#(and how they’re dealing with it)

[multiversal-pudding]

A fun Danny Phantom idea:

One of those “mediums tormented by the fact they can’t turn Off the ability to see ghosts” types moves to Amity, and for the most part, it’s great! Like yeah maybe there’s still ghosts everywhere, but now they can react normally, because finally for once in their life everyone else sees the ghosts too. Granted, judging from what everyone else says it sounds like they’re seeing significantly tamer humanoid proper-manifestations than the near-incomprehensible masses of emotion, spectral energy, and whatever that particular spirit’s associated with they’re used to seeing, but eh- between how jaded they are to seeing stuff like that after all these years and the fact that in practice the response of “GTFO” tends to be applicable regardless of whether you’re dealing with a poltergheist in overalls who likes hucking boxes at people, a giant robot guy who’s yelling about world domination, or reality breaking fever dream vomit, it’s not too big a deal

…There’s just ooooone little problem

Which is that when people look at the Fenton’s youngest kid and when people see local town hero/cryptid The Phantom, clearly everyone ELSE is seeing two different people/entities, but in their case, all they see is the same wild plasma-lightning living tear in reality either way, and they’re afraid if they mix the two “identities” up they’re either A) gonna fuck up some poor kid’s life/put him and those around him in danger, B) piss off a very powerful spirit whose repeatedly proven why that’s a very bad idea, or C) both-

(Bonus points if it’s some completely mundane guy like Ted the Bus Driver/ the county deputy in training/ some poor janitor who’d be reasonably expected to come in contact with either one fairly frequently-)

[enidtendo64]

Amphibia Falls AU where Dipper and Mabel accidentally send Pacifica through the multiverse into Amphibia, and somehow tear a fabric for Calamity trio to get sucked into, but they all end up getting separated and Anne and Pacifica have to work together to get the gang back together

Meanwhile the Planters take a trip to Oregon—

[quartzite49]

scrolling through the epithet erased tag in ao3 has me feeling like i'm in enemy territory why does everyone hate lorelai. i GET that shes a bitch and she's the antagonist of prison of plastic but OHHHH MY GOD. truly, fandom LOOOVVVESSS complex characters until they're women. people are like 'giovanni HATES lorelai' DID WE READ THE SAME BOOK? HE LITERALLY GAVE HER HIS PHONE NUMBER. HE TRUSTS THAT SHE CAN GET BETTER AND LIKELY IN THE FUTURE WILL LET HER RECONNECT WITH MOLLY. HER BEHAVIOR IS A RESULT OF HER SITUATION I AM GOING TO STRANGLE YOU.

[morganbritton132]

Hopper gets saddled with their new recruit - a dumbass kid fresh from the academy. Callahan is nineteen, armed, and Hopper is not thrilled to be the one showing him the ropes.

So, he knocks Callahan’s hand off where it’s resting on his gun and tells him that this is a small town. You’ll likely never pull your gun. Crime is minimal. People are generally nice. It’s boring.

Immediately after he says this, here comes Eddie ‘currently being chased by bees’ Munson.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 136

 There is a small child floating in the Watchtower. 

They’re visibly not human, a too-big cloak of purple (what shade no one knows, all they can describe about the cloak is purple, nothing else) hanging from them as big Lazarus-green eyes glare down in something of a pout. The child huffs, blowing white hair out of their face despite it shimmering and shifting on its own already. 

How the child, inhuman or not, found their way into the Watchtower- without setting off an alarm no less- is a concern. A very large concern, but it can wait because there is a four-year old (if the child is the equivalent of a human child that is) at oldest staring down at them. 

 “Do you know where the speedsters are?” the child piped up after an awkward stare-down, none of the league members present quite sure what to do in this situation. It was probably around time to call Batman… or they could call Flash instead. 

[hamletthedane]

Shakespeare: I will create two teenage characters who are explicitly proto-postmodern examinations of the nature of character and fate within fictional narrative. I am their creator and - like their parents within the narrative - I exercise complete control over their fates, no matter how much they struggle against it. They are born like Athena from my mind and doomed to die by my pen, by my complicity in the narrative negligence of them, by my own actions and wishes-

Actor: cool, what's their names?

Shakespeare, father of twins named Judith and Hamnet: uhh…. Juliet and Hamlet.

[viktorarcanedeservesbetter]

tbh I don’t think therapy would have fixed Jayce and Viktor lmao. maybe would have softened their self-destructive tendencies but there’s no fixing that co-dependent relationship. Heimerdinger Mel and Sky are told “yeah, I can help treat their individual depressions but nothing is gonna reduce their co-dependency. I’m pretty sure separating them makes it a lot worse for not only them but much worse for everyone else. for everyone’s safety I suggest they’re not allowed to be more than a buildings length away from each other and even that is pushing it.” That therapist then quits on the spot cause now they’ve literally seen everything.

It’s like that scene in Brooklyn nine nine where all the physiatrists are observing and talking with Gina but instead it’s a whole crew of therapists and neurologists and physiologists trying to find out how these two men literally mind-melded together. They go to couples therapy but it’s literally just individual therapy held together because why tf not it’s the only way to get them to go.

[ultravioletbrit]

“close” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 558 words

“feast” - 25 Days of Jegumas - Day 14 - @noblehouseofgay

Regulus is standing in the doorway to the kitchen staring at James. He’s frozen and couldn’t move even if he wanted to. He keeps looking back and forth between the table and James, who’s standing in the middle of the kitchen looking more and more anxious by the second.

Regulus wants to say something, but he has no idea what to say and he’s so close to tears that if he opens his mouth, all that would come out would be an embarrassing sob. He’s already standing here like a frozen idiot; he doesn’t want to end up a blubbering mess on the floor also.  

“I… erm… sorry if this is weird… I didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable… you don’t have to stay… I just thought… erm… I’m not sure… maybe I wasn’t really thinking… this is too much, right?… I knew it… I didn’t mean… you can just…”

“Why?” Is all Regulus can get out to cut off James’ rambling spiral.

James stops abruptly and looks over at Regulus and they both shift their eyes to the table. There’s a nicer table cloth, two candles, and a small dinner—a chicken dish, rice, naan and hummus—that looks delicious, but was clearly not made by Effie.

“Erm… well, mom and dad went out tonight… and erm… Sirius went over to Remus’… so it’s just you and me for dinner.” He shrugs. “Erm… mom gave me some money for takeaway… but, I don’t know… I just thought this might be nice… but I know it’s too much.” James walks over to the table and reaches for one of the plates. “I’ll just take—”

“Stop!” Regulus shouts, a little too loudly. James startles and almost drops a plate, but Regulus’ feet seem to be working again and he’s in front of James in an instant. Regulus puts his hands on tops of James’, steadying the plate. “What is this?” Regulus says and he still sounds like he might cry. “Did you make this?”

James shrugs again. “I mean, it’s not a feast or anything. I can really only make the one thing. But I thought it might be nice. But if it’s too much or too weird or too soon, I can take it all away and order a pizza or—” James is saying all in one breath.

Regulus pushes up on his toes to cut him off with a kiss. “Don’t you dare take this away.” Regulus whispers when they break the kiss and tightens his grip on the plate so James can’t take it. “No one’s ever made me dinner before.” He can feel his bottom lip start to quiver and James gives him a curious look. “I mean, other than your mom, but those are family dinners. No one’s ever made me dinner. Just me.” And his voice final cracks and he makes an embarrassing whimper to protest when James takes the plate.

James chuckles fondly under his breath as he puts the plate on the table and takes Regulus into his arms. He lifts one hand to his cheek to brush away the tear that’s fallen.

“Well, I kind of, sort of like you.” James whispers as he wraps his arms around Regulus’ waist.

Regulus chuckles softly, “I kind of, sort of like you, too.” And he wraps his arms around James’ neck and pushes to his toes for another kiss.

[dangerous-fighter-fairy]

I feel like people who pity aros/aces for “missing out” are like cripplingly immature and childish. Not only because some of us do experience those attractions in some ways or do have those experiences regardless of our lack of attraction, but also because that’s just immature as hell

“But it’s one of the greatest things you can ever feel” you have the emotional maturity and empathetic skills of a two year old. The “greatest thing ever” varies widely between people. I’m not someone who’s allergic to a food but yearns for the taste of it, it’s more like not needing coffee to wake up. I just don’t need it. I’ve tried it and it’s not very good and I, again, just don’t need it. I lead a pretty typical life. You need to go outside more

Also the implication that you’re only happy in a relationship is kinda not great for your mental and emotional health as a person

[zuppizup]

If Rayla is riding on a giant cuddle monkey and they actually grow bloody massive, I will not be disappointed

[the-devil-fruit-tree]

“I do this for you, and you never ask me to engage with this frivolous television technology ever again.”

It was such a small deal that was never brought up again, but Alastor doesn’t make deals he doesn’t come out on top with. This seemingly harmless deal could prevent Vaggie from asking Alastor to help them against Vox.

Of course, that would then beg the question why Alastor wouldn’t want to actively fight Vox and if it has anything to do with their best friend photo that was ripped in half.

[livwritesstuff]

Steve returned from the grocery store the Saturday before Halloween expecting to be met with the naturally kind of bedlam his three daughters and Eddie carving pumpkins all together.

He expects yelling and arguing and all kinds of mess (last year Steve found pumpkin "entrails", as Eddie calls them, on the ceiling somehow). On the contrary, the house is quiet when Steve walks into the house, and in the kitchen, where the pumpkin carving was supposed to be taking place, he only finds Eddie, laser-focused on his own pumpkin amidst an otherwise vacant table.

“So how’s pumpkin carving with the kids going?” Steve asked pointedly.

“Yes, yes, I love spending quality time with our children,” Eddie replies without looking up.

“Where’d they go?”

“Well, Moe didn’t like dealing with the pumpkin guts, which, whatever, that’s fine. I said I’d de-gut her pumpkin for her, so she left, and then I lost the other two when their arms got tired.”

(He puts air quotes around that last part).

“Lo and behold, here I am carving pumpkins all by my lonesome.”

Steve looks at the table to see three gutless pumpkins sitting where their daughters had once been.

“Hmm.”

He heads off in search of the hellraisers and finds them all piled in on the couch watching cartoons.

“Uh, hello,” he said, switching the TV off and ignoring their groans of protest, “Did we get lost or something? Dad’s carving pumpkins all by himself. Not very Halloween-spirit of you guys.”

“The pumpkin seeds part is so gross,” Moe says, nose wrinkled.

“Yeah, nice try. Dad took care of it for you. He took care of that for all of you, and so you’re gonna go downstairs and carve pumpkins with him because he’s really good to the three of you and he loves getting to do this Halloween stuff with you guys.” 

Steve can tell that they’ve all been convinced even if they’re pretending not to be (and Hazel would probably be downstairs already if she wasn’t following her big sisters’ leads), but maybe just need one last pre-teen push.

“Whoever’s downstairs first gets first-round pick in the candy draft.”

The girls glance at each other for a moment before all at once they’re all scrambling for the kitchen.

[a-stars-art-blog]

Barok and the Shitty Ass Anniversary

Y’all’s fault

Here’s the last panel without the words bc I’m pretty proud of it

[lostsyren]

The way he bridges the distance as soon as he picks up she’s feeling worried, following her eyes when she looks away.

He tries to make her feel better.

You’d think he’d be angry. Maybe skeptical. Or aggravated. He’d just revealed his big plan– shouldn’t she be happy? Excited? Why is she not impressed?

But no. He reaches out to her. He holds her. He includes her.

“We’re gonna make…both of us…this is our future…”

And even though he’s the one consoling her in the scene, she finds a way to make him feel better. She’s rubbing his back, almost preemptively assuaging him for her betrayal.

They’re both inadvertently trying to make up for their mistakes in this relationship.

Rafe cast her out. He othered her as a pogue, a hookup, a girl unable to meet his standards. And here he is fixing that by showing her he’s serious about them.

Sofia sold him out. She stabbed him in the back, and hurt his trust. And here she is stroking his back trying to comfort him while he thinks he’s comforting her.

It’s all so devastating. Sofia knows she can stop it before it all goes to shit. But she’s passive, arrested in the moment. Rafe is unaware. He’s trying to fix it but he doesn’t know the problem. He’s dynamic but detached from the reality of the situation

They’re both ruined by their character flaws– Sofia hindered by her passivity and inability to react. And Rafe hindered by his egotism and inability to see past his own worldview.

Maybe if Sofia fessed up now, she could’ve stopped Rafe from signing on with Groff and stymied their demise. Maybe if Rafe truly saw why she was upset, he could’ve seen past the shiny prospect of a future he envisioned, never bothering once to include Sofia in that ideation, and gotten to the crux of their issues.

But no. Instead Sofia opts to just rub his back, wordlessly signalling her guilt– rooted in stagnation. And Rafe just resumes with his plan, ignoring her qualms– drunk on his own concocted vision.

[deeneedsaname]

Mabel in s3 like ‘my old men best friends are distracted by trying to put on a broadway play in approximately two weeks. They clearly hate me and want to abandon me, I am all alone in this world my besties hate me I was never important to them and-’

Charles and Oliver: sweetheart we have been gone for Five Minutes

[nite-puff]

“mondo isn’t fit to be an ultimate. he’s too childish and doesn’t deserve the respect and credit he’s given.” YOU LITERALLY FELL FOR MONDO’S TRAP

the whole bit is that mondo does deserve his place as the gang’s leader. he does deserve that notoriety. he does deserve taka’s respect. because he’s good at what he does. he worked his ass off to get to that level. he literally started at the very bottom of the gang but climbed the ranks to the point that he was considered to be the leader’s equal. all in a very short span of time. that’s impressive as fuck.

daiya didn’t need to choose mondo to be his successor. but he did. because he recognized that mondo more than deserved it. and he was right. mondo went on to make the gang what it was, to the point that it became the largest in the country and mondo himself became the de facto leader of every other biker gang. he really was that popular in that culture.

the one person who thinks mondo doesn’t deserve any of that is mondo himself. and that’s brought to the forefront because junko knew that preying on that insecurity would get her the reaction out of him that she wanted. why do you think she worded his secret that way when mondo didn’t actually kill daiya?

mondo is a good, hardworking person. he just doesn’t think he is because (get this) he hates himself. people from his past made him believe he was worthless. so now he doesn’t listen to the people that tell him he’s worthy.

but at the end of the day. daiya wasn’t the ultimate biker gang leader. mondo was.