#he has enough problems please

[bluerosefox]

A Little Robin

Has this been thought of before? (If so someone please, please send me it. I wanna read)

Either due to something his parents made to catch ghosts or some kind of new "I'm gonna end Jack but my soon to be step-son needs to be out of the way" plan by Vlad, Danny (as Phantom) gets trapped in a doll, a bird(robin) doll/plushy.

Somehow, someway the doll get sold or sent to Gotham and is picked up by Dick one day while shopping who decides to give the doll to one of his brothers (or Steph cause she was a Robin as well -slides on mutli-shipper shades- I'm not picky) cause it's Dick trying to be funny. (Or he keeps it cause it's a Robin plush)

Danny, whose slowly regaining his powers even in plush form (maybe whatever got him stuck in the plush is wearing off over time, not enough that he can get out though), is trying very hard to get back home (he tired mailing himself once but someone almost caught him moving about, let's go with like Toy Story rules). He doesn't want to get caught in Gotham cause of the bats, when he finds out his 'owner' is part of the batfam he REALLY doesn't want to get caught. Cue many moments of Danny trying to get his way home under the radar.

And... he tries very hard not to crush on his 'owner' too as well...

[desired-misery]

Serennedy Week 2025: Day 04 1998

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It was too easy, slipping into this something-relationship with Leon. Which is why Luis had to ask, had to makes sure Leon knew—

Because why does Luis get to have this? These dates (that Leon finally understands are dates, after a very sheepish conversation that made Luis laugh so long it twinged his back), the time Leon spends at Luis' apartment (Leon doesn't want Luis over at his, says it's not— the word Leon stumbles over and never quite gets out is 'secure' or 'safe', which is both concerning and yet Leon clearly doesn't want to say that but he has strong feelings about it, so Luis lets him have that, as he lets Leon avoid answers to questions that have much to do about much of the work he does), every moment that Luis wants to hoard with his chest— he doesn't deserve it— at the very least, Leon needs to know. He has to know, because Luis is lying to him by not telling him—

But when Luis corners his cowardly heart into admitting what he did, what he's done, Leon looks at him like Luis is speaking in tongues. Luis believes it is shock, thinks that Leon isn't grasping the scope of it, the magnitude—

Until Leon raises an eyebrow— in a similar way he does when he is making a particularly heinously terrible joke that is intended to get a groan instead of a laugh— and says he knows. But he can't. He can't possibly know the extent of it. Luis tries over a dozen times to explain, but Leon is not getting it. He isn't getting it—

Leon is way too patient, way too calm even though he keeps interrupting to say that he knows. And it seems true, nothing Luis has said yet has surprised him, but he has seen Leon, he knows Leon well enough to know that Leon is infuriatingly good at keeping himself non-reactive when he thinks he needs to stay blank and empty and observant. But the emotion that finally bleeds out of Leon is not disgust or horror, it's annoyance. After Luis tries yet again to get Leon to understand—

"I know about it, Luis," Leon says— frowning. "Raccoon City was—"

"They wiped a city of the map! They bombed it! All those people—"

"I know, Luis! I was—" There again Leon stops like something is physically forcing his mouth shut. He takes a ragged breath. "I have security clearance for those files, I've seen it, Luis, I know."

Luis shakes his head. Leon shouldn't be this calm, this accepting. "What happened to Raccoon City was horrible—"

While Leon's expression twisting into a snarl is what Luis had thought he had braced himself against, it still hurts.

But instead of what Leon is supposed to say, he snaps, "What do you want from me, Luis?! To yell at you?"

Luis, stumbling over the lurch in his chest because that is the very least he deserves— he deserves the heat of shame and heavy guilt. "If that's what you want, yes—"

And all the anger fizzles out of Leon, leaving that dullness that Luis used to think was stoicism, when he suddenly realizes is exhaustion. Resigned, helpless exhaustion.

"What good would that do?" Leon asks, way too softly. "It won't change anything."

Luis flinches. It won't. It could never— "I contributed to that, Leon, I was a part of that—"

Leon's mouth twists again. He leans over the counter that Luis had been keeping as a barrier between them as if that could keep his heart from breaking— except Leon isn't acting like he should, he isn't casting Luis away or damning him like Luis deserves to be— to duck his head to make sure Luis cannot avoid his gaze. So that Luis cannot misconstrue his expression, so that his words are clear and land heavier than punches.

"People change," Leon says, eyes burning. "Right?"

Valdelobos is right there as a very clear example that he didn't, he didn't change at all— too little, too late. But Luis cannot say that because he wants to— God, please, he wants to.

[tauforged]

everyone complaining about amir’s voicelines being too goofy to take him seriously are weak and foolish and will not survive the winter. i hope he continues doing stupid shit i can’t wait to put the zephyr harrier noble animation set on him so all his idles are him stopping to do a stupid little dance. i’m going to spam his ping lines until my clanmates want to murder me in real life. we are not the same

[chewyhanniebug]

if i keep seeing photos of the things they were doing with his long red hair i swear i'll—

—bawl my eyes out

[egginfroggin]

“Likes you, Mabel?” her father said, voice rising incredulously, and he whipped around to face her. “Oh, please, dear, that’s ridiculous!” he scoffed, eyes shifting to gold between blinks. She bristled outwardly as something inside withered, conviction dimming, and he talked right over her protests. “This is why I kept you inside, dear!” Tossing his hands, eyes rolling skyward before settling back on her, full of something nauseatingly like pity – like she was just a lost little girl in a world too big and complicated for her. “This fantasy you’ve invented, it just proves how naive you are, Shooting Star!” His eyes narrowed, and he closed the distance in one long stride, all but looming over her, and she’d never felt so small before him. “He’ll eat you alive, Mabel, just like anyone else out here.”

Guess who's being mean again?

That's right!

It's me again, folks.

[moeblob]

idk if it's a fun fact or not but! Right's favorite color is green. He never wears green but it's his favorite color. then I've been working on silly emotes for my OCs and they're "disappointeddad" and "tryme".

(Also there is an AU where these two are knights along with Paul and Evelyn while Brent/Caspian/Atticus are princes. Chris is basically Caspian's personal guard while Right just runs around trying to do everything to stay busy even when not on duty which stresses Chris out. But since he's kinda busy with the crown prince it defaults to Paul having to babysit Right.)

[scribblingface]

friendship ended with rosetta stone, new best friend busuu. rosetta stone never ever explains what your mistake was or why the correct answer is correct, you are supposed to learn the language solely by repetition and context without any explanations at all. and I hate it. just TELL ME what the rule is and then I will apply it to future situations! because I'll understand!!

[wellhalesbells]

ehhhhhh

I have rarely felt so bad about watching/enjoying a show as I do about watching/enjoying Hawaii Five-O???

I'm trying to tell myself it's okay because the fact that I have all these issues with it clearly means that I'm engaging critically with the media I've been presented but.... well, most of the time I would drop shit that sucked this hard. Also.............. I'm pretty sure it's going to cause me to develop an eye twitch.

The racism is nooooon-stop (especially towards Arabs, like, if my brother-in-law caught me watching this, I would be both embarrassed and ashamed... there are three times - so far - that we get to see Muslim/Arab men not be the villains and each time is so wrapped up in white savior narratives that it's entirely moot), the sexism (Danny listing how great his team is and then just goes: and Kono's a fox I had a crush on, that's not a personality trait, that's not even an action she performed, that is literally just what she looks like which SHOULD BE the least important thing about any human you know??? let alone someone you've worked with for seven years. She is also made to consistently be around men who are disgusting and creepy with her - could be anyone's job, somehow is Kono's - and then the show eventually tries to redeem these men by giving them more complex backstories than Kono gets to have... if not for her mother/surfing, her only backstory is her relationship [*coughs*what Max praises her for when he leaves.... also not a personality trait*coughs*], NO BUT THE SEXISM (there's a group of girls locked in the cargo area of a truck and Steve is fighting their (1) captor and he knocks his gun away, has him completely distracted, and you don't think any of those girls might.... help? Join in? Want to shoot this fucking dude with the gun that has been dropped practically at their feet? Nope, nuh uh, they're just there to watch Steve be heroic, to be audience to his epic masculinity. EW. JUST EW.), these specific examples are all from season seven too so what should be improving is literally nose-diving into even deeper depths of misogyny. There's also classism in nearly every episode in some fashion and fatphobia almost every time Jerry or Kamekona or Flippa make an appearance. Plus, y'know, the police brutality that the show is built on.

I'm also pretty sure Peter Lenkov (based on the articles that have come out about his on set abuse, particularly in regards to Lucas Till) really has a chip on his shoulder about Scott Caan/Danny (who is short, blond, has attractive qualities that rely more on bone structure than ruggedness) and regularly tries to back him into traits he considers more 'feminine': wanting to stay out of danger/wait for back-up/you know... use brain rather than brawn, makes him more fashionable (including that scene about the lingerie that definitely could be read more than one way), making him be 'the nag,' etc. I just REALLY HOPE it bothered the fuck out of him that Scott Caan has more of the traditionally masculine qualities than his rock hard ode to masculinity that is Steve McGarrett/Alex O'Loughlin.

[lgbtlunaverse]

I think the most fundamental thing I see people get wrong about nielan and their relationship in canon is that either they're treated like an emotionally blank canvas for Jin Guangyao to inject drama into, or if they are allowed to keep any of their emotional issues for themselves, it's often about Xichen pulling away and trusting other people more than Mingjue. (oh look this is secretly also just about jgy again) And what you need to understand about canon nielan is that the person who is pulling away and putting boundaries between them is mostly Nie Mingjue.

All I'm saying is that only one of these guys went "Work goes above saving your sworn brother's life" and it wasn't Xichen!

And it isn't because Mingjue doesn't like Xichen. That is his best friend, the person second only to his literal baby brother in terms of trust and closeness. But you can't really understand Nie Mingjue without understanding that he's not only doomed but committed to being doomed, and thereby comitted to his own depersonalization, and that that will come at the expense of his interpersonal relationships, because there are certain things he can't allow people to do for him because "what's right" must always come above his own wants and needs.

Xichen reaching out to other people never really comes at the expense of him reaching out to Mingjue as well, it's part of the constant balancing act he does. For as much time as he spends defending jgy to nmj we see him also spend an equally signifcant amount of time talking up nmj to jgy. It doesn't work but that's because of his methods, not for lack of effort. This isn't really about blame, both of them have deeply personal reasons to act as they do and both of their ways are... less than ideal, in the end. It's about understanding. There is a boundary of duty and position between nielan that recquires them to never truly be each other's priority and Nie Mingjue is the one most invested in enforcing it.

[beanghostprincess]

unpopular opinion i really think they got rid of nami’s joy and whimsy in the la. obviously it was strained up til arlong park in the anime cause she had arlong breathing down her neck and they had her trauma show out more in the la but still. where is my girlies silly !!

Nami suffering the consequences of being the only woman in the East Blue crew and Netflix being unable to write women with personalities so they have to make Nami the "mean/strict/responsible girl that takes care of the dumb men" because they're just sooo feminist and they looove empowered women (I am being sarcastic, btw).

[paging-possum]

Grits my teeth because I am NOT going to share a dungeons and daddies opinion right before I have to go work for 7 hours I won’t I won’t

[strawberryrhubarbs]

if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times; any weird old man who comments on my face mask at my job should have to pay me $25

[scribblingface]

truly my dad turns every stupid tiny irrelevant ordinary thing that shouldn't possibly be any kind of big deal or cause any problems into some big stressful fucked up ordeal for absolutely nothing

[mcalhenwrites]

Stargazers' Hill writing while at one of my jobs :)

Clocked in, doing two jobs at once just days before surgery.

[horrorwebs]

why are men literally the fucking worst

[tardis--dreams]

Feeling homicidal at work today ♡