#{this was in my drafts ! off it goes}

[honeydots]

i love olivia's flying dancer alt so obviously inigo needed an outfit too.....

[starry-bi-sky]

ive been hesitating to ask this bc youve been on a roll with the clone^2au (which i am frothing over) but could i poke you for some childhood friend au? bc GOD i wanna see how danny reacts to reuniting w jason or how the rest of the batfam react to learning jason never told danny of his resurrection or wondering if dannys gonna put jokers dead body on a display/offering to jasons grave. i havent been normal about this since i first read it and was wondering. thank you for your writing.

RAAAAHHHH DON'T BE HESITANT I AM JUST AS FERAL OVER MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS AU AS I AM WITH CLONE^2 I AM DELIGHTED BY THIS. Like.,,,, i literally love them,,, so much. I can't listen to The Crane Wives without thinking of them.

(which is my fault - the ao3 fic of them has literally only crane wives lyrics for each chapter title and summary (posted AND the ones not written) so of course im gonna associate with them.)

(if you wanna listen to some of their songs while thinking of cfau here are my recommendations: "Once & for All", "Here I Am", "Hollow Moon" is a Danny AND Jason song to me, this would be my go-to song for an animatic of CFAU if i had the skills for it. "Tongues and Teeth", "Curses" and "take me to war" is a heavy cfau danny song to me, and of course, "the moon will sing")

Like they're BEST friends dude, they're two sides of the same coin and when they were kids they would do this thing where their 'fingers crossed'/'double-crossed' was them hooking their index fingers in the fingers crossed gesture.

and i'm actually currently rewriting my original post into a more fic-like format, and when I'm done I'll post it on here under the cfau tag - with the original post still in tact. But its,,, gonna be so long dude,,,, the original behemoth was just over 9000 words,,, and I've written 3k words already of the new one and we haven't even reached Jason and Danny reuniting at the gala yet,,, i need to get back to that,,,

and then to answer your questions!! god im almost hesitant to answer because i dont wanna spoil the little fic i had planned for it but also like,, its not like im gonna spoil everything, right? and answering the questions isnt the same as writing the scene down so!!

i love danny and jason's reuniting, like i've thought about it SO much and I've thought about it happening after Danny kills the Joker. I know the reveal could have been before that, and it could have been equally just as dramatic but like??? Thematically, doing it after danny kills the joker is SO good. To me at least.

Because like?? Jason's been in somewhat denial about danny's plan to kill the joker for months. ever since danny told him that he wanted to at the gala. And from Jason's pov its not even technically a plan. He sees his best friend for the first time after five years and his best friend still isn't over his death. He hasn't stepped foot in Gotham since his funeral and now suddenly he's here.

And he's still so full of grief over his death that he tells a masked vigilante that he's going to kill the guy that did it, who lives in said masked vigilante's city. And danny's got that look in his eyes that Jason knows so well that means he's being serious. And yet he still doesn't know if he should believe him or not.

And then he does. Danny kills him. And Jason can't fucking believe it. And when he goes and sees Danny, Danny's hands are still covered in blood. And that reunion? God like a fucking firework show. Danny's so fucking angry, and pissed, and hurt, and so goddamn overjoyed that he's alive and here that he sends them both to the ground, and if he doesn't calm down he's gonna take out the power in a five block radius.

there's just so, so much yelling on Danny's end. And then so much crying, first from Danny and then them both. because god, you're alive. you're here. i've missed you so much. i'm never letting you out of my sights again.

and Joker's death! God I don't want to actually say too much about that, but the way I have it set up thematically makes me actually not want danny to take any part of the joker with him as an offering. and he may actually forego that particular ghost etiquette and offer something else as an offering to Jason in substitute to not bringing him the Joker's heart/head/ritualistic body part.

Because you know what the last thing a man whose been spending the last two decades of his life building himself up to be larger than life would want? A death that's unremarkable. :) and that's all i'll put on the matter for now.

and the batfam!! they technically already know that jason hasn't told danny he was resurrected, and plenty of them have mixed feelings on them. largely bruce and dick i think, considering they saw firsthand how close jason and danny were when they were kids.

Dick was honestly surprised at first when he found out that Jason hadn't told Danny he was alive - and on one hand he understands the reasoning for it, and on the other hand he isn't sure if it was such a good idea. Especially after he sees Danny again after he arrives back in Gotham and sees just how badly Jason's death was still affecting him. But it's not like he's going to try and convince Jason to tell him - he can make his own choices, even if Dick has questions about them.

Bruce has much the same thoughts as Dick, so there's not really much to add here other than he might bring it up once or twice to Jason like, vaguely. And then immediately drops it when Jason shuts him down. He might actually somewhat...?? prefer that Jason hasn't told Danny because that raises a lot of questions and could jeopardize their identities. However, again, Jason can make his own choices and there's not much Bruce can do about it other than disapprove from afar.

Tim who knew of Danny from stalking the Wayne family shares similars sentiments of being surprised that Jason didn't tell Danny, but again, yeah, understands the thought process to some extent. Doesn't bring it up ever.

Everyone else who hadn't seen firsthand how close Danny and Jason are don't really have much opinion on it -- Jason didn't tell his best friend he was alive, great, he also didn't tell them either so it's not like its that much of a surprise. It would've been more of a surprise to them if Jason had told Danny before he told Bruce and co. Damian may make a comment or two about Jason not telling Danny, but its not about how he can't believe he didn't tell him or anything like it.

[lesbiangiratina]

[bookshelf-in-progress]

After Midnight: A Cinderella Retelling

Prologue

Ashes.

Ashes smeared on her hands, her face, her hair.

In the light from the three full moons that streamed through the cracked bathroom window, Cendra didn’t look tephan. She didn’t look human either. She looked like a monster. The leaking sink dripped water onto her shoes as she scrubbed and scrubbed and checked herself over and over in the mirror.

Gimela had promised it was a simple job. A few things swiped from a home owned by humans who lived off-world and only came to Arateph three days a year.

Just Cendra’s luck to arrive on one of the three days. Through the shouting, lights, and alarms, she’d barely managed to escape by hiding in the waste bin of the garbage incinerator.

It had been worth it, she reminded herself. She’d swiped a bracelet and necklace set with genuine Kephari garnastones—probably a museum piece before the humans had claimed it—and Gimela had rewarded her with enough money to feed her stepsisters for the next two months.

But Cendra would never get clean.

She scrubbed and scrubbed, trying to keep quiet, but she still felt the grit in her teeth, in her hair, beneath all eight fingernails. The filth seemed to go deeper than her skin, all the way down to her bones, but she tried to ignore such stupidity. She didn’t need the fancy waterjet and sonic showers that the humans had. She could get clean, if only the girls would stay asleep—

Light flooded the bathroom, blinding Cendra. She yowled and covered her face with both hands.

When she dared to open her eyes, she saw Zella in the doorway, her ragged nightgown wrinkled, her dark hair rumpled, looking far too alert for a ten-year-old girl after midnight.

“Cendra?” Zella asked. “What are you doing?”

Cendra wiped her face in a towel, hoping it would get off the worst of the ash. “What are you doing up?” she demanded.

“Saving our lives,” Zella said. “I thought you were a thief.”

Dread coursed through Cendra's veins. Zella didn’t know. Cendra had made sure she didn’t know. She never would know.

“And what were you planning to do if it was a thief?” Cendra demanded. She nudged her stepsister’s hand, where she held the pink rag she had never let out of her sight since the day their mother left. “Attack him with your blanket?”

Zella clutched the blanket closer to herself. “I had to do something,” she said. “I was scared.”

She looked so young. It was hard to believe she was only four years younger than Cendra. But Cendra liked it that way. She’d made herself grow up fast so her stepsisters didn’t have to.

Cendra said, just the way her father used to, “If you’re scared, you call for me. I handle the dangers around here. Got it?”

Zella didn’t meet her eyes, because she was looking at Cendra’s face in the mirror. “What happened to you?”

“I’ve been cleaning,” Cendra said.

“After midnight?” Zella crossed her arms and for a terrible moment looked so much like her mother in a scolding mood. “You need to sleep.”

Her mother had never been so caring. Once again, Cendra felt a burst of love for the little girl. “Don’t worry about me,” she said. “It’s my job to take care of you.”

And I always will, Cendra thought, as she steered her stepsister toward the bed she shared with her still-sleeping twin. Whatever it takes.

[gardenerian]

Even if I don't believe it, I'm pretty sure he does.

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

thinking about sam and dean in the earlykripke pilot draft and his original pitch. genuinely makes me insane. like on one hand, they lack the intimate familiarity we so associate with them from years of trauma bonding as child soldiers. on the other hand. the undercurrent of wild fervour present in the act of throwing yourself into the hands of a distant, mad brother you don't trust. who you're frightened of.

[wanderingaldecaldo]

[king-crawler]

This is not a place of honor. or dignity. or anything good

[leofrith]

[fic] honor bound

fandom: assassin’s creed: valhalla

characters: eivor/leofrith, ceolbert, sigurd, ivarr, ubba, dag, ceolwulf, more to be added

rating: mature

warnings: canon-typical violence, others listed by chapter

In the absence of her jarl, Eivor finds herself tasked with the care and keeping of her entire clan, the young heir to the Mercian throne, and a former thegn who appears to be more ghost than man. Betrayed by his king and left for dead, Leofrith is set adrift without a purpose and living among those he once called enemies. But as they both set out to right past wrongs, they find that the line dividing friend from foe is thinner than it seems, and that purpose—and companionship—can be found in unexpected places. OR Leofrith has a crisis of faith, joins the Hidden Ones, and falls in love. Not necessarily in that order.

read here: chapter i

[nina-ya]

GOOD MORNING HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!! We are halfway through week I’m holding your hand we can push through today!!

[whitmore]

anyway i think it would be crazy insane if when they find the eggs they find wilbur in there with them. just food for thought

[akkivee]

the abject horror on kuukou’s face when he realises this had gone too far and he nearly drove someone to basically killing themselves killed someone is the exact reason he was so adamant about taking the fall for everything in the ren chapter btw

[kdotan]

thinking about ITWW small story tidbits and how s6-era Grian is considered like really old fashioned. man is fresh outta the void. he doesn’t know any of the new slang. he’s still calling terracotta “hardened clay.” he tries to fight a ghast one day and gets utterly obliterated because he tried blocking with his sword. he spent like a whole day trying to craft a enchanted golden apple until mumbo was like mate you can’t do that anymore.

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

To be honest the dialogue in twd is absolute ass sometimes but the actors deliver their lines with so much conviction that it kinda slips by. You yell that convoluted sentence with your whole cunt, girl.

[shirogane-oushirou]

fighting off a little panic attack (yay yippee) and i'm soooooo tempted to start working on the poke!ren tag to keep myself distracted even though he's still so /gestures vaguely/ right now kJNSKJFNJK ARGH!!!!!!!

[ghostoffuturespast]

I FINISHED WRITING THIS FUCKING CHAPTER. LETS FUCKING GO.