#Constantine had a mental breakdown

[nelkcats]

Amity's hero

Don't let Amity Parkers lose their hero or you will face the consequences; even good intentions can become unforgivable

The Justice League didn't speak directly to the G.I.W, they didn't quite take their word for it but reports of ghost attacks and property damage caught their attention, the call log with the multiple Amity Park appearances being the most ignored of the list practically marked as spam broke their hearts.

So they arrived as a team, yelling about getting rid of the ghosts, certain that their presence would only cause long-term damage, Phantom immediately showed up, questioning what was wrong; they simply ignored him and began to recite that he and his kind should return to his place of origin (because these ghosts must have a place far from earth, right? They had read something about them living in another dimension), ignoring all Phantom's pleas by simply listening

Unlike a few years ago, Amity Park was not under attack, it had a direct truce with Infinite Realms in which the ghosts were on their best behavior, playing with humans, protecting them from unknown entities (because this was their Amity, they were territorial), keeping at bay the animal ghosts that came out of natural portals, and turning from villains to heroes, being led by his King Phantom, the one who started it all.

The ghosts were happy with the arrangement and with being able to visit human world; Klemper, Lunch Box and Youngblood made a lot of new friends, Ember had concerts, Johnny and Kitty formed their own biker gang, Spectra was the psychologist she'd tried to be at first, Walker kept everyone in line, even ghosts who straight up preferred the realms visited from time to time: Pandora, Frostbite, Ghost Writer, etc. Even Nocturn tried to give everyone good dreams.

But the heroes didn't care, they considered everyone as "threats" and threatened them, Phantom, completely tired of being ignored looked towards his city and gave them a sad smile, you couldn't reason with those who didn't want to listen to you "If we do that Amity could be in danger" he tried one last time, the league didn't know how to deal with liminals.

"We'll protect them, you're just invaders making them sick in the end" Green Lantern snorted, as if it was the obvious solution "So get out and leave these people alone"

"Fine, but when you see how badly you end up handling everything, call us" Danny was tired, he could reason with his own parents and not with all these "heroes", he supposed it was better to teach them the consequences. He tossed a Fentonphone at them, hoping they'd do the right thing.

Flash felt uncomfortable when he saw the ghost children approaching the humans, were they attacking them? He was about to interfere when he saw the human children approach the ghosts to hug them and cry together; he reasoned that made sense, sure the kids didn't know their friends were dangerous, but something inside of him wasn't satisfied with that answer.

Then Danny just whistled, attracting the attention of the ghosts in the city "Well, you heard them, go back to the realms" complaints could be heard, both from the ghost and the human sides. But for now, the halfa had some kind of plan in mind.

Wonder Woman felt especially uncomfortable when she saw Pandora walk past Phantom, giving her a disappointed look, Batman told her that surely she wasn't her friend, and that if she was she wouldn't be the same person, but she wasn't so sure about that.

The ghosts withdrew from Amity then, going through the portal that the Phantom himself had opened in the center of the city, each one of Justice League members could feel the hateful looks pointing directly at them "It's for the best", Batman informed them "we'll assign you heroes that monitor that they do not return"

"NO" that seemed to be what broke the silence "We don't want any more heroes, Phantom is our hero" and with that said, a girl of about 8 years old hugged the halfa's leg, crying uncontrollably "Please don't go"

The League was about to interfere when Phantom reached down, picking up the girl "I don't want to leave Stacy" he whispered stroking her back lovingly, hoping she would stop crying "But the guys over there say I'm a danger to you and you know I want to keep you safe" he kissed the girl's head, handing her over to her parents "I love you Amity Park, thank you for loving me back" he told the population affectionately, before going through the portal.

The League just looked uncomfortably, once there were no more ghosts they informed the city that they would send heroes regularly for protection and monitoring the situation but the city inhabitants just scoffed.

"You don't get it" Dash spoke, completely furious "Phantom is to Amity what Batman is to Gotham" he frowned "And rest assured that this city will protect him from you, we don't care if you told him to leave, we'll bring him back, you're way over your head on this" he continued "Of course, you don't understand because you're the hero in this scenario, and you don't know what a city feels when you take away their hero"

The Justice League only watched as the townspeople turned their backs on them, but they reasoned again that it was for the best, eventually the townspeople would understand.

A few days passed and Amity declared itself isolated from the League, every time they tried to send a hero they rejected, over and over again; dozens of different heroes couldn't get past the limits because they were shot, taunted, or simply knocked unconscious before entering. Superman was starting to regret destroying Phantom's phone but they had to know how it worked, at the end it was a regular phone with weird aesthetic.

The only "hero" who managed to cross the limits was Red Hood, who at the end of the day became a messenger "You don't understand B, that city is out for blood" Jason tried to reason with Bruce "They're furious, I swear I saw a 6-year-old boy practicing archery and the target had your head placed in the center" it was not normal for Jason to worry, Bruce was a hero, but for the same reason he did not know what it felt like when you lost one. Amity had basically been building her own army within the barriers, they even offered him refuge away from heroes "You must talk to them."

"Mhm" Batman hummed, pulling out his comlink to schedule a meeting, he'd thought of calling one anyway, he'd had sightings of what looked like animal ghosts all over Gotham but they were basically invincible, he wondered if it was Phantom's revenge.

"Just give them back their hero Batman" was what the commissioner Gordon told him when he asked for an opinion on how to deal with the reaction of the city "They're right, you don't know what it feels like"

Of course, Batman couldn't be wrong, so he guessed Gordon's comment was due more to his weariness. Upon arrival he noticed everyone completely dejected, basically stating animal ghosts and ¿drops? through all their cities. They couldn't fight any of them so they decided to go back to Amity, they figured if they had fought these things for years they must have knowledge.

Upon reaching the city, although they were allowed to pass, they were greeted with mockery, half the population carried one weapon or another, the League was tense "Having problems so soon?" Paulina looked at her neon green nails, she was sure she could cut a man with them "You should have accepted Phantom's help, you know"

"Phantom was a threat invading your city" Batman growled "we saw the reports, his continued presence caused medical changes in all of you that you won't even let us see"

"Make no mistake" Mikey interrupted him "Amity was always an access point to the Zone, we were contaminated long before you existed" and of course they would not trust this heroes with their liminal status, Frostbite was already helping them before all the mess and they did not need to add human doctors with no knowledge.

"Then what do you suggest? We let the ghosts come back and destroy the whole city?" Hal scoffed, completely incredulous of how they were being treated, from the first second they refused to give any useful information.

"It's funny that you think we can't defend ourselves" Paulina rolled her eyes "you all could be beaten by Mikey, and is Mikey, no offense" she shot a look at the boy next to her.

"None taken" Mikey shrugged, it wasn't the first time.

"The thing is, we're just used to it; we like to be protected and not have to protect ourselves, it may sound cowardly of us but we're civilians" Kwan spoke "we're not defenseless, but we prefer not taking action, our hero made sure of it so we don't like to take cards in the whole self-sacrifice thing"

"Phantom is a danger" Superman tried to stand his ground.

"For us?" Star sneered "Or for you?"

"Besides, if you think we don't move out of the city for aesthetics, you're wrong, we just like to feel safe" Dash yawned, bored with the conversation "Phantom and the other ghosts are territorial, it's kind of nice, no threat gets past that sign, rates of crime? Zero, very difficult to want to kill or assault someone if they can come back as a ghost to kill you I guess"

"But the reports" Flash was worried about the indifference.

"The reports from 5 years ago? Before we had the truce that you guys ruined?" Star sneered "I'll call Sam or Tucker and bring Phantom back, we'll start the truce again, get out of Amity"

"You can't do that." Superman crossed his arms, trying to remain threatening as Hal muttered in a panic about breaking peace treaties and the Oa wanting his head.

"Oh, but we can" Paulina approached Superman, running her hand over his arm "and we'll do it" slowly, she placed her fingernail on his suit, cutting the material and drawing blood from the hero, who immediately moved away at the threat.

"Get the hell out of Amity and don't come back" Dash rolled his eyes, stroking a ghost snake, the heroes tensing more at their newest enemy.

"It was you?" growled Batman; recognizing the snake as one of the many haunting Gotham.

"Not exactly, the veil ruptures always existed" Kwan said, stroking the head of a ghost wolf "We only tame them, or send them back to the Realms, if there were veil ruptures it's not our problem" he looked towards the League "If any of them escaped because we weren't watching and they followed your scent it's not our fault either"

"And can you tell us um, how to deal with them, or tame them?" Flash tried.

"No, since you are sooo good at gathering information I'm sure you will come up with something" With that said, Dash motioned for the snake to lead the heroes away and before they knew it they were all thrown away from the city.

[milfzatannaz]

John Constantine is actually DC’s most prominent poor little meow meow. his mother is dead he had no friends growing up he was a hippy then a punk his life got ruined he had a mental breakdown he got his ex girlfriend’s dad killed AND a plant guy possessed him and made him get a tree tattoo on his ass. all within the first 4 or so years of his character’s existence.

[satoluv]

KIKUFUKU OF LOVE— gojo satoru x gn! reader.

synopsis in which you, take 5 days to decide what to get for gojo satoru’s birthday. happy birthday my love 💕💕 come back to me n our children at home pls ☹️🤭🤭.

# a little mention of breakdown, fluff! hehe wc 1.2k+

3RD DECEMBER

"I'll be back in a week, don't miss me too much baby! mmm" He said with a mouthful of kikufuku, licking his sugar-coated fingers and everything. How annoyingly cute.

You rolled your eyes teasingly. "I think it's you who will be missing me."

Your boyfriend, Gojo Satoru is out on misson for a week, and will only be back on his birthday. — What perfect timing.

You've been wanting to surprise him with a gift for his special day. After all, birthday comes by only once a year.

But what could you possibly gift a man who's rich—Surely he has the money, he could afford anything he wants, so what could you get the man who can afford anything and everything?

4TH DECEMBER

To say you don't miss your boyfriend is an understatement, of course you miss him. He called you when he arrived his hotel earlier, you didn't want to bother him when he's working so you decided to just wait for his next call.

Last year on his birthday, you surprised him with a birthday party along with a Vacheron Constantin, 18K 5N Rose Gold watch that costed you your two kidneys. However upon seeing his reaction made it all worth it.

Of course he loved it, you bought it,— his darling bought it.

To him, it meant more than just a gift. Some people believe one should keep it because of the money— ‘it’s expensive! that's why you have to treasure it forever’ — but growing up in a prestigious clan, no one would’ve wanted to celebrate birthday’s with the six eyes and limitless user. So imagine his reaction when you surprised him with a birthday party.

"I bought this for you."

"It reminded me of you." — It touched him that you were thinking of him.

You thought of him.

He cried in your arms that day, thanking you profusely.

So from that day on, you've decided to give him a present every year for his birthday. Not because you like seeing him vulnerable but because you want to show him that he, who came from a prestigious clan, is someone deserving of love.

Your love.

5TH DECEMBER

“SHOKOOOO i can’t think of any gifts for him” You cried in your best friend’s arm, ranting about how incredibly difficult it was to buy a present for your boyfriend.

Shoko, who had enough of your complains and whines, still listens— that’s one of the qualities you love about her.

“I’m sure he’ll love anything you give him YN. It’s Gojo Satoru you’re talking about. If you’re still clueless, you can try asking Nanami for help, you know?” She patted your back, heading out of the room you both were in.

To your despair, Nanami was nowhere to be found. Apparently he was out training Yuji and will only be back in 3 days. Surely you can’t wait that long! Which has resulted you into asking Megumi.

“That idiot loves kikufuku. I’m sure he’ll love it if you give him that but I know he’ll love anything that you give him.”

You sighed, that is indeed true. Sometimes you wonder how one can eat kikufuku continuously non-stop without getting tired of it. Not that you mind, you love how chubby his cheeks get when he stuffs the kikufuku desserts in his mouth. —how annoyingly cute. You miss him. Just by the thought of the sight tempted you to get that dessert.

6TH DECEMBER

6 December. How could you forget? You had a meet-up with your friends from middle school but you have yet to get Satoru’s gift.

Surely it won’t take long. Your head reassured your worries.

Oh, how were you wrong. You were supposed to have a fun little chit-chat session at the cafe you used to visit during your teenage days.

6pm became 8pm, 8pm became 10pm.

You’re walking along the streets, mentally cursing yourself. The time on the watch Satoru bought for you said 11pm. And you’re having a mini breakdown because you weren���t keeping track of time. You’ve never been good at managing your time. — Well not after you dated Gojo Satoru.

He’d always remind you to take breaks in between your work because you simply can’t give yourself a break. To other people, you’ve been told a workaholic, but to Gojo Satoru, you’re just someone who works harder than others. And for that, you too, deserve a break.

Oh how you miss him.

As you walk down the shops along the pathway leading to your shared apartment, you stole a quick glance on the kikufuku bakery shop that your boyfriends loves.

‘Limited Edition Flavour — GET IT NOW! Today’s the Last Day’

Your eyes lit up. That was the flavour he’s been dying to try but it was always sold out. You ran in without a second thought and bought it as a gift for your boyfriend.

“That idiot loves kikufuku. I’m sure he’ll love it if you give him that but I know he’ll love anything that you give him.” —Surely he’ll love it, right, Megumi?

6TH DECEMBER 11.56pm

You’re sitting on the balcony of your shared home, waiting for his arrival. He might not even come home exactly on his birthday so why wait? — Even though he always said there was no need to wait up for him, you end up doing the opposite. You love waiting up for him even if it means falling asleep on the couch while waiting.

The cold breeze gave you goosebumps on your skin, and you began biting your nails. —A habit of yours, in which Satoru kisses your fingertips in an attempt for you to stop. What if he doesn’t like the gifts you got him? Hell, it was just kikufuku from your local bakery shop. You started pacing around the house, completely unaware of the sound of the keys.

“Sweetheart?”

Were you dreaming? Or was it the voice of your lovely boyfriend?

7TH DECEMBER 12.00AM

You moved from your previous position and jumped straight into Satoru’s arms which he got taken aback but recovered quickly when you felt his arms wrapped around your back.

Oh how you missed him.

“Someone misses me that much h-?”

You placed a finger on his mouth, cupped both his cheeks while leaning your foreheads together, and softly, you said “Happiest of birthday My Satoru. My gift is waiting for you in the kitchen. It’s not much but I-”

He cut you off by kissing your salty-tasted lips. Where were the lips that tasted like strawberries— the strawberry flavoured chapstick he loved so much?

Had you been crying?

He broke the kiss, and walked you both to the kitchen, never letting you go as if you were as fragile as a newborn baby. He sat you on the counter beside the bakery box decorated with ribbons that matched his beautiful cerulean eyes and smiled, immediately knowing what was inside. — His s/o got him the limited edition kikufuku flavour he had been dying to try!

One of his hands rested on your waist while the other squished your cheeks. You squealed.

“Don’t worry about it, sweetheart. I enjoy my birthday best with you and your presence is the best gift. That makes everyday my birthday sweetheart, Thank you and I love you.” He kissed your forehead.

It was as if he read your mind. He knew how to clear the doubts in your head.

You covered your face with your palms to cover both your face and hide your sniffles. — You’ve always said you hate how cheesy he gets but— Oh how you love it. And he knows you love it.

He pried your hands away from your face and pinned them above your head. That action made you look up at him. His beautiful snow white hair and cerulean eyes. You pray that one day, your children will inherit those features of his that you love so much.

“Don’t be shy now baby I’m gna’ unwrap my present now”

The next thing you know, his lips found yours again.

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[sleeplesssmoll]

Do you think Vertin know about madam z and Constantine's association? Like how madam z could've prevented the breakaway incident.

A part of me thinks that Vertin is smart enough to figure it out years ago...

But like another part of me really likes the potential of this, the *angst* cause yes I am a edgy bitch. The mental breakdown of Vertin upon learning one of the most trusted person she had actually backstabbed her years ago. **The potential**

Cause let's be real madam z. if not else, guilty by association, if a person had a chance to stop a tsunami but decided not, even if she wasn't the one who caused the tsunami she still didn't stop it.

I think Vertin already forgave her. She mentioned she knew Madam Z wasn't part of the game Constantine was playing. In a way, Madam Z is like her. They are both pawns, however, they have grander plans. Madam Z has also been looking out for Vertin in a way which we can see in story but also in the amount of respect Vertin speaks to her with.

What I wonder, is how does Madam Z feel about it? Does it haunt her? Does she ever feel the guilt when she looks at Vertin? Does she remember the way Vertin sank to the floor in the rain after the Storm took her friends?

Vertin may have forgive Madam Z, but does Madam Z forgive herself for not acting sooner?

This also makes me think of Vertin's experiment with Regulus. She wasn’t sure if it'd work and she never got a chance to explain to Regulus what she was up to (because of Sonetto's interference and Regulus running away). Regulus could have been erased! She is willing to make those insane, drastic measures...kinda like Constantine tbh...BUT she does it with consent and considers other people's well-being in her scheme. She actually cares about the lives that get tangled up in her tragic story.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Soulmate au but chaotic.

Danny gets summoned by Ras al Ghul, intending to use him as a hostage against Tim/Damian (I'm not sure which one I want) due to him being thier soulmate.

Ras makes a mistake though as Danny is in his Phantom form and decided to make the creepy old dude pay. He phased out of his cage and restraints and overshadowed Ras, making him run into a closet run headfirst into the wall and then left his unconscious body in the locked room.

Phantom, not knowing anything other than this other teen is his soulmate introduced himself as Phantom and asked if they were okay. Somehow the situation devolves into Danny deciding to take revenge against everyone who has ever hurt thier soulmate and prank everyone along the way.

Batfam? He breaks into the Wayne manor, calmly announced he knew who they really were and proceeds to repeatedly leave tiny plastic camels everywhere. Tv remote isn't working and you go to change the batteries? There's tiny plastic camels in there. Pressing snooze on you're alarm clock? A tiny plastic camel is the first thing you see in the morning. Jason being annoying? He opens his bathroom vanity and a sea of tiny GIJoe sized camels pour out.

Best part is they're not actually plastic >:)

Danny has also

1. Painted the entirety of Ras base a reflective neon orange

2. Made a show of following Ras and Talia separately around thier bases only a few inches behind them until they have to turn around and immediately enter into a startled battle stance and demand to know what he is. He sends the video to his soulmate for lols

Bonus points if they're watching this together on the batcomputer and one of them says "We won't let that happen to us"

And Danny responds behind them, shocking them.

3. Returns Tim's spleen to him in perfect condition. The bast part if that the batfam have no context for this and think Phantom, a Lazarus Pit demon just gave him a random human organ of unknown origin.

4. Alfred has pseudo tamed Danny with hot chocolate. This does not stop him from playing pranks and tricks on the bats. One of Phantoms favorite things to do is stand over peoples beds while they sleep and scare them when they wake up.

5. Phantom turned Constantine into a cat and played with his paws for 20 minutes. Then just poofed him into the JL watchtower with his trench coat. In all fairness John had said something about no one being able to get him to stop smoking and Danny took that as a challenge.

6. Cyborg keeps getting hacked and getting rick rolled

7. Wonder Woman has a non venomous snake wrapped around her neck as a scarf. No one knows where it came from but she loves it.

8. Phantom keeps writing his soulmate sappy/flirty/encouraging love notes and leaving them around the manor for them to find

9. Bruce keeps finding colorful fake mustaches on his face randomly and is having a mental breakdown.

10. Danny using a duck call as a method of sending coded messages via morse code. This happened immediately after someone told him about a drake being a male duck. Most of these messages are like the aforementioned little notes

[thevindicativevordan]

Do you think that in a DC reboot or on an alternate Earth, like untouched Earth-Alpha, Superman and Zatanna could be a couple during Clark’s earlier years. Just an idea that’s been kicking around in my head since Zatanna’s father also got his start in Action Comics #1

Are you trying to give Paul Dini a mental breakdown? Heh sure, there’s no reason why the two couldn’t date, long as they’re in the same age bracket. Don’t know if I want to add Superman as another love interest for Zee given she’s already shipped with Constantine and Batman. But I can’t think of a reason the two couldn’t date, and I do wish Supes and her had more interactions given that bit of real world trivia.

[grrrrrrrbarkbarkbark]

John Constantine, Rip Hunter, and Ray Palmer

get them randomly assigned as your lab partner for a whole semester, get trapped with them on a broken elevator for ten hours, and they’re your employee trainer for your new job at McDonalds

1. Okay so for my lab partner the OBVIOUS choice is Ray Palmer but on closer thought I would get annoyed at him and probably have a mental breakdown eventually over the fact I don't have proper executive function and can barely do shit academically speaking vs his literal golden retriever energy. SO the actual awnser is probably Rip hunter because he is from 100 ish years in the future and he'd probably be pissed at me for not doing work which I can handle more then golden retriever energy. He'd probably also be very organized and set aside time to work together as he thrives in executive environments with structure (ie see being raised in a authortain time government and having his life be heavily structured, and also forming and operating the time bureau)

2. Id like to be stuck in an elevator with Ray as we would work together to make sure it's safe and probably just chill for awhile. He'd probably start small talking and my autistic ass that had a special intreset in social ettquite would have a blast with the scripted tennis match that is most of my social interactions.

3. And ofc John Constantine for the employee trainer. I feel like this one's pretty self explainitory but I'll explain my choice anyway. Firstly I (quburt) live with a version of him in my system I know that he differs from source a bit but I feel like it would mentally prepare me. Secondly both punks and we'd probably be like 'work fucking sucks' together. Thirdly and finally I think he'd let me have prolonged smoke breaks and work while high.

[spiders-hth-is-an-outlier]

So overall I liked the Netflix Sandman, and I might write up something more specific than that at some point, but just like, for the record, I have Complaints but overall I liked it.  That said, I am going to complain, right now, I'm sorry, I am a middle-aged dude on the internet and a hefty fine does get levied if I don't say something negative about a Nostalgia Property marketed to me, my hands are tied.  Johanna Constantine doesn't work.  There!  I said it!  She doesn't work!

To be fair, I will say that no version of John Constantine has ever worked for me on screen – the Keanu Reeves movie is terrible, and I did really want to like the tv version, but I don't.  I always want to like these things!  Because I dearly love John Constantine.  I'm the kind of weird about Constantine that other people are about Batman, he is simply THE comic book character to me, an opinion I developed while my adult tastes were forming in late adolescence around Sandman and Everything Alan Moore Ever Touched In His Life.  The 90s were not on balance a golden age in comics, and a lot of things were actually uhhhh, really terrible, but I stuck with Hellblazer much longer than I did with other titles, because of Constantine.  He's mean, he's smart, he's deeply compassionate, he's a punk, he's a demonslayer, he's a con man, he's a fuckboy, he's a wizard, he's haunted, he's footloose, he's charismatic, he's the whole fucking package.

So you know, it didn't fully thrill me when they announced the genderflip for this show, because we've yet to get a live-action version of the actual character that I love, but you know, I was willing to be wooed.  I think I went in with an open mind, just recognizing that this was going to be a new thing and trying to evaluate it on its own terms.  And I don't think I'm just kidding myself; I can imagine a Johanna Constantine that would've hit the right buttons for me.  It's hard to know for sure, but I really did try to extend her every opportunity to embody the spirit of the character.

And I don't know why they made the choices they did.  Obviously people involved had their reasons.  But the thing is, for me, The Spirit of John Constantine is that he's kind of a mess.  He gets involved in shit because he can't leave shit alone, and he goes all in so that he's over his head.  He fucks up so much.  He's exhausted, he's bitter, he's had a few full-tilt mental breakdowns, his ghosts are literally and metaphorically all around him at all times.  Constantine is a very specific type of scruffy, intense sexy, a guy who's seen and done it all, the archetype of “will probably ruin your life, but the dick is insane.”  Can I imagine a female version of that character? Fuck yeah, I can!  Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine the female version of that character making it onto the screen.

What they did was an extremely safe version of the character.  She's young and conventionally attractive, which okay, it's a tv show.  Fine. But she's also so styled; she has perfect makeup and sleek hair and a neat coat that doesn't look like she's ever slept in it.  I mean, don't get me wrong, some versions of John Constantine have been a little more put-together than others, and I do think he's rocked the odd nice suit as well as sometimes looking like a bridge troll, but it's impossible for me to think that Netflix was just not going to do anything to this actress that made her look like less than a million bucks, for what reads to me as Deeply Gendered Reasons.

And that's kind of reflected all the way down in her character.  She approaches the exorcism in an entirely mercenary way – which, again, that element of John Constantine has always been there (he's a guy who's gone without enough that he values getting his where he can),  but choosing to show only that element, and not the way that Constantine is so often motivated by empathy for the underdog, is just a real wrong move in my opinion.  Also – and I know there are time constraints here and we can't delve deeply into Constantine Lore while Morpheus is the actual protagonist – but the exorcism they show us presents what I guess is meant to be a Routine Job for Johanna, and it's really just the “say the spell with your whole chest” school of wizardry. But the fun of John Constantine wasn't that he could just throw fireballs at demons or whatever!  He was smart and tricky and resourceful, he outfoxed demons more often than he overpowered them. And that's not the point of the episode, but when that's absent from our view of A Typical Day In the Life of Johanna Constantine, then we don't know whether or not she's smart or tricky or resourceful.  We just know that she can read the Latin real good, so she can charge a lot of money.  And that makes her a generic spellcaster to me; I don't particularly recognize that portrayal as fundamentally Constantine.

Even the aspect of the character that seems kind of potentially subversive when genderflipped, the whole “Constantine leaves a gender-neutral trail of broken hearts wherever s/he goes” thing, just kind of.  Doesn't work in this version, because without any context it just looks like “Constantine doesn't do relationships” for, I don't know, Hot Girl Reasons. Maybe that's not fair – maybe we're not supposed to take it as reliable when Johanna says she dipped out on Rachel just kinda because she didn't want to get as serious as Rachel did.  I'd have to reread Preludes & Nocturnes, which I haven't done in a while, to see how much what we're told of Rachel and Johanna matches what we're told of Rachel and John; maybe it just doesn't work for me because by the time Rachel is introduced there's already a failure to make Johanna seem like a messy person with a history of messy, broken relationships.  She seems shocked to learn that things went badly for this woman who loved her after Johanna fucked off, in a way that strikes me as not right for Constantine, who's a character with a lot of social and emotional intelligence that helps him navigate tight situations.  I don't know, that's the point that I'm least confident about my read on; I may just be uncharitable in this case.

It's a small part of the overall series, so the fact that I think they stripped out what makes John distinctive is a bummer for me personally, but hardly fatal to the show.  It's not a big deal.  It's not a big deal which is why I'm complaining about it on the World Wide Web for 1000 words.  To show how much it's not a big deal to me.  It's fine, I'm fine.

[venicepearl]

Mary Ansell (1 March 1861 – 30 June 1950) was an English actress and author. She was born on 1 March 1861 in Paddington (London), the third child of George and Mary Ansell, who ran and lived over the King’s Head pub in Paddington. Ansell’s father died in 1875 and the family moved to Hastings, in Sussex.

Her first stage performance was in 1890 in a play called Harbour Lights. She met J. M. Barrie in 1891, when he was looking for an actress for a role in his play Walker, London. She was introduced to him by their mutual friend Jerome K Jerome.

Barrie and Ansell developed a friendship and she nursed him when he fell ill in 1894. After his recovery, they married on 9 July 1894 in a simple ceremony in Kirriemuir, his home town.

The couple first bought a house at 133 Gloucester Road, Kensington and a few years later, in 1900, moved to Leinster Corner, a house at 100 Bayswater Road overlooking Kensington Gardens. In the same year, Ansell bought Black Lake Cottage, a country house in Farnham, Surrey where they would go at weekends and in summer.

During her honeymoon in Switzerland, she and Barrie adopted a St. Bernard puppy, Porthos, marking the start of her lifelong love of dogs. After Porthos’s death, they took on a black and white Newfoundland, Luath, who was the inspiration for Nana in Peter Pan.

In 1897 Barrie met Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her sons, first George, Jack and Peter, and later Michael and Nico and enjoyed a close friendship with the family, to the detriment of Ansell who felt neglected. To fill her time, Ansell developed a strong interest in interior design and gardening which kept her occupied at both Black Lake Cottage and Leinster Corner.

She wrote about her passions in three books, Happy Houses, The Happy Garden (1912) and Men and Dogs (1924).

In 1907, Ansell met Gilbert Cannan who aspired to be a writer and came to work with Barrie on an anti-censorship campaign. Cannan had been courting sculptress Kathleen Bruce but was heartbroken when the latter accepted Robert Falcon Scott’s marriage proposal. He turned to the Barries for comfort and became very close to Ansell, leading to an affair, despite the 20-year difference in age.

When Barrie learned of the affair in July 1909, he demanded that she end it, but she refused. To avoid the scandal of divorce, he offered a legal separation if she would agree not to see Cannan any more, but she still refused. Barrie sued for divorce on the grounds of infidelity, but in the course of divorce proceedings, it was revealed the marriage had been unconsummated. The decree nisi was granted in October 1909. Ansell and Cannan married the following year and in 1913 they moved to a disused tower mill in Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, Hawridge Windmill.

Her marriage to Cannan was not a happy one as Cannan suffered a mental breakdown and was unfaithful; he had an affair with their maid Gwen Wilson, who became pregnant. In 1917, Ansell left Cannan and found herself in straitened circumstances. She was working for the war effort rolling bandages and packing medical supplies when Barrie came to find her and offered financial help, giving her an annual allowance which carried on until his death in 1937. She was left a bequest of £1,000 and an annuity of £600 in his will.

In the 1920s, Ansell moved to Biarritz (France). Barrie paid for a villa to be built for her, the Villa La Esquina, rue Constantine, where she died on 30 June 1950. She is buried in the Cemetery Sabaou, in Biarritz.

[psychoticwillgraham]

It’s Will, Ash had a mini mental breakdown at work and the only reason it wasn’t worse was because the head cook adores it. I’ll be real with you all, we’re doing extremely poorly at the moment. I let my guard down and let Ash get lost its head, and just like how I am, it takes it a long time to fully come back from it. Hannibal’s been co fronting with me all day since the breakdown, and I’ll be the main one out for a while, while Hannibal will front for when we try to sleep. I’m extremely good at pretending to be Ash typing wise, so if I have to I will, mostly if you all get tired of me. I’ve been the host unofficially for a while now, but like I said, I’ve been mimicking it perfectly. I’m nearly indistinguishable from it in real life because we really are the same person.

Its head is a terrifying place that not even most of us here have access to, at least the deepest, darkest parts of it. Really, only me, Hannibal, and Constantine have seen it and are regularly allowed to. The rest of them couldn’t handle it, not in the least bit. Maybe except for Cassidy and Nathan, but they haven’t earned the access yet. I know I’m making Ash sound like a closet sociopath and being ultra dramatic about how ‘terrible’ its thoughts are, but I’m not trying to make it sound like that. Yes its thoughts are horrific at times, but I really do see myself in it as a person.

At its core, all it wants is to be seen, just like I did. To be loved, embraced, and just wholeheartedly accepted by someone, just one person even. It wants to find its equal, but it’s resigned itself to being alone forever. I’m certainly not one to offer advice and say that it’ll find the right person one day, because both of us are extremely cynical when it comes to our views on humanity. It wants to be an optimist, but it just isn’t. All it can see is the nasty and manipulative aspects of people. I’m not saying that Ash isn’t manipulative, because it very well is when it wants to be, but it hates to be.

So, you’ll all be getting me for the foreseeable future. -Will

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Struggles Within

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/7LRMhn9 by CowBoyLizard1767 This Goes a bit more in-depth with Giovanni Zatara’s time inside the helmet as not much was given to what had happened during his time there, and also goes into more of Zatara’s and Nabu’s relationship with a ending twist as this will not follow the Original story line of Young Justice Words: 4442, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: M/M Characters: Nabu (DCU), Giovanni "John" Zatara, Zatanna Zatara, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Jason Blood, John Constantine, Klarion (DCU), Vandal Savage, Phantom Stranger (DCU), Doctor Fate, Billy Batson, Teekl (DCU), Lords of Order (DCU), Lords of Chaos (DCU), Other(s) Relationships: Giovanni “John” Zatara & Nabu (DCU) Additional Tags: Emotional Manipulation, Physical Abuse, Not Canon Compliant, Trauma, Psychological Trauma, Possessive Behavior, Mental Breakdown, Sorry Not Sorry, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Captivity, With A Twist, Daddy Issues, The Author Regrets Nothing read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/7LRMhn9

[knullanon]

Hey darling,

I'm super stressed because I'm still in school and don't have the best home life, and end of year testing is coming up next week and I'm in All honors/advanced. Can you do headcanons or something with the yan dads helping their baby that's having a mental break down and is just crying on the floor. I don't believe any of them would care too much about ur grade because they would take care of you for the rest of ur remaining life. Yan dads are ra's, bruce, oliver, lex, steve,hal,john constantine, and barry allen plz🥺 no rush take ur time

Your beloved

-🌹

aight! thank you my beloved for sending this in!

bruce wayne

he will straight up make u take a break. doesnt matter how, or why, but he will not have his baby having a breakdown in the living room bc of school

he will have timmy do the work, or he will pay off the school. or, maybe he might make you fail to convince you that you are nothing without him. depends on how much you trust them and how much they trust you

ra's al ghul

assuming ur taking online classes, hell console you and a, make sure you're ok, and that you feel good about yourself and pay off your professor to make your grades good, or b, hell make Damian do it for you.

also, reasoning why its online is bc. hes in the mountains. where is a school.

oliver green

his bb????? stressed??? will take you out. no other option. manipulation and other tactics will force you to agree with him, and hes so happy that he finally had you to yourself!

also, he will try to console you afterward. if you really wanted to be in school, he will try everything to make you think it was the right decision

le luthor

also assuming that its online, he wont have to pay anything, if the school wants to be afloat when you graduate they better give you some good grades. so, no he wont have to do shit

he will console you also tho. making sure that you feel better and helping you with whatever

steve

hes the kinda guy to actually help you study instead of just going the easy way. if that doesnt help, at the end of the day, he can always call in a favor from Tony or natasha to get you passing

also, comfort time for him. hes like a toned down version of dick, so yeah hes little manipulative but hes also kinda sweet

hal jordan

he wont actually remeber you were going to school until this point. then he will be like "oh shit" and try to help you study but if that doesnt help or work he will also join the "I'm going to fucking destroy you" gang to the school

is actually kind of good at teaching you shit tbh he makes it fun

constantine

he will steiaght up make a new spell to make you remember everything from a text book. overnight. he tells you everything's gonna be ok and then give you the info.

actually, the night before, after you had almost cried yourself to sleep, you wake to hear the sounds of chanting n shit and when you look in his room this is what u see

barry

hes a dumbass but desicion wise so hes actually kinda smart. hes gonna help you any way he can, and I'm pretty sure hes rich too so obviously hes gonna help you that way too.

all in all hes a pretty cool person to study with tbh

[mlm-writer]

Dealing with Demons (John Constantine x GN!Reader)

Pairing: John Constantine (DC LoT ver.) x Gender Neutral Reader  Rating: PG13 Words: 954 Summary: You’re having a depressive episode on your favourite holiday of the year, Halloween. Your boyfriend decided that just won’t do.  Note: Had a depressive episode. Wanted to write for Halloween. Osteoporosis. Tags: no beta we die like men, mental breakdown (like I have them. everyone is different and this is 100% self-indulgent ok), hurt/comfort, fluff, implied self-hatred, cuddling, spooning and John and reader both are on the “I don’t deserve you” bullshit 

The door unlocked, sending you in a panicked frenzy. You were not the superstitious type, but such things happening on Halloween night was unnerving. It didn’t help that you had your fair share of run-ins with demons, given your boyfriend was none other than… “It’s me, love, now come out of hiding.” Speaking of the devil…

You cleared your throat and wiped the tears off your face. “I told you I’m not feeling well, John. You better go before you catch something too.” You heard him come up the stairs and frantically wiped your face with the shirt you had thrown on the ground, before picking up the blanket off the floor. You turned around when the door opened, trying to look nonchalant. 

John took a look around and you could see that he knew what was going on. It was quite clear with the bed mostly empty, the mirror covered and the floor littered with empty candy bar wrappers and clothes. “I don’t think I will catch what you have, love.” He closed the door behind him and took his coat off. You were relieved to see he at least learned to take his shoes off by the door now. John sat down on the bed, loosening his tie even further. He held an arm out for you. You shook your head and hugged your body. Suddenly being in your underwear was cold. You took a small, fluffy blanket off the floor and covered your body with it. 

“John, I’m thankful that you’re here, but you don’t have to deal with this. Just… go to that party. I can come next year.” He sighed and stood up. He picked up your pillows and threw them back on the bed, taking the blanket next and tossing it as a heap on the bed as well. 

“Look, I’ve known you for years and you love Halloween more than an emo teenager. So…” He strutted around your room, finding the bowl with candy, which was half empty by now. He took it off your drawer and held it as he walked back to the bed. “Let’s at least watch a movie and laugh at how inaccurate the exorcism is.” 

You were not in the mood for this, but you knew you couldn’t get rid of John either. He was like a chewing gum under your shoe when he chose to be. “I don’t want to watch a movie,” you muttered, not looking at him, “I’m sorry, I just… I don’t know.” Your voice cracked and John put the candy away. He walked closer to you, cupping your face with his hands. You could smell the cigarettes on his breath. His beautiful brown eyes stared into your teary ones. 

“No matter what you think right now, I love you.” He wiped the tear that escaped your eyes away with his thumb. “I’m a cursed man, love, and I have done nothing to deserve an angel like you. It kills me to see that you don’t realise how heaven-sent you are.” You tried to pull away from him, but he put a hand on your arm and kept you close. “I fight demons for a living, love, so let me have a go at those in your head, a’right?”

You cried as you nodded your head and John pulled you in closer, letting you wet his white shirt with your tears. He pulled you into the bed, struggling with the blanket for a while, before you were underneath it and resting with your head on his chest. He stroked your hair. You couldn’t see his face, but you didn’t want to right now. “Thinking I don’t deserve my partner is my thing, Johnny boy,” you muttered with a little humour in your voice, “the only thing you don’t deserve is having to go through… this…”

“This?”

“When I’m like this.”

He kissed the top of your head. “Well, exorcisms are getting too easy, so I might as well step up my game and give your demons a crack, ey?” You smiled and adjusted your head. You were quiet for a while, John caressing your skin and occasionally kissing your head. You held his hand, rubbing the top of it with your thumb. 

“Can I spoon you?” John was quiet for a moment. He shifted and looked at you with a look that questioned the seriousness of your request. “For real, I wanna big spoon you.” He looked at you for a moment longer, before shrugging and getting in position. You shifted until you had an arm draped over your boyfriend and held him close. You kissed the back on his neck, before snuggling into him. 

“I feel like this should be the other way around.”

“No, I like it like this. Makes me feel like you’re mine.”

“I am.” 

“I’m glad.” 

You enjoyed having John near you, even throwing a leg over his to bring you two even closer. You lied there for another while, midnight nearing. “Maybe I do want to watch a movie.” You didn’t get a reply and lifted your head, only to see John asleep in your arms. He looked more peaceful than he usually did and you smiled. You put your head back down and pulled your man just a little bit closer. As you closed your eyes, you knew you weren’t cured or anything, but you felt better. For now, that was all that mattered. John could not rid your head of the demons, but he could silence them, so you could deal with them in your own time. Even then, you knew you wouldn’t have to do it alone. You kissed his head one more time, before drifting off to sleep. 

[jupitermelichios]

WIP Tag Game

WIP Challenge 😁❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍❤😁🤩🤩 Rules: tell us the titles of all the WIPs you are currently working on right now and a little about them. Then tag five other writers.

@impishtubist tagged anyone who wanted to do it, and i decided to publically humiliate myself by showing you all how disorganised my writing process is

I tag @irolltwenties, @starcityrebels @gealach-in-a-misty-world, @kiseiakhun & @kittyaugust, and anyone else who sees this and thinks it would be fun!

Unnamed Sterek Remix

I realised Feels Good Doesn't It, one of the first multi-chapter fics I ever finished, was literally a decade old this year, and I thought it would be a fun excercise to try rewriting it and seeing how my writing has improved. And then I reread it and realised that, while there is still a lot about it I like, I had absolutely no idea how to construct a plot back then. So then I spent several hours pouring water into the plot of season 2 to see where it leaked, and ended up a fic that is half 'what if stiles got turned into a creature' AU and half 'what if season 2 made sense though' AU. I have no idea when (if ever) it will be finished, but it's colonised my brain like cordyceps spores and shows no sign of leaving, so maybe it will actually see the light of day eventually.

Unnamed Gotham Ghoul sequel

This one has been 90% done for at least a year, but won't tell me what it needs to actually wrap up the plot. It's an exploration of tim's mental health issues, because that seems to be all I write these days, although being the GG universe this time it has a fun cannibalism twist on the formula! Plus it's dick POV, which I don't write nearly often enough.

Back to the future didn't prepare me for this

The not!fic part of this project is chugging along, but that mostly just exists to advertise the larger (as yet unpublished) project of creating an in-world wiki for an alternate timeline version of the MCU. It's unquestionable the largest thing I've ever written, 200,000 words and counting, and it's going to appeal pretty much exclusively to whatever the crossover of mcu fic readers and blazeball fans is, but i have loved writing it so much that i don't even care that that's probably about 1 person.

the boy with a crooked shadow

this is a dead dove batman/robin vampire AU that wasn't supposed to be an anne rice homage but has definitely turned into an anne rice homage, and i have no idea if i'll ever finish it, but i think what i have so far is some of the best stuff i've ever written

Dick Goes Deep on Daddy Issues

I promise I'm not actually going to call it that, although it's been 10,000 words and well over a year without any better ideas, so maybe I don't promise that. Either way, it's the Dick/Midnighter prequel/side-quel to Pretty Boy, aka 21 pages of dick fucking his own demons for fun and profit

Untitled Constantine de-aging fic

sometimes i write happy fic, and sometimes i write zatanna having to babysit a version of john who hasn't even met her yet and has no idea why talking to him makes her cry. this is one of many WIPs that has a delicious set up and a great opening and yet it steadfastly refuses to develope any actual plot

untitled first time spike/angel/drusilla fic

i hate writing porn, i really do, so why are so many of my best ideas entirely centered around me having to write porn? but spike and angel are so repressed, and so convinced they're the least repressed people on earth, and i'm completely obsessed with the toxic and yet genuinely affectionate family dynamic the whirlwind have, so maybe having to write all that sex will be worth it

untitled tim & dana angst

i just wanted to write tim having a breakdown tbh and the period where he's not robin makes such a good setting for that, and i think dana's a really interesting character, and she makes a good foil for tim in this setting, but unfortunately i need a way for their conversation to end that isn't dana putting tim on house arrest or tim just throwing himself out of the window and i'm not actually sure that's possible, i completely understand why this scene didn't happen in the comics now.

And I Would Die For You A Thousand Times

I'm being optimistic, counting this as a WIP, but I want to be the sort of person who could finish it. that's who i aspire to be as a writer. it's a bbc musketeers athos/porthos/aramis fic with a merlin/every other character in merlin backstory, because lancelot was never actually confirmed to be properly dead and maybe walking through tears in reality makes you immortal, and maybe if you were immortal you'd seek out a regiment and soldiers who remind you of the knights you knew long ago, and then maybe you'd completely fail to tell them you were imortal while also falling despierately in love with them, and maybe, one day, i'll be the kind of writer who can actually write chapters and chapters of pining without it just getting boring.

untitled (and largely unstarted) teen wolf nailbiter au

the universes mesh so well, i don't even really have a plot, i just have the certain knowledge that these universes were meant to be glued together

An embarrasment of sequel ideas for just about every fic i've ever written

i've got let me take you by the hand sequels (and AUs), i've got joyce byers home for wayward teens sequels, i've got way way too many gotham ghoul sequels, i've got serial fiction sequels, i've got together sequels. if you want sequels... probably don't come to be because the chances of me finishing any of them are laughable

this is by no means all of them (my HP critique-as-fic ron x draco story is getting prodded at, and the gotham garage jaytim fic, and i know no one believes me any more but i promise not a catholic thing isn't actually dead!) but it's the most interesting ones, I think.

[starcitysirens]

Wait, is Constantine mentally ill in comics?

Oh honey. Listen, I love Matt Ryan’s version of John. I know he loves this character as much as the fans do, I love how much work he puts into his performance but he’s NEVER played a real, true to comics Constantine because they haven’t written it for him.

John spent years in and out of mental hospitals, where he was failed by the staff over and over again. This man has had severe mental breakdowns, multiple times. He is an addict. He often descended into damaging depressive periods. 

One time it got so bad he spent 6 months homeless, sleeping in the streets, struggling with alcoholism.

When it’s good, Hellblazer is full of scathing political commentary about how society fails the marginalized. 

[chuchelo]

@dawnpyre​

Mist, mist, more mist.  Those Stars guys were completely and utterly insane; Crow couldn’t figure out what their game even was.  What purpose could this crazy stuff possibly serve other than leading to everyone having a mental breakdown in the middle of the street.  Worst of all, he needed groceries!  There was no way in hell that even the usual slaves to capitalism would manage to get to work after fending off these hell spawn and visions that plagued the mists.

Whatever, he’d go check anyway.  Managers were insane like that.  All he had to do was be careful and not approach anyone or anything that appeared in his vicinity.  Should be easy enough!  Crow carefully crept down the street, his head constantly swiveled around as he desperately attempted to keep a 360 view of his surroundings.  The grocery store was a five minute walk away, but it’d taken him ten minutes just to leave the townhouse complex.

He could see the door to the grocery store slowly phase into existence; the chrome handles took on an eerie crimson color from the eclipse that endlessly appeared overhead.  Mission accomplish--

“There he is!”  Crow whipped around to see three figures bounding through the mists towards him; there was a crackle of electricity as they prepared what he knew were the tasers at their sides.  Of course he had to run into these Constantine idiots again -- he was so close to getting his stupid peanut butter too!

Now that he was prepared to see them, Crow turned tail and booked it down the street.  He could hear their heavy footsteps as their boots pounded the ground after him; they were very quickly gaining on him despite his best efforts.  Crow turned his head to look behind him, but missed another figure emerging from the mists in front of him.  He clobbered him head on and they both ended up sprawled in the middle of the street.

“So sorry, but we gotta run if we don’t want to get electrocuted by 50k volts.”