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apocalypse-shuffle · 11 months

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DICK GRAYSON & JASON TODD | BATFAMILY (assorted canon)

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“Long Overdue: Epilogue” (Dick Grayson & Batmom!Reader), (Jason Todd & Batmom!Reader) and (background Bruce Wayne x Batmom!Reader)

| Reader was with Bruce in the past but grew distant after Jason’s death. No one tells her when he comes back from the dead until Bruce is forced to bring her in on a raid when they’re overwhelmed. -Jason and Batmom!Reader reunion.

| SFW, canon typical action/violence, cursing?, mentions of grief, past death of a child

| This is like half fanon half UTRH/Batman:Hush. I’m really just fucking around with canon rn. Also the pictures used are just for aesthetics and have no contextual meaning to the story. (pic source: Gotham Knights video game)

| 2k+ words

| parts: one, spurt, two, three, four, five, six/six point five, seven. (series masterlist)

You walk out of the weapons cache lighter than how you walked into it and head directly for your eldest.

“Dick what the hell?”

Said man, halfway through what looks like calf stretches, sits up and throws a slight frown your way.

“What? What’d I do?”

And bless him but he’s actually thinking it over. Eyes sliding to the side and lips pursing and everything. Racking his brain over what mess he forgot to get himself out of this time.

Somewhere behind you Jason starts laughing at Dick so when he passes by you flick him on the arm. The drama queen then makes a whole show of blowing you off with a half assed ‘ow’. Your eyes meet the dark depths of the cave ceiling for a second as you beg for strength before they lock on Dick once more.

From there all you have to do is purse your lips and raise a brow for him to catch on. His arms fling into the air.

“He said he’d ‘take care of it’, and I haven’t seen you since then. Fuck me for thinking he actually did it! And he only felt the need to tell me three nights ago so it’s not like you’re the only one.”

Your shoulders start to shake and you move closer until you can nudge him. His arms drop and he huffs.

“Easy, little D, I’m just teasing. Don’t beat yourself up over your father’s horrible communication skills, okay?”

“Don’t worry I won’t,” he says.

You do catch the nasty look he throws the cave entrance with despite what he’s said, and the easy tone he’s said it with, however.

“Actually,” Jason pipes up, helmet back on and voice once again skewed. “I’m still hung up on your shit communication skills. Nightfall? Since when has that been a thing?”

He jabs a finger in your direction while pacing around to Dick’s other side. Dick doesn’t do anything but follow the younger’s antics with his eyes.

You laugh, shrugging, and lean back on the cave wall beside the desk. You're still within spitting distance of the boys but you can’t bring yourself to travel any further.

“I’ve been in the game longer than Bruce has, but mostly under an independent contractor. It wasn’t till I came to Gotham that I changed my suit and started calling myself Nightfall; that gimmicky shit is contagious after all.”

“Immensely goddamn contagious,” Jason mutters darkly. He throws a glare Dick’s way that translates pretty perfectly even with the helmet to get him to knock off the staring, but you get the feeling the older only looks away because grilling you is a more pressing matter.

In the next moment Dick snaps his fingers, “You know what I still don’t get? How come we never found out? I mean you didn’t tell me until I was in Blud already.”

That question you can’t shrug away as easily. A grimace crosses your face and Jason makes an intrigued ‘ohh’ sound that honestly makes you want to flip him off. How are you being cajoled by your children right now?

“Well…” you kiss your teeth. “I was in love.”

The “Gross,” Jason lets out is instantaneous and he holds a hand up - it's a flawless reminder that 19 is not yet fully grown. “Forget I asked.”

You roll your eyes. “It’s not that damn bad. It’s just that when we first got Dick Bruce thought it’d be best if he had a greater sense of normalcy out of the cape, and I agreed; one vigilante parent was enough. Then we just kept that same dynamic when we got you,” you gesture to Jason and he tilts his head.

“I’m still not seeing how that relates to the completely unnecessary ‘in love’ comment you made earlier.”

“Jason,” you scold. “I’m getting there, goddamn.”

Dick poorly muffles a laugh and you give him a hard look before rolling your shoulders.

“Back in the day, before Bruce stopped acting like we were a unit and more like I was a casualty of war in the waiting-” you take a deep breath and cross your arms, closing your eyes against the white lights of the cave.

You can hear the way the boys falter, likely glancing to one another to figure out what to do before they each take a step forward.

“Mom-” Dick calls.

“You don’t have to-” Jason’s saying at the same time, their voices overlapping, and you shake your head.

“It’s fine,” you say. You blink your eyes open; both brothers have stilled but they’re balancing forward like they think you’re gonna drop. You huff. “Point is, there was a time where he could’ve convinced me of anything. He used to look at me like I hung the fucking moon just to provide people free light to see, you know? So at a certain time I chose not to tell you two because I didn’t want to challenge the perception of me that you had gotten from Bruce. That’s why you didn’t know, I didn’t want you to think I was as bad as the people you were fighting every night; the people who took away your parents from you. Dick running off was what made me finally spill, but you died years before I would’ve been ready to tell you, Jay.”

Jason clears his throat, “Uh. That why you and hi- Bruce separated?”

“Not really,” you sigh, shaking your head. “It wasn’t Bruce before…it was Bruce after. After you died we didn’t just bounce back…so eventually things between us soured. I loved him but expecting someone to put up with you constantly pushing them away isn’t fair,” you shrug. “How Bruce saw me stopped mattering as much after that.”

Dick nods, lining up what you’ve said to his own memory of the aftermath and coming up with a corresponding connection.

“Yeah, you and Bruce argued for hours after you met Tim that first time…and then some more when Stephanie became Robin. Hell, even by the time I’d gotten back earthside you and Bruce were down right frosty when you were next to each other even though you were trying to hide it from us.”

“Yeah,” you grunt. “That’s all we tend to do now. Stay mad.”

Staring off into the distance Dick nods and Jason catches your eye, or maybe the other way round.

Whatever expression he is looking at you with is impossible to place but he is definitely watching you. Uncannily all the boys had Bruce’s tendency to look at things, and by extension people, like they were puzzles to solve. Which came with the added bonus of the recipient of said stare being able to feel it. Feel the weight of being dissected and picked apart as if it was a physical thing.

Most buck under that level of analysis. Wholly used to the originator of that stare though you continue on as usual. If he wasn’t going to ask then you had nothing to say.

After it becomes clear you won’t be coughing anything more up Jason backs off, pushing the conversation towards lighter material until Dick and him are carrying the back and forth together. They play off of each other in stunted stops and starts, and barely concealed hostility on Jason’s part, but their awkward attempts at light hearted banter still get your mind out of the gutter you’d landed in.

Ten minutes of forced jokes and almost insults later and Jason starts giving less than subtle hints at wanting to head out. After that it doesn’t take long before he comes over, and he doesn’t reach out to you but he does softly knock your shoulders together.

“See you later, Ma,” he says for your ears alone.

“Goodbye Jason,” you respond even though you’d rather never have him leave your side again.

You watch him go and are drastically reminded that your eyes have been incessantly brimming with tears this whole time when a few slip down your face with little prompting.

A few more beads follow the path of the others after you catch sight of the truly cracked look on Alfred’s face when Jason comes up to him before there’s an arm slinging across your shoulders and Dick’s urging you into a hug.

You take it. You raised some good kids, you’ll give yourself that much. Even if there were some major fuck ups along the way.

“It’s kinda surreal, isn’t it?”

“Oh absolutely,” you croak. “I like it though.”

Dick shrugs, “Yeah. It wouldn’t really be us if things got too predictable anyway.”

He waits a beat and then, “So who’s updating Babs?”

“Let me guess,” you deadpan, “he told you two at the same time?”

“Pretty much. Which that, combined with everything that happened with Steph and The Birds, and having to break all this to Cass means her fuse is waaay shorter than usual.”

“Not it,” you proclaim.

Dick’s mouth drops open, his gaze snapping to you.

“What? That’s not fair.”

“Says who? I’m not cleaning up after Bruce anymore than I already am, and she’s your friend, Dick.”

“It’s still unfair,” he grumbles. He brushes it off quickly though. “So….I heard you and Cass ran into each other a few days ago.”

“Yeah. Last Sunday.” You side eye him. “Right after you almost started a grease fire in your new apartment.”

Dick holds his hand to his chest, tone barely upset enough to sound like true hurt. “Don’t look at me like that, I can cook.”

You nod slowly, “I know you can cook,” then shake your head in the same manner. “But you cannot fry.”

“It’s not my fault the oil fights back. I get enough shit in my nightly life. I don't need it when I’m at home on top of that.”

He smiles but the way it doesn’t reach his eyes churns your stomach.

“Maybe pan frying just isn’t for you,” you murmur but your hand goes up to touch his arm. “How’re you feeling?”

Dick shrugs. Gaze locking somewhere over your shoulder.

“As good as I can be,” you give him a sideways look and he forces a chuckle, rocking back from your touch. “Seriously I’m fine. Please don’t stress out about me. Are you okay?”

“Uh huh,” you grunt before pushing him towards the benches on the other side of the cave. “Sure. I’m fine. Now come on, let’s go sit.”

“Mom-”

“Nope. Move before you pass out or some shit.”

“Ah,” he gasps. “You said a bad word.”

“Dick,” you curb the urge to roll your eyes.

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Whatever conversation Jason’s just had with Alfred doesn’t seem to have left him any more tense than he already was, which is good. You and Dick stop mid sentence to watch him walk off from your new position on the floor.

You with a foam roller and your first child dramatically cringing every time you go over the area just above the hole in his calf. Part of it you’re sure is him trying to cheer you up but the other you're certain are actual expressions of pain because he went out on a literal bullet wound even though you’d told him to stay his ass home.

“I don’t know why he’s under the impression that I can’t shoot without killing someone but he’s wrong,” Jason’s saying. He pats the occupied holster at his thigh while making his way towards the vehicle pathway. “Anyway, I’m gonna get outta here. The later I see you Bats the better.”

“Jason!”

“Except for you, Ma! I’ll call you tomorrow!” He yells over his shoulder, running his fingers over the handle of the bike closest to him.

“You’d better,” you yell back. You’d be happy to reinstate another child that would lament the drama in their lives to you on your call list.

“Uh oh,” Dick says under his breath.

You turn to look over at him for barely a second, brows raised and mouth partially open, when the sound of a motorcycle revving answers your unasked question for you.

Looking back at the bikes shows Jason’s already peeling out of the cave with a yell of: “I’ll leave this somewhere you can find!”

You blink after him, not sure if you want to laugh or not.

“That’s not good,” Dick murmurs. When you turn to him he’s grimacing and seeing your expression he nods to the now empty spot. “That was Tim’s bike.”

“Oh.” For the first time since finding out the implications of Jason being Red Hood really hit you. Your lips purse. If he’d really been at that confrontation Tim came out of with a (mild according to him) slit throat during the Hush debacle, and been the one to infiltrate Titans Tower and lay Tim out a few weeks back you had a situation. “Oh lorde.”

“Yeah,” Dick gets up in one swift motion, hands on the roller. “We can’t have regular family problems. Nope.”

Unfortunately he’s right. A sigh falls past your lips. Either way, that was one down. You stand, addressing Dick while he’s putting the foam back.

“Excitement aside, before you head back to New York you want to come help me make dinner?” You incline your head. “Tim can come too.”

He smiles at you. You know he understands you not wanting to get too close to the teen but appreciates you including him in stuff anyway.

“Yeah, Mom, I’d love to. Just let me get my stuff and I’ll call him.”

“Okay.”

Dick leaves and you settle in to wait just as the Batmobile comes rumbling into the Cave. You cut your eyes at the vehicle but otherwise don’t acknowledge as Bruce gets out of it, heading immediately to change.

Alfred comes up to your side a breath later. The two of you nod in greeting.

“Sorry for taking the kids from you.”

“That’s quite alright, Mistress Y/n,” His voice drops to a whisper. “Between the two of us I believe Master Timothy may resort to camping in the woods behind the estate if he’s stuck here a moment longer. I’ll gladly allow you to take them both. You go deal with yours and I’ll deal with mine.”

“Have fun,” you croon lightly. The butler gives you a wry look in response. You shrug. “Oh, and if you wouldn’t mind could you tell Bruce to meet me at the Wayne Plot?”

A nod from the old butler.

“Is there a specific time you would like for me to convey as well?”

“He’ll know,” you say simply.

Alfred gives a curt nod.

“Certainly then. Farewell, my dear.” Alfred arches a brow at Dick as he comes back with a duffle swung over his shoulder. “And do try to express upon Master Richard the necessity of wearing his winter gear this year.”

“Alfred,” the man huffs.

You laugh and flick said man in the side. “I don’t think I’ll have to. He should have learned his damned lesson with that two week cold.”

“And I really did,” he bats your hand away and then speeds off. “I'll be upstairs.”

“Bye!” You laugh after him.

This was something you could work with. Putting time into your relationships with your boys and Tim. Solid plan. You say your farewells to Alfred and then follow after your eldest. Your gripes with Bruce could wait, you had dinner to make and two boys to feed.

Fin.

NOTES: I don’t know how severe the implications of a two week cold are but whatever. Hope you enjoyed!!

Thank you all for embarking on this journey with me, this is the first long form series I’ve actually finished so I’m very excited to cap it off!!

Anyway, long overdue is done but I will also write extras to this series at some other time in the future (if you’d like to be tagged in those then tell me).✌🏾

And yes I did my best not to have to write Tim or Cass yet, I can barely write Dick as is. Also let’s just assume Reader had the decency to actually inform Dick about Jason’s death and as such he wasn’t forced to dig for that information himself behind Bruce’s back.

btw: if you’d like to leave a comment I’d very much appreciate it. this is a sideblog tho so I won’t respond.

Tagged: @aarinisreading, @niphredil-14, @mxtokko, @calsjack, @brunnetteiwik, @trashpenguin

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vicsy · 29 days

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Daniel Ricciardo and tennis – a masterpost (of sorts).

To start things off, here is a video of Daniel playing tennis that I think about way too often, especially lately, with the recent paddle mania that took over the paddock.

A few things I could note here, apart from the fact that Daniel himself said that if it wasn't racing, he'd go pro in tennis:

old school-ish (european) one handed backhand which is actually rather solid! Daniel said many times that he is a big fan of Federer (a true goat) and Daniel's technique here is pretty much imitating Roger's smooth and satisfying backhand strokes.

it is just a couple of hits but ball placement court wise in not bad - all past the half court mark, down the line, then cross court and close to the baseline.

his movement on the court itself comes off a bit wonky in comparison to regular players but I do like how he attacks the short ball (even if he swings a bit too wide but it still works).

Some assortment of interesting facts:

Apart from his love for Roger Federer, Daniel was a big Andre Agassi fan.

In 2021 Daniel and Lando stayed up to watch British teenage tennis player Emma Raducanu (who is an avid F1 fan and her fave driver is Daniel) win the US Open, her maiden grand slam tournament. This was right before the win in Monza and McLaren 1-2.

In 2020, Daniel took inspiration for his "Equality" face mask from the four time grand slam winner Naomi Osaka and called her a "strong voice" (which she rightfully was). Lewis Hamilton also considered Naomi a great inspiration in raising awareness of several social issues.

When Daniel was a kid, he would smash his racquet if he lost (that's so real of him and i do that too):

Ricciardo is widely regarded as motorsport’s nice guy. But when does the mongrel come out? "I’m a born competitor. As a kid I was a sore loser. If it was a tennis match, I’d smash a racquet or something," he said, laughing. (source)

Once Daniel was playing with his cousin and apparent he got a little outplayed, so in retaliation Daniel hit his cousin point blank with a tennis ball (which hurts A LOT). His cousin cried and then Daniel's dad gave him "a clip across the ear". Daniel also talks about it in one of the Grill the Grid videos. (big thanks to @go-daniel for finding the article and the video to back this story up!)

Daniel is childhood friends with Marcus Stoinis (an Aussie cricketer) and they grew up together playing tennis, driving to Dunsborough south of Perth and they would play tennis together for the whole day, practically hogging the court. (via this post)

Now, to the photos!

Carlos and Daniel playing a tennis match in 2013. Daniel won 6-3 2-6 7-6. It's from Daniel's old twitter post.

Daniel and Jannik Sinner in Piatti Tennis Center in 2020. Jannik is an Italian darling and current world number 3 on the steady rise to the top (i love my carrot boy so much).

Daniel on court.

Daniel attending semifinals of Wimbledon 2021.

Daniel with Juan Martín del Potro during Miami 2023 Grand Prix. Del Potro, now retired, was a prominent tennis player from Argentina, a "gentle giant" and he is also a fan of Fernando Alonso.

Daniel with Matteo Berrettini (and Francesco Carrozzini in the middle), Italian tennis player, current world number 142, during Met Gala 2023 (the way i yelled when this photo dropped omg).

It is all I have managed to gather for now but I will update if I stumble upon something new.

#daniel ricciardo #f1 #dr3 #tennis #i have this classification of f1 drivers as tennis players in my head #and despite all the Roger Federer stuff to me #Daniel is Andy Murray... i think I could try and elaborate in this one day ahahaha #mclaren #atp #jannik sinner #matteo berrettini #daniel ricciardo primer #personally i think i can destroy Daniel at tennis GET ME ON THE SAME COURT WITH HIM #diving into the Daniel lore…….

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gentlebeardsbarngrill · 23 days

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04/01/2024 Daily Ricky Recap

TLDR; Cast&Crew; ErrollShand; KristianNairn; Rhys Darby; Fan Spotlight; Crew Cards; Stede Bonnet as Faberge Eggs; Ricky Roll'd; Ricky's Reels;

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

= Erroll Shand =

Today's main man is out here loving all the Ricky memes yall have been busy with!

= Rhys Darby =

I've run out of videos I can add so I'm going to link to @mon-ster-chen here on tumblr for the Rhysie video for today! Thanks hon!

= Kristian Nairn =

Just a selfie of our lovely Kristian on Wonday. No news yet on when WJW will be back, but at least we get to see our favorite dj! Source: Kristian's IG

== Fan Spotlight ==

= Cast Cards =

Tonight's cast card is Stede and Pete's guard, from episode 2 of season 1, Jamie Nations-- as well as the man who Gut Stabbed Stede, Carlos Arellano! Thank you @melvisik, you really are finding everybody!!

== Stede Bonnet as Fabergé Eggs ==

One of our delightful crewmates over on twitter @ofmdframes put together quite an assortment of Stede Bonnet comparisons to a variety of Fabergé Eggs for Easter yesterday! Please check out their twitter thread if you have access!

== In Soup Now ==

InSoupNow: In Aid of Team HAVEN for WeeJohnWonday has now closed! Thank you to @ForceMonument on Twitter for organizing this, and thank you so much to every person who donated or shared! You helped raise £3,298.75 for people in need!

= Ricky Rolled =

First up is our darling @blueberreads and their contribution to today's fun! Tumblr / IG

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Next is our friend @ofmdframes again on twitter really giving us a heart attack. Src: Twitter, they have so many more please check them out if you have twitter.

More from @ofmdframes

And the lovely @emcolbs made a an amazing animation of their Ricky art as well. Please visit Em's post here

I know there's more! Been working my way through, but I'm running out of image space! Happy April Fool's day all!

== Love Notes ==

Y'all are wild, you know that? I saw the Ricky stuff this morning and everyone kinda just rolled with it and doubled down everywhere. It was a lovely beam of sunlight today.

Add to that, the boops? My goodness Tumblr knows how to induce dopamine a little bit at a time. It was so fun booping people today! I hope folks got a chance to-- sounds like there was some goofy glitches throughout the day.

I hope you all had a wonderful day. The love notes are shorter tonight because finishing off 2 recaps in one night was fun but I'm a bit sleepy. I hope you all had such an amazing time today, and if not, I hope tomorrow goes better. So much love your way m'dears <3 A little love note from @thelatestkate tonight. If I've already posted this I apologize, but it's always applicable!

== Ricky's Reels ==

Tonight's regularly scheduled gifs have been replaced by a one night only special! Gif courtesy of @samuelroukin

#ofmd #our flag means death #daily ofmd recap #daily ofmd recaps #ofmd daily recap #ofmd daily recaps #rhys darby #kristian nairn #erroll shand #save ofmd #saveofmd #adopt our crew #you've been rick'd #you've been ricked #ricky rolled

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the-scarecrow-of-aus · 3 months

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Titan tower-infirmary

Beast boy munching on a sandwich, starring deep in thought at embers flaming hair: "so, I know you guys are able to ignore gravity for the most part, but does your hair flame always point to up?"

Ember, currently applying mascara and other assorted makeup to dannys sleeping face: "uh, usually why?"

Beastboy: "just curious how your hair would react in an actual weightless location like space, not just the realms.

Dani, idly floating next to dannys stretcher resting her head in her hands: "Same as those NASA videos, there's no up so it balls around its source".

Ember grimacing: "Ugh, don't remind me"

Beastboy: "why, did something happen?"

Danny pretending to be asleep: "she stowed away in the Apollo 11 capsule in '69 hoping to get broadcast worldwide, let's just say it would have been hilarious if it worked!"

Ember resisted the urge to swat his face, undoing all her work. "Probably would have worked if you didn't stop me"

Robin: "I dont recall anything unusual happening in the recorded footage... wait, is that what the time gap was about?"

Dani: "that's because gramps told us to deal with it, so we did. We have a copy of it if you want to see it, has to be stored outside time though so you'd be going to the infinite realms for a bit to do so".

Danny opening his eyes to look at ember: "hey, you still looked hot, even if turned out like a pixie cut!"

Ember glaring: "don't make me draw on your face babypop!"

Danny grinning: "and ruin all your good work? Never!"

Beastboy proceeded to protect his sandwich as ember started fighting danny around the room!

Fire in space

#dpxdc #dcxdp #danny phantom #beast boy #ellie phantom #ember mclain #the moon landing #ember with a pixie cut #my writing #danny x ember

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p-redux · 2 months

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So, more info from Hyrox Glasgow 2024! Again, thanks Team for all the DMs, I really appreciate you! ❤️

Reminder of what I posted yesterday.

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So, today, I get this video of Sarah Holden competing at Hyrox Glasgow, and you can CLEARLY hear Sam Heughan cheering her on. Sam's voice is at the very end. At the beginning, you hear a man with a thick Glasgow accent pronouncing Sarah's name Serah. That's NOT Sam. There's also a woman's voice. And at the END of the video, you can hear Sam's unmistakable "C'mon, Sarah!" This was shared by one of the Team and I saved it to my YouTube Channel. Enjoy!👇

I also received this DM with additional info. 👇 Posted with permission.

Here's the pic where Sam is tagged. 👇

And Sarah posting she got FOMO aka Fear Of Missing Out and spontaneously competed today in the women's open race. 👇 She definitely matches Sam's energy level! I'm tired just looking at her. 😊

Anyhoooo, I also got some conflicting info regarding whether Sam competed yesterday after all. I was alerted to this Tweet. 👇

And then I received this DM from someone I've never talked to. 👇

It's all very confusing. On the one hand, it is weird that if Sam competed, he never posted anything on his own IG. On the other hand, Hyrox DID post his results as if he DID compete yesterday. 👇

If Sam decided to not compete and wanted to give his slot to someone else, why wouldn't Hyrox be able to substitute the other man's name? Everything is computerized, so I don't see why they couldn't have made the change easily. Also, isn't it fraudulent to post results with Sam Heughan's name if he wasn't the one competing?

On the flip side, if Sam didn't actually compete, then he literally went to Hyrox to watch Sarah! Those saying "No, he went to watch his friend, Valbo. who also competed." Yeah, except Valbo didn't compete until 6:00 PM yesterday, and Sam was there at 12:00 PM, when the women's competitions started. Literally RIGHT THERE where Sarah was competing. 👇

No reason for Sam to be there 6 HOURS before Valbo was competing if he only went to support Valbo. 🤷‍♀️

I ran out of room to post pics since Tumblr limits to 10 pics, but I also got a DM saying Sam got a bunch of new Instagram follows who are Sarah Holden fans. That leads me to think they went to follow him because they saw him with Sarah at Hyrox.

So, that's it for now. I'm in the process of vetting someone from the Glasgowish area who approached me with some Sam and Sarah info. If she and the info check out, then I'll post it.

PS. I'm hearing from people that my usual haters and assorted newish haters are gnashing their teeth about my #samarah posts...same as it ever was. This has happened any time I've ever posted about Sam possibly dating someone. If you look at my track record for the last 10 years, my info has been at least 90% accurate. No one in the Outlander fandom would have known about Cait and Tony, and Sam and Cody, Abbie, Mackenzie, etc if not for my INSIDER source info, and me posting it FIRST. Facts, people. So, the hate makes no never mind to me. I keep doing me. I'm here for those who want the info. If that's not you, go somewhere else. Simple as that.

Oh, one more thing...the LIE that I have a restraining order against me from Sam resurfaced in my Inbox. Let's use our brains once in our lifetime, shall we? If I had a restraining order or a cease and desist, I wouldn't still be here, now would I? Doh. 🤦‍♀️ My blog is just like any celebrity news blog. It's called freedom of speech, peeps. And in the USA people have died to protect this right. That's all, folks.

#samheughan #sam heughan #sarah holden #samarah #hyrox #hyrox glasgow #big red oliver #valbo #results #haters gonna hate #freedom of speech

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dumbslxtclub · 1 year

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you’re on your own, kid | e.m - part two

eddie munson x pregnant!reader

summary: set after the events of season four, Steve has disappeared and is presumed dead in the upside down. broken and now left to deal with your pregnancy alone, Eddie takes it upon himself to support you to the best of his abilities in Steve’s absence.

chapter summary: robin gets you out of the house to go maternity shopping, and eddie learns about your pregnancy

content warnings: fem!reader adult language, adult themes, unplanned pregnancy, pregnancy symptoms, angst, some canon divergence, mentions of death , reader is 19, slow burn

word count: 2.2K+

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Part Two: Chest-Burster

Despite your reluctance to participate, the world continues to turn as the gang settles back into a life somewhat resembling normalcy. Time doesn’t care for your grief, it seems. Hopper was able to pull a few strings in the police department to clear Eddie’s name, pinning the deaths on Jason. Robin came by every day to check on you, delivering groceries by bike and bringing you the latest video releases to watch. Her hypochondria had been dialed up by a million after your first doctor’s appointment, sourcing out every prenatal vitamin under the sun and forcing them down your throat daily. Days turned into weeks, which would be unremarkable if it weren’t for your growing situation. Not only the one swelling in your belly, but the mounting pile of bills on your counter were now unavoidable.

You knew you couldn’t exist in your bubble of misery much longer, not when the threat of eviction was looming. But, of course, there was also the matter of your bump, which you were hoping to hide until you were ready to tell everyone. At 5 months along, it was becoming increasingly difficult to hide as your shirts now fit a little too snuggly, and Robin was eager to get you out of the house and into some new clothes that weren’t Steve’s sweatshirts. And so, you found yourself at a small boutique just outside of town, browsing the maternity section for something that wasn’t completely hideous while doing your best to avoid any recognition. Robin strolls over holding a long multi-coloured polka-dot dress.

“How about this? Looks like it’s got lots of room to grow.” She studies the dress before handing it over to you proudly.

“Looks like something out of the circus. I think we should stick to something a bit more subtle.” You hang it back on a return rack before continuing to flick through an assortment of neutral pants with large stretchy waistbands.

“Oohh, how about these?!” You hear Robin practically squeal behind you. You spin around to see her holding a pair of light-wash denim overalls. A small smile creeps across your face as you touch the soft material.

“Yeah, I like these.” She twirls you around until you’re face to face with the store’s full length mirror. Robin holds the overalls out in front of your body, grabbing a knit sweater off a nearby rack to complete the look.

“Now that’s one hot mama.” You giggle at her joke, admiring your new look. Gratitude washes over you as you lay your head against her shoulder, however, the moment is short-lived. A gasp escapes Robin’s lips as she shoves the clothes into your arms and disappears out of sight momentarily, only to reappear holding the smallest pair of overalls you’ve ever seen. Suddenly, the worry you had been experiencing for months on end momentarily dissipates. How can something that can fit into something so small be scary?

“Oh my god, I’m so getting you these.” She grabs a basket and makes a beeline for the baby section. You can’t help but smile at her enthusiasm, it’s contagious. As you go to follow her, you catch some movement behind your reflection in the mirror. You spot two girls whose names you can’t remember from your class in high school, who are glaring at you and whispering to each other. A snicker spreads across the red-head’s face, which causes your cheeks to flush in embarrassment.

“Shit.” You immediately put your head down and duck behind the racks to seek out Robin, heart racing. Hawkins is a small town, so you know gossip is going to spread fast, and god knows you’re not ready for the world to know yet. You find Robin sorting through a pile of assorted coloured onesies.

“What about some yellow and green ones? Like gender neutral colors until we know-” She pulls out a few size options, not paying attention to your now frazzled state.

“Code red.” You peek around to see the girls exiting the shop, still glancing your way.

“Oh, red! I saw some red ones under here somewhere-”

“No, CODE red.” Realization washes over her face as she follows your eye-line to watch the girls still giggling outside the front windows of the store.

“Fuck! I thought we’d gone far enough out to avoid any nosey townsfolk.” She throws the tiny onesie back onto the table, running her hands through her hair as she often does when she’s stressed. “Oh shit, was that Kristie? Because it totally looked like Kristie, and you know Kristie’s gonna tell Tina and then Tina’s gonna tell-”

“Yeah, I get the picture, Robin.” You sigh as you come to terms with your fate, it’s only a matter of days before practically the whole town knows. In a way, it’s not the worst thing that could have happened. You were prepared to put it off for as long as humanly possible, and you were physically running out of time. So, you decide to double down.

“Hey, want a ride to work tomorrow? Think it’s about time I get back into the vest. I mean, if it still fits.” You ask, and a grin quickly takes over Robin’s face, clearly excited to have you back on the store floor with her. She throws her arms around you and gives you a big squeeze.

“You sure you’re ready? I mean, there’s no pressure-”

“I’m sure, Robin.”

The first few shifts back were hard, everything in the small store reminded you of Steve. Your mind flooded with memories as you restock the shelves, remembering how Steve would purposely put horror films in the comedy section just to mess with you, or the way he could never be trusted with the cardboard cut-outs (he tripped over at least three during your shared shifts). But Robin’s presence made it easier. She delegated you to all behind the counter duties to keep you from running around the store all day. But as midday hit and Robin left for her lunch break, it was just you to hold down the fort. Fortunately, it was a rather quiet Thursday morning, meaning there was nothing much for you to do except put returns away. You were busying yourself in the action section as you hear the bell chime behind you.

“Robin, got some returns for you. And yeah, I know they’re late but Henderson insisted on watching Re-Animator all goddamn week so-”

You glance over your shoulder to see Eddie laying his returns on the counter, peering over looking for Robin. Your stomach drops, time to face the music. You know once Eddie knows, it’ll only be a few hours before everyone in the gang is clued in. But it’s okay, it’s cool. You’ve totally got this.

“Hey.” Your voice comes out as barely a squeak, not the confidence you were hoping for. Eddie spins around and your eyes meet. His expression softens as he studies you, you’ve been practically MIA for two months, so his surprise at seeing you out of your trailer is understandable.

“Hey!” A grin breaks out across his face. “You’re uh- you’re here.”

“Sure am.” His choice of words resonate with you, your biggest achievement over the past few weeks has just been staying here, taking each day one moment at a time. You place the copy of Escape From New York back in its place and turn to face him directly. His gaze flicks down momentarily to your overalls, where the slight curve of your belly is now filling out the denim fabric. His smile drops to an expression that you can only interpret as confusion, but without any traces of judgment or malice. You instinctively place a hand protectively on your stomach, biting the inside of your cheeks as you feel him studying you.

“And you are- I mean, you look- um, sorry? Are you-” Eddie trips over his words and can’t seem to decide if he should continue to look at you or not. You need to put him out of his misery, god knows he’s too much of a gentleman to assume someone is pregnant, lest he hurt their feelings. But the cogs are turning in his head, trying to choose his next words so carefully that it’s quite heartwarming.

“Pregnant? Yes, Munson. Don’t worry, your eyes don’t deceive you.” You stroll over to the counter to gather up the fresh returns. He continues to stand there, opening and closing his mouth like a fish out of water.

“Holy shit- you’re pregnant? Like, for real?” You nod your head, shuffling through his film choices. You pull out his copy of Alien and flash it his way.

“I mean, could be a chest-burster. Guess I’ll just have to wait until it comes out.”

You smile proudly at your own joke, but Eddie seems to be lost in his own world. He leans against the counter, and you join him hopping atop the surface to rest your feet. His dark brown eyes were now laced with concern, meeting with yours as the question slipped from his lips.

“Is it Steve’s?” It was the first time you’d properly heard his name in months, even Robin would cautiously avoid speaking about him unless you mentioned him (which you hadn’t). His name hits you like a tonne of bricks, but you kept your composure as you nodded your head. Eddie lets out a soft exhale, rubbing the back of his neck absent-mindedly.

“Wow.” He mutters under his breath.

“Yeah, wow.”

An oddly comfortable silence fills the air. As much as you love Robin’s company, seeing only her for the past two months has left you yearning for some outside contact. You’d pulled away completely from the gang after Steve’s death, so it felt nice to be around someone you called a friend again. And though you were yet to take him up on his offer, his kind words the night Steve vanished hadn’t gone unnoticed. He clears his throat awkwardly, shifting his weight from foot to foot.

“So uh- good to see you back working again. I mean, Buckley loves giving me a hard time over my late returns…” He gestures to the scattered VHS tapes on the counter, and you let out a chuckle.

“It’s alright, your secrets safe with me.” You give him a genuine smile as you begin organizing the tapes.

“And you’re okay to be working on your feet like this? Y’know, with the whole-” He motions to your belly flippantly, the silver adorning his fingers catching your eye.

“It’s cool, Eddie. Robin’s practically chained me to this counter and insists on playing foreign films every day. Something about babies learning a second language in the womb.”

Eddie quirks his brow at your remark, a smile now growing on his face.

“‘Course she is.” The mess of curls fall around his face as he shakes his head, clearing his throat. “Well, you let me know if Keith is giving you any grief. Like, lunch breaks, or you need time off- all that shit. I can be quite…persuasive, y’know?”

“I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks, Eddie.”

He drums his hands against his thighs as he begins walking backwards towards the door, a smile now permanently plastered to his face.

“I’ll see you round, then.”

“See you, Eddie.”

He swings open the front door, the bell above chiming away. But he stops in his tracks, giving the door frame a quick pat as he turns his focus back to you.

“Oh, uh- no pressure but Wayne was thinking of making spaghetti tonight, and Dustin’s coming over to help me on a new campaign. Never any room in our fridge for all the leftovers so- like, you’d be welcome to join if you didn’t feel like cooking after work or whatever-” Eddie rambles on, uncharacteristically nervous as fidgets with his rings. You smile warmly at his offer.

“I’m closing tonight, plus Robin dropped me some TV dinners the other day. But, can I take a raincheck on that?”

A grin takes over Eddie’s face, cheeks dimpled as his posture relaxes.

“‘Course, you’re welcome anytime.”

By the time you’re pulling back into the trailer park, the sky has already begun to dim with a soft purple hue on the horizon. Your beat up Pinto rolls along the rough terrain, pulling into your makeshift driveway. Turning the engine off, you let out a sigh. The days are feeling longer, everything becoming more of an effort than usual. And you’re doing it all on your own. Shutting the car door behind you, you trudge along up your front steps to see a small tupperware container sitting on the welcome mat. You bend down and pick it up, the sensor light above you illuminating a sticky-note on top. Peeling it off, you read the scratchy writing on top:

Save your microwave meal for another night. I’ve heard babies need nutrients and protein and shit like that, so eat up. Eddie.

You chuckle at his brash choice of words, and glance over your shoulder to look at the Munson trailer. A bike is leaning against the front deck, which you’re positive is Dustin’s. A soft light beams through the living room window, the curtain moving slightly from the breeze of the evening. Gratitude fills your heart as you open your front door, entering your quiet trailer.

Maybe you’re not as alone in all of this as you thought.

#eddie munson #eddie x reader #eddie x you #eddie munson x fem!reader #eddie munson fic #dad!eddie munson #dad!eddie #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson x you #pregnant!reader #stranger things fic #dumbslxtclub #eddie munson angst #eddie munson fluff

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motoroil-recs · 18 days

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Hey there ! May I please request a long stimboard for a German shepherd therian with fur stims, rain stims and stims related to cities and cars? Preferably with orange / black colours. Thank you!

[X / 1 / X] [X / 2 / X] [X / 3 / X] [X / 4 / X] [⛽/ 🏎️ /⛽][X / 5 / X]

This kind of request would receive a stimboard like the following. An assortment of gifs based around the themes and colours given to me by the asker, some of them made or edited by myself, organized in a 3x5 grid, instead of the standard 3x3. All gifs / video sources are to be credited.

For the best result, please offer as much information as possible! Thank you.

#🚧 PACE CAR — REQUEST EXAMPLES !#🏎️ — LONGBOARD !#dogkin #dog kin #therian #car #driving #fur #rain #city #orange #brown #stimboard #stim #hands

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cobainqueer · 4 days

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List of Posts about Kurt Cobain

(Kurdt Kobane) by @cobainqueer

Last Update 24 April 2024

Topics: Personal Life; Sexuality, Gender & Expression; Journals, Lyrics, & Assorted Writings; Artwork; Music; Concerts; and more.

Sexuality, Gender & Expression:

Anyone else get the vibe that Kurt Cobain was polyamorous? (Thread with text and photos)

“I want a dress.”- K.C. (Video post)

“I personally like to wear dresses around the house sometimes.” - K.C. (Video post)

Journals, Lyrics, & Assorted Writings

Opinion: Home Demo & Journal Lyrics (previously unreleased home demo audio leaked to YT, & Cobain’s original lyrics from their journal)

Sappy (Cobain’s lyrics from their journals, music video, and song analysis video)

From Cobain’s Journal: A List - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

Just Before I Fall Asleep (semihypnotic state of conciousness) - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

I’ve lost my MIND many times, and my wallet many more. - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

Art

REVEALED: Kurt Cobain’s Original Artwork | Source: KidsOfDada (article & photos)

“the male seahorse carries the children and gives them Birth.” - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

Music

In Bloom - All in Dresses (music video)

You Know You’re Right (official music video)

Concerts

“Nirvana on TotP, in 1991. The band was not happy when they were told that they would have to sing live vocals over a pre-recorded track. This resulted in 3 minutes of hilarity. Best fuck you EVER!”

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (1991) at TOtP (video of Kurt fucking around singing Smells Like Teen Spirit and essentially blowing a mic)

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Why people are excited over Princess Elise’s (brief) return

Short answer: the new design/art style that Sonic Channel gave her looks nice and she’s being treated with as much dignity as the rest of the Sonic cast for the first time since Sonic 06′s release nearly 17 years ago

Long answer:

Every year, Sonic Channel (the official Japanese website for Sonic the Hedgehog) puts out character illustrations for each month. Sometimes it’s just art of the character posing, sometimes they’re actually doing something (Sonic celebrating his birthday, Amy walking in the rain, Cream going trick-or-treating, etc.). For 2023, Sonic Channel is posting a specific themed series of artwork called “Isekai Ogiri” that depicts two characters in silly, non-canon scenarios; part of the appeal of these illustrations is that one of the two characters in each artwork is voted for by fans. So far we’ve seen Gadget (AKA Buddy AKA the custom character from Sonic Forces) confessing his love to an Egg Pawn in a scene straight out of a slice-of-life anime, Shadow and Infinite as rival idol musicians, a cutely-dressed Blaze visiting fortune teller Amy, Tikal and Chaos running their own pizza place, and most recently as of this post, Silver the figure-skating coach and his student Elise. (I’m linking back to the original SC pages b/c they put out a message on their official Twitter urging people to link back to the original SC pages/tweets, otherwise they might be inclined to stop making this art; if you want to understand the little stories that come with each illustration, I’m afraid you’ll have to put up with janky Google Translate translations.)

So, yeah, Princess Elise of notorious Sonic 06 infamy, the one video game journalists always seem eager to remind you kissed a dead anthropomorphic hedgehog, recently appeared in one of these illustrations. And people lost their minds, but this time, with excitement.

But if Princess Elise was/is so despised, why do people seem genuinely excited to see her now?

Well there’s 2 reasons for that: 1) the way in which she was drawn, and 2) the fact that she was even a contender to appear in this art series in the first place

1) Human characters appearing in the Sonic series has always been a source of discourse among fans. Some, like myself, enjoy seeing humans coexist alongside a cast of furries, robots, and other assorted beings; others believe there shouldn’t be any humans (except Eggman) in Sonic at all. They’ve been variously depicted as realistic people (Sonic 06) and with more cartoonish Pixar-esque proportions (Sonic Unleashed). From my perspective, what seemed to make people dislike Elise’s original design was that in addition to looking out-of-place next to the cartoony Sonic (people often say that she looks like she belongs in Final Fantasy), her facial expressions were quite bland and difficult to read. While I would argue that Sonic and his friends also had very little facial expression in 06, it’s much easier to notice with Elise (and to a lesser degree, 06 Eggman) due to her more realistic face. It evokes a feeling in some people known as the Uncanny Valley. In the Isekai Ogiri’s April illustration, Elise is depicted in a new style that leans more towards cartoony; some have compared it to Puyo Puyo, others have said she resembles the humans from Balan Wonderworld. Either way, most fans, at least those on Twitter and Tumblr, have praised Elise’s new “look” because her new proportions (large head and hands, big eyes that are easier to read) make her more closely fit in with other Sonic characters. She feels less like a Final Fantasy character and more like a Sonic character.

(With that said, not everyone was automatically bothered by Elise’s realistic 06 design because human beings do not perceive everything in the exact same way b/c art is subjective)

2) Part of how Elise even wound up in this illustration is not just because people wanted to see her again, but because Sonic Team themselves decided to treat her with dignity by making her an option to vote for. And she was up against Merlina from Sonic and the Black Knight, a well-regarded character among fans and one of the few female villains in the entire series!! The poll they were in for the April pic was very close!!

During the late 2000s following Sonic 06′s release, Silver had his fanbase, but a lot of people still viewed him as annoying, and it took several years of game reappearances for him to become a less divisive character (my source: I’ve been a Sonic fan with internet access since ~2003, the way he’s depicted in the Sonic Paradox shorts is actually what a lot of people thought of him at the time). Also, he was still an anthropomorphic Sonic animal, so naturally people would be quicker to accept him as part of the cast.

But Elise? The human? While I doubt she was originally intended to be a recurring character, even if 06 WAS supposed to be a reboot, her portrayal in that game was so widely despised by critics and fans alike that she was thereafter relegated to rare cameos (like being on a collectible card in Sonic Rivals 2) and jokes at her expense (in LEGO Dimensions, when Sonic interacts with Lumpy Space Princess, he says, “Last time I met a princess, I...we...you know, I don't quite remember, never mind!” in a hurried and embarrassed voice). Elise is hardly the only notoriously-disliked Sonic character, but because she only appeared in one game in a non-playable role (I’m not counting the stages where Sonic carries her), her biggest positive accomplishments--unlocking her cell herself instead of waiting for Sonic to save her, jumping from Eggman’s ship with zero hesitation, and reviving Sonic--are often overshadowed by the moments where she just stands there praying, gets kidnapped, and kisses a dead hedgehog just in case you forgot for the 17th year in a row, leading people to view her as an inherently bad character. Because she is also a girl, and video games were and still are a largely male-dominated culture loaded with toxic masculinity, it’d be ignorant to say the vitriol towards Elise wasn’t charged with sexism and misogyny on some level.

But as an aspiring writer and someone who hates wasted character potential, my personal opinion is that characters, SPECIFICALLY in ongoing franchises like Sonic, are not inherently bad, it’s the ways in which they’re USED that can make them LOOK good or bad, and they don’t deserve to be locked away forever all because of one bad interpretation. But unlike Silver who has been in multiple games since 06 (or even Mephiles, who was added to the Sonic Forces mobile game last year as an unlockable character), Elise has only ever had 06. Thus, people only have that one interpretation of her to go off of, because not everyone obsessively rewrites her in their headcanons or hunts down fan fiction where Elise is characterized with actual effort.

And like I said, I don’t think Elise was created with longevity in mind, but it’s specifically because critics and fans alike continue to beat this dead horse that you have people like me saying “What if she came back tho”

Compare the hate Elise gets to the Deadly Six, characters whose debut game was not seen as quite a colossal failure as 06 but still had a story that was almost universally panned, particularly in regards to its character writing. While the Deadly Six (or just Zavok) have yet to appear in a game written by Ian Flynn, they’ve been recurring characters in the IDW Sonic comics and, while still pretty universally disliked, have been regarded by some fans as being tolerable in the comics due to how Flynn utilizes them there. (I wrote a whole other post speculating about the Deadly Six’s characterization in IDW if you feel like reading that lol.) In this sense, the current Sonic writers are genuinely trying to make even the most undesired characters palatable for the audience. I think it’ll be a long while before most people fully warm up to the D6, but the intent is there.

Meaning that the same could hypothetically be done for Elise, if this illustration is any indication that SEGA is beginning to wholeheartedly embrace their past, even the ugly parts

I’m not expecting anything huge from this, and I don’t expect her to suddenly become a major recurring character, because this illustration is nothing more than Sonic Team testing the waters to see how people react to them unironically including Elise in non-canon material. But look at all the fan art people are drawing of Elise in her skating outfit. Look at how fans are reacting. If, sometime after this, Elise were to appear in even a minor role in the IDW comics, in this new art style, with Ian Flynn, Evan Stanley, or even a guest writer like Daniel Barnes at the helm, I would welcome it with open arms, because I trust them to handle Princess Elise’s character with genuine investment and care.

(But until then I have my own ideas that I’m a bit hesitant to share for.....reasons~)

#sonic the hedgehog #princess elise #princess elise the third #princess elise iii #sonelise #tagging for as much visibility as possible #essay #wrote this up the other day when I was bursting with energy

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secret-code · 2 years

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catonator · 7 months

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You hear about video game development?

Well. I wouldn't say I expected such a catastrophic implosion from Unity.

Now, I can't say that I didn't laugh at the situation. It's a hilariously terrible case of bad management coming up with bad ideas in desperation. But it's also a somewhat scary indication of the sorry state of the industry.

Unity controls about 40% of the engine marketshare (according to a linkedin post I found anyway). Unity dominates the engine scene by a large margin, followed by Unreal at around 30% and Cryengine by around 5%. Unity forms such a large part of the entire game development industry, that it's difficult to really even understand just how much they control the concept of games as a whole!

Most people are jumping to some paid alternatives, like the aforementioned Unreal and, to a lesser extent, Game Maker, but my suggestion is this: don't!

Within the last decade, all-encompassing closed super game engines have become less of a side venture and more of an expectation. Back in the 2000s, there were a few engines like this, mostly amateur ones. Game engines were less creation stations and more of a loose collection of middleware and tools. Purchasing the rights to the engine meant that you also got the responsibility of also tying the engine into something resembling a game yourself. I feel like this art has been lost.

Game engines nowadays are more of a purchase of a passing right to use and incredibly specific, closed set of tools. You don't get to define the tools, and you don't get to really own the tools. It's yet another example of the tradition of the games industry fucking over the customers, and the customers just going with it. Because of this, while Unreal got some free dunks on Twitter for this, I can assure you Epic is planning something equally terrible as Unity's PR faux pas, and it'll come into to play in about 3 years when everyone's just accepted that Unity sometimes financially screws you over.

But, game developers are indeed developers. They know software, and they can learn to make new software.

If you're a game dev and still reading this, I'd recommend taking a peek beyond the curtains of corporate cockfighting, into the realm of DIY game engines. It's a… somewhat janky world full of strange characters with unusual ideas on how much time it's acceptable to spend not working on a game, but it's also a place where you're not being sat on by fatcats.

Just as game engines have progressed in the past 20 years, so have libraries, middleware and resources for independents. Making your own engine isn't just picking up ANSI C and toiling for a year in software rendering hell. Open tools like Pygame, Monogame, LÖVE and Cocos2D (among many, many others) are far beyond just simple rendering libraries and border on being game engines sometimes. The difference is, these tools are open source, and they do not restrict you with what you can do with them.

There are several games you may have played made using these frameworks. Streets of Rage 4 (MonoGame), Celeste (MonoGame), Fez (XNA, aka. MonoGame), Miitomo (Cocos2D), Geometry Dash (Cocos2D)… I got tired of looking up more. There are a lot of games.

The future which I hope to see for game developers is one where you have a large assortment of simple tools you can pick. Level editors, asset converters, entity systems, all small chunks of a game engine you could drop into your own project to slowly build up your own collection of workflows to make games your own way, completely independent of any larger forces on the market.

The support for these frameworks is still somewhat barren compared to Unity, but I believe, that if more people jump to alternatives like this, more tools, tutorials and middleware built for them would start showing up. This is how Unity also got its start, about 15 years ago. You also really don't need all the power in the world to make your simple 2D Megaman clones. The fog created by the monolithic engines we have now have obscured just how simple the building blocks for your favourite games can really be.

It just takes some bravery and willingness to learn a new way to approach making games, but I think the outcome is worth it, even just for you.

#gamedev #game development #unity

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apocalypse-shuffle · 1 year

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RED HOOD | BATFAMILY (assorted canon)

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“Long Overdue” (Jason Todd & Batmom!Reader) and (background Bruce Wayne x Batmom!Reader)

| SFW, emotional?, referenced canon typical action/violence, cursing?

| 1k+ words

| parts: one, spurt, two, three, four, five, six/six point five, seven.

“Hey, Hood, may I have a word with you?”

Hood - Jason. Jesus. - on his way toward the exit stalls and looks at you with what you can only assume is a grimace. He looks incredibly out of place for someone whose presence naturally takes up so much space.

It was getting that much easier to superimpose the showman he was on the field to the studious little smartass who used to ask you to “peer review” his essays for fun, but that connection was still something you needed to remind yourself of.

You wait, settling on your heels with your hands clasped in front of you. He doesn’t know it’s you under the mask and you almost fought him an hour ago, of course he’s reluctant.

Jason is just watching, body coiled like he’s weighing whether it’d be best to just cut and run, when Dick slides up and nudges him.

“I didn’t agree to this,” the younger instantly objects. “Just the med bay and Alfred not…Nightfall.”

He says your name like he’s cussing you out just by uttering it. It’s nasty and you can’t not smile. That sounds like your boy alright.

“I dunno,” Dick nods over at you with a coy little smile on his face. “If you give it a shot you’ll see just how much you two have in common. Just once and you can always leave if you really hate it.”

At his continual refusal to budge Dick delays for a few beats then that grin that always precluded a checkmate back in the day takes over his face.

“How bout I call in that favor early, then? You just…try to talk to her now - for me - and you’ll walk out of this cave with nothing to owe.”

His weedling finally pays off because Jason’s shoulders rise and drop dramatically as he sighs.

“Fine.” He levels the LEDs of the helmet in your direction, voice getting lower. Getting flat. “But you better not try anything.”

“Of course,” you nod.

Jason eyes you for a few more beats before giving a terse nod of his own then skulking off towards where you indicated deeper in the cave - because you did not need everybody in your business.

You give your oldest a quick side hug behind his brother’s back and he accepts the kiss on the cheek with a smile before you go after Jason.

When you close the door to the comfortably sized weapon’s room your hands tremble against the door knob; your body acting as if it’s cold in the warm space.

You clamp your hand on the knob until your knuckles pop to ground yourself. Five seconds you use not to breath but to force the shaking to cease, before turning fully in one movement.

Up close like this the sight of him makes your stomach hurt, or maybe your abdomen, you can’t tell. The fact that if you hadn’t been told you would never in a million years think to guess this was your son makes you shake worse somehow.

You ball your hands into fists and take a deep coiling breath that only serves to make the man in front of you more on edge.

He shifts a foot forward and then to the side; towards the emergency exit tucked into the back of the room. A trick you’d taught Jason a half a decade ago to trick people into thinking an escape plan was simply just nerves. To make everyone think you were about to bolt forward right before you booked it backwards instead.

No plan was truly crucial like an escape plan after all.

A few more seconds tick by and your mouth opens under your mask.

“Listen-” the other starts and a million potential conversation starters die in your throat.

“Jason…?”

The faint name doesn’t make him freeze, he’d been good at not getting caught in a lie long before Robin, but it does make him puff up for a millisecond before he catches himself and plants his feet.

Too defensive for a case of mistaken identity from his point of view but not a confirmation either. Your heart hammers.

“Who?”

The hammer pauses in mid air, your heart stutters.

For a moment it’s like the floor has dropped out from under you. Fuck the little signs he’s giving you. Fuck Bruce’s word that didn’t mean shit anymore. Your son was dead and you were being ridiculous. You’ve lost your mind. Come back from the grave? How stupid were you that you fell for that? You look the person in front of you up and down and the way nothing rings familiar makes you want to scream.

Then you see his boots - tactical grade, nothing to ride home about, run of the mill ass boots but they still ping somewhere in your temporal lobe despite their mundanity.

You remember to breathe alongside the burn of your saliva from your rough swallow. You nod to his feet.

“You got a knife in those boots?”

It was so stupid. A little line from a made up code, Jason and you’s made up code. One he’d created because he’d never forgotten about that little knife even though neither of you ever acknowledged it. One he’d made because your little man had trusted you, had wanted something just for the two of you. An action you’d taken for granted from a malnourished little punk gone too soon.

This time he does freeze and your eyes close together without your permission. The building moisture in them being squeezed and trapped inside. If this was a trick - if a strand of the black mercy or some rogue had gotten to you - you didn’t want to watch it melt away. You couldn’t.

“…You think I’m dumb enough to only carry one?”

You suck in a breath and the speed nearly chokes you.

One of two possible responses he could have given you and he didn’t even bother telling you to fuck off with the other. The code was for when people came over, when Bruce was being an ass, everything. A simple do you want to leave and a yes or no in reply.

The man responds so quietly the helmet makes his words sound like a failing humidifier. Soft gusts of words that aren’t sure if they want to be known or not. You bite the inside of your cheek so hard the faint appearance of blood shocks your mouth right into moving again.

“Is it really you?”

A breath. Two. He seems to be looking you over before he speaks up in that same broken humidifier tone.

“…Y/n?”

“Yes? No, yeah, I’m - goddamn!” you rip your mask off and fling it to the ground. “Yeah it’s me.”

Another pause but you’ll give him this one. You are by zero means under the impression that you look good right now, let alone like the put together woman he probably remembers. You didn’t like to let your kids see you cry on principle but right now you know there’s no other option.

“Jason?”

This time when you prompt him you get it out at a steady-enough volume. And this time he lets himself react, body going just that much looser and him teetering closer, fingers shifting at his side like he wants to reach out and touch. No matter that there was at least six feet of space between you two.

You’re already mirroring him when the creaky too soft proclamation of “Ma?” comes through the modulator.

…TBC

NOTES: Alright listen, I’m not splitting this up the way I am to be a dick I am simply just struggling to get everything down the way I want. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!

if you’d like to leave a comment that’d be appreciated, but I won’t respond cause this is a sideblog. I read everything though 🫶🏾

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The series is taking hold, even with a 29-day pause. Check it out!

COMPILATION MADNESS OVERLOAD 'SUJAL SUJAL' YT: #21 IN ITS SERIES | OUR FOURTH INSTALLMENT (No. 4)

★ ★ ★ ★ | Four "Stars"

From lostlighter23 staff | ★★★★★ (6 videos total: L)

Dual-Media 7-Pack (Megapost!)

We break partially from YouTube's "WeAll SmokeHere" for our nominal primary source for the fourth edition of "COMPILATION MADNESS OVERLOAD." The series debuted on July 29 with "WeAll SmokeHere" on July 29 and No. 2 came from YouTube's "dutchsmokelover" with No. 3 shifting back to "WeAll SmokeHere" on August 16. For No. 4 here, we're back with YouTube but with "Sujal Sujal," which has had a wonderful compilation/assortment going of its own. No. 21 in that series is being brought to you for our fourth installment. So we had our first three editions of our series posted within a 19-day span, then we hit our fans of it with a 29-day pause that ends with this post. Yes, we aim for a somewhat evenly spaced out presentation of our installments and we know we have failed. All we can do is recognize the shortcoming and begin to address it with more diligence toward presenting it more consistently often.

. . . and you are going to see a difference with "Sujal Sujal"'s approach when contrasted to "WeAll SmokeHere" and "dutchsmokelover" 's style in producing their compilations. 'Sujal' goes short and sweet. In this video, there are four scenes, and two of the four are SF SuperStars, Anka (Anna) Zapala all to briefly in the leadoff spot and Only_Yana in the third slot. The other two, Nos. 2 and 4 do not add too much but they do contribute nevertheless.

Added in mid-September 2023. Thanks to "Sujal Sujal" from YouTube for the video, though our staff gets the "publishing" credit for the selection, writing, editing and descriptions contained in this post --the digging and toiling. Hope you enjoy No. 4 of our series here. The continuation of the series will be posted first to vs120shound then carried on lostlighter23 on the initial re-blog. There is plenty of material from which to choose as this series unfolds. No shortage of such content!

And No. 4 here possesses a phenomenal bonus YouTube master video supplied here by link below. Hope you get a chance to check it out, but be forewarned for it is much longer than two hours in duration but it is a gem, better in fact than the five "Sujal Sujal" videos featured in this post -- the Centerpiece up top and the four most recent editions of its 21-post series included as well.

Some from the "Sujal Sujal" Series . . .

"Sujal Sujal" of YouTube, from September 7, 2023 (No. 20 in its series)

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"Sujal Sujal" of YouTube, from September 1, 2023 (No. 19 in its series)

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"Sujal Sujal" of YouTube, from late-August 2023 (No. 18 in its series)

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"Sujal Sujal" of YouTube, from late-August 2023 (No. 17 in its series)

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SUPER BONUS VIDEO!

From "WeAll SmokeHere" YouTube webpage

The duration of this video is not neat and tidy! It lasts for 2:20:41 . . . or 140 minutes and 41 seconds. It is sensational, and no breaking it down into more easily digestible clips will do it justice. So that was not a legitimate consideration or alternative to the bulky, unwieldy length. It was posted on September 13, 2023. Of the first three posts in our "COMPILATION MADNESS OVERLOAD," two of them were "WeAll SmokeHere" productions, as provided on the post on YouTube. Here is this phenomenal videos breakdown of its 21-plus scenes as defined by "WeAll SmokeHere," whose definition of an SF scene might differ from yours and ours (it does contain some scenes in which the SF models/SF entrepreneurs/Social Media Smoking Darlings-Social Network Cigarette Girls are unidentified; those are denoted with "?"s):

1. 0:00 -- Elsa from SmokingSweeties; 2. 2:30 - Victoria from SmokingSweeties; 3. 4:43 -- Demi and Nene from USA Smokers; 4. 7:30 -- Bree and Molly from USA Smokers; 5. 10:43 -- Lynette from USA Smokers; 6. 13:18 - Erin from USA Smokers; 7. 16:25 -- Devyn from USA Smokers; 8. 20:21 -- Ava Grey and Willow from USA Smokers; 9. 23:02 - ? from CustomFetish.com; 10. 30:38 -- Deannia from "unknown;" 11. 35:26 -- ? "unknown" but likely from Abbie Cat Fetish or Nicotine Ladies; 12. 40:00 -- Teenage Kitty Lynn from "KittyLynnSmokes," an SF Entrepreneur; 13. 45:33 -- Natty (3 scenes including two-at-once); 14. 1:00:46 -- eemmmii (3 scenes); 15. 1:12:54 -- Britney "Pink Angel;" 16. 1:17:04 -- Morgan Lees from Smoking-Models/ElegantSmoking (U.K.); 17. 1:21:14 -- Lucy Zara from Smoking-Models/ElegantSmoking (U.K.); 18. 1:28:57 -- Lucy Zara and Dannii Harwood from Smoking-Models/ElegantSmoking (U.K.); 19. 1:42:45 -- Lolly Badcock and Michelle Moist from S-M/ES (U.K.); 20. 1:47:31 -- Danielle Maye and Chloe Toy from S-M/ES (U.K.); 21. 1:49:31 -- Stefanie (left) and Charli from R.S., the self-deactivated Mega-SF website from Australia

"WeAll SmokeHere" of YouTube's Cigarette Smoking Compilation #22 (September 13, 2023) . . .

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And perhaps our favorite SF Entrepreneur from the video, Ms. Kitty Lynn, from IG@kittylynnsmokes2 and Instagram@capnofellow

#SF #Hot women who love smoking cigarettes #Smoking cigarettes #Smoking #“Sujal Sujal” (USA Smokers)!#“WeAll SmokeHere” (YouTube)!

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an assortment of unorganized total drama headcanons I have (some probably contradict the timeframe when the td timeline takes place in but whatever):

Courtney and Heather pretend to have refined taste in music but blast Mitski full volume when they're alone

Heather and Harold are still actually really great friends after TD and find that they have a lot in common. Exhibit A: Their MLP phases

Noah's 15th birthday gift from his mother was a Miku binder. Also yes Noah's transmasc keep scrolling

Izzy, Eva, Owen, Noah and Emma are all in a polycule and currently live in a big apartment. (for more info um here)

Prior to it, they'd been kicked out of 4 consecutively for 2 straight months due to a fire break out from an 'undetectable source'. Surprisingly none of them were caused by Izzy, but Owen repeatedly cooking/reheating food at 3 in the morning

The ROTI cast in comparison to the rest of the casts are incredibly tight knit and go out of their way to meet up and keep in contact with each other. Anne Maria and Dawn are definitely the mom friends of the group.

Scott can be slimy, but he sure do loves his family a whole lot, and even though there's a lot of them, they're all really close. Initial reasoning to going back on TDAS was to help them cover what the entire family had given to get him to recover from being attacked by Fang

After a recording of a season is over (other than TDI), all contestants- former, current, the ones who aren't arrested- are all invited to stay at Playa Des Losers for a week (a shitty excuse to get all generations of cast members to interact to each other in my head...why yes)

The pinnacle of wealth to Scott was watching Shrek the Musical live and his first thought in what to do with the million in ROTI after the vague idea of investing in stocks was to bring all his family (and briefly in TDAS as a date with Courtney) to watch it

Duncan has a soft spot for Izzy. She's one of the only people who visit him while he's in prison. She drags along Team E-scope (+ Owen and Emma) to her visits sometimes

Shawn's first exposure to zombie related media was Plants vs Zombies. He has several sunflowers, pea plants, potatoes and a couple of walnut trees outside of his house that he says will mutate alongside the zombie virus pandemic to protect him. He owns and plays a lot of zombie video games in general alongside his huge collection of zombie movies and other zombie related media- other than PVZ, his favorite's The Last of Us

At Playa, Courtney and Gwen talk. It's one of the rare times Courtney owns up to her faults genuinely. And she tries to do the same thing with Scott but she can't bring herself to knock on his door. The prospect of things turning out like Duncan- even vaguely- made her blood grow cold.

Jo, Lightning and Brick meet Sky while they're hanging at Playa after the TDPI finale and chat her up while she seemed really down abt it all. After some chatting, a bit of insults thrown (thanks Jo), Brick's understanding sympathy, seldom seen empathy from Lightning, and a lot of racing and competing with each other, they become quite close. They keep in contact with each other afterwards- which is more than Sky can say about most of her relations on her own cast.

Speaking of; Sky keeps in contact with Ella, Jasmine (and since they're kind of a package deal, Shawn), oddly enough- though they weren't in the same team and didn't talk much on the island- Sammy, even more oddly enough Beardo- who she finds out just had a hard time opening up, and most oddly enough Leonard- who she finds out doesn't actually think he's a wizard and was just playing up one of his characters since he wasn't skilled in much anything else and wanted to see how far he got into the show with his whole wizard act. He even went out of his way to try it again alongside his friend Tammy in TDRR.

The small group does online DND campaigns that Sky occasionally joins in on in between juggling Olympic training, but they're mostly dominated by Sammy, Ella, Shawn, Beardo and some of Leonard's irl friends. Leonard DMs.

Eva knows how to crochet. Beth finds out in one of the Aftermath shows backstage, and they actually bond together over it. Well, after Eva threatens to kill her if she tells anyone

Courtney's really into musical theatre (won't admit to it but love West Side Story and Heahers). So are Mike (who's fav musical is Les Mis and Hadestown) and Ella (duh) (her favorite musical is Robert and Hammerstein's Cinderella)

Ella and Gwen are close cousins (as seen in TDR, but is otherwise not canon), and most are kind of shocked to find out. Ella would often bring up how Gwen would always gladly play the Evil Queen to her Princess when they were younger, where Gwen would retort by bringing up how bad Ella's tantrums were when she didn't agree.

The Best Friends subplot was scripted. Carrie is a lesbian, and Devin's aroace. A couple of d-list actors who also coincidentally are best friends

The Drama Network (as I'll call it) gets sued hard after Pahkitew airs. Not only for what happened in the season but a lot of prior incidents that weren't brought up in court- like Dakota's mutation, Scott being attacked by Fang, and the general endangerment of minors that happened in ROTI. Ditto with Pahkitew. Since TD was still a big hit, it didn't make much of a dent with the Network but still made it so they were weary of bringing the show back- which is why there hadn't been a new season for more than a decade in universe

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