#what was I supposed to do

[muffinlance]

Other child: *reaches for legos at the library’s play table*

Toddler: NO DO NOT DESTROY MY PANOPTICON

#I mean he found a inexplicable round eye lego for the top of his tower #what was I supposed to do #NOT teach him the word panopticon? #other parent's slow blink as they processed that statement: 10/10 #and then I had to re-iterate the lesson on sharing #...sharing the panopticon #this post brought to you by The Magnus Archives #statement recorded live June 6th 2023 #statement ends

[nitewrighter]

I played Baldur's Gate 3 for the first time last night and i got to the part where you find the wounded Mind Flayer and the game was like "it is manipulating you to have compassion and love for it. It neeeeeds your life force." And i was legit like "hm. Probably not good. But let's see where it's going with this." And I did the 'lean in as if for a kiss' action and it killed me.

#what was i supposed to do #NOT kiss tentacle thing???? #bg3

[aprocessionofthoughts]

To succeed is to fail

whumptober2023 day 9- mistaken identity fandom- Danny phantom x Batman TW- nothing summary- The Amity Parkers have the opportunity (they didn't want) to explore Gotham. It's just too bad that Danny looks a lot like adoption bait.

First of all, I’d like to state that I know this is whumptober. But the story disagreed. So now we have whumpcracktober.

ao3 masterlist

They were not supposed to be here. They didn't want to be here. They hadn’t even tried to be here. Yet luck had never been on the Amity Parker’s side before, and they should have realized this would be no different.

It was their senior year and things around Amity had calmed down. Or at least everyone was used to Amity’s special brand of crazy.

He had told his parents about Phantom and they had helped hunt down the GIW. Most of Amity was discovered to be liminal and most of the young people had developed some basic abilities. 

And then Mrs. Abernagaby decided that their science final would be a group project. This wasn’t anything new. Every year Casper participated in the Helping Intelligent Minds Be Outstanding competition–better known as the HIMBO competition.

And usually the smartest seniors would be picked to work on a group project to submit. Casper High had never won. So, this year Mrs. Abrnagaby decided that all the seniors could work on it together. Because more heads were better than one!

Obviously she didn’t remember what being part of a group project felt like. And she obviously didn't account for the fact that no one would care.

They weren’t even told what the award was since it varied year to year and was meant to be a surprise.

All they were told was that they had to design a new air filtration system.

So, being seniors who had survived ghost attacks, invasions, their town being pulled into another dimension, dealing with the GIW, and making it through adjusting to Amity shifting to the stranger side as everyone's liminality began to show, they did not try.

Which was how they ended up with this masterpiece.

The challenge was to design a new air filtrator. Which if they had wanted to, would have been easy since air filters that would reduce the amount of ectoplasm in the air had been designed before the residents realized it was too late to do any good, and so they had never been made.

They didn’t even submit a design; it was a paper mache volcano covered in everyone’s failed tests. The accompanying research paper they were supposed to submit had Dash’s and Paulina’s self-insert fanfics with– you guessed it– phantom as the love interest. Danny had tried to make them remove it since it was awkward now that they knew who he was, but they had claimed they wrote it before they knew. Danny knew this was a lie because they were lying liars who lied. 

The paper also included one of Sam’s activist papers, Wes’s conspiracies about Bruce Wayne being Batman’s sugar daddy (now that everyone knew Danny was Phantom Wes didn’t feel the need to include that research (he also believed that Batman was Bruce Wayne but didn’t want to antagonize the furry who could ruin his life)). 

Tucker had included evidence of a Pentagon hack he had done a few years ago, Mikey had drawn some incredible fanart about Green Lantern (he said this would have the greatest effect on Gothamites and Wes agreed saying Batman didn’t like Green Lantern. How he knew this, no one asked.).

And lastly, they attached a file of them doing the Harlem Shake.

Mrs. Abernagaby hadn’t even looked at it before sending it off.

And then of course they had won. And what a grand prize it was! They won a trip to Gotham to explore the various big businesses, as well as a chance to apply at those locations for internships. Yeah… Sam had found out all the other schools had dropped out after finding out the prize. No one wanted to go to Gotham. But the school said it was a learning opportunity! To see what it was like outside Amity! To see what normal was supposed to be like!

So, they were forced to go, but at least they got Mr. Lancer as their supervisor and they wouldn’t even have to take a long bus ride because Amity was friends with Gotham. Apparently there weren’t very many Living Cities and the two liked to talk. They also thought it would be hilarious if the Amity Parkers went to Gotham. So, Amity had temporarily turned the road that left the city into a portal that led to Gotham’s border, and at the end of the week Gotham would return them.

And that was how he had ended up here. In the back of a smelly van with a smelly bag over his head surrounded by smelly men probably heading to a smelly, sketchy location. All because these men were stupid and thought he was some Wayne kid.

Sure, he could have gotten out. But this was honestly more interesting than touring another boring building and having to almost get mugged again.

..........

AN-I plan to continue this but it probably won’t be until after October because I want to focus on completing the challenges I'm participating in.

#whumptober 2023 #whumptober #no.9 #mistaken identity #danny phantom #danny phantom fanfiction #batman #dp x dc #dp x dc fanfic #humor #no angst #I know this was supposed to be whumptober #but the story disagreed #what was I supposed to do #aren't we supposed to support our children's decision #I was being a supportive story writer

[animit-y]

✨women✨

#Animity #I was literally drawing cookie run characters #and then accidentally drew a pose that just SCREAMED Makis name #what was I supposed to do #jjk #jujustu kaisen #jujustu kaisen fanart #jjk fanart #maki zenin #jjk maki #maki zenin fanart #fanart #digital art #digital artist #art

[bleh1bleh2]

Guess who just went out to dinner and got a VOLTRON (!!!!!) ipa

#it was something like '4 hands voltron' or whatever #i was going to get something else. but it was voltron!!!!! #what was i supposed to do #not get the voltron drink??? #in my prime voltron era???

[mrcspectr]

i have a crush so obv my life is over. if you even care.

#THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY NORMAL ERA #uuuuugh they showed up to trans support group in corduroy pants and SUSPENDERS #WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO

[liyazaki]

how I’m having to GIF right now (one-handed):

#only friends #only friends the series #he politely tapped my leg w/ a paw & cried to be held #like #what was i supposed to do #just normal cradling my needy cat like an infant things #aaron purr #mor rambles

[luna-lovegreat]

Wait…

Hang on a minute-

Wtf?????

I’m so confused right now

Was I not supposed to have already gotten the sword and mineru???

I feel like the wording implies I should have done that stuff AFTER doing the fakey Zelda shit but like???? Was I supposed to just NOT explore the giant thunderstorm?????

WHAT IS THE PROPER ORDER OF THIS GAME EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE

#what #I just #what even #WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO #so confused rn #loz #zelda #link #legend of zelda #Totk #loz totk #Totk spoilers #???????

[hello-god-its-me-sara]

hey siri

play mirrorball by taylor swift

🎵Hush When no one is around, my dear You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love🎶

#i'm sorry #i couldn't help myself #it just gave mirrorball what was i supposed to do #what was i supposed to do #mirrorball #cillian murphy #he's so taylor swift coded sometimes it's not my fault #taylor swift

[qqueenofhades]

YOU FIX THAT KASTLE FICLET YOU JUST WROTE. COME BACK HERE RIGHT NOW. HOW DARE. I AM FRAGILE!!!

FUNNILY ENOUGH I WAS LITERALLY JUST OPENING TUMBLR LIKE "I WONDER IF MADS HAS SEEN THAT KASTLE PROMPT FILL YET. HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH."

SO IN OTHER WORDS, THIS PLEASES ME GREATLY.

#letmetellyouaboutmyfeels #ask #look the anon asked for messy #what was i supposed to do #this is not my fault #i am innocent #etc

[resterberg]

gilmore girls fans WAKE UP! theyre QUEER!!

#not 100% happy with either of these but theyre both driving me insane so im posting them so i’ll stop making tiny adjustments #we’ll see how long i actually keep this post up #also i know thats not the best dean pic but hes wearing a COWBOY HAT! #what was i supposed to do #draw him NOT in a cowboy hat? ridiculous #anyways #gilmore girls #jess mariano #dean forester #dean x jess #jess x dean #idk they dont have a shipname. i vote jeanss tho #art #fanart #shoutout to the notes app all my homies love the notes app #tonky draws

[gorgeousgreymatter-x]

Not me saying you too! to the super hot bud tender girl at my dispensary who wished me an early happy birthday RIP

#listen she was wearing a crop top and had a gap in her front teeth #what was i supposed to do

[capn-o-my-soul]

fuck off common app word counter

#they said i could write about something that interests me #what was i supposed to do #not write an analysis of shostakovich's leningrad symphony??

[theco0ler-red]

look look look look look- okay i know im not Exactly the most level headed of guys but surely, surely just some minor assault to someone who deserves it isnt that bad of a thing

#anyways #guess whos sitting in the holding cell of the police station my brother works at #“battery and assault charges” my ass #he was stealing from an actual grandma #what was i supposed to do #only in gotham #gothamite

[weed666]

i’m not supposed to give him visible hickeys… um whoopsies ^.^

#in my defense it was begging for it :/ #what was i supposed to do #it was right on the spot it cut itself shaving it tasted like blood i was insatiable #🧃 #🧃pic #people

[minnesotamedic186]

Catnap in a bucket.

Dear god/ref

#The latter half of my username is after the TF2 class #what was i supposed to do #omniversal ramblings #blight smile