#this is a mix of rambling and idea

[mary-james-world-of-shames]

So... The Bat Family as Lilo and Stitch

Hi, yes, i'm not dead. it happens, moving on,

Since the release of the new lilo and stitch movie, I keep thinking about the old one and also I'm so so obsessed with bat family, but like more specifically Tim, more then that Tiny Tim. Especially Tiny Tim where he is not supposed to be(Someone shrunk Tim and he'd kid again, obsessed I tell you)

But I was like, haha. Bat family in the lense of lilo and stitch. Well, first I was like, okay, wht if it's Timbin, Nightiwng, and Red Hood fresh from the pit. But I circled back and thought wait. Damian would be more fitting. Jason can be Jumba, looking for the twerp. I don't know who Pleakley would be don't ask, this is word vomit for a thought I'm thinking through actively in this message. Maybe it's Cass, I don't know. I would say maybe Steph but I think that makes less since then Cass for dynamic reasons, and Steph isn't adopted... Right? Wait, is Cass adopted? I don't actually know, I'm new to all of this. My understanding is Dick, Cass, Jason, Tim, and Damian are all Bruce's kids, then Steph and Duke are more like foster kids or bff side character that's always at the main character's house. I... I have heard there is another with blue hair?? Listen, I ain't know jack shit, I haven't read anything but fanfiction and tumblr posts and some pinterest shit, 'ight? Kay, be fucking nice to me. thanks, moving on,

Thinking about okay, de-aged Tim having to be taken care of by Dick for a while, let's say this is when Bruce is "dead" or he's off planet or something. Maybe Dick and Tim haven't really spoken or made up, haven't really been around one another as a family for so long. (I don't know if they ever talked, like I said, I've read jackshit, i assume they haven't, I think DC is focused on other things, Yeah? yeah.)

But this is Tiny Tim, maybe it's Tim That's fresh to Robin and remembers oh yeah, I work with Dick and we're kinda family, yeah? Maybe it's more fitting for Bruce to still be assumed dead for the time being so Damian's still kinda insecure about his place as Robin and, well, elimination. So Damian as Stitch is like, well I know one thing, fight, fight, fight, and little Tim is like, "Wow! This kid is my age and we're both sort of Robin! A robin team! Friends!!" But you know, loner Tiny Tim has basically as much knowlege of friendship as Damian.

Dick is going through a lot having to balance Batman, two Robins, trying to figure out the cure for Tim(If there is one)

Wait wait, okay, here me out. Damian escapes instead of being taken to Bruce, Jason is still with the league(I know he's will them but I don't know how long or how they overlapped with Damian if it did at all, but for the sake of this, I will bend a few things, I can fuckin do that. I'm a fanfic writer. hell yeah.) So they're like, ah. Jason, get the blood son back please?

Okay, also here me out. Dick and Tim kinda having the falling out first, before Damian gets their, giving each other the silent treatment, going on their own routes, budding heads(Um... Oracle is... Oracle right now, right? We'll say yes. She's Also here. I guess she can maybe take the role of the love interest guy Nani has. I haven't actually watched the movie recently, this is all from memory, I'd watch it again before I fleshed this out)

Also if this all sound funky or shit, blame it on the hour of sleep, I am in a state at the moment, anyways, Dick and Tim have the sort of falling out and aren't talking well or working together like they normally do, Tim isn't respecting his as Batman right now, and Dick is so stressed he can't take on Tim's insistence that a deadman is alive, that dead man being his father who he is still fucking mourning. Furthermore, let's say Jason hasn't reappeared yet, so Jaybin is also still dead. So Dick has lost his brother who will forever haunt the narrative, and now his mentor and strange father/caretaker who he had a brotherly/fatherly/best friend bond with because Bruce is a teen dad to him, yes I said it, I think that Headcannon is so fucking funny it's cannon to me, anyways.

Dick is mourning, and Tim is not helping with his stress levels, man might drop dead from a heartattack at any second, their budding heads causes Tim to get hit but magically stuff and boom. Tiny Tim, who is still pretty freshly mourning Jaybin(I know there's a large gag between his training and him actually becoming Robin, mourning can take however long I says it does), and he's like, Hey, Nightwing, the fuck are you doing in Batman's suit? Where's Bruce?

Yeah, that does not bode well. Tiny Tim is now so confused and so sad and lost and while Dick wasn't really close to him at the start of him being Robin, he's even more distant now and Tiny Tim doesn't understand Why. Tiny Tim just wishes Bruce were back, hell, Tiny Tim wishes Robin were back. He didn't want to be Robin, he needed to be.

Well, let's say Damian's just being a little shit and is like, hm, actually I heard about my father, fuck y'all, I'm out. Yes, I know Stitch was going to be killed, but I can't think of any reason for them to do that, maybe it'll just be more fun that he's being a little shit, I don't know. And yes, do realize Talia and Jason could be the duo trying to get him back, but I know way less about Talia then I do anyone else, and I'll admit I don't know a lot about Cass. I get she learns have to talk because she was never taught and is super good at reading people, I think people make her use sign sometimes because?? I don't know having a mute character is fun? Representation maybe, It's a nice headcannon, even if I understand that's probably not right, she'll likely make a hell of a lot of silent ques with her body language, I'll probably not make her sign to at least make it closer to her character since I feel like I maybe don't know enough about her.

Anyways, Jason and Cass are sent off to return Damian. Jason, of course, hates Tim still, however being forced to observe and not interevent like he would have been allowed to if Damian wasn't such a little shit, Jason is kinda like, "Damn, why did no one tell me he was fucking tiny? Hasn't he been Robin for a few years now? What did Bruce just pluck the first kid he saw with black hair and blue eyes and it just happened to be from a fucking pre-school? What is happening??"

Dick ha very, very sad arguments and bonding with Tiny Tim that Damian just can. not. understand. He's never had this, he's never seen this, this is new and strange and he just can't get a grasp on it. Tiny Tim tries, like Lilo tries. and Damian gets it sometimes. Tiny Tim is teaching Damian about Robin, the non-fighting parts, the parts that are kind, compassionate, caring. Tiny Tim and Damian sort of balance one anyone out in the field, like two halves of one robin. Two wings that need to work together to fly. There are ups and downs with Tiny Tim and Damian, there are ups and downs with Tiny Tim and Dick, and more with Damian and Dick. Unlike Nani, of course Dick is more inclined to care for Bruce's fucking son.(Since unlike Stitch, he isn't at first believed to be a weird fucking dog).

Jason reeks fuckin havoc on the batcave, mostly because he knows Damian can handle it. He doesn't do much more then push Tiny Tim around because wow, this kid nearly broke his wrist trying to land a good punch and it might bruise because his little bony hand jamming into him but how the hell did Bruce, or Dick, decide this kid was okay to be doing field work.

Tiny Tim calls Oracle, of course, because?? There are strangers attacking his house and uh... Dick isn't home so... Tim contacts a trusted adult and suddenly Babs realizes why Dick always seems to be a second from cardiac arrest because what the fuck do you mean the robins are fight?? Tiny Tim, you're Robin. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DEAD ROBIN???

Anyways it'll either end on a sweet family note or a bittersweet one were Tim runs off with Ra, Jason can't do this so he does Red hood and self reflecting stuff because he can't be apart of a family again. I donno, I like fix it fics bc damn everything is so sad, but I feel like this family is simply doomed by the narrative for the time being.

[bionicboxes]

go british boy go

[bluerosefox]

Stellar Dynamics

You know what.

ANOTHER DPxDC idea (as if I write prompts for anything else lol ✍(◔◡◔)

And once again, I think I might have a hyperfixation rn, another deaged Dani (Ellie) and Dan (Dante)! and Dad!Danny.

And you know what, lets make it another DannyxConner idea.

Danny is on a field trip with his class (NOT in Gotham though, LOVE Gotham but lets go with a different city) in like Central City or Metropolis (If Metropolis, Danny is SUPER excited to see the space sections they have at the museum they no doubt have, because well SUPERMAN is an alien and based in their city. If in Central City Conner is visiting Bart.)

During the trip he bumps into Conner and the two just hit it off. Conner enjoys listening to Danny rant about space and the stars and finds watching Danny's eyes light up in joy kinda cute. And if he got his new hero name Supernova from listening to Danny's rants about the stars well... no one needs to know how he got it.

Danny likes how chill Conner is and how the guy stood against Dash and the other jocks when Dash decided he wanted to mess with Danny during the trip, a rare thing nowadays but sometimes Dash does try, and how he respects/likes Danny's friends.

He didn't even say anything negative or hurtful when he found out Danny has two kids back home.

In the end the two exchange numbers, flirt hard, and maybe set up a date in the future. And then more dates. Becoming boyfriends. AND meeting the family. Conner is smitten with just out of toddlerhood Ellie and toddler Dante and adores them. And he loves how the Fentons just love him the moment he stepped into their house and was introduced as Danny's boyfriend, he made sure to bring over a pie Ma should him how to make.

Things get a bit complicated when Conner, Supernova, is at a reunion of YJ members and his phone lights up with a text message from Danny.

He's smiling with a goofy/soft look when he opens the text and see's its a picture of Danny holding a pouting toddler Dante and Ellie on his lap smiling with a notable gap in her teeth at the camera. The message he got was 'Ellie wanted you to know she finally lost her first baby tooth. Dan's been grumpier, I think he misses you.'

He is pulled out of his happy thoughts and musings when he hears Bart gasp hard and drop a bowl of snacks onto the floor. Conner turns to from the future Speedster and see's him about to have a panic attack.

Bart, Impulse, is having a freak out after catching a glimpse of the text picture Conner had gotten and being nosy wanted to know what got his friend to smile so smitten. He knew of Conner's current boyfriend and the kids Conner adores but haven't had time to be introduced to them or even see a pic.

He wasn't expecting to see the very MONSTER of his NIGHTMARES that basically destroyed the world in the FUTURE as a toddler pouting at a camera and surrounded by two smiling identical looking people either. People he never saw in the future or with HIM AND-

Oh.... OH!

Was that why he turned evil? Did something happen to his family?

[zondearts]

More More doves

[waterfallofspace]

when someone has a defined sneeze, not a quick cough-adjacent, or a rapid/small "eshh/ishh/tshh" type, a vocal, lengthy, defined one

think "hih'ttzshh'chiew!" or "hh'atchshew!" or "eh'rrschh'oo!"

one where you can hear each section, the breathy inhale (hihh-), the vocal release (tschh-), and the whining/relieved end (shhiew-!)

just something about getting all those parts in the experience, hearing the clear sections of a sneeze~

+ bonus points for being vocal enough to hear their voice in it~

[poke-poke-poke]

hear me out - i think leon and nihilego would be a fun combo

their designs compliment each other well lol

(i like villain au ideas though, so i may be biased, aesthetic wise)

[tagarilaghost]

I SWEAR CELEBI'S THINGY IS COMING SOON BUT I REALLY WANTED TO POST THIS ALRIGHT

yeaah... future trio got me too...

and Darkrai is there too, because of course he is.

hey look i drew a cute Drifloon :D

...ignore the rest

whatever started at Darkrai doodles ended in brainrot of future trio + darkrai and I'm blaming @scribz-ag24 for this

[crow-caller]

I really do think looking at bad writing is one of the best ways to learn about writing in general, especially for beginners.

the thing is, writing in general is highly subjective- a good sentence will be good in different ways to different people, or not impress someone at all.

a bad sentence? most people can spot bad sentences easy, especially if it is presented to them as 'here's an example of a bad sentence, let's unpack why.'

bad writing can also be very funny, which I think is again often more engaging than 'here's a work of literary genius go analyze it'. Like here's some bad writing from lightlark3:

The moment it was out of Horus’s grip, his body became bones. The flesh turned to ash. He became a corpse.

it's dumb as hell, but I think could foster a solid discussion when you ask 'why? what is the author intending to say? what about it makes it feel 'clunky'? How would you write the same idea?'

[starmocha]

Anyway

AU where Sylus and Zayne are husbands with twins, a son and daughter, and they live a very happy and domestic life that is tooth-rottingly sweet

[akemiiya]

I'm a fan of the idea that siffrin had a younger sibling. he has a soft spot for children in canon, he would've loved a younger sibling to bits.

it would hurt so bad if he ever remembered or found out about it-- as the older sibling, they would've been responsible for their baby sibling! they should've been there to help them out with their homework, and have fun with them, and mess around with them, and... it feels like he got robbed! it feels like he robbed his baby sibling!

and since they left the island as a teen, and they're in their late 20s now-- it's highly probable that this baby sibling would already be an adult as well. they went through all of these huge life milestones and siffrin was there for none of them. he never got to watch them grow up, never got to grow up alongside them... and, even if they ever did get to meet again one day, that sibling probably wouldn't remember him... not because of universe memory stuff like sif, but because he simply wasn't there for his sibling when they needed him. depending on the age gap, they could've left home when their baby sibling was too young to remember them. and that just hurts.

[fluffydeoxys]

OC stuff is dangerous wdym you just think about that guy and you feel things. You made that thing and it’s come such a long way like they’ve grown and fleshed out and you’re proud of them. And there’s an indescribable feeling of pride and tenderness and passion and fondness. That ☝️thingie is My Thing and I love them

[cent-scratchnsniff]

cant do much else right now but sketch

[saxophonesir]

Tim Drake-Wayne had learned early on that people saw what they wanted to see.

At first glance, he was just another white boy with sharp features and dark hair, another rich kid in Gotham’s elite circles. The son of Jack and Janet Drake, heir to a business empire. Later, the adopted son of Bruce Wayne, another billionaire with a penchant for collecting lost children.

But Tim knew better.

His mother, Wu Jianyu, Janet, had been mixed—half Chinese, half white. Her features were delicate, but her Mandarin had been crisp, her knowledge of tradition ingrained in Tim’s childhood.

When he was younger, his mother would correct him on his tones, guiding his hand when he held chopsticks wrong. His father, when he was home, would scoff at it, saying Tim didn’t need all that, that Janet was wasting her time trying to teach a kid who would never need it. But she had insisted. And so Tim learned.

Ang Pau on New Year’s, lighting incense and bowing at shrines of Gong Gong and Ah Ma, folding dumplings together. Fond memories of the few times his mother was there to be his mother, the times she was Jianyu.

And then she died.

And then his father died.

And then Bruce took him in, and suddenly, the world had a new narrative for him: Tim Drake-Wayne, the brilliant, calculating, white son of Gotham’s Dearest Prince.

It wasn’t like he could correct them. Not without inviting questions he didn’t feel like answering, not without people picking apart a heritage that had already been whittled down to scraps. He didn’t look like Dick, with his obvious Romani features, or Damian, who had Talia’s sharp, unmistakable bone structure. Even Cass, who had grown up isolated from her own culture, was still undeniably, visibly Chinese.

But Tim? Tim was ambiguous at best, invisible at worst.

It was easier this way.

Easier to let people make their assumptions, easier to ignore the tug in his chest when people scoffed at the idea that he was anything other than what they saw.

“You don’t look Asian,” someone had said once, offhand, like it was a compliment.

And Tim had just smiled, the same way he always did.

Because if no one saw it, if no one questioned it, then no one could take it from him.

It was easier this way. To let people assume.

But then there were moments that felt like ghosts—like when Damian switched to flawless Mandarin mid-argument, and Tim hesitated before responding. A visit to Gotham’s Chinatown, and an old shopkeeper eyed Tim warily before addressing him in English. When he saw Bruce and Damian standing side by side and realized the world would always see Damian’s bloodline before it saw his.

He didn’t resent it. Not really. He knew it didn’t matter, shouldn’t matter. It had no place in his mission, Bruce’s mission.

Still, sometimes, when he was alone, he would pull out his mother’s old notebooks and trace the characters she had once made him practice.

Part two

[pricetagged]

Please pretty please if someone wants to give me a Christmas gift I request one (1) of the following 💖 dark, mdni, implied dubcon/noncon.

Yulecat Gaz. He's a sinister, toothsome predator. A solstice spirit with just a touch of malice. He's smiling, of course, and so sorry, love - You've broken a rule that you didn't know exists, but ignorance does not grant pardon. And it's a death sentence. He should eat you right up, tear into the soft arch of your neck (gristle and blood and teeth) and suck at the marrow.

Except-

Except now that he's circling you, something slithers into his mind. He's a cat batting at a trembling mouse (cowering, timorous beastie) and it's just delicious. Lapping at your tears. Toying with you, letting you chase at hope before he snaps his teeth. Closes the cage.

You pay the toll in flesh, but not as first intended. Let him paw at you, lave his tongue along your spit-slick flesh until you're raw and aching.

It's mercy and it's punishment. He makes you thank him for his kindness; give offering to this benevolent creature of chaos and hunger. You spell out your gratitude (bitter, sour, desperate) letter by letter on your knees before him, claws nails and too-strong fingers keeping you in place (strong enough to dig in and rend you to pulp).

He coos at you as he wipes your tears, nails catching and drawing crimson as they follow the lacrimal tributaries cooling on your cheeks. Salt and iron dripping down, heady and fuck-

He's trembling more than you. Coiled tight from the strain of stifling his strength. It itches at his gums, his fingertips. Bite, rend, lacerate.

But that would be an ephemeral pleasure; a transient taste, all hot spray and cooling chunks. The thought is anathema. A malediction (isn't that funny, face stretching into a trenchant grin).

You're a meal he wants to savour.

_____________

In this universe I will also take one (1) hulking, mean krampus Simon; one (1) chaotic solstice spirit/Jack Frost Johnny; and one (1) disciplinarian "Santa" Price (they all work for him; he's the architect).

[vinnocent]

I'm thinking about a GBBO Conclave AU and here are some thoughts:

The judges are Sister Agnes and, wait for it, Thomas Lawrence. Yes yes, Lawrence is actually a judge not a competitor. He has replaced the previous judge (late pope) who suddenly passed away before the season started. Agnes is the scary judge and Thomas is the overly nice one. He's so frickin British he has to be there to represent that lol. He has a few books about baking and is well known for experimentation with flavors. Agnes of course brings that incredible French expertise into the competition.

The hosts are Ray O'Malley and sister Shanumi. Shanumi is the funny one btw, Ray is also witty but is the responsible one with the clipboard who tries to keep things running while supporting a stressed Lawrence who thinks he's doing an awful job.

Bellini is very good and is very meticulous and precise which gives him very good results... When he's not a nervous wreck. His nerves are what lead him to eventually crash in the final five when he makes some small mistake and just Gives Up. Lawrence likes his style from the beginning but in the end he and O'Malley have to become his moral support. After the show he invites him to work at his bakeries and they become friends.

Adeyemi's flavors are very strong and he is a favorite to win for most of the competition. He is, however, uncomfortably flirty with Shanumi, who keeps rebuffing him but trying to stay lighthearted about it. But the internet is onto him when it airs lol.

Tremblay is also pretty good but mostly at presentation, a lot of the time his flavors fall flat. Eventually Lawrence, with O'Malley's help finds out that some of his components are stolen from other contestants, like Adeyemi's custard (which leads to him losing that week in the final four) and Tremblay keeps denying it until they manage to prove it and he loses in the finale (which has him Tedesco and Benítez).

Tedesco is the one who insists on traditional baking, Italian and French confectionery and is damn good at it, that is until they need to make something unique from the middle east or Latin America in one of the final episodes and that's where he goes off and makes something else and although he passes on sheer talent it makes him completely lose the favor of the judges in the finale.

Vincent used to work at shelters around the world, mainly cooking local foods for the residents. He reveals at some point that the reason he started also baking in the first place is because of Thomas Lawrence's books that inspired him with its passionate wording and love for diverse baking styles. He confesses he feels lucky that Lawrence has become a judge in this season. Lawrence has no idea what to do with this information lol.

Vincent starts out weak but stays steady throughout the competition and wins in the end to everyone's surprise. But it should not be a surprise really, he keeps bringing phenomenal and unique flavours (from the many other countries he's been to) that the Brits have never even dreamed of. His first real moment in the spotlight is bread week which wows everyone and gets him star baker for the first (and not the last) time. Thomas slowly but surely becomes enamoured with him his pastries.

Throughout we fast forward to see reactions from social media and tabloids regarding each episode when they air. There is a lot of skepticism regarding Thomas Lawrence filling big shoes as a judge but he slowly gains a following of fans who "woobify" him xD. Also Benítez slowly gains a cult following the longer he stays on, sweet and small and incredible at what he does. Tremblay's controversy sparks heated debates especially when it leads to Adeyemi's loss who isn't brought back afterwards instead of Tremblay for another finale reshoot (Shanumi requested him not to be brought back behind the scenes). There's a big controversy regarding the fact that the final five (Vincent, Adeyemi, Tremblay, Bellini and Tedesco) are just men (because where are the damn women in the conclave right? Unfortunately not enough female characters).

Post-show pictures have, for some reason, one or two of Lawrence with Benítez in different places in the world sampling and baking local cuisine together ;)

[autumnwhistles]

(note: this is purely from a character perspective, not a comment on CCs.)

grian and scar have now both been in opposite positions to the original 'cactus ring', and it's so interesting to compare their attitudes to sacrifice on both ends. whether or not scar threw the fight in the cactus ring, he did offer for grian to kill him before it began. grian declined this, but was clearly fighting with the intention to win during the fight itself – he's giving scar a chance, but not sacrificing.

in secret life, scar's on the other end of things. he's fighting another winner – who herself has been sacrificed for previously – and, like grian, is going into what he assumes to be a fair fight... but which is in his favour due to the others' willingness to sacrifice themselves for him. this is a common pattern for winners: in whichever order, they take the win once, and are once willing to sacrifice themselves to let another take it.

cut to wild life.

this time, it's grian in the final two once more, yet again against an – albeit more distant – ally. he's got a win under his belt already, so you might expect him to do what pearl did, what scott did, right? sacrifice their chance at glory to let another taste it for the first time.

and yet:

"I'm going to have to kill Joel"

"Can I win this? I worked so hard on this series, I'd love to win it!"

because here's an important thing about life series!grian: though he's willing to even the playing field, he's not willing to sacrifice – not when it matters. pledge your loyalty to right a wrong, yes; give lives to gain allies hours, yes; refuse others' sacrifices to fight on fair terms, yes. but in the end, no matter how much he wants to stick with friends, no matter how bad he feels about it, no matter how may "i'm so sorry"s he gives – he will put his own life first, in the end.

there's a reason he's the reason for so many of his allies' deaths, after all. and in its contrast, the wild life finale showcases this beautifully.

(and for the record, i don't see anything wrong with this from an out-of-univere perspective – it's been 5 seasons and 3.5 years since Grian's last win, and even if it hadn't been, it's the CCs place to judge fairness, not ours.)