#Modern without powers

[geraskierfanficprompts]

Prompt 40

In a modern world, Geralt has been chatting online with a man named "Dandelion" for about four weeks now. They finally worked up the mutual courage to go out for a date... I R L... (shocked gasps from the imaginary audience)

Only, Geralt has been sat alone at the restaurant they agreed upon for about an hour and a half now. All his messages to Dandelion have been ignored. He doesn't want to hope something bad happened to him, but he also doesn't want to hope the man is fine and just decided to blow off Geralt and their date. But then he finally gets a call from Dandelion. "Hi! Geralt! Geralt, Right? I hit the right number? Listen- Um- I locked my keys in the car. I know it sounds like an excuse but it isn't! And the car fixer men can't come until tomorrow, so I was just going to hire an uber, but I can't find my wallet, and I doubt I have the money for it, for see, my darling white wolf, I may have splurged all my money on quite a lovely bouquet to bring you- Um- It's on my kitchen table-" (the sounds of a man clambering and stumbling through his own apartment) "-And so i was going to do the very embarrassing act of asking you to pay for my uber, even though you were already generous enough to offer to pay for the entire meal, and so I decided I'd think on it and try and find my wallet again after my shower, but see then I fell in the shower, and I- Well, to be honest, I think I might have broken my arm, um- I think I need a raincheck? And can I borrow money for an uber to the hospital? I'll pay it back, I swear!" Long story short, Geralt's first date with this 'Dandelion' guy he's had a massive crush on for weeks, is driving him to the hospital and checking him in. The worst part of it all is that Jaskier (Dandelion's real name*) is so charming, that Geralt can't even be upset about the whole situation. *Geralt soon learns that "Julian" is Jaskier's 'real' real name, when he ends up helping Jaskier write out his medical forms, but this is all just semantics.

[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

svsss mafia au where tlj lost a leg in a gang war. sxy was sent to infiltrate his organization and sneak info back to hhp, but instead she rose to genuine power in tlj’s organization and became fond of him. he knew she was a mole at first but she quickly stopped passing info along bc she was respected there in a way hhp only pretended to respect her

hhp master gets pissed to have lost his favorite plaything and starts spreading rumors that sxy’s been abducted by tlj. the two of them go into hiding when hhp and its allies start a manhunt, sxy gets pregnant, hhp manages to capture sxy and convince tlj that she led them to him.

sxy gets away but doesn’t go back to tlj bc she *doesnt* want to lead hhp to him, she has the baby, she’s killed by hhp for being a traitor. hhp convinces its allies tlj’s gang kidnapped and killed sxy, and tlj already believes that sxy betrayed him to hhp and friends.

heartbroken, tlj plans to take out hhp, but he’s ambushed by hhp + friends. cang qiong is instrumental in taking tlj down, hhp puts tlj in an abandoned mountain hideout. they torture him (costing him a leg) and leave him for dead, but carelessly (arrogantly?) don’t stick around to finish the job.

zzl rolls a nat 20 on his medicine check and saves tlj’s life, and the two of them lay low for a while. tlj deals with a fuck ton of pain for years and years and he doesn’t have the ability nor ambition to take his organization back.

and then zzl meets normal dude shen yuan who is going in for a management appointment for a chronic condition. zzl mentions that he’s been looking for help for his uncle, and sy points him toward a trial for some sort of experimental therapy that a friend of a friend of a friend is involved with.

zzl manages to get tlj into the trial and the treatment is super effective for him. he’s still got pain but it’s no longer constantly debilitating, which leads to improved mood and more activity, which leads to a desire for revenge. but he promises his cute nephew that he’ll spare the one who helped them, who zzl has learned is the younger brother of cang qiong’s second in command. so at least sy will be fine!!

[orlopsexdungeon]

modern au Irving doesn't have to deal with the ice or the scurvy or the starvation but he does go door-to-door evangelizing in poorer neighborhoods and subsequently has to deal with the horror of the slowly dawning realization that the little guy in a fluffy bathrobe with tussled hair & his skinny friend in pj pants with bruises on his neck just fucked each other

[ship-of-skitties]

hear me out:

don quixote (book), don quixote (play) and don quixote (limbus company) all get isekai'd into a stock standard swords and sorcery world. How Does It Go.

[tsarsilver]

Sure Buggy and Crocodile have devil fruit powers, but Mihawk is the only one who could get their house key if it fell to the bottom of a pool, so really who's more powerful

[biterflies]

superman 🤝 the flash 🤝 spiderman

kickstarting the eras of comics

[madaqueue]

once again thinking about being zhongli’s pet that sits at his feet during meetings, resting your head in his lap. his fingers absentmindedly run over your hair but you stay silent, because you know if you’re good, he’ll reward you, let you pull his cock free and taste him. it’s only fair that you have something to entertain yourself, after all

[mathmusic8]

My husband is showing me the 2001 Justice League show, and as someone who's only really seen a couple of modern DC movies and video games, the show is very refreshing, and pretty eye-opening. Like, oh, THIS is why people like DC heroes. I get it now.

[dontgofarfromme]

Watched Anyone But You and I just think if ur gonna do Much Ado About Nothing its rude to just adapt the fun bits and ignore all the themes and social commentary and an entire half of the plot. Like I don't think u get to make Claudio a lesbian for diversity points and then wriggle out of thinking about how the fuck you actually make the story MEAN something after youve made that change by just not adapting the claudio/hero plot at all come onnnnnn

[arlathen]

honestly i very hope the veil comes down permanently in veilguard for the simple reason that it would lead to so much new cool worldbuilding in any subsequent game. elves are suddenly immortal again -- *all* elves, city and dalish. magic is back -- can everyone do a little magic? spirits are everywhere -- so many new dynamics to explore, where everyone not only can but kind of has to interact with them. that's so tasty.

[widowshill]

VAMP ROGER AU QUESTION! how would he and barnabas interact together (if they ever interact)? :3 💜

tagging @tortoisesshells because she's my co-conspirator <3

excellent question! this family and their sharp-toothed men will be the death of ... well, several community members of Collinsport, i suppose.

to start — Barnabas gets out of the box slightly differently than in canon, which colors his relationship to Roger and the rest of the household. Roger kills Willie after his attempted assault on Carolyn and Vicki (who is, by that point, his wife); Willie's mysterious disappearance and Roger's suspected involvement makes Jason that much more panicked, desperate, and correspondingly aggressive. Liz goes searching for the lost family jewels in a last-ditch attempt to buy Jason off, and, inadvertently, lets their ancient family sin out of the tomb.

ergo she's made Barnabas' thrall instead of Willie, but this goes unnoticed for a while — even though her brother would, in theory, recognize the signs, and his suspicions are raised, but she's already acting so much unlike herself with Jason around that he doesn't suspect anyone else of doing her harm. yet.

at the start, he and Barnabas get along very well, even before they discover their shared affliction: they're both relatively sophisticated, well-traveled, intelligent people, and for all that Roger decries Liz's emphasis on the Collins name, he leans towards familial connections instinctively (Roger hasn't got much in the way of friends outside of the house even in canon, and he's even more isolated as a vampire).

after he finds out Barnabas is also a vampire, things get a little more complicated, but overall, they're still friendly. Roger doesn't have much sympathy for Barnabas' relentless self-pity and decrying his doomed fate to live as a monster, because Roger on the whole enjoys his vampirism and has made a decent un-life for himself out of it (thanks in no small part to Vicki). but having someone like him around is a comfort in ways he wouldn't have expected, he's no longer solitary or uniquely monstrous out of the Collins family, he has someone else around through the night, and someone who understands the sufferings of bloodthirst and being shut out of the sun.

furthermore, Roger's very much interested in his family history and stories of the past, the building of Collinwood, Jeremiah's ships – and Barnabas was there. there's potential for some very interesting conversations about the past, and the arc of the Collins family history to the present, not to mention literature, travel, fashion, politics and the rest. Roger's his cousin's mirror in modernity in many ways, and that's something potentially interesting to explore: the world changes around them, but Collinses do not.

as an aside, they both have a funny sort of relationship to Burke. Barnabas hates him for his resemblance to Jeremiah and envies his friendship with Vicki and thinks he's crude, and Roger ... well. it's complicated. it's closer to antagonism than not, and Burke has tried to kill him once in this au, and Roger resents his flirting with Vicki, but then there's everything else with their past. so I don't think Barnabas' treatment of him would sit particularly well with Roger, he'd take the attitude of hey, only I can be a dick to Burke >:(

the definite fracture point is Barnabas imprinting on Vicki. Roger's already jealous and possessive by nature, and it's amplified by the supernatural nature of his relationship to Vicki (being closer, bodily and mentally; being necessary to each other; being, quite literally, sustenance) so he's already a little on edge when Barnabas starts paying attention to her, giving her presents, and appreciating the scenery — Barnabas doesn't, exactly, tend to have much in the way of moral inclination to leaving women alone when they have prior engagements, but it's fair to point out the irony of everything Roger was doing with his bloodbag governess when he was still very much a married man.

anyway: Roger finds foreign bite marks on his wife's neck, and he's understandably immensely upset by this. partially out of territorial sentiment, but he also knows Vicki, and he knows that she wouldn't have invited another vampire willingly — which means that she was forced, or hypnotized, or attacked in secret, and there's only the one potential suspect. this is already enough to lose his good will, but he might have been willing to let Barnabas go with a "hands off," had this discovery not lead to finding out what he'd also been doing to Liz. the combination of the two is unforgivable, and it's Barnabas' error to have made an enemy who is very personally aware of all his vampiric weaknesses, and Burke's already carved a stake.

[kingdomoftyto]

...BIG FEELS AND BIG PLOT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE END OF THAT BOOK, HUH

[xcziel]

XG - voxx line cover of Say My Name by Destiny's Child

this gave me pure joy

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

okay i finished a power unbound on the plane and i don't think i quite get the drarry coding that you do (tbh i just really loved all the intricate dynamics too much to compare them, they were SUCH a fascinating relationship and did not go how i expected them to at all!!! i am famously Not a romance reader and was still way more invested in jack and alan than the actual overarching plot lol, it was very odd for me) HOWEVER...i am shocked i've never encountered their safe word system in drarry fic before because it would work so well for them lol

AH! I loved that book I'm so glad you enjoyed it too!!! I don't see Jack as being like Draco or Alan as being like Harry. I just think their dynamic (esp their sexual dynamic) as being kind of aspirational to capture for a lot of drarry writers. Their safeword system being an EXCELLENT example. Maybe their enemies to lovers journey as well.

[marsixm]

waiting to hear the storm roll in while reading wikipedia articles on previous storms i lived thru but dont fully remember/know all the details of

[sendmyresignation]

I have a silly little pet theory that MCR5 will be blackgaze or having blackgaze influenced. I didn't have a ton of evidence (just that ibraki song, the foundations production/static and the fact that Saosin toured with a blackgaze inspired band which could've rubbed off on Frank via Anthony) but... What are your thoughts on the matter?

as the resident blackgaze hater my thoughts on the matter are negative but also i just don't think blackgaze would be the choice for my chem

ultimately i think the blackgaze evidence is minimal (especially given Gerard doesn't trend chase and blackgaze is easily the most critically heralded subgenre of metal and was initially viewed as "cutting edge" and now it's 10+ years post-sunbather so its also old-new trend chasing). what is evident is honestly just a black metal influence. not to do this to you but i wouldn't consider the ibaraki song blackgaze (gerards vocals are the most black metal part of the entire album- it's mostly a combo of prog and metalcore) and the foundation production is waayyyy to noisy to be blackgaze tbh, all that stuff feels comparatively smooth uniform and polished. comparatively, there's a lot more black and black-punk stuff percolating in and around the tour- namely their personal connection to melissa/jane pain, the venom shirt from rehearsals, the mercyful fate shoutout and twitter exchange to show shirt, devil master's opening dates, frank's connections with labels/bands through bloodnun, etc etc. i think it's a nice pet theory and i wouldn't be surprised if it's music the bands familiar with (i mean gerard is legitimately influenced by shoegaze) but I don't think it would inform the sound of mcr particularly