#Caffeine-less

[10keyes]

I think he'd find peace in routines and taking care of his body, a luxury he did not have until he became a royal retainer

[dustykneed]

i just think spock has great mom friend potential tbh. strong contender for the cutest thing i've ever drawn

[thevoidstaredback]

Tim was curious. Maybe a little addicted to whatever the hell was in that coffee, he's still standing by the point that no other coffee will ever be enough, but that's not the point.

He wants answers. The Justice League want answers. No one has been able to get them. Because Phantom stays in the House of Mysteries, no one but the JLD can actually get time him. The Supers have tried listening out for him, but magic is something they're weak against and therefore can't hear through. Batman has tried to get into the House, but he's been sent everywhere else for his attempts. They would track him down as a civilian, but no one actually knows if he has a civilian disguise. It's very hard to hide hair that starkly white and skin pale enough to be blue.

Regardless, everyone wanted answers and Tim was determined to be the one to get them. Why does Phantom claim to be thirty-eight, fourteen, and eighteen all at the same time? Where did he come from? When did he die? How did he die? What the hell is in his coffee because damn was it good!

Off topic.

Tim had the rest of the Titans return to the tower while he stayed out. It'd be easier to track if he was the only one doing it. Besides, these guys work with Raven, they won't hurt him. Probably.

The fact that Phantom apparently smelled like death was another concern Tim had. Was it because he was dead? And what did Constantine mean that 'the smell lingers'?

More questions kept popping up like goddamn daisies, and there was no answers to clip them down. Tim was getting frustrated, to say the least.

***

Danny made an effort to at least try and help Constantine with the demon problem the building was having. Honestly, it wasn't even that bad, in Danny's humble opinion. The demon was just messing with people, not hurting anyone or stealing anything! He was, at most, planting minor inconveniences everywhere.

That's not technically his monkey, though, and it was most definitely not his circus. He figured he'd offer to be helpful, though, if only so that Constantine would owe him a favor. A favor he already knows how he's going to cash in.

"Why'd you really want to tag along?" Constantine asked Danny while they searched for the demon.

"What do you mean? You offered to bring me along."

"Yeah, but that's because you need to get out of the House more."

"Funny, coming from you."

"I spend more time outside of the House than I do inside." the Brit scoffed, "Now tell me why you agreed to come along. This is demon hunting. You only ever go ghost hunting."

Danny sighed and ran his left hand through his hair. Not that he could feel it, stupid nerve damage. "Deadman's been on my ass about my first trip to Gotham. I would've left to go find some place to crash, but the entire Justice League is also on my ass for some reason! I'd honestly rather not have to face any of them."

"You've been to Gotham?" Constantine asked, "When?"

Danny groaned, "Not you, too!"

"Whoa, okay, okay. You don't need to share with the class."

"Sorry."

"You better be."

"Hey!"

"Now tell my why the JL proper are after you?"

A sigh. "You remember at that meeting when Red Robin mistook my drink for his?"

"Yeah. Hard to forget. You freaked everyone out a little bit."

"Yeah. Turns out they all have questions that I don't want to answer. Avoiding them all has been the best way to not answer."

"You know you can't dodge them all forever."

"I know, but I really don't want to have to explain anything!" he whined, "The questions that they'll end up asking are gonna be really painful to answer."

A raised eyebrow. "How do you know what they'll ask?"

"Because everyone always asks the same things. Worded differently, but still that same."

"Then refuse to answer."

Danny met Constantine's eyes with a deadpan glare. "You're gonna look me in the eye and tell me that the Justice League and their sidekicks will leave me alone if I tell them 'no'?" He shook his head. "Lying's a bad habit, old man."

Constantine rolled his eyes as he went for his lighter, remembering they were were in a no smoke zone and retracting his hand. "Don't sass me, brat. Wonder Woman and Superman, at the very least, would back off. They'd get everyone else to, too."

"What about Batman and his brood?"

"Touche." the man said, "But you can't hide from them forever."

"I can try,"

"But you'll fail."

Another groan. "Can we just get this thing over with? I want to lock myself in the basement and wallow."

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[justheblueberry]

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[pergaminaa]

Dorian @ Manon (not quietly he literally said that to her face)

[werosmyss]

ok i feel like were well on the cusp of getting more hazbin news, so i wanna finalize my predictions for s2 going forward (mostly vox/radiostatic focused). i also haven't seen any of the leaks so a) don't talk about them and b) they may outright confirm or deny any of this but i don't want to hear it either way

okay, predictions below the cut since this got longer than i liked

we know vox (and luci) will both be more present due to vivs tweets

vox & alastor backstory episode, it'll either be the full episode or the a/b plot with some sort of dramatic foil

in said episode we will get canon radiosilence (not copium not copium)

i really dont want to say this but i think the most common fallout theory (vox made an unwanted advance that broke the camel's back, whether that was the partnership proposal or something romantic/sexual) is probably going to be canon. i really hope that it will be nuanced, though, and not just come out of nowhere

radiostatic and radioapple fans will be eating very well this season

by extension the applemedia content will blow up for sure

this is more copium but i want staticmoth to be confirmed as a fwb/fuckbuddies situation. i think they work better as found family/friends who fuck each other rather than as a relationship, because i personally have a hard time seeing staticmoth as anything other than toxic.

velmilla will be real (not copium not copium) (this one is mostly a joke, but...)

another rap battle or musical duel of sorts between vox and alastor just because i like stayed gone and i love old news more

the first hazbin/helluva crossover will probably be a minor cameo and not a major role, and it will be in hazbin before helluva.

my vote for crossover (which i dont know how well this works given the animation timelines) is to see some of the mastermind fallout and headlines and newsreels and such

radiostatic has no chance in hell of happening in canon (and neither does radioapple, sorry guys)

season will either end with the vees being permanantly disposed of (unlikely), neutered as villains (most likely) or on the path to redemption (also unlikely, though i see them taking this path with valentino, whether or not it succeeds or fails, to drive the "everyone deserves a chance at redemption" point home. would be crass to put canon val in the hotel with angel, though, and i don't see a good way of doing this (maybe reedeemed valentino is endgame for s4?)

by the end of season 3 (i know these are s2 predictions but..) alastor will do something to betray the hotel and be cast out, whether that is a misunderstanding, intentional, or a result of his deal, i don't know. i desperately need alastor to betray them because i just re-read that one tuesday and im coping.

please dont let vox be pookie. im begging you

^^ by this i mean don't let vox take the easy road out by claiming abuse at valentino's hands. ties in with my earlier hope about them just being fwb, but i want vox to be a proper villain. i love making him pookie but the show should keep him evil

alastor's power will be significantly diminished over the course of the season. lucifer will be begrudgingly helping mend the would from adam at charlies request. radioapple shippers will go feral for this

radiostatic fight scene. proper fight scene, anime fight scene, anything to take advantage of the amazon budget. let me see them really go all out against each other (second to last or last episode of the season)

okay this one is more for me but i want a recreation of the pilot scene where alastor first shows up at the hotel, but with vox.

also, this season will see the people who make those radiostatic similarities gifsets eating VERY well. like we will see back to back shots of them doing the exact same behaviors. never forget who raised you, vox.

we will get radiostatic merch finally because the radioapple shippers got their hoodie and damn it i want one too

vox will be taller than alastor (not including hat, ears, antlers, poofy hair) despite what the announcement video shows. i am a tall vox truther and there is no way that man isn't exactly 1 inch taller than alastor just to spite him.

please let baxter be voiced by richard horvitz please he is so zim coded

if any of the vees are getting 'redeemed' (not fully, but starting on the path) at the end of this season, its velvette. she really seems to have no problem with anyone at the hotel, and would be easiest to fold into the main cast as a neutral/anti-hero sort of character. vox obviously has his shit with alastor, and val has his shit with angel. there is no way either of them would survive at the hotel for more than an hour. velvette actually has a chance (and i am a velvette simp sorry)

give me domestic found family vees not because i want to undercut their role as the villains but just because i love them and need to see them being silly like in the finale

GARDENER VALENTINO how could i forget omg we NEED to see val just being so obsessed and in love with his plants. if redeemed val is endgame then we need to start sowing those seeds now

i do NOT want to see any sort of valentino backstory excuse shit this season. if we get anything like that, it needs to be in s3 or 4. i don't want to see any 'oh he used to be in the same position as angel' 'hurt people hurt people' etc etc etc. if that's the way they take this storyline, okay, but it would be too much at this point in the plot and feel more like an excuse than an explanation. i love valentino as a villain, but his character needs to be handled carefully if they want to actually try and redeem him and not make him a stella-type 'completely evil' character.

if val is going to be stella please dont make vox stolas. vox can be andrealphus, they can both be comically evil. vox is not the stolas in this relationship.

i know i said radiostatic will never be canon but a small part of me wants the show to end with them being friends at least, or at least not outright hating each other.

also!!!!!!!! make the static communication canon! i dont know HOW they would visualize it, but i need to believe that vox and alastor can communicate through the ariwaves and im really not taking no for an answer here

also also we need at least one more overlord meeting and it has to go like that one story from the radiostatic zine (this one, which may be my favorite from the whole thing) in the sense that the entire thing gets completely derailed by alastor and vox fighting across the table. literally my favorite thing to see whenever it pops up in a story.

okay i want to hesitantly say that thats it. its 12:40am, i just had a delicious coffee from my fuck alastor mug, and now im going to go re-read more of my bookmarks and pine for the tv man

[imheretoreadafic]

Listen, i don't know all that much about Bart Allen, but what i do know is that every comic panel of him i see on my feed makes him seem like he's having a manic episode. Wide eyes, small pupils, wild hair, twitching, shaking, rambling, etc. Is bro okay? Can we have someone check up on him?

[thecomfywriter]

is there a term for coffee-aholics? because yes. yes i am.

[pushing500]

A mod for tech that thr Jones boys might end up inventing(?) Is 'RT Solar Flare Shields' (And possibly RT Fuses to soak the Zzzzts!) I could see them developing the solar flare shield as a gift for Al so he doesn't deactivate everytime there's a glare.

Thank you for sharing your stories and art with us, I love these two misanthropic goobers. (And look forward to their family showing up eventually! I'm sure the reveal that the boys have been living on nutrient paste for however many years will be... interesting if any of the fam are culinaryily inclined XD)

Ooh, that does seem like something the Jones boys would invent for their android buddy!! Thank you for the excellent suggestion!

I'm so glad people are enjoying the story, and I hope you all continue to enjoy it. The Archonexus ending is aaages away, so we'll have these two misanthropic goobers hanging around for a while.

Funnily enough, Mechi's mum/mom/ma Squashbug has a burning passion for cooking and is something around level ten in cooking ability, along with the gourmand trait. I'm sure she'll have some very harsh words for her son and his newly discovered twin (and triplet, if we ever resurrect Lansa) once she makes it to Sparks.

Yamka and Lapu are probably putting up with a lot of fretting from her as they search the planet—she also has the neurotic trait, so she's especially anxious about her baby.

bonus drawing of baby Mechi helping his mama in the kitchen because I thought it'd be cute to draw ❤️

[10yearsofdnp]

March 17, 2015: You know what, Phil's phone is right--why didn't holy frappé become a thing? Goodness knows I could use one right now 🤣☕️

[lilbabylemon]

i miss nicotine

[skitskatdacat63]

Speed running today by getting less than 3 hours of sleep, drinking two red bulls, getting hit with the full impact of the previously mentioned 3 hours of sleep and 16oz of red bull when I realize I'm about to run out of gas ON THE HIGHWAY with NO GAS STATIONS OR EXITS IN SIGHT, cold sweat my way through that situation and yell at the news on the radio in a stress induced haze, before returning home to sleep for an indeterminate amount of time like the vampire I know I am.

[figofswords]

wow I didn’t think reblogging that tea post and then seeing people’s tags would deal me such strong psychic damage. come over I can fix you I can find a tea you will like. “I don’t like tea” how can you say that as a blanket statement when there are so many vastly different kinds of tea. head in hands

[devilsmarmalade]

sometimes you have too much caffeine and start seeing the hat man. this cannot be prevented

[novadragoness]

Builder & Qi are the kind of power couple that would give Miguel heart attacks daily.

[v88sy]

BT fans not wanting to rain on Buddie fans parade? I doubt there even is a pic. They are just being delulu as usual.

I'm sorry but I don't understand the question.

I haven't finished my coffee nor have I seen enough of Lou's titties in order to have my brain working properly at this hour.