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[corditeheart]

‘i’ve been having nightmares.’

the bird eater prompts

The fire escape is narrow, cramped with the two of them on it, but the air, at least, is fresh. Sort of, anyway; the smoking probably isn't helping, but at least that's familiar. That tastes the same.

Xu holds out her half-done cigarette in offer, because it's easier than getting up and finding the pack. Her slight shift sends an ominous creak through the weather-worn metal.

One day, all this old metal is going to rip right off the side of the building, and send both of them plummeting with it.

I hate New York.

But she loves Chi, so Xu turns her attention away from the generalized annoyances, and to the more immediate issue:

"--Do you want to talk about them?"

[saddleups]

just curious but will you be writing for more characters?

 yes,  of  course  <3  decided  to  start  of  small  and  slow  to  prevent  myself  from  getting  overwhelmed.  ngl  last  time  i  did  this  ,  it  became  kinda  miserable  for  me  lol  and  i  promised  not  to  have  that  happen  again.  you'll  definitely  see  fics  from  different  fandoms  like  resident  evil  and  metal  gear  (  punished  snake  my  love  )

[omezuki]

"i wish i was just a concept, not a person anymore."

❝ can't say i quite understand it, but i think i get what youre getting at. ❞

her voice is muffled through the cigarette hanging out of her mouth. her lighter isn't working no matter how many times she fights with it. grunting in frustration, she shoves it back into her pocket and glances towards the other.

❝ i mean, being a person is kinda bullshit, isn't it? it should be the coolest experience ever, but it's not and that's usuallt 'cuz of other fuckin' people. like damn, we can't let each other be? ❞

she's thinking too hard now. shoko has a habit of making her do that. she's starting to itch for that cigarette bad. or maybe it's just that uneasy, crawling feeling she gets when she knows she's dangerously close to being honest with someone.

❝ hey, i know you got a light, hand it over. ❞

[02511213942]

Fox Neil!

EASY

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[textsfromthetva]

Loki + tumblr [148/?]

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[jariten]

NANA, Ai Yazawa

[boyfridged]

tumblr might’ve eaten my ask in the process of submitting it so i want to send it again just in case but i loved burning money! it was so so so good! something that was interesting to me was mai (and the others’) disgruntlement with the foundation—which makes sense, big corporation encroaching on small community—but it’s the first time i’ve really seen a stance like that in fics? so i was curious about your thoughts on it! mostly because the foundation is usually depicted as doing good and nothing else, which isn’t true, of course, there is more depth to it, and i really liked and thought your depiction was interesting (even if it was intended to be a one-off thing) so i wanted to ask you about it :) if you don’t mind!

it seems it did eat it, so i'm glad you sent it again!

i absolutely do not mind, and i am happy to elaborate on that -- not only in the context of the fanfic, but also in terms what i think of the canon and fanon depiction of the work of the wayne foundation, and bruce's philanthropy.

that scene in burning money is, after all, symptomatic of my own politics. but as i always say, there was also a time when dc attempted to take in-world politics seriously -- leslie is a sign of that! so i do not see why i should not, given batman is an inherently political text, more so than most superhero comics (where the power fantasy elements are not as pronounced in their relation to class and the category of crime). and batman is just impossible to read without a consideration for these elements of discourse.

the love that contemporary comics (and i do think it's much more emphasised nowadays; the editorial seems to feel a need to continuously justify bruce, and there is not an ounce of modesty in how charity is portrayed) and fanon have for the foundation is something i find perturbing; the excitement regarding it even in the more progressive fandom spaces, the willingness to indulge this narrative of saviourism is really hard to ignore. and that is a narrative i have little patience for -- i, personally, like bruce as a multi-dimensional character, his flaws included. and that does not exclude keeping in mind that he is in a position of power.

the wayne foundation is not a grassroots organisation; and as such it is bound to have it's problems at the very core of its mission. the main issue is that it has a huge potential to become an instrument of biopower; that is to say, that people in charge get to say what sort of help the area will 'benefit' from most; and that is often a calculated choice that has little to do with the existing structures and even simply the wishes of people in question. while not directly related to the foundation, this is also something that i wanted to come across in the paragraph about the plan to make the crime alley into the entertainment district (btw, my rundown of the history of east end is by no means a canon one; i took different elements and mentions from comics and even adaptations into it, since it all remains vague otherwise). even when providing the people with a new (albeit limited; there was another bit that i ended up cutting out, about crystal being a nurse and the foundation putting a lot of money into nurse training programmes, since it is productive) range of opportunities, what it often leads to is yanking the populace around according to their latest charitable ideas, rather than providing long-time support.

here is also another thing to consider, that being -- no matter bruce's best intentions, he also cannot control everything that goes on in the foundation (which again, he should not -- but that also means that his 'stellar morals' will not save it from corruption and even just administrative troubles -- like the 'queues' that arlo mentions in burning money).

and about the scene you bring up in particular -- i want to say that this principled (!) reluctance to engage with the foundation it is not supposed to reflect the attitude of the community as a whole, but some part of it. mai, especially, has a personal connection to willis (and jason); this is very much a matter of pride and resentment regarding jason's death.

i have another wip with a scene of a somewhat similar, if not more open, conversation -- that one starring benny harlowe, who mentions that after jason's death the foundation seems to have doubled down in their efforts to 'fix' the alley (a trope somewhat popular in fanon, along with catherine todd/jason todd foundations), and he says: "The whole time I was thinking, why now? What was it, our boy’s trust fund? They murder our kid and then come back with a check?"

while I do not (obv) think the whole crime alley knew Jason (neither as jason nor robin; canon does not give us much reason to think that bruce would approve of robin-era jay venturing into the alley), nor do I subscribe to modern-era exaggeration of bruce's celebrity status, I do think most people in east end would hear about a billionaire adopting a child off the streets and the child dying not that long after; and there is surely some bitterness and distrust to come with that knowledge. is this what they are -- disposable charity cases? this is, needless to say, not true to bruce's feelings -- but what does it matter? there is little dignity to be found in this whole situation (with the system) to begin with.

this got ridiculously long... sorry about that! and thank you for reading!

[housemdsuggestions]

What if wilson had a fursona and house finds out

[basedstoutland]

What do you think what happend with tom and sara during the toonami hiatus? (08-2012 ish)

Not entirely sure...but! You know how in the first intro with TOM 5 and SARA v3 sounded like they hadn't seen each other in a while? So between seeing them together last back in 2007 (her showing up the April Fools run was apparently not canon) and her reintroduction in 2013, I think they separated for some reason. I like thinking that SARA voluntarily went to help someone. Perhaps an old friend/ally like the Dronomeks? Something also must've happened in between this time to make SARA have to revert to a face on a screen again and no longer a more physical looking hologram. Maybe it had something to do with the Absolution mk III's capabilities? Or cuz of their lower budget- I like to think them having more budget and less airtime back in 2004 is what made it so she was able to have a full body in the first place since it also means the ship is saving enough energy for it now that they were working one day a week and not five. No idea what happened between that time to make TOM 3.5 become TOM 5...they've been holding that story over our heads for over ten years now... Maybe all this could be explained...if they told us what HIS origin story was! And where did that version of the Absolution come from? Was mk II destroyed like mk I was? Was it revamped into mk III? Is it a completely different ship that just has a legacy title? Besides that...I'd say before SARA left temporarily, it would be interesting if Fusion fall was canon for them somehow- that at least explains what they were doing in 2011. Maybe some interdimensional shenanigans caused them to go to the post apocalyptic warring anime version of CN City or something idk. Before though...I also gotta wonder what 3 was doing during the 2007-08 timeframe when he essentially lent the block to his clone/twin. (Yeah that's canon by the way.) Unlike 5, I actually have a theory on 4's existence- he one was one of the other spare bodies in those pods seen in the Intruder when TOM 2 was first awakened that crash landed onto the planet we see him on after mk I exploded...as for why he looks like that...emergency repairs. Ship of theseus'd himself...heck maybe that's why he's 4...maybe he called himself 3 until something happened where his appearance changed greatly before meeting 3 and it just so happened to line up. Other than what I listed...probably the usually stuff, but just off screen?

[corditeheart]

“You need to rest.” ~thereallionofbalamb

my muse is ill and refusing to rest | @thereallionofbalamb

"Yeah, well, tell that to the SeeD exam coming up," she groans, congested all to hell, sneezing and coughing her way through what has to be at least half a dozen tissue boxes at this point in the weekend.

What perfect timing-- she finally gets him to come down to visit her, and it's the weekend that every little child carrying every little germ in the world in Garden has decided to give them all to her as a gift.

Another coughing fit, another wad of tissue dropped into an overflowing trash bin. She groans again, and drops her head on her arms for a minute, covering up all the maps and data and reports that she's been staring at with a rapidly-reducing sense of comprehension for the last several hours. Of course, her elbow bumps the cup of tea, long since gone cold, spilling half of it over her papers before she can right it again with reflexes significantly delayed.

"Shit."

[saddleups]

do you take suggestions? i love your work so much

 thanks  so  much  !!  i  do  take  suggestions  ,  right  now  they  are  closed.  i  will  be  opening  them  up  really  soon  though  (  probs  monday  evening  )  just  keep  your  eyes  peeled  !! 

[omezuki]

do you mind if i smoke?

the night air is cold. it nips at her cheeks and turns them the same shade as her highlights.

it feels weird having kostya back. every dream she's had since he left has come true - well, mostly. he's not taking her dancing or kissing her under the moonlight, but fuck it. he's here. she can reach out and touch him if she wants to. that's enough. that could be enough. she presses her shoulder to his.

❝ uh, duh, if you don't have one for me. ❞ she rolls her eyes before holding out her perfectly manicured hand.

[april]

just noticed XKit Rewritten has more users on Firefox than on Chrome. only by ~1500 but still. kinda pog

[02511213942]

The lap one👀👀

oh i realized it's not a wip, it was the first draft sketch of this drawing! :3 well two lapfuls of andrew are better than one . is what i always say

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[tangleweave]

Sigyn’s sat in Eddie’s lap in their room, lights dim as he peppers her neck with kisses. They’ve been experimenting for a while now, Eddie convincing Sigyn to open up to him about some of her… darker urges with the promise of no judgement.

There’s been one idea that she’s yet to share with him though. Something’s she’s thought about since the last time she saw him and Venom in perfect unison.

“Eddie…” a whimper escapes her as he finds a particularly sensitive spot on her collarbone. “If I said I wanted to play…. With both of you? H-How would that make you feel?”

Eddie's arms are wrapped securely about Sigyn, and that's far more for the physical sensation of closeness than it is any possessive or dominating intent. It doesn't matter that he's got the build of an Olympic-level linebacker and she's comparatively quite slight; she could, if she so chose, easily break his hold on her with her Vanir strength. Really, he just wants to feel like she's as close as she can be, and moreover, he wants her to feel like she's as close to him as the laws of physics will allow.

Well. There's maybe one more thing they could to do get closer. They might yet get there. And maybe that's why his mouth has been all over her neck tonight. Lips and teeth and tongue writing sonnets on her skin. Mauling to come soon enough. He's been dancing all around that one spot on her collarbone for a few minutes now, waiting for just the right moment to attack it with the sweetest, gentlest nibble. And sure enough, when she murmurs his name, he delivers. Makes her interrupt herself to moan and squirm. God, she's so…

…beautiful? Lovely? Magnificent? Glorious? Sexy?

Hot. She's so hot.

She only barely seems able to put forth the question she had in mind, and once it's out in the air, Eddie feels compelled to loosen his grip on her so that he can lift his hands up and cup her face between them. He looks into her eyes and rubs his thumbs across the apples of her cheeks.

A smile that's both earnest and crooked blossoms on his face.

"Makes Us both feel like We won the lottery, babe. Talk to Us about what you got in mind."