#& 50 assorted pieces of headcanon

[badassxbirdy]

July Activity Update (Pinned Post)

It’s time once again for an activity update! If you’re new here: these monthly posts help me to keep track of what the frick I’ve been doing, particularly when tumblr breaks or the brainfog strikes. This update includes things posted or in drafts for the month of May. Everything else can be found in previous monthly updates under this tag. There’s also the thread tracker here, which I’m currently updating.

The full activity update (along with OOC house keeping) is below the cut. Bold text = links.

If you want to see all IC interactions without the other stuff, click here. If you’d like to start something new, there are opens, memes, and the wishlist, or you can just hit up the DM’s. You can also add Ty on Wire for IC texting.

Now onto the update!

OOC Houskeeping

@normallyxstranger has released a new book! Check it out!

@sanguinelupus is back, and so I will be using this at every opportunity. But more importantly: you should go follow!

I’ll be heading back home around the 8th, which means I’ll have PC access back. 🥳

I’m currently updating my rpthreadtracker page, so please excuse the mess over there.

The queue is currently set to post twice a day.

I still haven’t found my login for Ty’s discord. Don’t judge me. 😬

Threads, replies, and other IC interactions:

(In alphabetical order by username)

At the motel (drafted) - @demcnsinmymind

I’ll just be over here screaming about Azzy OMG. (link) - @demcnsinmymind

Ty takes Lance on a hunt! (drafted) - @demcnsinmymind

At the bar with drunk!Ty (link) - @demcnsinmymind

Car trouble (queued!) - @demcnsinmymind

No soul for you. 😤 (link) - @demonstigma

Damon shields Ty, Ty is ANGY. (link) - @derschwarzeengel

Ty finds Vampire!Damon (drafted) - @derschwarzeengel

“Get out of there, he’s a priest!” (drafted) - @derschwarzeengel

Werewolf problems (link) - @derschwarzeengel

Ghost Stories: Charmed 2018 verse (link) - @derschwarzeengel

The idiots reconcile aka Tyler can’t be left unsupervised (link) - @derschwarzeengel

Damon encounters dark!Ty (link) - @derschwarzeengel

Judging 50 shades and unexpected cuteness (drafted) - @derschwarzeengel

Universe differences (drafted).- @derschwarzeengel

“This isn’t what it looks like.” (link) - @discipulusmaleficus

Starter from @first-born-to-his-name! ❤️ (queued)

Birthday cuteness! (link) - @heavenguided

“I don’t understand your definition of good news.” (link) - @hvbris (for Olive)

Tyler being massively confused by Wednesday (queued) - @hvbris

Extremely normal headwear and cake experiments (link) - @imprvdente

Human!Ty and FBI!Fish (drafted! So sorry again for the wait!) - @imprvdente

Mischief at the fair (queued) - @indyflanery

Bad jokes with Charm. (link) - @innerwar

Monster encounter (drafted) - @lcbcshcart (welcome back!)

Demon problems (queued) - @magaprima

Demon problems part 2: electric boogaloo (queued) - @magaprima

“I totally didn’t do what you think I did.” (link) - @pantslessoptimism

Leaving the compound (queued) - @razorfst

Taking serious notes with her most serious pen. 😤 (link) - @tobeblamed

Drafts: 8

Memes/Asks: 12

Headcanon, dash games, and assorted silliness:

Ty’s questionable coping mechanisms (link)

She’s a 10, but… (link)

Tyler + love (link)

Dash game: What chess piece are you? (link)

Taco Tuesday! (link)

I think that’s everything! As always: please let me know if I’ve missed something. I never intentionally drop threads without notifying, rest assured that if it’s not here I simply have not seen it. Remember to be kind to yourselves, stay safe, and happy pride! ❤️ — Em

[riley1cannon]

Superbat Headcanon: Super Bowl Dreams

(that no one, absolutely no one, asked for)

Bruce has been hearing it all year long, ever since the Patriots stomped on the Super Bowl hopes of the Kansas City Chiefs in last year’s playoffs. This year,  Clark has been yammering, would be the Chiefs year. They would make it through the playoffs and onward to Super Bowl 54. He feels it in bones.

Bruce had pointed out, “You do know it’s the Kansas City, Missouri Chiefs, right?”--and felt a brief twinge of concern as Clark’s eyes glowed red. Team sports aren’t his thing these days (and he just doesn’t dwell on memories that sometimes pop up, of long ago summers spent at the ballpark with his parents), but that doesn’t mean he’s never indulged others. Thanks to Alfred, he knows far more about cricket than anyone really needs to. Thanks to assorted children, he’s attended swim meets and soccer matches, and even stepped in to coach a lacrosse game once. (It was for charity. Veronica Vreeland had remembered how he and Harvey had played it at school and volunteered him. She meant well. She remembers Harvey, too.)

So Clark’s devotion to a football team that isn’t even actually based in Kansas doesn’t mystify him. It’s about Jonathan Kent, after all, and the memories Clark made growing up and watching the games with his father. If Jonathan Kent had been devoted to....to mountain unicycling, that would have been Clark’s passion as well. (Bruce will be eternally grateful that Dick had never heard of mountain unicycling.)

And it’s not that Bruce has taken to football himself. It’s just that, if he’s at the farm, or he’s dropped by Clark’s apartment (for entirely legitimate reasons that are not flimsy excuses to spend time with him), or Clark has the game on at Justice League headquarters, there’s not much else he can do except pick up bits and pieces of the game while he’s catching up on some work.

He was there when Patrick Mahomes dislocated a kneecap in a game against the Denver Broncos. Bruce didn’t say anything as Clark fretted about the team’s chances now, but while he only hmm’d and hhn’d in return, he was checking out recovery time from that kind of injury and looking into if the medical division of Wayne Enterprises had anything in the pipeline that could help. As it turned out, Mahomes bounced so fast Bruce never had to intervene. (And he only spent a couple of minutes wondering if Mahomes might be a meta human. It’s only fair; Clark once shared a suspicion that Tom Brady might be an evil cyborg.)

Bruce was also there when the playoffs arrived and the Chiefs and their fans had a bye week to rest up and watch the Wild Card games. Would the Chiefs have to face off against the Patriots again? That had been the number one question on Clark’s mind. Bruce gathered that a rematch, with the Chiefs emerging victorious, especially if it involved Tom Brady getting sacked multiple times, could be desirable. But on the other hand, what if....? He hadn’t been on the edge of his seat, but he had felt some kind of residual exuberance pouring off Clark when the Tennessee Titans soundly trounced New England and removed them from the playoff picture.

He had felt a twinge of concern when the Houston Texans had the Chiefs down 24 to 0 in the second quarter, and then pondered the meta human a bit more when Patrick Mahomes proceeded to lead his team to a comeback for the books, defeating the Texans 54 to 31.

He knew what he had to do then.

Watching the AFC Championship showdown from the comfort of Clark’s apartment or the farm would have suited him fine, but he was the world’s greatest detective for a reason, and he knew Clark would give his eyeteeth--if he could give his eyeteeth--to see it in person. Buying a bank was a piece of cake compared to wrangling last minute tickets, but it had been worth it.

It had been one hundred percent worth it to be sitting on the 50 yard line at Arrowhead Stadium in sub-freezing temps, watching Clark’s face as his team played the biggest game of their season. It hadn’t been a sure thing. Clark had been concerned that if the Titans could take apart New England, if they could discombobulate the Baltimore Ravens, what if they brought that same game to Kansas City? Bruce hadn’t worried. There was no way these football gods Clark spoke of would have the balls to disappoint Superman.

Bruce didn’t know if Clark could cheer himself hoarse. He did know the power of Clark’s grin, as the final seconds ticked off the clock and the Chiefs victory over the Titans was official, could have lit up the Missouri night.

It’s late when their plane takes off, headed back to Gotham. He’ll probably go out on patrol later. Depends on the weather. Neither rain nor sleet nor snow might work for the Post Office, but the older he gets the less enamored Bruce is about going on patrol in a blizzard. Sometimes he thinks he was half-serious about turning it over to Diana.

Then he looks over at Clark, surrounded by a pile of Chiefs souvenirs, including a jersey autographed by Patrick Mahomes,Travis Kelce, and Tyreek Hill, and with a Chiefs beanie pulled down on his head, and he thinks memories of today will be enough to keep him warm through the night.

It’s probably nice and warm in Miami this time of year, he thinks, and only hesitates a moment before sending a text to Alfred. The reply is swift, informing him that tickets have already been acquired, and it’s only a matter of deciding on accommodations. 

Do they need accommodations? Bruce ponders, picturing Clark in the Florida sun, and deciding that yes, yes they do. 

He texts Alfred back to get to work on it and, as the plane makes its way to Gotham, he finds that he is looking forward to the Super Bowl more than he ever could have imagined. 

[pack-the-pack]

Happy Beta day to all my Beta followers!

I won’t be able to commemorate tomorrow, so have this today. I know we sometimes seem to favour Alphas and Omegas over Betas, but what would we be without you? A mess ofc... more than the one we already are. 

So here are some cute headcanons to cheer ya’ll up today. 

• Beta lovers are the crafitiest. They make presents better than Omegas and Alphas. Courting isn’t much of a process traditionally partaken by Betas, but it doesn’t really make much of a difference, cause if a Beta is interested in you chances are you’ll end up with at least five different bracelets, three scarves and an impressive assortment of hand-made scented candles. All in the spam of two months. 

• Betas don’t make Dens like Alphas or nests like Omegas. But they are very good home-makers as well as decorators. Alphas and Omegas might be reluctant to step out of familiarity or routine very often, but Betas are the ones you’ll see doing stuff like Feng Shui and collecting random rocks outside because “it’d look nice close to that other thing they have in that one spot no one really pays much attention to begin with”. But I guess it depends on your definition of “good decorator” because sometimes there’s too many elephants with their tails turned to the south in a single coffee table. 

• Jewery for many centuries was a Omega-exclusive item of possession. Only for female Omegas and only for the wealthy. Wealthy Betas while having the currency to buy those were either prohibited by law or culturally chastised to not have them. The exception to the rule were “symbols of faith”, like crufixes. So a type of specialized crafting started to be developted by Betas that still wanted to have or gift Beta lovers with something like that. It was commonly known as a “hidden love” piece. Something like pendant, ring or bracelet that was disguised in the outside like a common and plain religious item, but were really intricate little puzzles that only the holder would know how to unlock, and once solved it’d open up to an interior with intricate mosaics made of precious stones, pearls and messeges. It was an item popular from the 16th century all the way until the mid Edawardian Era. After that jewelry was popularized to all Dynamics so it fell in disuse. 

• A “Minty mind” is a term used to refer to any person of any dynamics in modern times, but it was a term that originated from describing Betas. Betas were commonly found in agricultural labour all throughout the world, both because of their massive numbers and because Alphas and Omegas in power thought “it suited them better”. Because of that Beta scents, already fainter in nature were even more difficult to discern because of their work in the fields, it was common to refer to Beta scents as "lemon grass", "lavander" or obviously "mint", even if that wasn't their real scent. The idea just got more reinforced with the predominance of Beta scholars in the field of Botanics. To say someone had a "minty mind" meant they were either dumb like a peasant in the case of the first, or smart and inventive like a Beta scholar in the case of the latter. Thankfully the latter stuck for modern times.

• When we talk about physical characteristics of the dynamics there isn’t much we can say past vast generalizations, however Betas have a funny fact about them. The colour green has been associated with the dynamics as long as people can remember and part of that is because of the odd phenomenon that is their eye colour. It’s estimated that 30 to almost 50% of the Beta population has some variation of green eyes. There is no definite reason as to why, the better explanation so far is a hypothesis that suggests the Beta gene seems to show a preference to the green allele. If there is a possibility of the embryo presenting green eyes, the Beta allele seems to enable that characteristic inspite of probability. The Beta gene simply seems to show an affinity for the colour. No one knows why exactly that is, it shows no actual advantage for the Betas, it’s merely aethetics, but it seems to just... keep happening. 

I tried comming up with some cool or different stuff this time around, I may not have succeeded as expected, but I hope to have made all you lovely Betas feel special and loved as you are surely are. So keep proud and keep on being great Betas. Until next year and happy Beta day.

[lytefoot]

Fred and George for the ask.

So, I had to think really hard about whether to answer this as one character or two. It isn’t that there aren’t any differences between Fred and George; rather that, in the text, the Weasley twins act as a monolith.

favorite thing about them: Look at my little subversives go! I love that, ultimately, the twins are here to make some chaos and have fun, but recognize that f***ing things up for the powerful is just more fun. They feel like real old-school smash-it-till-it-breaks anarchists, and they’re willing to stick their necks out in order to f*** up truly oppressive authority. They’re lovely. (I also like that the flipside of that is that they’re honestly pretty mean a lot of the time. As in, I feel like that’s a really good piece of characterization.)

least favorite thing about them: Fred dying. Unlike a lot of people, I think that killing Fred was a really good piece of writing--and the fact that you’re still mad about it over a decade later is the proof. But still--if I could save one character that died in the BoH, it would be Fred.

favorite line: “George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” (Or, really the entire Exit scene.)

brOTP: The twins and Ginny.

OTP: Angelina Johnson and Lee Jordan in pretty much any assortment you like.

nOTP: Each other. I was going to say Fred/Hermione (not because it’s bad in itself but because it’s got a ton of bad tropes associated with it), but then I remembered that twincest is a thing.

random headcanon: I am rather fond of the “Nobody at Hogwarts knows which twin Lee Jordan dated” headcanon.

unpopular opinion: Fred Weasley dying was actually a really good piece of writing, and the fact that you’re still mad about it a decade plus later proves it. That’s the entire point of Fred dying is that death in war is cruel and pointless and doesn’t care who it takes. Fred’s death is supposed to f*** you up. You’re supposed to hate it.

song i associate with them: I feel like there should be an Offspring song that is the perfect choice. I’m gonna go with Coming For You, but that’s at least 50% because of the video.

favorite picture of them: I can’t think of one right now.

[regrettablewritings]

The Headcanon Thingy #'s 20, 22, 31, 35, 46, & 50. For Newt Scamander

Ah, Fig Newton. Precious, freckled cinnamon pie

20. Childhood illnesses? Any interesting stories behind them?I can’t shake this idea that Newt was similar to Teddy Roosevelt in that he had a weak chest and got sick easily. Thankfully, he and his family didn’t live in the city where the polluted air could worsen his lungs. Un-thankfully, his curiosity in the creatures surrounding the idea (and in his home) led to an assortment of maladies.Once caught a cold from chasing a toad through the cold mud. His mother was upset, but he was just proud that he now had a pet toad.

22. Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?He’d probably start sketching one of his beasts, actually. Might even take it down there to show them. Or he’d try to be a charming butt and pretend to draw something but only leave it blank and go, “It’s Dougal!”

31. Most prized possession?He doesn’t like the suggestion that he owns the beasts, but he does own the suitcase carrying them. And since this is what allows him to carry on his life’s work, it’s safe to assume that the suitcase is extremely precious to him.

35. What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?Geez, has Newt had a moment to waste time since leaving Hogwarts?? Seriously, the man dedicates his life to caring for animals and is constantly going places … Honestly, it might be reading up on creatures and observing their diagrams. The only reason he would consider these a waste of time is because he’s already read these things and committed their content to memory down to the very last detail.

46. Do they express their thoughts through words or deeds?We’ve seen Newt in action: He’s awful at talking. It’s a shame, too, because he has plenty to say but people in the past have made him feel awkward for it. He’s also not the best at expressing himself physically, finding the company of animals superior to humans and whatnot, but if he’s driven enough and the situation is strong enough, he’ll go as out as he feels necessary.

50. Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?You’d think that with what Newt does, he’d have a death wish. He probably doesn’t. Frankly, he probably has the mindset that he’d be okay so long as he was dying doing what he loved. But give him a moment and he’ll be like, “Wait, no, I can’t die yet, there’s so much that needs to be done, so many discoveries, so many creatures that need Mummy – ”