#breaking protocol

[ocean-prose]

Breaking Protocol

Maxiel physiotherapy!au

37,055 words (currently)

Daniel was perfectly content, living the dream as a Peloton instructor with an impressive following and influence. Single, successful, satisfied.

At least, that's what he thought, until a drunken mishap landed him in the hospital with a fractured femur and under the care of a handsome physio and his quirky therapy team.

Surely this will just lead to nothing...right?

Chapters will be posted as they're written <3

[mangozic]

the wettest of cats

[momokarp]

A year old WIP finally completed 😔🎉

[james-spooky]

not even the magnus protocol is safe from youtuber drama 😭🙏

[deaderthandoubledead]

SAM!!! SAM NO!!!! SAM DON'T GO INTO THE RUINS OF THE INSTITUTE!!!! SAM!!! DO YOU NOT REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO RED CANARY??!! SAM DO YOU NOT REMEMBER???!!

[somuchbetterthanthat]

It's the way Sam suggested Alice first, when considering someone he might know in any universe; it's the way he helped Alice when her parents died (was it before, or after they broke up?); it's the way Alice was here at the hospital after he got appendicitis (was it before, or after they broke up??); it's the way Alice offered him a job when he lost his and fell into depression; it's the way Sam didn't know about Luke's new band; it's the way she said "it's not too hard, working with an ex?" while he said "we go way back, we knew each other from uni."; it's the way they have fundamentally never healed something between them, and he was trying to have "a new beginning" but she was holding on to them being "old friends" and hoping for a reunion; it's the way he knew she still has a soft spot for him and he used shamelessly, but backpedaled hard and tried to distance himself when he realized she still had feelings; it's the way she was trying to keep pushing herself into his romantic life, even knowing he was going for someone else and then denying it badly; it's the way she went behind his back trying to "protect him from himself" and he got furious telling her she'd been controlling before; it's the way they've hurt each other and yet they're still in each other's orbit;

it's the way she ignored everybody else in her life because Sam was in danger; it's the way, again, the first person he suggested might know him, even in this universe, was Alice Dyer, and after a few hours with him Melanie was willing to believe she was his "better half".

It's the way they were married, in this universe, and shared a dream and a nightmare and a body in that nightmare, the way it hurt and yet they clung to each other;

it's the way Alice begs "don't go" and Sam says "I'm sorry, but it'd be a bad idea to stay" and then, then, because of circumstances, he turns around and back to the house again after all.

[omgkatsudonplease]

pope leo: the family is founded upon a stable union between a man and a woman

also pope leo:

[sarybomb]

🩵🩷

[the-kestrels-feather]

Alice reminds me of Tim and I cannot put into words how much that worries me

[superbat-lmao]

Damian becoming the Leslie of the Justice League.

Obviously he becomes and stays a civilian doctor, but he also becomes one of the go-to doctors if one needs to be summoned to the Watchtower.

He is already trusted by most of the superhero community, and while you’re not supposed to operate on family, beggars can’t be choosers.

It also means that he eventually teaches field medicine to new League members or trains other hired League doctors on protocols for supers.

I agree with him getting out of the vigilante scene and becoming a civilian, but the League works with civilians. And it would give him an excuse to have easy access to his family members medical files and treatment plans.

[the-balloon-shed]

look, people can have whatever headcanons they want (this whole blog is devoted to my own brainrot over icemav because I needed an outlet, I love all the different stuff out there and wanted to contribute) but I do have a hard time picturing Ice being the world's most upstanding student with his pencils sharpened and teacher's pet vibe that I sometimes see attributed to him. I get that he's ice cold, no mistakes, but that has to do wit his flying. I think when it comes to flying, yeah, he fucking knows everything about that plane, about how it flies, about what he needs to do. He's devoted to the act of flying, of being a naval aviator, of being the best pilot there is.

On the ground though? Yeah, he'll do everything textbook -- so long as it keeps him flying. But a guy who is willing to cause a class laughter by coughing "bullshit" into his fist as another student explains his process to their instructor is not a guy who is concerned with being a teacher's pet. I've seen it around here, so I'm not the first to note this, but honestly Ice looks bored in the classes. Hell he spends half his class staring at Maverick. The difference between Ice and Maverick is that Ice does care enough to know the rules and can be compliant when it suits his goals. Maverick will blatantly disregard rules he doesn't agree with and doesn't know when to keep a lid on his own perspective.

(Side note - People who climb the military ladder, I imagine as I do not personally know, don't do so merely by keeping their head down -- Ice has to take risks and challenges that get him noticed, which sometimes means pissing off people, with which how often he's a brat to Maverick he is clearly capable of doing. I think the difference between Ice and Maverick is that Ice knows how to play the game and knows when is the right time to piss off people and knows how to do it within the regulations and best tactics. Maverick -- Maverick can't keep an opinion to himself, and does things he feels are the right thing to do, regardless of the consequences. )

Also going based off of other knowledge I've seen on tumblr explaining what the Academy is which Ice apparently went to, it's (allegedly) a pretty prestigious school that's hard to get into. Which makes me think, personally, that Ice had exceptional grades for a long time, and probably even did advanced physics and aerodynamics already. These classes might be even easy for him, or at least nothing new. He pays attention as much as he needs to, but for the most part, he's already got it. (I personally like to headcanon that he would regularly get best scores on exams while at the Academy, or maybe even had a friendly competition with Cougar as to who would be the best academically, and maybe even helped tutor other students -- which would be a decent precursor to him being a teacher at TOPGUN)

Which I think is why Ice finds Maverick so compelling. Maverick gets all this, seems to be a damn good visualizer, and he didn't go to the academy. Ice worked his ass off, but Maverick had to overcome genuine barriers due to his family history, and did so while doing absolutely off the wall shit that Ice would have never even considered. The thing that draws Ice to Maverick? Maverick is the farthest thing from boring. Even if he is lying about flying upside down -- which despite Ice saying "bullshit" I think at least part of that is just reactive disbelief because holy shit, what if he actually did? -- it's still entertaining. Breaks up from the monotony. Catches his attention.

And then when he watches Maverick fly and realizes, jesus christ, he probably did fly his plane upside down. He flew his plane upside down and taunted the shit out of the enemy. And because this is the 80s, and toxic masculinity, instead Ice channels that feeling of kind of awe into antagonism because how else is he going to do it. So he asks Maverick, "who was covering Cougar while you were showboating?"

And the thing is that Maverick takes it in stride. He listens pretty politely. honestly, I think he notices the fact that Ice -- Goose's proclaimed "best" -- is paying attention to him. Even if it is by being an asshole, it doesn't stop the fact that Ice doesn't do that to anyone else. He keeps to his lane. They're teammates, they're all on the same side, but other than Slider it doesn't seem like Ice takes much of a personal interest in anyone. But he does in Maverick.

It's the fascination that makes the Icemav for me. The intrigue. Maverick asking Goose who he thinks is the best, and Goose points out Iceman, and Iceman backs it up because he flies textbook perfectly. Iceman having heard about Maverick, acknowledging that Mav and Goose were notorious, and discovering why and being compelled by it. The rivalry between the two that comes from really, being two sides of the same coin. They both want to fly, badly. They both want to be the best. They both have very different understandings and beliefs of how one becomes that, and even what the best means. They both recognize that the other is a threat to their own goal. And once the competition is over -- well. Damn. Who else do they want on their wing than this person who has earned their respect, impressed them, who they've come to understand, and with whom went through so much together?

(And if there's a hell of a lot of sexual tension and confusing romantic feelings along the way, well -- that's just even more fun)

[ocean-prose]

surprise, Chapter Six is here!

5,739 words

[hell0jon]

“Colin Becher error: resolved”

“jmj error: not resolved”

Is Colin’s resolved because he can no longer destroy FR3-D1 (physically anyway)

But my boys are trying to destroy FR3-D1 from the inside and therefore they are the “error” that isn’t resolved?

[vieramars]

For my recent comic coloring and lettering class I adapted a (slightly abridged) scene from tmagp 21. It's not perfect and the font certainly needs work but I figured I should stop procrastinating posting it. So.

please click for better quality, and hopefully tumblr didn't crunch it to the point of illegibility

This took about 3 weeks total of work over the course of 8 weeks on top of way too many other assignments 🫠 I love art school

[koldefingre]

I am so sorry about this (I think I’m funny ok, also something tells me Jon is attractive in the young David thewlis kinda way)

[witchinatree]

jon can't ever know the world didn't blame him for the eyepocalypse he can't ever forgive himself my organs are shutting down