#{ ask game }

[artbyblastweave]

If youre still doing it, heroify Lex Luthor

The fish-in-a-barrel answer is Tony Stark, but the intuitive answer, not to mention the version I've actually seen executed at least twice- is that you ask the question- what if he's right, about Superman being bad news?- and then you go from there.

I'm actually going to take this opportunity to talk up one of the few Mark Millar comics that I recommend wholeheartedly, Jupiter's Circle, which is interesting in that the setting's Luthor analogue, Jack Hobbes, is essentially playing Luthor's cope-and-seethe angle completely straight, as a thing which he legitimately believes and which he's ultimately basically correct to believe in spite of most superheroes being at least decent people.

What was interesting to me about this portrayal is that Hobbes eventually decides that he miscalculated, that he can do more good by working with the Utopian as his friend and confidant than by fighting him every step of the way. It's a straight-up Lex Luthor redemption story. But the thing is that the setting of the comic as a whole is predicated on the idea that he was actually completely correct- although he doesn't live to see it, although he dies thinking he was initially misguided, the long-term trajectory of the setting is that superheroes eat the world, politics and activism alike subordinated to their petty grievances and soap opera idiocy. A major plot point of the second volume of this was that Not!Batman's turn towards militant leftism gets completely written off by his 1960s contemporaries because they're so used to reading his behavior through the lens of whiny rich-kid superhero interpersonal drama that they just can't parse it correctly. The comic advances that there's a self-centeredness and egotism inherent to the superhero that makes them suck ass at effecting long term positive change, but they also aren't going away, and they can blow up skyscrapers. At the point where I stopped reading, the setting was implied to be caught in a kind of boom-and-bust doom cycle where the superheroes gradually create a singular hegemony, then collapse into hyperdestructive infighting over what to do with that hegemony once they run out of conventional supervillains to fight- the aftermath of which clears the board for a new wave of the classic silver age cops-and-robbers game, which then gradually hegemonizes, ad infinitum. (This is a line of thinking that crops up in a lot of Millar's capepunk work once you know what to look for- Wanted, Old Man Logan, and to some extent The Ultimates all being examples.)

Another example of Heroic Lex Luthor, which I've written about before, is the comic Edison Rex, a comic whose pitchline is that the setting's Luthor analogue, the titular Edison Rex, turns out to have been completely correct that the setting's Superman analogue was an unwitting sleeper agent for an alien invasion, and steps up to replace him as Earth's foremost protector after finally neutralizing him- but since all he really knows how to be is a supervillain, his management style and problem-solving methodology from his time as an ends-justify-the-means anti-superman crusader translate to the new job with extremely mixed results. The comic ran 18 issues and remains unfinished, but it was pretty good.

[hux-and-gay]

And for any Kylux AU: only slightly spicy (I'm containing myself 😅), but I'd love to see Kylo kissing Hux's neck.

(Or, to give you options: Hux in a skirt, because that's pretty much always on my mind, and Kylo doing something of your choice, in that situation...ogling Hux. Feeling him up. Admiring him lovingly. Anything! :) .)

I FINALLY FUCKING DID IT

Not even kidding I restarted this ask Luke 3 times with different concepts each time

(I did not draw the shadow I’m not that talented)

I might post the scrapped ones at some point bc it included a poem. There was supposed to be an nsfw version of this but I’m tired so maybe another time

No shadow version:

Okay well there aru a shadow but whatever you get it

the lyrics are from the song Tyrant by the bravery I totally didn’t just need to fill space bc it looked weird

am I satisfied? Idk man art if weird 😂

anyway thanks this was fun to draw okay goodbye

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[the-starry-seas]

Tag game: Pick stuff from your room and have people vote on which one they want to take home.

tagged by @mereelskirata hi!

also tagging @sherlockholmesmypiratesociopath @midwinterhunt @rooksunday @mamuzzy @merlyn-bane

@whiskygoldwings

@sithfox @lamellas @hastalavistabyebye @aerjnn @varpusvaras

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

🎉

hi unfortunately you opened a can of worms with this one

there is something like an olympics in this verse - Bealdmos, a 2-week summer festival on a 3 year cycle. year 1 is regional games, year 2 is principalities, and year 3 is nationals.

the title of "athlete" in this verse is afforded to those who perform some sort of bloodsport - the idea is that to be an "athlete" one must have courage to face dangerous challenges. competitive games that are not blood sports, like say, basketball, are considered games for children, not "Sports"

some sports are played similarly to how they are in our world - american football, castling, trapeze - with the caveat that they specifically preclude safety measures. trapeze is done with no safety net - contact sports are played without protective gear.

the tournament is split into, broadly, four parts - the Bestaria, the Paritura, the Gladiatora, and the War Games

The Bestaria or "Beasting" is combat against animals - each principality has its specialty.

Providence (Royal family Laurent) is Billy goats (of large, heavy-boned and muscular meat varieties)

Edmeyer (where the fitzroys live, Royal family Holst) is Stags,

North Riding (Royal family Archambault) is bears

South Riding (Royal family Greenburg) is Rams

and Ashdown (royal family Bryton-Mortcombe) is Bulls.

and every level also does lions, wolves, and boars

The Paritura is dueling - combat between two opponent with the same weapons. fencing goes here, as well as boxing and wrestling, jousting etc

the Gladiatora is combat between two opponents with different weapons, which are standardized but have a lot of variety - everything from six shot pistols to knuckledusters to sword and shield

and finally war games, which is anything involving teams - american football goes here, along with a variant of capture the flag that often results in maiming, aforementioned trapeze, castling - any team sport where you could get extremely injured by not taking proper precautions, which they dont, on purpose

also, nobility are never athletes, of course. its the courage of the common man that makes a proper athlete :)

[aesthetictarlos]

One more week, friends so, new ask time! ☺️

What do you think would surprise Buck about Tommy? and/or vice versa, what would surprise Tommy about Buck?

Hey ❤️ Sorry for the late reply, last week has been hectic!

Buck would be absolutely surprised to find out that his boyfriend reads a lot and watches tons of movies, especially rom-coms. The first time he walks into Tommy's place, his eyes go wide as he spots the huge and super furnished bookshelf that covers a whole wall of his living room, and the equally furnished DVDs-holder next to it. (He's also surprised to find out that his boyfriend wears reading glasses.)

Tommy would be absolutely surprised to find out that Evan Buckley is a neat freak and a fan of lists (and clipboards!!!). The first time he and Evan go grocery shopping together, his eyes go wide as Evan grabs a clipboard from a drawer in his kitchen and starts scribbling down what they need, and then when they get back, he's baffled by the fact that his pantry is very organised and that Evan keeps a list of the items in there, with their expiration date and everything. And also, his spices are stored in alphabetical order.

Ty for the ask 🩷

[failyaoi]

2 and 13 for the ask game! :333

2. most popular piece? my ACTUAL most popular piece on here is embarassing so I'm just gonna share my most popular mk piece 😭😭it's actually the gummy bear one

13. talk about a wip you like!

I have a WIP that'll probably take me a bit to finish but this is a part of it, it's a one-sided Raiden x Reiko .... I love rarepairs

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

For the ask game..... what about you give me ALL of your headcanons about Wei Wuxian? 🤸🏼‍♀️

ALL???

Hmmmm personal favs:

When he's very deep in thought or while he's deeply engaged with a chore etc, he ends up sticking his tongue out a little

He starts giving any and all Lans a flower as his own inside joke whenever they do something for him

The only one he uses pet names for is Jin Ling ( how much is teasing how much is doting depends on the day)

He's the do it and find out what happens mom

He picks out his favorite pieces of food dishes to share, Jiang Yanli, now Lan Wangji

He plants rabbits in weird places that people come across in Cloud Recesses

He makes up bedtime stories and says it's because Lan Wangji needs more dream fuel (does he mean this to be dirty or not depends on the day)

He's a gourmet and knows when food is good

[obufalo]

gotta ask spn :333

thank you for the ask 🥺 i could talk about spn for HOURS

favorite male character

cas fascinates me. he's so rich as a character. (on the other hand I'm such a dean kinnie it's embarrassing)

favorite female character

charlie! i love her so much.

least favorite character

...i'll have to say mary. I don't think she's worse than john in any way, just think she's poorly written and doesn't really appeal to me, not even to my rage, as john does. most of the time I'm just annoyed by her.

favorite ship

destiel is everything to me. the ship of all time. the ultimate love story. the queerbait to rule them all. they will haunt me til the day I die and probably even after.

favorite friendship

dean & charlie are so important to me I can't even begin to describe

favorite quote

"freedom is a length of rope. god wants you to hang yourself with it."

worst character death (if any)

there are so many 😍

but really, you could think of the worst as in the one that hurts most or the worst as a writing decision or the most frustrating...

i think cas in 15x18 encompasses all of the above. i hate the way they ended crowley too.

this made me so happy you have no idea moment

"i have to find my father, he will protect me."

"jack, you gotta listen to me. that's not really what lucifer does."

"lucifer? no, that's not his name. my father is castiel."

saddest moment

"something always goes wrong"

"then why does that something always seem to be you?"

a bullet would hurt less

x

"i am your mother but i'm not just a mom. and you are not a child."

"i never was."

screaming crying throwing up

favorite location

i love the bunker!

[plantwithoutplot]

I'm sorry @aeligsido it seems Tumblr ate your ask when I answered it 😭

So!! Here comes the new post!!!!

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

Uh there were quite a number of it, but I think going down the bioweapon lists used (legally or not) by various governments during modern conflict would be quite high on the list!

Oh, and cannibalism.

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

Well... It is totally unedited, but have at it! 🐌💦

He would find them ― again. If he had found them once, he could do it one more time. Everyone would be fine, too. Because they were strong. Maybe not strong enough for the New World (not yet, not yet, soon―), but they would all find their way back together again. Soon.

🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

I do!!! She is 2yo and her name is Nini and I would die for her!!! 💕💕💕

[0vergrowngraveyard]

3. and 11. For the ask game!!

3: what’s your favorite piece(s)?

you might think that my favorite is a piece of the brothers, but you’d be wrong…

it’s this. i wouldn’t consider it my best work, i think ive improved since this, but theres just something about it that tickles my brain. i was experimenting with a lot of new brushes while working on this and i remember how happy i was when it finally started to come together, especially when i added the slight blur on the edges.

i love how the eyes came out too, they look so shiny in a way i don’t think ive been able to replicate in my more recent stuff. maybe that’s just me tho

this is a close second. soft shading my beloved

i answered 11 here!

thanks for asking 🩵

[asidian]

WIP WORD GAME

Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of that word.

Thank you for the tag, @tragedy-machine <333

The word was WHALE, and these are all from various in-progress Dead Boy Detectives fics, among them Chapter 14 of The Difference an Hour Makes, a fill for the anon meme, a fill for one of my requesters, and a fic to go with one of Kaciart's lovely pieces of fanart.

W - "We'd have to be bloody mental not to give this a go."

H - He's half sure Edwin hasn't the faintest idea how much those words meant to him. He's well sure he's never going to admit it out loud.

A - "A moment, if you would," says Edwin, and sees himself out the door.

L - Like Edwin bloody Payne would ever fancy him.

E - Edwin is very much intangible, however, and just at the moment he chooses not to be constrained by walls.

If you see this and want to play, please consider yourself tagged. Your word is "ABOUT"

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

💔

I firmly believe all children should receive comprehensive, age appropriate sex ed, but since Sasha grows up to be aromantic as her mark would suggest, this mostly results in her passing this along to other less properly educated children, much to the horror of their parents

It also results in fun little exchanges when the mangos are older like

Hattie, age 7: how come YOU gotta learn how babies are made when I heard you tell Nessie that if anyone came near you with their weiner out you were just gonna cut it o-

Sasha, age 10, covering her mouth: it makes them feel better mango I don't mind

[universal-joke]

E2 with Jon Sims? :0

Jon’s not having a good time

Ask Game

[necrotic-nephilim]

For the ask game

What do think would happen in a brudick au where they go public by getting married

for the ask game!

public reactions to BruDick my beloved. i've done a couple of concept similar to this for the ask game but i will do a thousand more just because i think they're fun.

i think all of it hinges on *when* Bruce and Dick publically get married. and because they're both smart about it, they wouldn't rush it. even if their relationship has been going on since they were a teenager, there's a lot of angles to consider. not just how the League will react, but how Gotham will react. this is Bruce Wayne publically marrying his ward and that's a massive scandal. they would hold off as long as they possibly could, likely until Dick is in his mid-twenties. i think they would spin it as something they're not exactly hiding, but not super public about either. Bruce didn't turn the wedding into a press parade (Dick would've killed him if he tried) but he doesn't hide the wedding band and he's quite public with affection toward Dick, in a very "i dear you to say something" way. and the reaction is. baffled, at first. because how *do* you say something? this is *Bruce Wayne*. he has the cleanest image possible. sure, the League expected it, they've seen the uglier side of Bruce, but the public? no one knows how to report on the story because Bruce is a philanthropist. he's charming and beloved.

there are a lot of questions at first. and it doesn't help that Bruce "will tell anyone about his sexual escapades" Wayne is now suddenly shy about sharing his relationship details. he says Dick prefers the privacy and leaves it at that, always pivoting when he's asked to bring up something else, like one his charity programs. it's a very calculated move, and sharper reporters like Vicki Vale are noticing how Bruce always changes the topic to bring up his charity work, painting himself in a good light. so she focuses on trying to talk to Dick. cornering him when he's trying to work, pushing all these questions about things like grooming and Dick's status as Bruce's ward. i think Dick would be far less kind to the press just because he has less patience (and less of a reputation to maintain, if anything he's a bit amused by this whole thing affecting Bruce's rep as much as it is) so his rude responses are fuel to the fiire. long think pieces are posted about about grooming, and then in support of Bruce's marriage, long thing pieces are written about the history of adult adoption in gay spaces. it's all very messy and drawn out and Bruce's reputation certainly takes the hit. i'd love to see this happen specifically around Tim's Robin era and it affecting Jack Drake's trust in Bruce, in allowing his son around Bruce. if Bruce could groom his own ward, who's to say he won't do it to Jack. i'd love to see Jack updating his will that Bruce Wayne isn't allowed to adopt his son, should something happen to him and that affecting Tim after Bruce dies.

i also love the thought of this whole thing causing Bruce to be approved by the "wrong" crowd. there are other celebrities and famous people who take part in questionable activities that border on illegal and trafficking, and now, those people would see Bruce as one of their own. they embrace Bruce socially, and i think it'd be the repercussion Bruce would despise the most. if good people see him as a creep, he'll live with it. but other creeps thinking he's the same as them is a step too far. but, he can spin that to his advantage. he testifies against them, recording conversations of admitting to crimes instead of going after them as Batman. because it helps clean up the image of Bruce Wayne if Bruce is the one taking down rich pedophiles. but it still raises suspicion that Bruce is doing this just for that reason- to look better. he's alienated from most of his Brucie Wayne social circles- even Oliver, who used to be willing to play nice with him in front of the cameras has *no* interest in associating with Bruce after this. the League is. tolerating the marriage and accepting that Dick is an adult they can't tell what to do (even though many of them have pulled him aside to ask if he's okay and gotten brushed off) but that doesn't mean they have to be nice about it. it causes small tanks in Bruce's reputation, even affecting his company enough that he momentarily steps down from CEO, probably giving the position to Lucius for the time being, just to redeem himself.

anytime Bruce takes in a new ward, it's questioned by the public. Cass, Duke, even Damian raises eyebrows as everyone's wondering the unspoken question, if Bruce is going to get with *this* one too. but as the years go on, Bruce remains perfectly loyal to Dick. and Dick seems content as an equal partner to Bruce. if anything, Bruce's loyalty to Dick helps rebuild his reputation more than anything. everyone expects him to ditch Dick for the newest young ward, but he doesn't. which seems to prove that Bruce and Dick were telling the truth about their relationship just happening out of the blue. some people are diehard defending Bruce, pointing out how long Dick lived in Bludhaven before Bruce and Dick got married and if Bruce was grooming Dick, why would he have let that happen, and so on. Dick's autonomy is heavily questioned in all of this, no matter what Dick insists. i think Dick would start posting romantic pictures on his social media just to be spiteful, no matter how much it gives Bruce a heart attack. he dares people to say to his face what they'll say online, making galas particularly tense and interesting, because while Bruce is trying to damage control, Dick is staring down anyone attempting to imply things by making them admit it directly. it forces most of the gossiping to settle down, just because how Dick refuses to beat around the bush. i love the idea of Bruce having a publicist who is Perpetually Stressed Out by Dick's shit.

eventually, everyone accepts it. Bruce still doesn't get back into the social circles he's been exiled from and some creeps try to rub elbows with him, but the hype around it dies down. it becomes one of those things talked about on social media, like a "top ten things you didn't know about Bruce Wayne", with number one being that Bruce married his ward. i think Bruce and Dick would work hard to scrub the internet of proof that Dick was Bruce's ward in the first place. since Dick was never adopted, they just delete a lot of pictures, get articles taken down, and largely let the public forget the idea it happened. they can't completely scrub it, but there's definitely an effort put forth to remove it from recent memory and make it something you'd have to dig to find out about. Dick Grayson is just seen as Bruce Wayne's questionably young husband who helps in take care of all the kids he takes in. they get more affectionate in public because of it, as Bruce gets bolder kissing Dick at galas, always having an arm around him, bringing him to meetings. Dick becomes Bruce's arm candy and well, Dick is a pretty man, so can anyone blame Bruce? they're a photogenic couple and Bruce likes to highlight that. he likes to make people stare, now that the whispers of morality have died down. it's proof that Bruce had his cake and is eating it too, getting to publically marry Dick and still be loved at the end of the day, even if it took a couple rough years to get there.

[justagirlinafandomworld]

Fake fic title:

Splash

(preferably Sam Winchester but either brother will do 😉)

Title: Splash

Characters: Reader, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester

Word Count: 356

@alphabetquest prompt: Person A: “As they say, sharing is caring.” Person B: “I don’t think it applies in this situation” - source

A/N: For how long you waited for this, Alex, I do hope you enjoy this silly little thing. <3

Dividers by @talesmaniac89

You were submerged in freezing chlorine water, your feet immediately finding purchase on the pool floor and legs thrusting you back up through the surface. Breath pushed out of you in a shock, your throat hoarse and your hands splashing to find the nearest purchase to lift you back out.

The sound of low chuckles reached through the adrenaline pumping through your ears so that your wild eyes flashed up to the source.

Dean, in his fed suit, pressed a fist to his mouth, trying and failing to contain his mirth. Sam stood beside him, dressed in the white polo and khaki pants he had worn to infiltrate the hotel staff, concern etched on his face even as his hands hung helplessly at his sides.

“Careful, there’s a pool there,” Dean managed to say between breaths.

“Thanks,” you retorted, embarrassment and annoyance heating your face. “A little help?”

But when Sam stepped forward, Dean put a hand on his arm to stop him.

“Dude, what were you born yesterday? She’s going to pull you in.”

“What?”

“It’s the oldest trick in the book. As they say, sharing is caring.”

With a roll of his eyes, Sam shook off his brother’s hand; “I don’t think it applies in this situation.”

Dean held his hands up in surrender, but kept a watchful eye because there was no trust when the situation was so sweet.

Sam leaned down, his hand dry and warm as it engulfed your slippery wet one.

He hefted you up.

As soon as your feet met the lip of the pool, you pushed backwards and pulled him forward into you. There was a moment when the two of you were suspended in air, his arms immediately wrapping around you before the two of you went crashing back into the pool.

This time Dean didn’t even try to hide his laughter, laughing deep from his belly.

When you broke up through the surface once more, you let out your own breathless chuckle at Sam’s glare, the hair plastered around his head and the translucence of his now drenched polo.

“Sorry, Sam, it really was too tempting.”

send me a made-up fic title and i’ll tell you what i would write to go with it

[maidstew]

I wouldn't mind a mood board 🤭🩵 pls and thank you

ask game!

“Don't know if I'll see you again someday

But if you're out there, I hope that you're okay”

mermaid.