#is this the secret to catching up

[klarsynt]

you guys are pausing your queue to fill it up?

[downydig]

Man this game is good

[jackshiccup]

a belated hijack christmas gift for my dear friend's (@santathegrey) fic - star trek: ad astra per aspera 💙

[m00nbuggies]

YAYYY I LOVE THEM

[gaddaboutgriffon]

The Year of the Dragon.

(Name edited, credit to @jedipirateking for the suggestion.)

A joke the fandom has been making for a while is that Tim is forever stuck at 17. What if we make that something the rest of the Batclan notice too? (I am not following cannon.)

It was just after the annual Family picture day and the new group portrait was taking the place of last year’s and looking at it they noticed 15 year old Damian is now almost the same height as Tim. And Tim is pretty much the same as last year.

Jason and Damian take the opportunity to tease Tim calling him a shrimp and other short jokes. Which Tim rolls his eyes and goes to work on a case or something with Wayne industries. But Bruce, Dick, and Alfred are more concerned, may feel guilty thinking letting him be a vigilante stunted his growth. And looking back at the photos they have of him notice that he wasn’t growing as much as a normal teen boy should have.

Bruce decides he is going to be more active in running Wayne Enterprises while Alfred plots to cut back Tim’s coffee limit. And Dick is going to help out coordinate the patrols. (He had to move back to Gotham when the Bludhaven city spirit forced all the people out before the city got blown up. It’s a long story but dick has been really down and unmotivated after that.)

Tim is not taking any of this well, and feels like his family being stifling. So he decided to start going through the basement and vault of Drake manor. Which he has been putting off since he didn’t really have time for it between patrols and WE. And in the family heirlooms vault, shoved way in the back with covered in dust and many other things sitting on top, he finds an oak box with an ornately caved dragon on it. Opening it up he finds it is velvet lined and has a large pendant that looks a silver dragon curled deep violet amethyst egg. And next to the pendant is a scroll made of thin leather.

He pulled out the scroll first and tried to read it but it was too faint of lettering to make out in the somewhat dim vault light. But what little he could make out it it was really old 14th century English and mentioned something about a coming of age. He rolls it back up and puts it aside to instead pick up the pendant. When he touches it there is a faint static shock that surprises him other then that the silver and purple necklace doesn’t seem out of the ordinary.

His phone lets off a chime to remind him that diner is in an hour, so he pack the pendant and scroll back in the box and places it in his bag with a few other items he finds interesting and wanted to look into more later. Then returns to Wayne manor to eat before patrol. It isn’t until he wakes up the next morning he realizes that he should have probably read the scroll before touching the pendant.

He wakes up to knocking on his bedroom door and someone yelling at him to get up. He had gotten into the habit of locking his door back when Damian first moved in. He yelps in surprise, falling over because his center of balance is all out of whack when he tried to stand. Now he is fully awake and takes stock of himself.

Scales?

Scales! Why are his arms covered in scales?! His hands look like a mix of paws and talons. He struggles out of the sheets to look at the rest of himself. His pjs are stretched and torn in places to accommodate the new digigrade shape of his legs. Not to mention he now has a long tail and wings and a longer neck. He rushes to his personal bathroom and awkwardly stands up on his two legs so he can get a good look in the mirror. And yep that is a distressed dragon face looking back at him. He catches himself making a weird keening sound as he plops down to sit on the bathroom floor.

Moments later he hears the sound of his bedroom door’s lock being picked. Bruce calling his name and Duke explaining he had heard animal noises from the room. Tim scrabbles to try and get the balcony door unlocked so he can escape and find a way to change back before anyone can see him, but moving on all fours and the new talon hands he is not used too take up too much time and the bedroom door is open.

Living in a family of vigilantes, their reaction time and fight or flight instincts are quick, and Tim is tackled to the floor by Duke while the others start looking at every inch of the room for clues as to what happened to their seemingly missing brother.

Bruce is looking at the dragon in Tim’s pajamas for a second before saying, “Tim? Is that you chum?”

Tim tries to answer but all that comes out is a warbling chuff. Which takes Tim by surprise and has him nearly start to cry in panic. He can’t Talk!

“Hey, you’re ok Tim. Deep breaths. Duke get off him. Breath with me Tim. In 1, 2, 3, 4. Out 1, 2, 3, 4.” Bruce spoke in his soothing a scared child voice. Tim was half annoyed at himself for how much it helped.

“B, Look at this!” Dick said holding the box with the scroll and dragon pendent instead open. Now the gem is a very pale see through purple with only a sliver on the bottom the original color.

They take it down to the bat cave and get to work deciphering the scroll. Turns out the Drake family line are descendants of some ancient medieval prince named Aragorn and that there was a family tradition that on the sixteenth birthday the child would have to live a year in dragon form to let it catch up in maturity. But after the dragon form catches up they will be able to freely shift between forms. But if they don’t follow the tradition they don’t age properly, and the longer they put off the tradition the longer they have to spend as a dragon.

And that is all I had time for before bed. So who does this affect the family dynamic? What about the relationship between Tim and Damian? How do we bring Danny Phantom into this? Does he think Tim is a ghost dragon at first?

[neigepomme]

— does caleb dream of flying sheep?

if you were to ask him, the answer would be "no, silly, i dream of airplanes," which earns him a light slap on his arm, all while he laughs and ruffles your hair.

in reality, if you could explore caleb's dreams, it'd be more similar to a museum visit — except all of the artworks are memories of you from his perspective. 

he dreams of home. 

of the smell of food you shared together, the music you listened to, the hugs you shared when the world felt too big and you felt too small.

he dreams of home, but home, according to caleb, is you.

even while he's fully lucid, every flight path he takes leads him to you. in the comfort of his own home, he'll lean into the pillows that still smell like your perfume, watch the shows you gushed about, and eat the food you enjoy. he has an especially hard time falling asleep on days where you're not by his side, but looking up at the moon and knowing that same moon looks over you, brings him some sort of comfort.

he hopes he can see you in his dreams, at least.

when you're by his side though, sleep also escapes him — or rather, he escapes sleep in order to breathe in your presence. you fall asleep on his couch, mouth slightly agape and the steady sounds of breathing almost lulls him to sleep. however, in spite of his lids feeling heavy, caleb forces himself to stay awake.

carefully, he carries you into your bedroom, relishing in your soft groans and the way you melt into him, hiding your face into his neck. he laughs a little at your sleep addled "caleb, you meanie.. it's my turn at the claw machine..", and after finally reaching your room and tucking you in, he gets to look at you and breathe again. his hand moves slowly, brushing any stray hairs away from your face and admiring how peaceful you look, knowing you're safe sleeping around him.

it makes his heart feel so full, and with a sigh, caleb gets up to sleep (or rather, lay in his bed and stare at the ceiling while reminiscing about how cute you looked at six, missing your front tooth and clutching onto his shirt).

his sleepless plans are foiled, though, when you clutch onto his shirt again and whine for him to lay down with you.

seems like you spotted his eye bags, and you were most definitely not about to let him go to his room, doing god knows what and staying up. when he finally laid down next to you, you moved your hand up to his hair, tiredly brushing through the messy brown locks. murmuring softly, you repeat the mantra he'd whisper to you when sleep evaded you.

“one plane.. two planes.. three planes...”

caleb's eyes widened slightly at your voice, counting planes in order for him to sleep. with an exhausted smile on his face, he hugs your form closer to his and allows his body to relax into yours.

perhaps he'd dream of the future today.

one that he finds within your warm embrace.

[murkying]

redstone supervisor

[savanir]

DP x DC Prompt [31]

"That's it! I've had it with you lot!!" Ghost Writer screeches as he sees the mess Danny and his friends made of his library's comic section. Batman's detective series strewn about, action comics in every direction, secret six, suicide squad, doom patrol, the outsiders. Its like a DC-splosion.

"Whoa man, we'll put them back, no need to-"

"You pests need what's called in the comic world-"

And a massive ominous glowing N52 starts hovering above Ghost Writer "-a reboot!"

"No wait- stop!"

But the three of them get slammed with the letter and numbers the size of a truck before they can do anything else and they get tossed right in the middle of the latest DC universe ending crisis.

[doglikecadaver]

Secret life sketches for the soul!!!💥💥💥

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[jeena-says-hi]

Mumbo: This is probably the best build you have ever done

Grian: I have done some really good builds,

Grian *monopoly mountain flashbacks*

Grian:.... In the past

[bluerosefox]

That Good Ol' Fenton Charm

Hmmmm

Single dad Danny (to deaged Ellie and Dan) meets his neighbor Selina Kyle after one of her cats get into their apartment and he finds his kids playing with it.

Cue meet cute where Selina at first is just flirting like always but Danny charms her (aka being a bit dense but somehow adorkable, its charming)

[synonymroll648]

lil reminder that prentice was beacon of the golden towers before he was arrested. both he and wylie probably thought that they'd see each other in the towers when he was a level seven. and wylie probably thought he'd see tiergan around the base levels as a mentor too, since he was still teaching there before he resigned in protest of prentice's arrest. and prentice and leto were probably work buddies alongside being in a rebellion together, since leto was beacon of the silver tower presumably before and after prentice's arrest.

just. y'know. bits of prentice's life before, and how that must've impacted his loved ones all the more long-term.

[erinwantstowrite]

i got a couple comments/asks about this so im just making a post teehee:

peter is an unreliable narrator

not that we can't trust him for most of what he's saying, but there are a few things that we can not trust. one being his perspective that tony doesn't see him as a son (which is the most obvious) but another being that gotham hasn't noticed spider-man or peter parker. jason's pov when meeting benny and maps (and co) was indeed a glimpse into what we didn't see in peter's pov. it's not that he doesn't care about these instances, but he has so much going on that he has zeroed in on what we actually saw. what was a seemingly insignificant moment for peter, so insignificant that he didn't mention it, was a very impactful moment for maps. he made a small difference in his neighborhood without even realizing. there's also the fact that peter doesnt want to get attached, and that's another reason he has distanced himself emotionally from these actions. there is a POV later from maps that might shine some light on this + a scene where we see some familiar faces. and there's also a scene in Ned's POV later that highlights New York missing spider-man. Peter also isn't aware of just HOW large that portion is. when he thinks about home, he thinks about the Avengers and then the people he knows personally. but the city does miss him

[yap-city]

Young Justice (1998) update: There’s this really heartbreaking arc going on where Red Tornado is fighting for custody of his adopted daughter, and it’s really beautifully written, but if I post about it I’m going to cry.

So instead, here’s a picture of everyone in really stupid civilian disguises, including Tim’s ugly fucking wraparound sunglasses and Kon looking like an old timey newsboy in a dumb backwards hat.

[cowpoke-in-the-clouds]

Five Nights at Freddy’s lore is so stupid like what do you mean Edwin Murray invented recycling

[chiropteracupola]

My body is God’s and my bones are for crows / My words are of record, now everyone knows / Many thousands will sail on your cups’ overflow / To come and see a fisherman...

[the fisher king and lancelot, for @mortiscausa's 'march to camelot,' for the prompt 'ruin']