#committed to the bit yet

[ongreenergrasses]

for fluff prompts, i would love to read annie and finnick in d13. or their first kiss. or them interacting in passing before annie's games. i realize all of these you can turn into angst but still

i’ve written about them in 13 here and here (although they are decidedly NOT fluffy fics lmao) and first kiss here so I did the third option…i hope you enjoy! there’s OCs from my fic Serafina in this, all you need to know is that they’re Annie’s friends.

Annie pulled her sweater a little tighter around herself. The wind had picked up as the sun had started to set, and the way it whipped against her bare, still damp legs made her shiver.

“Joumana!” she shouted, craning her neck down the beach. “Hurry up!”

Delfin elbowed her. “She’s still licking her wounds,” she said under her breath as Joumana came running up to them, something clenched tight in her fist. “Don’t push her.”

“She doesn’t have any wounds,” Annie grumbled. “He didn’t even know she existed, it’s -”

“You’re being mean, Annie.”

Annie clamped her mouth shut.

“I don’t know what to do,” Joumana was panting out as she skidded to a stop in front of them. “I just - it blew down the beach, and I didn’t -”

“What is that?” Delfin asked as Annie snatched the fabric from her.

“It’s Finnick’s shirt,” Joumana said. She sounded like she was near tears.

Annie and Delfin stared at her.

“You just…took it?” Delfin asked. She was clearly trying not to laugh. Annie stepped on her foot.

“I didn’t know what to do,” Joumana said again. “Should I -”

“You have to give it back,” Annie said.

“I can’t,” Joumana hissed.

“Well, you have to.”

“He’s coming,” Delfin said. “Joumana, this looks really weird.”

“I can’t talk to him.”

“He doesn’t even know who you are,” Annie said, exasperated, and winced as Delfin elbowed her again, hard.

Joumana glared at her. “I can’t,” she said again. Her lip was wobbling.

“Annie, go,” Delfin said under her breath.

“But I didn’t -”

“Do you think she wants him to see her cry? Go!”

“But then he’ll think I -”

Delfin shoved her, hard. Annie stumbled down the slope of the beach, almost fell, and when she turned around, she saw Delfin and Joumana disappearing up over the crest of the hill.

Annie squared her shoulders and marched the rest of the way down the beach. “I didn’t take your shirt,” she said as soon as Finnick was in earshot. “It was my friend, she -”

“Joumana,” he said. “I know.”

“She freaked out. You’re probably used to that now, though.”

Finnick shrugged. “Not really.”

Annie looked him up and down.

She’d never really seen Finnick before. She’d seen him on television, obviously, but not in person. He’d been living with Mags even before he became a victor, not in town, and she didn’t think he’d been going to school before, either.

He was a little shorter than her.

“Here,” she said, and held the shirt out to him. “Sorry.”

Finnick shrugged. He pulled his shirt back on, and it mussed up his hair enough that it was sticking up at the back of his head.

“You’ve got -” Annie said, motioning to the side of her hair. “Your hair’s sticking up.”

Finnick scrubbed a hand through his hair. It made it stick up more, and Annie bit back a smile.

She heard a shout from behind them and turned to see Delfin waving at her. “I should probably go,” she said, “it’s -”

“Can you tell Joumana I’m sorry?”

Annie stared at him.

“It’s - a lot’s changed. And it’s better if I -“

“Sure,” Annie said, cutting him off. “I’ll tell her.”

Finnick nodded.

He’d seemed different on television. It made sense, they learned how to present themselves in training, and he’d clearly relied on that, but now, he seemed…

He was shorter than her, but it wasn’t just that. His shoulders were caving in a little bit. It was like he was making himself smaller.

Annie realized, suddenly, that he was alone. Nobody had come up the beach after him.

“Hey,” she said. “If you and Joumana figure out - whatever it is, you could hang out with us sometime. If you want.”

Their eyes met. Annie thought, abruptly, that he had nice eyes.

“It’s okay,” Finnick said. Another gust of wind came in, blowing off the sea, and they both shivered. “But I appreciate it.”

Annie nodded.

“Annie!” she heard Joumana shout. “Come on!”

“Thanks for giving my shirt back,” Finnick said.

“Obviously,” Annie said. “We’re not creeps. If you want to hang out, let me know.”

“Okay,” he said softly. “Bye.”

“Bye,” Annie said, and turned and ran back up the beach.

[cj-the-random-artist]

I let them get friendship married so Narinder can get his tax benefits lol

But legitimately. I mulled this one over repeatedly for literal months. Like. Do I want them to get married in front of the cult? Should they even get married? It would be hilarious if the Goat married them and then cried at the altar the whole time, but also... that doesn't feel right, so maybe I won't do that. And then once I decided it should be a personal friendship-marriage ritual where it's just the pair of them making vows to each other, I wrote four different scripts and hated them all and ended up just pulling this one out of thin air pretty much on the spot and that was that. At one point, I wanted Lambert to basically suggest this idea and then have them get friend-married on the spot, but that didn't feel right (and it was also gonna be unreasonably long) so that's why there's no context going into this one. And the actual friend-marriage ritual is... maybe not the best designed one ever? I wanted it to in some ways be similar to like, the way I imagine a romantic marriage happening in the cult- the parties exchange vows and do rings and stuff...? (If it's not obvious, I haven't been to many weddings...) But I figured they wouldn't want an audience, or to party with the whole cult afterwards, or anything like that. I also had them kiss each other's rings as opposed to like... faces... because one of the fights I had with myself in deciding how I would want this to go was whether it would make sense for them to kiss or not. And I ultimately decided that in this AU at least they just wouldn't want to. They're also wearing the rings on their not ring fingers cuz. Honestly it just felt right that way. Based on vibes. But basically I just wanted them to exchange a vow of eternal partnership in a very casual, chill setting, because I don't picture QPR AU Narilamb doing... anything other than that.

Also this is the rest of Lambert's office, which I actually had a pretty clear vision for after my last doodle but I didn't really bother to draw before starting this comic. Maybe I should've but eh it looks good enough. Interior backgrounds are hard......

Anyways. I think I'm happy with this one? I was enamored by the concept of a chill friendship marriage, so I definitely leaned into it here. As per usual, it's not perfect, I think I could've done a lot of stuff better / differently, but honestly?? If I were to ever get friend-married I would want it to go about like this, it makes my little aroace heart happy, and I spent too long on it to not show it to anybody. Thus. Enjoy, and also happy new year cuz I totally forgot to make a post individually about that...

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books: to go up the chain. that goes against everything we've seen him do. he bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer. there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"

[footageforfriends]

frank langdon get behind me!!!!! trinity santos get behind me!!!!! .............. will you please stop fighting back there

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 259

You know, going back in time, they thought it would be easy. Stop the end of the world by preventing the Being from well, coming into being. It should be easy to take them out, one death to prevent an untold amount of them. What could a child do?

Well. 

They really should have remembered that with a child usually comes their parent as well. And erm, said parent doesn’t seem to appreciate their logic. In fact, they are… getting their ass kicked. By a civilian. A feral civilian who apparently is very protective of said child-who-ends-up-destroying-the-world. 

They might need assistance…

[shesmore-shoebill]

the head cradle.......

[pianokantzart]

Luigi, please, we all know you are very capable but there is a time and a place.

[rin-hanarin]

More Lucanis and Crow!Rook shitpost because I saw a post about Lucanis and his twenty daggers and became obsessed. What if Rook is a Crow too? What then. FOURTY daggers?

Also I don't think Lucanis cares about killing someone outside of the job, but he's really close with this guy here.

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

Yet another story idea I probably won't write into an actual fic:

During one of those weird periods where Sinestro is a Green Lantern again, he's working with Hal when they're suddenly ambushed. Sinestro pushes Hal out of the way of an attack but in doing so takes a nasty hit to the head. He's knocked out and remains unconscious while Hal finishes the fight.

When he wakes up, Sinestro has lost over a decade of his memory. He believes that he's still the Green Lantern of Sector 1417, that his misdeeds are still a secret. He thinks that Hal is still the inexperienced rookie under his tutelage.

Hal goes along with it at first, not sure if this is one of Sinestro's more convoluted plots but confident that he can handle things if it is. But the more he interacts with his amnesiac archnemesis, the more he's reminded of the old Sin, the stern yet caring teacher that Hal thought only existed in his memories. He finds himself unconsciously retracing the steps of a friendship uncomplicated by the years of fighting and resentment.

But even as Sin shows no signs of regaining his memories, Hal knows this cannot go on. He knows that Sinestro had already established himself as dictator over Korugar by the time he'd been assigned to train Hal. Maybe once he'd been a true Green Lantern, a good man. But that's a person that Hal never knew.

Yet if there's one thing that has remained consistent across the years, it's Sinestro's unswerving, single-minded dedication to his homeworld. It's only a matter of time before he gets anxious enough to check on Korugar. At that point, all hell will break loose. Would it be better to tell him the truth before that? But how would Sinestro take the revelation of what he will do- has done? Would he even believe it?

Hal doesn't know what to do. He can't talk about this with the other Earth Lanterns, because they were all recruited to the Corps after him. They'd only ever known Sinestro as the ultimate traitor. The enemy who'd infected Hal with Parallax and caused the Emerald Twilight. The murderer who'd killed Kyle's mom, among so many others. No, he can't go to them with this.

But who else was there that he could speak to? Ganthet? For all that the old Guardian was wise and cared about the Green Lanterns, Hal didn't think he'd be very understanding in this. Perhaps Stel, who was Sinestro's only other living student? He and Hal were friendly, but they'd rarely ever spoken about their shared mentor.

There is of course, the obvious answer. Very few members of the Corps had been around long enough to remember Sinestro's original tenure. Of those, there was just one other Hal knew who'd been close to Sin. They'd been the best of friends in fact, before one's betrayal had broken the other's heart. That was why Hal hadn't already contacted him. But who else could understand his dilemma?

Hal wills his ring to make the call, and a gruff voice picks up.

"What's up, poozer?"

"Hey, 'Wog. I've got a... situation."

[halfbaked00q]

in love w @cicerfics's "give Bond a government(Q)-assigned therapy dog - I mean obv you are providing the dog with therapy not the other way around-" so I decided to look up some common breeds of bomb dogs in the UK cuz all I know is GSD but I wanted options, and one of the results is a springer spaniel. and yea okay, okay, I can get behind this!

Excellent dog and I love that it's, like. a smaller-ish medium size dog, like smaller than a GSD. like yes the idea of Bond walking w a GSD or malinois or sth along those lines would be in line with the bad boy macho superspy image. But! Imagine him instead walking around with a lil dude like this!!!! lol:

What extra sold me on this is was an excellent example I found in Buster, who was a Royal Air Force Police Arms and Explosives Search Dog & said to have served more tours than any other military dog. Here are pics of him:

What an excellent lil dude.

And also!! Plus !!!! look what ALSO came up when I searched springer spaniel!!! :

Wiltshire Police 'Digi-dogs' trained to sniff out technology

They're trained to sniff out hard drives, USB sticks, and SIM cards, are they? 👀 well well well sounds very topical

Maybe this can be the Tasks that Bond decides to take on w his retired buddy to like, give 'em further enrichment.

Actually wait, no this should be something Q brings up to Bond. Maybe Bond is grumbling like couldn't Q haven't gotten him a more dignified breed like a GSD or malinois or something, and Q is like nonsense, English springer spaniels make excellent sniffer dogs, they've even been trained up to sniff out tech, there was this article on it on the BBC etc. and Bond is like hm,. well if he's gonna be stuck w this Creature then he might as well put 'em to work and see if he can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks - simultaneously giving 'em a new lease on life and also fulfilling some of that Drive to Work need that working dogs, even retired ones have, but in a way where the dog can get more Tasks in everyday life.

(Q did in fact do this on purpose to seed the idea in Bond's head but make him think it was his own idea - so that he would be more receptive to it and also so he would throw himself into this task with his fiendish laser-focused determination).

Anyway lol. Here's how my "Q telling Bond 'I'm so proud of the progress he - I mean the dog - is making'" idea which yes I am In Love With and determined to make Happen, can still win--

[inchidentalmeowmeow]

Charles in vegas gp promo video 😭😭

Also Charles probably:

[idonutlose]

I forgor to post these lil chibi Sins I doodled after watching episode 5 of DR lol

silly spoilers for that under cut

[magistralucis]

what have i done 😂

[mamawasatesttube]

i will preface this with that im aware that it doesn't actually matter gdjgfkh but im still so bewildered by how many different ways people come up with to mix up kon's two names instead of just using them as two names, even though they DO use two separate names for clark. like people are out here going kon el kent, or kon kent, or most egregiously konner kent but i have never once seen kal kent, kal el kent, or... kalark kent? what's up with all that.

[allmightyscroll-swag]

Oop, I realized I never actually posted about this, but!

Anyone remember my separated Donnie au? Code name: Violet skies? Well I'm remaking it! Rewriting it, even !!

Here's Foot Recruit/aka Donnie!

Draxum, quite begrudgingly, ends up raising the four turtles with Splinter: whom saved him when a part of the lab's roof collapsed, while he was holding onto two of the turtles. Splinter brought the both of them to the sewers, and it all happened from there.

The turtles grew up not too different, safe for extra actual training and knowledge of both the hidden city and things mystic; until Leo and Donnie turned 14. Donnie went out one day with Raph, and didn't come back.

Two years after his disappearance, when the series events begin, they find him in the Foot Clan. Now called just Foot Recruit, with no memory of them — and a good 6 years worth of memories of living with the foot clan.

[spookberry]

Did yall know tiktok is trying to pull a lil goncharov rn but their movie is some indy goth horror thing called Zepotha

im not seeing any deep analysis or jawdrop stunning fanart. just a lotta "wow you look like Jane from Zepotha!" In random comment sections