!” He walked back over, grabbed my hand, and started pulling me out the door.

He was annoying, sure. But there was no doubt in my mind that he was my best friend. And I would much rather deal with him being a little pushy than ever see him as upset as he was the night before.

The End.

#creative writing #original writing #writers on tumblr #fic #solangelo #will solace #nico di angelo #writing prompt #one shot #solangelo fluff #pjo #hoo

[valdangelodumbasses]

Valdangelo Headcannons #1

Leo and Nico are both introverts but Nico loves affection

Leo made Nico tiramisu once and he swallowed it faster than Percy could ever

Leo couldn't look him in the eyes for a week or he got so flustered

Nico is lawyer bf 

and a demon at monopoly; him playing w/ Annie is the worst.

gamers! both like monster (specifically mango loco) but Nico also loves tropical redbull

Nico teaches Leo and hazel how to play so they can battle 2v2

Nico wipes the floor and Leo is just glad he understands half the rules

Nico and Leo wear heels. 

and they're good at it too.

Confident Nico>>>>>>  

Leo has a fucking heart attack when Nico pins him to a wall

Leo makes Nico laugh with his jokes and shitty pickup lines

but when Uses shitty pickup lines on him he steals them, after he stops looking like a tomato

Nico does Cosplay and they cosplay together and its so fucking rad

making out while baking/cooking? more likely than u think

Leo tells Nico he looks cute one day b4 they started dating and Nico is like: Is this friendly affection

Caffeine addicts rise up

but Nico hates coffee and honestly same

teas n energy drinks>>> 

Leo is a fucking swine who mixes all his foods and Nico nearly vomits bc he wont let his food even touch goddamit

Piper and Hazel being wingman while Percy and Jason are the matchmakers

p r a n k s

like so goddam many

they are unstoppable and they pin it on the Stolls

or Leo gets caught

Nico n e v e r does bc like? scary emo kid? prankster? nah, NAh,

he sticks his tongue out at leo anytime leo gets caught

bisexual leo or gay leo? leo doesn't even know!

all he knows is that nicos hot and has a cute butt & personality

nico is a theater gay

he sings every musical

his favorites are Heathers, Beetle juice, Legally blond, and the greatest showman

Leo has theater kid energy but probably works the tech stuff

he likes heathers, Chicago, legally blond, Grease, and dear evan Hansen the best

Hamilton is neither of their favorites yet they end up dueting it all the time

Art kid and Repair kid>>>>>>>>>>>>

Percy sees them kiss after dating (and kissing) for 6 months and wait yall are friends?

Hes slow but he means well, Nico sticks his tongue in leo's mouth after percy says that

he's like  “O H , sorry im dumb”

“jackpot” “Valdez shush”

they talk abt their moms

angsty emo boys listen to greenday

and every other emo band

Leo calls Nico mammacita once

never again (Nico started crying)

why? It was commonplace used by his uncles and grandpa

Nico demands leo call him that more though

Leo is Hesitant but obliges

mexican or italian food restaurant arguments

leo steals nicos breadsticks even tho he has some

nico steals leo's nachos when he has his own

they're petty? yes but petty and in love!

and gay/ did i mention g a y 

Demiboy leo rights

leos a fuckin lefty

Trans Nico rights mtf or ftm rights

nico may not be trans but he's also demiboy

demi boys calling each other they all day because nobody uses the they in he/they (speaking as a demigirl)

If nico IS trans tho hades 100% uses magic to transition Nico bc yes good dad

laughing abt trauma and they're friends are like: NO

memes

“get ur hands off my bf”

“kick their ass baby i got cho flower”

imagine, just imagine nico fussing over leos hair because curly is the cutest

leo fusses over nicos when he's in a slump and brushes his hair

skincare is vital to both

Leo does engineering n shit but does it for like 16 hours straight much to everyone's dismay, but Nico who has (arguably) fresh eyes and make sure his physics is right

Nico loves physics fight me

but nico sleeps like 4 times a week for 3 hours or 3 days a week for 12 hours

Insomnia gang don’t rise up go to fuckin sleep 

will keeps giving them melatonin and they always forget to take ti and will is going to fuckin murder them maybe then they'll sleep

u know that comic where they naruto kiss S P I D E R M A N  K I S S I E S

nico hangs like a bat and leo is a memelord

nico also loves spider man

they def try to make spider man gear but annie smashes the shit out of it

dorks! comic!

omg comic book shop au nico owns it

soulmate au where u loose shit n it goes to ur soulmate

nico has NO clue what the hell to do with all this nails n hammers n shit

Leo builds stuff out of nicos lost mytho dupes 

Leo doesnt know what to do with his underwear, or all the mcdonalds receipts and the crumpled up sketches and sketch books

anyway

aphrodite ships it as she SHOULD and hades n heppy do too

why did i cal hephaestus heppy ? idk maybe aphrodite calls him that

They both hate yoga with a passion

does nico have an obsession with spn or does he hate it sm that he watches it ?

its as ambiguous as leo's sexuality!

Leos like what if i'm straight

then nico walks in 

No he's definitely not straight

who even heard of greeks being straight smh

Nico in miniskirts, aline, or any skirt makes leo go brrrrrrr

he wears leggings or tights under them though

Nico also wears leggins to bed

or the fluffy pants he steals from leo so leo doesn't have any pants

“IM FEELINGS DEVIOUS AND LOOKING GLAMORUS-”

band band band band band band band band band  Nico can sing and leo plays drums

Nico and katie are friends and Nico has a green thumb so leo is surprised when nico has more houseplants than crowley (Good omens)

He has tons of hanging and not hanging terrariums

Leo tries not to set them on fire

After Leo and Nico start hanging out more Nico bribes Lou Ellen to make his plants fire proof

they are now

Nico knows how to fire a gun and he's good at it

Pirate Nico!! 

Leo and Hades get along well

So does Nico and heppy

the parents get along too but they diss heras bad mothering

Nico gets de aged and leo is ???? but he's so CUTE AND TINY

Leo babysits him for a week in the bunker and nobody even knows until Percy and Will goes in there looking for him

Nico and Clarisse sparing? Sweaty bf? Leo loves it and chris and leo are just staring and say “yes”

Nico has freckles and leo kisses each one

Leo has these really dark freckles spread across his body but they aren't as frequent as freckles?? y'all know what i mean? ne way nico kisses them

Leo uses Yall. 

It rubs off on nico

jason is a die hard anti y’all

they annoy the shit out of him

Cuddles

nico and leo having bakeoffs

Nico asking piper for advice but editing it so its not super obvious its leo

She figures it out and tells leo like any good bff

nico promptly leaves camp when leo busts in asking if he has a crush on him

hades laughs but understands

leo sulks back to piper and percy is there and Percy got no chill

so he goes down there

Hades ain't too happy w that but Nico just gets so embarrassed and goes back with him

Hephaestus and aphro watching this go down like a romcom

I'm getting tired so im going to stop here anyway stan valdangelo for clear skin

#valdangelo #ghostfire #Leico #leo x nico #nico x leo #headcannons #valdangelo headcannons #pjo #hoo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #jason grace #nico di angelo #leo valdez #heros of olympus #pjohoo #piper mclean #hazel levesque #stan for clear skin #gay #theese bitches gay

[colorfulyetsinful]

Road Tunes Headcannon; Batfam:

Batfam (Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph, Cass, Y/n and Damian) fighting over the aux cord during a road trip.... Yeah, this came to me head one day so I did it.

I’m doing a lot of writing rn, and getting to my request (it just takes time to write, plus I’m lazy, but I’m working on then), but I want to do something special for BabyDami(™)’s birthday. If anyone got any suggestions I’m all ears. I have something in mind, but I’ll be happy to hear them.

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It would be a simple trip as a family.

Until dick asks for the aux.

Jason: OH NO, WE ARE NOT LISTENING TO WHATEVER YOU CALL MUSIC, DICK!!!!

Everyone,

And I mean everyone,

Refuses to giving him the aux cord.

Till you ask for it only to hand it to Dick be cause you LOVE ABBA too.

Screaming every lyric because while on full volume.

Y/n: YOU CAN DANCE! YOU CAN SHIIIIINNE! HAVING THE TIME IF YOUR LIFFFEEEEEEE!!!!”

Everyone tries to get the aid back, but is slapped, punched, or pushed by you.

Dick: DANNNNCCCINGGGG QQUEEEENNNNNNNN!!

Jason gets his hands on the aux.

All hell brakes lose.

Tim: Jason, please. For the love of all things bats, don’t.

*dun* *dun* *dun* *dun*

It’s MCR

Because Jason™.

You jam to everything because you drive with every single one of them and the radio is controlled by the driver.

Jason (just to annoye his siblings) screeches every note.

You tag alone because MRC. Who does love them.

Jason: Wₕₑₙ ᵢ wₐₛ ₐ yₒᵤₙg bₒy,

Y/n: ₘy fₐₜₕₑᵣ ₜₒₒₖ ₘₑ ᵢₙₜₒ ₜₕₑ cᵢₜy

It’s either that, or literally any edgy ansty emo band during his time.

Cuz he sad boy that needs daddy’s love.

The aux is pulled out of Jason’s phone before the song could continue...

(You don’t want Jasón to continue his playlist)

Your given the aux next,

And, uhhhh

Let’s just thought they where safe.

Y/n: because wE’RE SOARINGGGGG,”

* Dick joins in because come on his dude LOVES HSM

Dick: FLLLLYYYYINGGG-

Nope not doing that. Dick starts singing we’re not playing it!

Tim has the aux....

Plays meme songs.

(SwOtY hAd ThEm ApPlE bOtToM jEaNs BoOtS wItH tHe FuR)

(Sorry that’s really suck in my head lol)

This time, he plays.....

“All Stars” from Shrek....

The ear rape version.

....Why did we allow him...

You’re just laughing along with Tim and Steph while everyone is trying to lower the volume the still stays up.

Steph’s turn.

She plays musicals

Like Hamilton, dear Evan Hanson, mean girls (dicks and steph’s favorite)

But everything is CANCELED when heathers start playing...

Dead girl walking?

More like “Steph STOP IT BABYDAMI’S INNOCENCE!!!!!”

Speaking of Damian,

He’s not given the cord.

It mostly because all he wants to listen to is classical (what everyone assumes)

In reality he just wants to listen to some kpop.

What? He like a culture shift.

Plus you listen to it, and you drive him everywhere.

You ask for the aux again, hesitant, but they hand it back to you.

In which, you please BabyDami by playing black pink, and bts

Damian is quite in the back seat, but covers his mouth so no one could see him mouthing the words.

(Lmaoo he’s so cute.

Just,

Ahhhhhhhbjikblknopbva

His little self in the back seat trying not to be heard, it’s so cute. uwu

Ok I’m done.)

No one really notices.

Too busy in the fact that your crying in your seat because

AHHHHHHHHHHJUYTRDESXCVGHJKL SUGGGAAA AND JUNGKOOK’S VOICE!!!!!

Heart attack.

...

Ummm yeah they stop handing you the aux at this point.

Cass is the last to get it.

She’s been calmly and quietly waiting for her to get her hands on it and...

Everyone is into Cass’s playlist.

She has what everyone wants: Backstreet Boys, musicals, 80s, emo rock.

Yeah everyone is jamming.

TELL ME WHY!!!

AINT NOTHING BUT A HEARRRRTTTACCHHEE

TELLL MEEE WHHYYYYYY?!?!?

AINT NOTHING BUT A MISSSSTTTAAKKKKKEE!!!!!

Dick: NOW NUMBER 5

You and Damian: IIII NEVER WANNA HEAR YOU SAYYYY

WAOH!

I WANT IT THATTTT WAYYYY!

You all wonder my you didn’t just give Cass the aux in the beginning.

#batfam x reader #batsis!reader #batsis imagine #batsis #dc headcanon #headcanon #dc fluff #dc x reader #damian wayne robin robin x reader #Damian al ghul #damian wayne #dick grayson #dick grayson x reader #damian wayne x reader #Nightwing #red robin #robin #red hood #batman #bruce wayne #timothy drake #tim drake #tim drake x reader #jason todd #jason todd x reader #idk i just have dick singing abba HSM pls other show tunes in my head #Plus jason being a MCR fan is freaking funny to me #IJHGYVHBKJLKGYU damian being a kpop stan is SOOOOOOO cute to me idk why lol

[justyourfriendlynhspooderman]

Batfam x Child!Reader - Confused Pt. 2

Guess who’s back after like year

Honestly I didn’t want to come back to it but I decided just to go with it. Hopefully the small amount of people reading this will enjoy it. I hated the first part but here’s the link to it if you haven’t read it yet!

Batfam x childreader! - Confused pt. 1

Just a quick warning, there’s swearing in this one!

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“Knock Knock Knock”

A man, who was definitely a bit older, opened the door. “Ah, Master Dick,” The man started in a thick but posh British accent. “Welcome home.” He bowed a bit and opened the door wider for “master Richard” to walk in. “Thank you Alfred.” 

Dick and Alfred. Got it. 

Y/n made sure to remember their names, not wanting to be rude. “And what do we have here?” Alfred asks with a small smile and his brows raised. “My name is Y/n L/n,” she bowed. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, sir.” Alfred looked at Dick with a questionable face. Dick just shrugged with a nervous chuckle. “No need for that Miss L/n, up you go.” She stood up straight and nodded. Alfred turned his attention back on Dick, waiting for an explanation. “I found her looking at the mansion when I came back from patrol and I asked her what she was doing. Apparently, she’s an orphan so I kinda just decided to keep her…..?” The end of his sentence turned into a question instead of a statement. 

Y/n looked at Alfred curiously as he nodded. It was so weird. He definitely had emotion but didn’t really show anything. It was almost completely stoic. She nodded to herself and decided that she liked him.

“Would you like to show her to Master Bruce sir?” Alfred says. Dick sighed and nodded, “I guess I kinda have to.” He mumbled. “It was nice meeting you Miss L/n.” She did another quick bow, “Thank you for your hospitality, Mister Alfred.” She stood up quickly and ran after Dick.

Her tiny legs slowed down as she finally caught up with him. “You’re very fast mister,” she panted. He looked down at her. “How old are you?” he questioned, realizing how small she actually was. “I’m four.” she looked at her hands making sure she was holding up the right amount. Sometimes she screwed up. Her fingers were just so tiny it was hard to bend them correctly. “Yeah,” she smiled excitedly for doing it right the first time. “Four.” He looked at her curiously. “Four? That’s pretty young,” he added. “I guess,” she shrugged. “But I’m turning five next week!” Dick chuckled at her on and off going excitement. “I guess we’ll have to celebrate then huh?” she looked at him. “Really? I’ve never had a birthday party before!” Y/n felt kinda weird. I mean, it was common for her to feel excitement but definitely not this much. “Then it’s gonna have to be huge in that case.” She tried to hold the bounce in her step after he said that.

“Who are you talking to Grayson?” An almost harsh voice said. It was coming from Y/n’s right. She leaned forward to try and see past Dick. A boy who looked around 10-13 was standing in front of an open door which Y/n assumed was his room. 

“How are you Dami. Awwww, I found a quick nickname for youuu~” Dick says in a baby voice and pinches the boy’s cheeks. “Don’t touch me you filthy hag.” He shouts and swats his hands away, but Dick didn’t seem to take any offense to it. “This is Y/n, she’s probably gonna be living with us from now on so treat her like your little sister okay?” Was he babying him? Y/n couldn’t really tell. 

“What do you mean she’s going to be living with us?” The boy’s voice cuts her from her thoughts. “Where the hell did you even get her? Off the streets, I’m assuming.” He talked in almost a proper manner but definitely not a proper tone. “Actually yeah, she’s an orphan like the rest of us,” Dick grabs Y/n’s hand and pulls her gently to his side so Damian can see her better. I mean, she tried her best to stay clean but it was kinda hard when you don’t really have anywhere to live. Damian scoffed, “I’m the only one with actual Wayne blood.” 

Dick patted his head, “Well it was nice running into you little bro but now we gotta leave.” He started walking, still holding the toddler's hand. Y/n waved at the boy even though she was sure he didn’t like her very much. Damian just stared back at her. He would rather die than admit this, but a tiny part of him wanted to pat her head. “Tch, whatever,” he mumbled and walked back into his room. 

Dick was quiet for a moment. “Wait, you live with Bruce Wayne? That’s a bit random,” Y/n says. “Well...Uh, it’s complicated.” He just realized he pretty much told a child his secret identity and probably everyone else's by bringing her inside. Her brows furrowed but tried to hide her confusion. 

There were sudden shouts coming from what seemed to be a kitchen of some sort. “Great, now look what you’ve done!” “I didn’t do anything, this was your fault, Drake!” “Yeah right, you’re just so angsty you just had to push me huh?” “Not my fault you’re so fucking clumsy.” Dick covered Y/n’s ears quickly. “You bumped into me.” “Keep telling yourself that.” The taller one says. “What do you want Dick?” The other one says harshly, now aware of his presence, and was definitely annoyed. His eyes widen when he sees the small girl whose face was being slightly squashed because of Dick’s hands. He removed them after both of them seemed to be more confused than calm. “What the hell is that?” Jason blurts. “It’s a child dumbass.” “I know that shithead, why is she here?” Jason retorts.  “Well right now I’m wishing she wasn’t so she wouldn’t have to listen to you two fight like an old married couple.” He says sassily. “Answer the damn question, Grayson,” Jason growls. “Alright alright, chill. She is here because I brought her here.” “I’m going to murder you.” He sighed, annoyed. Dick rolled his eyes. “She’s an orphan and you know the orphanage kinda broke or something so here she is I guess,” he says, finally giving a complete answer. Not gonna lie, she was honestly kinda scared and probably a little shy. Dick felt his arm being tugged and looked down to see Y/n hiding behind it but her eyes were still peeking out. “Now look what you did, you scared her,” Tim says to Jason. “What do you mean I scared her. We wouldn’t be here right now if it wasn’t for you.” “Oh my god, I’m not gonna even try anymore.” “So now you want to acknowledge what you did.” “I swear to god I am going to pour my burning coffee all over you.” 

Dick sighed and used his other hand to pinch the bridge of his nose.  “This one is Jason,” Dick says to Y/n, pointing at the taller one. “This one is-” “A dumbass, this one is a dumbass.” Jason finished for Dick, glaring at the shorter one. “This one is Tim.” He says again, pointing to the shorter one. “I hate you. I have decided to pour the coffee and no one is stopping me.” Tim says. “Try me bitch.” Y/n could tell Dick was losing his patience. “Can you stop with the freaking swear words!” Dick shouts suddenly. “Well sooorry Mr. I can’t hear the word ‘fuck’ or I’ll throw holy water on you.” Tim rolled his eyes at Jason’s response. 

“Well I don’t know if you were paying attention or not, but there’s a small child, who doesn’t look older than 6, in the same room as us right now and I don’t think she should be listening to you cuss out profanities because you think you’re emo or something.” Timothy sassed slightly and Jason grumbled something under his breath. 

“We’re going now but have fun with whatever...this is,” Dick says motioning to the mess. Y/n waved behind Dicks arm, still a bit shy. Dick grabs Y/n’s hand again and walks off. “Oh yeah, you wanna go?” she could hear Jason shout in the distance, probably at something Time had said. 

Dick looked a bit annoyed with what just happened. “Mister Dick,” he looked at her. “What does dumbass mean?” (Listen I know I said she was smart but I don’t care at this point) His eyes widened. “It’s uh-It’s a meaner way of saying stupid butt.” Her brows furrowed. “Why would someone call something like that? It’s not a very good insult.” he shrugged. “Good question however I do not know the answer.” 

Dick opens a door to reveal a pretty normal study/office other than it was gigantic. He looks at Y/n and sighs. “I’m going to have to have to cover your eyes.” She nods and puts her hands over her eyes, turning around in the process. There was a loud but weird noise, almost like gears moving or something. “Alright, come on.” She turns around and removes her hands. Her small e/c orbs widen. There was a big gray elevator thingy in place of where the wide bookshelves should have been. She walked in slowly, being cautious. 

“It’s okay, I promise. It’s actually really cool.” She looked back up at Dick and nodded slowly.

 This family 100 percent confused her. They were weird. Really weird.

 Maybe she should have stayed outside.   

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Sorry it was really short, I still hope you enjoyed it nevertheless. I’m probably going to end it here unless people start wanting a part three. I’ll try to start posting more once I get ideas on what to write. Hope you all have a fabulous dayyyy  

#batfam x reader #batfam x child #tim drake x reader #jason todd x reader #dick grayson x reader #child!reader #i literallly don't know what i'm doing #damian wayne x reader

[kaylorrehabcenter]

Rating Every Song on Fearless Based on How Gay it is

Hello friends! I still have a few song analyses in the pipeline (and one on Lover the album) but today in honor of Fearless (Taylor’s Edition) being announced and Love Story being released in a few hours I thought I’d do something fun to celebrate!

And you know what? Fuck my usual disclaimer, I am the word of god here. Try and change my mind about any of these. I dare you. (I kid I kid this isn’t that serious and you’re free to disagree <3)

1. Fearless 15/10

Everything about this song is so fucking gay oh my god. This isn’t a fruit, this is a whole ass edible arrangement. As a small rural town Gay (my hometown has a population of less that 4,000 and where I’m living now has a population of 2,500) this uh. Hits.

“And I don't know how it gets better than this/You take my hand and drag me head first, fearless”

Y’ALL

The idea of falling in love with someone who makes you less afraid of your homophobic small town…….it’s getting to me.

“My hands shake, I'm not usually this way but/You pull me in and I'm a little more brave/It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something/It's fearless”

This is making me emotional, I'll be honest. I see so much of my friends and my experience in high school in this song. 

This quote I found on genius is from when the album was released on BMR’s website.

“When I wrote ‘Fearless,’ I wasn’t dating anyone. I wasn’t even in the beginning stages of dating anybody. I really was all by myself out on tour and I got this idea for a song about the best first date. I think sometimes when you’re writing love songs, you don’t write them about what you’re going through at the moment, you write about what you wish you had. So, this song is about the best first date I haven’t had yet.”

This just screams baby Tay writing gay folklore to me, about the gay stories she wish she had. Notice how there are no pronouns in this song??? Fruity I’m telling you.

All that to say. I’m crying because the linear note says “I loved you before I met you” and I want to go listen to Long Story Short and cry now.

2. Fifteen 1/10

Objectively pretty straight as she’s singing about her and Abigail’s dating boys in HS. And Taylor got with a senior guy. Good for her I suppose.

Unless he was one of the shitty ones in which case.

“This is life before you know who you're gonna be”

This however, is a cute line and the whole song makes me warm and nostalgic. You can also hear her crying after the line “and Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind” which makes me emo and I’m sure will take on new depth after Abigail’s divorce and hurt me even more.

Other highlights that make me sob include.

“When all you wanted was to be wanted/Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now/Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday/But I realized some bigger dreams of mine”

Bigger dreams of hers indeed :’)

(Also how can you say she’s a gold star lesbian when this song exists. She was obviously dating boys in high school and even if you think she’s a lesbian. Comp het is a hell of a drug kids.)

3. Love Story 8/10

Tried to change the ending indeed.

This is THE Taylor Swift song, and maybe it’s the nostalgia talking but damn I still love it. Written because she wanted to change the ending of Romeo and Juliet (how anyone likes RandJ enough to want to rewrite I have no clue.) and/or because her parents didn’t approve of a guy she was seeing. (according to genius, it would’ve been too early for Joe J so it could possibly be Boys Like Girls frontman, his image did clash with hers and they did release some cute songs together. However if you want my take it’s probably folklore about Emily, take for what you will)

This song has very oft gay vibes with the ‘They don’t approve of our love angle!’ but uses male pronouns so points redacted for that. HOWEVER this is a very early use of ~the male perspective~ in Taylor’s songs and for that it deserves all the love.

“ So I sneak out to the garden to see you/We keep quiet, 'cause we're dead if they knew/So close your eyes/Escape this town for a little while”

More rural town angst!!!

Nothing gets me more than rural town angst.

“Romeo, save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel/This love is difficult, but it's real”

Originally the lyric was “this love is different”. Granted I do not remember the source, i’s just lore implanted into my brain, but make of that what you will.

“"Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone/I love you, and that's all I really know/I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress/It's a love story, baby, just say "Yes"”

Marry me Juliet from the male perspective :)

Also worth noting. This is Karlie’s (and Kim K’s lmao) favorite Taylor song which. While basic as hell. Makes this cover sad as hell to this former Kaylor. (thanks @swiftgron-get-married for the tears <3)

Also not to make this about a man AGAIN but the secret message is “Some day I’ll find this” AND SHE DID IM CRYING.

4. Hey Stephen 1/10

The one thing Camilla Cabello and I have in common is loving this song, so I have to live with that for the rest of my life.

This song is very painfully straight.

How can you think this woman is a gold star lesbian.

The only noteworthy thing is that this is one of the few songs she confirms who it’s about. The secret message is “Love and Theft” which is the name of a country music duo who went on to open her Fearless tour. Which, does make me side eye this song a little bit.

Still a cute song.

“Hey Stephen, boy, you might have me believing/I don't always have to be alone”

5. White Horse 1/10

Oh look. It’s track five. 

You know maybe this is just me being a bitch but in my ranking of track fives this is. Pretty low. Maybe on the bottom.

Like I don’t have a lot to say about it. 

She’s going through it over a guy. He was a cheating dickweazel. 

“'Cause I'm not your princess, this ain't a fairytale/I'm gonna find someone someday/Who might actually treat me well”

“Try and catch me now, oh/It's too late/To catch me now”

These lines hit though!!

And she found Joe!! Who treats her well!!!! And she isn’t the princess, she’s the prince who dropped her sword and knocked on her door!!! But this time if they come for them she’s ready!!!

Yes I will make every song about Long Story Short <3

6. You Belong With Me 5/10

Ah yes. The other THE Taylor Swift song.

You know. If I went to a high school with a cheerleading squad. And I had a crush on a cheerleader. I would blast this song. So for that it gets a 5/10. Otherwise. Fairly straight and fairly iconic.

7. Breathe 8/10

Well. We know this one is about a woman. (Emily Poe for those not in the know. Ha. A rhyme!) That alone has an 8/10. And it’s the first time she has a featured artist so bonus points for that!

It was nominated for a Grammy and it fucking lost to Jason Mraz. When’s the last time you thought about Jason Mraz.

I will not have Kaylor feels on a fucking Fearless song but damn is it VERY easy.

“Never a clean break, no one here to save me/You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand”

“It's 2 A.M, feeling like I just lost a friend/Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me”

Also this bridge? Goes off. HIGHLY underrated. 

8. Tell Me Why 3/10

You know. Maybe this album isn’t as gay as I once thought.

This song does bop though, not as good as her other angry songs on this album. But I can vibe with this you know. Why are you being an asshole mysterious man.

“You could write a book on how to ruin someone's perfect day”

This has to be one of baby Tay’s best burns. Damn. 

“Why do you have to make me feel small/So you can feel whole inside?/Why do you have to put down my dreams/So you're the only thing on my mind?”

Men ain’t shit kids. However, bonus points for the shade. 

9. You’re not Sorry 1/10

Ok, ok. Maybe this was a foolish endeavor.

Because yet again we have a very straight song. A good song. That was on Taylor’s episode of CSI. But oh dear. Very straight. Gets a measly one point. We started this post off so very very gay but damn. We seem to be nearing the end on a very straight note.

10. The Way I Loved You 20/10

Hey Remember what I said about this album being very straight.

WELL THAT WAS A LIE.

Is this a comphet album or am I projecting.

This is one of my favorite baby gay Taylor songs. Her masterful use of pronouns (he is sensible! And so incredible! And all my single friends are jealous! But I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain, when it was two am and I was cursing your name!) makes the other person she’s singing about completely vague, while we know she isn’t happy with whichever guy she’s dating.

Mayhaps an early reaction to PRomances?

Either way this song is so good, truly an underrated gay gem I mean. Look at it.

“Breaking down and coming undone/It's a roller coaster kind of rush/And I never knew I could feel that much/And that's the way I loved you”

AND THE BRIDGE. Do all of her gay songs just have kickass bridges?

“He can't see the smile I'm faking/And my heart's not breaking/'Cause I'm not feeling anything at all/And you were wild and crazy/Just so frustrating/Intoxicating, complicated/Got away by some mistake and now…”

Damn. I’m imaging this with 2020 vocals and fucking ascending.

Also please watch the live performance of it from the Fearless tour. It’s such a damn shame this got cut from the movie and some woman in the front row is wearing a cowboy hat. Everyone is holding up those cameras everyone had to have before smartphones. Taylor is being endearing. It’s a good time.

11. Forever and Always 6/10

Bonus points for the ~drama~ of it all. Added last minute to the album? The iconic throwing of the chair in live performances?? All of it very dramatique and for that we stan.

Still pretty straight.

Also Joe Jonas responded to the song and why do I find his response so damn funny. “It’s part of being a musician, I guess. You write songs about each other.”

This is another song where the idea of Taylor’s grown up vocals on this is………..whew

12. The Best Day 0/10

This gets zero points because it’s about her literal mom.

Still makes me cry.

God bless Andrea Swift indeed

13. Change 13/10

We start the official tracklist with a gay song. We end it with a gay song.

We will ignore that it was originally written for Scott and BMR and instead induct it into the hall of gay pride anthems, as it should be. 

“We're getting stronger now, finding things they never found/They might be bigger but we're faster and never scared/You can walk away, say we don't need this/But there's something in your eyes says we can beat this”

“This revolution, the time will come/For us to finally win/And we'll sing hallelujah, we'll sing hallelujah”

The music video is cringe though lol

14. Jump then Fall 10/10

This song is gay because I choose it to be. <3

Like. Picture baby Taylor writing this song and playing it on her guitar to a girl she has a crush on telling her that she’ll protect her and they’ll be safe and in love and happy together. Gah, maybe I’m ~projecting~ but this sweet ass song always gets me and is EASILY in my top five Taylor songs. Super underrated and hecking cute. 

“We're on the phone and without a warning/I realize your laugh is the best sound/I have ever heard”

Like. Look at this shit.

“I watch you talk, you didn't notice/I hear the words but all I can think is/We should be together”

Tell me this is about the first time you get a crush on a girl and she’s your best friend and she’s amazing and beautiful and you realize you kinda want to kiss her and you hope she wants to kiss you too.

“I had time to think it oh, over/And all I can say is come closer/Take a deep breath and jump then fall into me”

And she’s the Romeo who's going to protect her!!!!! She’s the knight in shining armor in this song and I love that for her??

“The bottom's gonna drop out from under our feet/I'll catch you, I'll catch you/When people say things that bring you to your knees/I'll catch you/The time is gonna come when you're so mad you could cry/But I'll hold you through the night until you smile”

I won’t divulge into full on analysis here because. This is what this post is about but PLEASE listen to this song more. It’s such a gay little gem.

15. Untouchable 9/10

How does she make a cover sound gay.

It sounds so gay.

“You got to come on, come on, say that we'll be together/Come on, come on, little taste of heaven”

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

16. Forever and Always Piano Version 1/10

This song gets 1/10 because I don’t like it. There. I said it.

17. Come in With the Rain 3/10

I can see why this is a bonus track. It doesn’t hit me as much as the other songs on the album.

But damn if I don’t want to scream sing this one driving down a high way.

18. Superstar 7/10

You can’t tell me this song is about a man. I simply won’t entertain the idea.

You cannot prove to me that this song is about a man. There is not a male pronoun in sight. 

>:)

19. The Other Side of the Door 6/10

Is this song about having a fight about being in the closet? Probably not. Will my gay little brain make it about that? Yep!

And that, funky little queer pals, is my gay rating of every Fearless song. Like and subscribe, #t3atmidnight

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