#themes: long distance

[andreil-fic-stash]

Five Hours Away by mostly_maudlin

Rating: Teen

Word Count: 2,012

Time Period: Neil's 5th year

POV: Wymack

Summary:

"This conversation requires an emotional finesse David doesn’t possess. He tries anyway. It’s not part of the job description, but David’s never been able to hold that line of separation in his head. It’ll all kill him early, he knows. The booze and the smoking and the endless parade of messed up kids. Too bad he’s no good at quitting."

Andrew's in Nashville. Neil's in Palmetto. They're both well-practiced in surviving alone.  But now, it's Wymack's problem. 

#andreil #andrew/neil #rating: teen #word count: less than 5k #time period: neil's senior year #themes: long distance #pov: outsider #pov: wymack #Andrew & wymack

[starry-bi-sky]

i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.

He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.

And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.

And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.

Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.

Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."

There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.

It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.

Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.

At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.

"Do you like to do anything?"

Nothing. Just silence.

Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.

Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.

Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.

And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.

He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.

Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.

So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.

"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"

"Don't."

He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.

Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"

"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."

It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"

The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."

Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."

And they fall back into silence.

Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."

He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.

(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)

At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.

Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.

("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")

(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)

(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)

It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."

The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."

The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.

When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.

Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."

When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.

Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc prompt #man i just really need more dpdc stuff where danny and bruce have a good relationship. like man i NEED it. like i need to see these two #bonding together. and not in a cracky 'oh danny is a distant friend/cousin/etc' stuff but like. active participants in each other's lives #or as active as can be in this case. i neeeeed these two getting along and caring about one another #this idea came to me like last night and hasn't left since nd it was driving me up the wall to think about both positively and negatively b #i neeeded someone to hear about this or i was gonna implode #danny is the first son #tried to just get the general gist of the idea down but i definitely thought of the idea that bruce lowkey suspects vlad for having a hand #Vlad allows Danny to sneak off because he thinks Danny is alone. if he knew Bruce was there he'd be piiisssed and would put a stop to it #Sam and Tucker are alive they just got ghosted for a bit by danny bc he was in Major Grief and didn't wanna socialize. He couldn't go to #them because he didn't wanna put them in danger via Vlad. #oh that thing he handed Bruce? Yeah that's his ghost core. I have a headcanon (that isnt always applied) that ghosts can take their cores #out of their bodies at will and painlessly and without issue. and its common practice actually to do so bc they can be a not insignificant #distance away from said core before problems start to act up. and its common for ghosts to leave their physical cores at their lairs for #safekeeping because as long as the physical core is fine: so is the ghost. they can reform if their body gets destroyed. it also acts as a #fast travel sometimes. where they can reform at their core in an instant. its not inspired in the slightest by SU but i do see the overlap #most cores are pretty small for safety sake: its harder to hit if its small. and they're pr resilient too but its better to be safe than #sorry. so yeah. danny essentially gave bruce the physical embodiment of his soul and indirectly said #'if anything happens to me at least i'll be safe with you' #danny doesn't know he's batman btw #starry rambles. #was gonna go into danny becoming a vigilante beside bruce but im sleeeepy so i'll do that in a reblog. he's gonna go by nightingale if #anyone is interested. stereotypical but to be frank it is a *good* name imo. has a good amount of syllables and consonants to it #and the bird theme. and since its part of an ancestral name it has even more backing for it being bird-y without being meta

[lucylied]

I cannot wait to touch your skin again

#red and black #red aesthetic #red theme #red art #red tumblr #red #red text #red post #red velvet #red picture #love quote #long distance romance #long distance relationship #i miss him #i need you #i want you #black and red aesthetic #redcore #red core #red and black aesthetic

[piosplayhouse]

The amount of times people just absolutely lay into yashiki for being a middle aged man hanging around a bunch of high schoolers in death mark 2 makes me genuinely distressed 😭😭 FREE MY MAN YASHIKI HES INNOCENT IT'S THESE GODDAMN SCENARIO WRITERS PUTTING HIM IN THESE SITUATIONSS

#he has an age appropriate DETECTIVE BOYFRIEND theyre just long distance #it actually is kind of funny how hard theyre pushing this teacher crush theme in the game considering yashiki isnt even a teacher #nor interested in women presumably #death mark 2

[aftgficrec]

We had despaired of ever finding this, but our teammate S has amazing powers of recall and was able to sleuth it out! It’s a super fun fic with soft, happy andreil and jerejean, plus solid Kevin friendship with everyone. By popular demand the author added an epilogue where the couples play The Newlywed Game with Kevin as host. (The second couple is jerejean, not katelyn/aaron.)

We screenshot the original rec because it contained an email address and hope the submitter sees this -A

Secrets and Honesty by fullyvisible [Rated T, 42780 Words, Complete, 2021]

Part 1 of the Better Together series

Neil and Andrew aren't on the same professional teams, but that doesn't mean they're any less together. When a photograph gets taken out of context, they decide to go with it, as long as they're both having fun. And they are. Right?

#rec #reader submission #neil josten/andrew minyard #kevin day & neil josten & andrew minyard #jeremy knox/jean moreau #neil josten & the foxes #universe: post canon #theme: pro exy #theme: secret relationship #theme: established relationship #theme: long distance #theme: reunions #theme: minyard-josten rivalry #theme: weddings #theme: coming out #theme: bisexuality #theme: friendships #theme: found families #theme: the press #theme: paparazzi #theme: social media #theme: game show #theme: fluff & humour #theme: fluff

[the-ratronaut]

So I watched this one horror... film? Would you call a feature length twitch vod reupload on youtube a film? Whatever, I think it should count. I watched this horror film last night and it's been sticking with me, giving me feelings and all that. "the gmod stream" it's called. Warning if anyone wants to watch it, the video contains sudden flashing lights and loud noises. Honestly it could probably have done without the loud audio.

It's basically a vod of a stream where three people streaming one by one become corrupted by something. There's some creepypasta to go with it and some creepy glitchy visuals. It's not the most incredible work, I've seen better small indie horror art pieces on twitch and youtube before but I think it's very good. It gave me a specific vibe I enjoy seeing in horror, speficially that feeling of discomfort you get at watching a situation that you know is only going to get worse and the people who could stop it don't know to stop it.

Now it's weird because while watching it I didn't really care much about the paranormal elements (they were still neat but not what I focused on). What grabbed me was the shifting dynamics between the people acting on stream. The way that, when their friends gradually become more off, more out of character or weirdly cruel with no explanation, the others' reactions were, just, very genuine. They empathized with the odd behavior, wrote it off as a bit, played along, tried to ask if everything was going okay, opened up to them more and just genuinely seemed very distressed that they couldn't reach them. They never got angry, frustrated yeah, but never vocally angry.

literally up to the last moment the last "normal" one of the three is still trying to reach out and ask why their friends are acting so cruel towards them. It's distressing and heartbreaking and it just hit me in a really specific way.

So yeah, just felt like I needed to get these feelings down on digital paper. It's a decent watch of you have the hour and a half to spare. Just know going in that a lot of it is watching and listening to a mundane stream... also, the aforementioned warning about loud noises and flashing lights. I legit had to turn down my headset a couple times.

The video:

#Art critique I guess? #I think the themes of long distance friends and longing to be with the people you care about and physical isolation also kinda got to me #Most of my friends are purely online so I definitely felt that #The gmod stream

[steddieunderdogfics]

For theme weekend - “Ring Ring (Why Don’t You Give Me a Call?)” by whatsthatfor. Canon divergence where they fall in love over the phone! A sweet slow burn <3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42996534

Ring Ring (Why Don't You Give Me a Call?) by whatsthatfor

Rating: Not Rated

12,123 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Warnings

Tags: Phone Calls & Telephones, Long-Distance Friendship, Long-Distance Relationship, Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort, they talk about their feelings, and the feelings are bad, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Footnotes, Autistic Eddie Munson, Eddie Munson Lives

Summary:

What was strange was when Harrington called. And called again, and then Eddie was calling him, and it just didn’t stop. ~~~ Eddie and Steve fall in love over a series of phone calls.

This fic was also rec'd for a previous challenge Monday that wasn't posted yet!

Thanks for the rec!

This rec is a part of Theme Weekend. The theme this weekend is canon divergence.

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#steddie fic recs #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #stranger things #theme weekend #canon divergent #hurt/comfort #long distance friendship #fluff

[augment-techs]

#boom! comics power rangers #web weaving #theme: the line from antagonists to allies to partners to something more takes 20 years #World of the Coinless Farkas Bulk Bulkmeier #Ranger Slayer Kimberly Hart #mighty morphin power rangers #@n3rv0uss7st3m #@dire-straits-fn8ic #@alterouslyinlove #@long-distance-love #vita sackville-west #julie buntin #catherynne m. valente #melissa faliveno #@brycebowyn #the swan princess #the lion king #stephen king #olivia gatwood #sylvia plath #@kazthropology

[luyo-mi]

trick or treat!

come get ur treats my children🎃

#What are my children gonna be for halloween #conment like and subcribe below #im waiting fpor all the candy to go on discount frfr #my weak knees can't walk for long distances alright #im not as young as i used to be sigh #expect a drawing either tongiht or tmmr its gonna be halloween themed surprise surprise #halloween anon🎃

[musicalchaos07]

Something about Jonathan and Will building Castle Byers and that being the place where he hides in the Upside Down.

#just like the boys and castle byers and should i stay or should i go and the themes of safety and I'm #if I think about the Byers Brothers for too long I'll cry #there's also something else in here about Will destroying it and Jonathan being distance and the themes there #but i can't figure out how to say it #and like OBVIOUSLY there's another thing about should i stay or should i go and that song being safe for Will #and that like after his and Jonathan reconciliation at the end of s4 we're most likely opening S5 with it #like #*goes feral* #stranger things #jonathan byers #will byers #Byers Brothers

[andreil-fic-stash]

Take This Heart, Put Yourself In It by HalfpintPeach

Rating: Teen

Word Count: 2,919

Time Period: Pro Exy

Summary:

It's Andrew's birthday and Matt and Jeremy just want him to be surrounded by people that he (well not 'loves') but tolerates.  And maybe someone comes to surprise him.

Comments: Pure fluff. A look into Andrew having grown as a person in some ways and remaining the same in others.

#rating: teen #word count: less than 5k #time period: pro exy #pov: andrew #genre: fluff #themes: long distance #themes: birthdays #themes: sleeping

[lunarianbeams]

🍓 twenty-four 🫐

#jess speaks #.me #on love #i cried like 8 times today and my best friend had a kuromi themed celebration while we facetimed our long distance bestie #somehow feeling very loved and perpetually lonely #here’s to hoping twenty four is better than twenty three #anyway saw saltburn and poor things at two different theaters!

[womansound]

camping in your askbox again ♫ for ... anthony and adam <3

↻  ◁  II  ▷  ↺      ♫    𝚗𝚘𝚠    𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐    ...  adam  &  anthony's  infinite  playlist  !

###  001  .  valentine  𝒃𝒚  laufey  !  

i've  lost  all  control  of  my  heartbeat  now, got  caught  in  a  romance  with  him  somehow  — i  still  feel  a  shock  through  every  bone when  i  hear  an  "i  love  you" 'cause  now  i've  got  someone  to  lose

###  002  .  like  real  people  do  𝒃𝒚  hozier  !  

honey,  just  put  your  sweet  lips  on  my  lips  — we  should  just  kiss  like  real  people  do

###  003  .  about  you  𝒃𝒚  the  1975  !

and  i  miss  you  on  a  train,  i  miss  you  in  the  morning i  never  know  what  to  think  about  — i  think  about  you  (  so  don't  let  go  )  

###  004  .  i  know  you  know  i  love  you  𝒃𝒚  sunset  rollercoaster  !

just  want  you  to  know you're  my  sunshine  in  the  sky

###  005  .  sundays  𝒃𝒚  fkj  !

at  the  airport  when  they  first  met:  "what  are  you  listening  to  ?"

#{ 🤍 } ... 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 ... adam 𝐟𝐭 . ant ! #pulls out my notes #valentine — adam loves the one with the orchestra specifically it also encapsulates every strange feeling he has going frm being alone gene #ally to suddenly having adam around #like real people do — because he's. a hozier fan u know this #about you bc they're long distance a lot and adam just thinks about him on a train plane wherever #ikykily self explanatory ... ant is his sunshine fr ... #and lastly i like to think that sundays is their overarching instrumental #like mia and sebastian's theme in la la land yk #it played when they first met. and now when ant smiles it plays in adam's brain each time #gam3bo1 #i've spoken too much #anyway love them as always! etc etc!