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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron  {Sentence Starters}

“Here I am.”

“You are the one.”

“You want to fight?“

“I knew I would find you.”

“I will miss you, my friend.“

“To you, I will always return.”

“I felt my heart torn two ways.“

“No food or water. Three days.“

“You will always be in my heart.“

“Make sure that’s good and tight.“

“It’s a new world… It’s a new start.”

“I’m never going to ride you, am I?”

“Get off my back and into my game.”

“I didn’t know why we were brought here.”

“Get out of my face or give it your best shot.”

“Flying? There were times I believed I could.“

“What seems to be the problem, gentlemen?“

“I can’t wait to see you. Yes I’m on my way home.”

“You can go. It’s okay, go… Go on, get out of here!“

“We belonged here. We would always belong here.“

“I had to hand it to that boy. He just wouldn’t give up.“

“There was no end to the strange ways of the ______.“

“For the first time in my life, I felt my heart torn two ways.“

“I wondered if they missed me as much as I missed them.“

“Discipline, time, and patience are the three great levelers.”

“The story that I want to tell you cannot be found in a book.“

“Well, you think that you can take me on? You must be crazy.”

“This one didn’t look like a rattler, but I was still thinking ‘snake’.“

“I was scared and I didn’t know what was going to happen to me.”

“But, the story I want to tell you is true. I was there and I remember.”

“I couldn’t believe it. One minute I was free and the next… more ropes.“

“What I did know was we had to find a way to escape and get back home.“

“I wasn’t sure what happened back there, but I wasn’t about to stop and ask.“

“I lay beside her that night, hoping, praying, that somehow she would be okay.”

“I had been waiting so long to run free, but that goodbye was harder than I ever imagined.“

“But, to my kind, the land was ageless. It had no beginning and no end, no boundary between earth and sky.“

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made myself mad again thinking about writers who Miss The Point and how Bane was only on venom for like ~6 months in the comics but some writers decided it's his whole personality and he's just an Arkham Roid Rhino even though he passed the vibe check and didn't even go to Arkham even though his attorney begged him to plead insanity and go because he wouldn't face charges and he said absolutely not they're my crimes they're my charges they caught me slippin and that's on me and then not only stayed OFF of venom for the remainder of the pre-reboot comics but also actively destroyed networks that developed and distributed it, and then directly because of Batman's repeated radical compassion, dedicated his life to doing what he believed was right (even if it still involved murder) and actively protecting people he believed were innocent and helping people he thought needed help. Because he promised Batman he would do better. BeCAUSE OF BATMAN SHOWING HIM THAT WAS AN OPTION.

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Oh Christ,

Steadfast belief in restorative justice is psychosis, Grant??

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"Whats gotten into you?"

"Time, Wayne. Time enough to examine the peculiarity of fate."

He is angry, in a way that betrays his exhaustion. His lack of options.

"I have been thinking a great deal about you, and I. How I came to cross paths with you, because the first human companion I had claimed the Bat-Man was king of what only a Gotham native could call Heaven. How, before even his mad ramblings, I was plagued with dreams and waking nightmares of a Demon Bat who stood between me and my destiny."

He has not been to the city in a very long time. And he looks over it now, from the scaffolding of a building on the skyline, part wondering why anyone would spend their life here, part homesick for the bleak and grey of it.

"How the first woman who made me feel anything at all, I would come to learn, was wrapped around your finger long before I met her. How her father had chosen you to uphold his legacy before he offered your rejected crown to me."

"Before either of us took our first breath, Wayne boots were on Santa Priscan soil, smiling in photographs with the woman who would be condemned to bear me alone in a cell. And when I tracked down my father, the man who left me there to rot, I learned he cursed your name before he'd ever heard mine."

"If I kill you, it will be your name they grieve. If I am reformed, it will be your name they praise. You are my prison, Wayne. There is nowhere on this earth I can go that the shadow of the bat does not drown me."

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"...Unclear." He has not yet looked back. If there were anyone on the planet who had a chance to kill him without argument, it was Talia (or Scandal Savage -- who had already done so, more or less). The softness he was accused of having developed by the time he'd met the Six had come from somewhere. And he could not say with confidence that he would not allow the source to reap what she'd unintentionally sewn.

His 'unclear' covers her question and her comments. He supposes he should've known better than to think the Demon survived and the daughter did not. He should've known when Wayne had nothing to say about her death when he'd stayed at the manor all those years ago. He had not thought about it then. He had not dared to question it. It was easier, perhaps, to think she was gone.

He does move to heed her instruction. Bane is a natural leader, and more than comfortable navigating through dim lighting and bitter darkness. He knows shadowed stone as his own skin, and there is little his body can't handle, even without the venom. Best if the unstable stones strike him first. He gladly takes the lead.

"It was my intention to bury the pit, and trap those who would use it. I did not expect you to be using your fathers' tools without him." No League, no Ubu, no Ra's, and Talia thought he'd been sent to collect her. Was she using the pit as retaliation? Were the bombs here her own? His adrenaline begins giving way to reason, but even so there is too much information missing.

His hubris has failed him before, but his instincts have not. He chooses a direction, and motions for her to follow.

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“What use do I have of his resources? He could just as easily kill me when the job was done, and I would expect no less.”

He watches her spin her blade and point it. For a moment, he thinks the father in daughter may yet have that in common. But she sheaths her weapon and, in that instant, he is taken by surprise twice in the same day. He thinks to speak again, but finds nothing to say. It is not a show of trust that her weapon is housed, but it is a statement of priority, and he does not mind turning his head to look back through the hole he’s made in the debris. The entrance he came through is barricaded by stone. He weighs the risk of the venom vials he keeps on his person. “Our way out seems blocked, then.” He answers. “I can-” He thinks of the venom again. He would truly rather die here than take it, but he would not bury her with him. He has grown that much, at least. “I can attempt to excavate it, and risk complete collapse. Or you can seek an alternative.”

"I wonder. If I moved to cut out your heart, would you let me, or would you put up a fight?" Though she curses her hands that grant death instead of healing, this is he who disrupted her dreams. To know that she haunted him would be a boon.

"No. Do not move the stones anymore than they have done so already. I will not die buried here with you." Not when she has a son who needs his mother. Not when she has her own life to live. "And I do not know why you appear as though you have seen a fucking ghost, kalb."

Annoyed, Talia retrieves the flask of water she kept clipped to her belt. It provides at least a little comfort in this dry place. She thinks, if he were on fire, she'd drink the rest. It's placed back where it belongs and the woman tightens the straps of her pack. Then they will continue on through the tunnels of this cursed place.

She takes his words at face value. Perhaps he lies. Perhaps he does not. "Then since you are the one who trapped us, you will be the one who leads us forward." In case any more fall, let he be the one struck first. "After you, Bane."

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"Oh? So God is a woman after all." He is harvesting still, debating which pieces of the departed creature to keep; which might come in handy as their journey progresses. "The devil was too. I didn't get her name. I will ask, should you return me to her care."

talia to @righteousruin " were you a vulture in another life? "

"I have had no life before this." He replies, continuing to strip meat from the bone of a freshly hunted meal. "And if God is as wise as they say, he will not give me another."

"I better not." Talia has pulled the meat from her meal, each piece piled on a cloth on her knee. When she's finished, she chucks the bone far behind her, then eats the rest. "If you do, don't worry. I can kill you." ( They are not enemies now, but she does like to remind him what she is willing to do. )

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things I have in my drafts/asks I saved to continue, but lmk if you would prefer I drop/we reboot them:

@volucerrubidus:

Pride Q&A - Post Secret 6

Find my muse post-murder - Teen!Tim + Bane

(Askbox) Sender finds the receiver near death

@ecopoison:

The 'Never Been to Arkham' Chat

@pitborn:

Bane Just Found Out Who Damian's Father Is And is So Cool Cool Cool With It

Bane Just Found Out Talia Is Alive and is So Fine He is So Normal

Campfire Conversations

(Askbox) Setting Prompt: Hospital Waiting Room

@redhead-reporter:

Stubborn Competition

Apologies if something is missing! That's all that was in there but please feel free to lmk if there's a thread you'd like to reboot or continue, or if you'd like to plot! I'll have quite a bit of free time over the next couple days and would love to start being active here again!

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What’s it like to have a good father

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anax-imperator

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.

“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.

“Certainly,” said man.

“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.

And He went away.

bio - rules - ask - message - vis edit

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// --mmmmayhap a plotting call?

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// --mmmmayhap a plotting call?

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"my BEEFCAKE of a boyfriend" 🥰

Describe my muse in one sentence.

“Accurate and concise.”

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Describe my muse in one sentence.

Can be mean, can be nice, can be calling my muse out, nothing is off the table and anything goes!

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“I need to go home. I’m about to be so mean."

Things My Friends Have Said

"The demon's instructions were clear: No one leaves until we've opened this vault. That body of people includes you, Talia." His response comes between moments of strained effort on various and ancient levers he was brought here to pry open. "Although 'about to' seems to have passed half an hour ago."

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

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dumb things my friends and I have said: 2023!

part one: january - march apologies ahead of time for length! feel free to change pronouns if need be. warning for foul and dirty language, and capslock-implied yelling :)

“Am I okay? Maybe. Probably not though.”

“Well she deserves to look old.”

“Got spotted throwing it back…”

“I have never wanted to be someone else as badly as I want to be that bitch.”

“Should I be the most vampiric person in the Petsmart today?”

“Accidentally became a femboy again.”

“Femboys are a dime a dozen and simultaneously so rare.”

“MOTHERFUCKER CAN YOU LOOK?”

“Ooh, look at me, I answered a fucking question.”

“This is only proving that I either have a hyperfixation or a problem.”

“Ugh, it smells like a bathroom in here.”

“He scarred those poor people for life, and he’s my idol.”

“That man has never shotgunned anything in his life.”

“Okay, so I didn’t realize how midnight it was.”

“My teeth feel like there’s an Apple airpod in my mouth.”

“We can only commit crimes Tuesday to Thursday, after hours.”

“Ahh, Cheez-Its. My one true love.”

“Grease Lightning thought automatic cars were cool.”

“I was having loud reactions in my home. That were not voluntary.”

“I feel like a Waffle House that closed due to weather.”

“My humor is that of a roach.”

“I would Toot Canal him so hard.”

“Eat shit, lint-licker.”

“We all know ‘draw background’ killed your grandma.”

“Lo and behold, guess what you did boy. You died.”

“That man read Fifty Shades of Gray and thought it was based on a true story.”

“The way my arm just bent is NOT fictitious.”

“The things I’d do to be in a microwave right now.”

“Actually, YOU should shoot MY ass― That was bad, I’m sorry.”

“It’s not ACTUALLY meth because what the fuck, but it’s like meth’s goody two shoes cousin.”

“I have no defense but I also have no shame.”

“Wait a minute, I want free money just for being gay.”

“I CAN PISS LSD?”

“I was less depressed, but significantly higher.”

“No no, you have my permission to call me a slur.”

“You have the reaction time of a sandal.”

“Sorry, you’re saying I can’t think catboys are hot?”

“I used to have a last name, but she took that in the divorce too.”

“Oh, HA, the AI called the wrong person a Jew!”

“I don’t even lose an hour of sleep, I lose an hour of being awake.”

“Those are my brain cells. They are dying.”

“Deadass built like a Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 NPC.”

“I need to go home. I’m about to be so mean to an optician.”

“I need to eat my fucking keyboard, I’m so sick of these people.”

“The written language is a light switch and my ADHD is the Spongebob Nosferatu flickering the lights.”

“Violence isn’t an emotion, but it is now.”

“The worst part about dying is that I lost the spaghetti.”

“If it’s gay to be time-efficient, then I don’t wanna be straight.”

“I shat in it for flavor and then pissed to fill it up.”

“He got bitchified.”

“I’m ready to finally be a bitch.”

“Oh, so we’re seeing Star Wars characters now?”

“I wasn’t bullying you. You were just suffering in my regime.”

“Who needs art when I have infinite rizz?”

“He can’t tell you he likes you all the time? Lame.”

“Reason has left the chat.”

“Fuckin’ dump a gallon of bleach and ammonia into a toilet and just lock the doors.”