#Power of Payment

[morganbritton132]

(A little continuation from this post about teeny tiny Steve asking Wayne for help)

“It’s not a lie!” Steve insisted, grabbing hold of Tommy’s backpack strap so they don’t get separated as they filter out of the school building. “It really happened, I swear.”

“Superman really came to your house?”

“Not Superman. Not a superhero,” Steve shook his head. “He’s just has powers. I saw them with my own eyes.”

Tommy waited until the crowd started to thin out before saying, “I think you need to get your eyes checked.”

Steve rolled his eyes, “I’m serious, Tommy. Mr Wayne could see through metal and had super-strength, and - and he can control electricity like an X-Men.”

“If he’s a superhero how come you know his name? They’re supposed to have secret identities.”

“Cause I’m smart and figured it out.”

Tommy makes a face, leading them over to the crosswalk so they can make the trek to his house, “Is this like when you went to ninja school over spring break?”

“I did go to ninja school!”

“My mom said you went to your grandma’s.”

“That’s where the ninja school is,” Steve insisted. “Grandpa Otis taught me ninja moves from the war.”

“Grandpa Otis isn’t a ninja.”

“He has a sword, Tommy. Why would he-“

“Hey, guys! Wait up!” They heard behind them and stopped as Carol ran to catch up. “Choir was cancelled. What’s up with the police here?”

“They have to be here,” Steve answered, “To help with the traffic after that girl got hit a car.”

“But why are they staring at you?”

What?

Steve turned and looked over at the cop monitoring the crosswalk. He was a big scary looking guy with a big mustache and big arms, and yeah. He was staring at them.

Steve looked away from Hopper quickly, “We didn’t do anything.”

“Maybe they know about the superhero and are looking for him,” Tommy said dramatically. “Maybe they want to capture him but they don’t know how to get to him so they’re looking at you. They know how to you easy.”

“Oh my god, he’s still talking about the superhero thing?” Carol asked.

Tommy grinned at her and the two walked off, but Steve stayed rooted to his spot. He turned back one last time, observing Hopper as he observed him. Steve frowned.

Then he ran after his friends, “Guys, wait for me.”

[agentlove]

something i've always loved about tma is its massive potential for someone to get attached to literally any random character and get something substantial out of it. tma fans reblog and tag with your favorite one-off/statement characters! i like seeing peoples' obscure faves and love for characters others forget exist.

graham folger's an easy pull for me but i do like him a lot, i think about all the not!them victims in general a good amount. if i had to pick someone else it would be justin gough!

[ffcrazy15]

Husband lost his job today for nonsense reasons, and I'm currently pregnant, so. 👍 Prayers would be appreciated that he can find a new one quickly.

[noellevanious]

????? Hey bitch there isnt that option here. I checked.

[papaverkoda]

i have a thing for taking ice waters to men that are working outside in the heat (it’s a power thing)

[ursbahajolaf]

sarina molly holybrune mccann-pearson wiegman

iski chut sidewae S ft rhi h neeche se aayi chummi upar mmi yad aa rhi h

geometric hormonal management nipples held up high

hyper relaxed neck

[rhapsoddity]

I know you said Spectrum is Emmet’s favorite for the gossip, but I feel like xer also a bit tired of just making ponchos for him

You'd be surprised how many ponchos Spectrum's llamas get through, Emmett's fabric provider finds it funny how much he's constantly buying

tbh but also Spectrum pays the best cus he's absolutely loaded

[kalosian-woods]

everyday i thank chespie for helping squishy escape (and have a life-changing experience with a bunch of children /affectionate) because i'd be scared for how things would've turned out if neither of the cores escaped

We should always thank Chespie for his brave sacrifice in service of the Legendary Blob o7 Your countless days lost under a neverending sleep will not be forgotten and I hope you get to make them up by having the most fun ever (off-screen and without worries for the rest of your days) <33

It really was a meaningful interaction, no matter how short it was, and I'm sure Squishy still remembers the little fella. I love how Chespie, even after experiencing So Much in the specials alone, after being sent away by Mairin after having a argument with Alain, still went to help someone. Even if he couldn't help his friends, he could still help Squishy, right? Even in such terrifying circumstances his moral compass was pointed straight to the exit, even after getting hit by the energy, even after being left behind by Squishy themselves (by his own urging, of course). We barely get to see much of Chespie, but it's such a shining trait that leads him in every situation and it's so beautiful. Even though Mairin got fridged by association (:/), I've got to hand it to the Chespin - he reached my heart all the same <33 (in literally 4 eps lol).

But also ahhh you're putting some evil thought in my head, anon >:0 /nm. Tbf Team Flare only got Z2 after Squish talking to them, so if Squish was still with the bad guys it would be hard for them to track the other one down. But also damn, did you see how they were forcing the blob to merge with the cells against it's own will? The way those scientists barely blinked as they watched the scenes? There would absolutely be atrocities commited if they got both on hand for sure: now that they have the set (and no one else wiser to stop them, because this is a Legendary that is largely unknown and unseen), Team Flare have carte blanche to do whatever they want, and their methods are not pretty or soft. And Alain wouldn't know because he is focused on strength, and Mairin wouldn't have known because she was too busy trying to get Alain to see her stick around be safe and Chespie is usually never away from her. But one small fight got the small Pokemon seeing a different path and setting a weaker being (to his mind at least) free, even at the cost of his own freedom, and that set up the domino effect for the rest of Kalos at large.

And in a way, Chespie is protected in a way that Squishy wasn't, even in his sleeping state. Because he's with Mairin, and Mairin is with Alain, and Lysandre needs Alain for his plans. And so, even if Lysandre knows that Chespie set one of the Zygarde Cores free (I think he does know??), he can't really do anything to them. There really are a lot of layers to the TSME that I can peel away, but yeah, Chespie really was the instigator for the good change. After all, it was he who showed kindness to Squishy first, and softened him enough to maybe, just maybe, trust Bonnie afterwards. And so the snowball effect rolls on.

[themosttenderestofbees]

CATASTROPHIC AUTISM EVENT HAS HIT THE STEAM CLIENT

[sunderwight]

Scenario where Crowley, actually being crow-like rather than snake-like in this regard (or perhaps dragon-like) has spent a lot of his time on earth accumulating a hoard of supernatural treasures that he just sort of keeps shoved in a storage unit somewhere.

Most of it are things that other demons or angels have lost on Earth, or occult tools that humans have made that proved a little too effective at doing dangerous or inconvenient things that like, threaten to unleash the hordes of hell onto the world (Hell approves of intervening because the understaffing issue means they don't actually want a whole bunch of demons suddenly taking unsanctioned holidays on Earth). But basically if an angel accidentally drops their celestial harp or some guy comes up with a way to hack a direct line to Satan, Crowley goes and fetches the relevant artifact and then, because Hell's bureaucracy is a joke and they never actually check, he just sort of keeps hold of them instead of sending them back to head office.

Crowley's got his own unit somewhere full of Indiana Jones style treasures. Holy grail, Ark of the Covenant type shit. Half of it is broken and a lot of it even he is uncertain of the provenance of, whether it was made by angels or demons or humans in some cases is tricky to discern, and some of those things are just objects that were causing trouble or seemed liable to and so he grabbed them and stuffed them in a box and forgot about them.

Usually he brings the books to Aziraphale first, but there are some he's grabbed while they were in "not speaking to one another" phases of their relationship, and Crowley only cared to remember to show them to the angel if he thought that Aziraphale would find them interesting. (Crowley, despite having spent a lot of time listening to Aziraphale talk about books, still does not actually know a lot about books, and so is not always a good judge of what might be interesting.)

Basically where this is going is: Crowley has had the Book of Life moldering in his storage locker for decades, and he has no idea. It just looks like a kind of shabby, big old book! There isn't even a title on the cover, and he could never get it to open, so he thought it was a dud book or something (again, he doesn't really 'get' books). He got it off of some charlatan occultists in the 1500's who were running a con about being able to summon angels, but then actually did manage to summon Aziraphale, which annoyed Crowley (interrupted dinner) so he stormed in all demon-like, put the fear of Satan into them, and took away all of their stuff. He would have shown Aziraphale the book, but they got into a fight straight afterwards so instead Crowley just added it to his hoard of crap and completely forgot it existed. The renaissance was going on, there were a lot of distractions! How would Heaven even lose something as important as the Book of Life?

Anyway, this has led to a massive misunderstanding that coincided with Aziraphale's genuine interest in books, where the Metatron thinks that Aziraphale somehow figured out that the Book of Life went missing and has been covertly blackmailing him for centuries with the offer to discreetly find it (via various rare book dealers and underground book circles specializing in occult books, like prophetic tomes and etc), and Aziraphale just thinks he's successfully convinced Heaven's upper management that a bookshop is a perfectly good celestial embassy.

[screenshot-thoughts]

CLOUD CONTROL

IT'S THE LATEST TREND IN SOFTWARE: CLOUD MEMBERSHIP. WHICH SOUNDS POSITIVELY UTOPIAN.

“I'M ON A HIGHER PLANE OF TECHNO- BEING!”

UNTIL YOU REALIZE IT'S BEING USED TO MAKE YOU RENT PROGRAMS FOREVER.

“ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD

$50/MONTH, 10 YEARS= $6,000”

HOW DOES THE CLOUD WORK?

1. CLOUD FORMS, 2. PLUNDERSTORM, 3. CLOUD "MAKES IT RAIN" ON SOFTWARE CO.

IT'S A WHOLE NEW BUSINESS MODEL FOR EVERYTHING!

RENT-TO-OWN FURNITURE

“WE DON'T ACTUALLY SELL FURNITURE ANYMORE, BUT YOU CAN RENT THIS COUCH FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! $15/ MO, $60/ MO…”

[regaliasonata]

I hope to god that any of you bitches who’re reselling those Power Rangers items off the auctions get’s stubbed with razor pointed legos.

CAUSE WHAT BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE TRYING TO SELL THE MYSTIC FORCE HELMETS FOR 5000 DOLLARS EACH WHEN I CAN TAKE MY WALLET AND GET SCAMMED ON TEMU FOR HALF THE PRICE INSTEAD. I just saw a dude trying to sell Billy’s OAA suit for 100K and I’m sitting here like 🤨

[folksy]

fox news was on in the dining room at work and obviously they’re talking about trump and the election and this old guy was like “trump is the most important candidate in my lifetime” and like I will truly never understand how not only this man has run for president the last three election cycles but was president. I get that his followers think politicians are corrupt and he’s going to save america but I seriously do not get how they decided that is their guy for the job. he’s the epitome of getting to do whatever the fuck you want without the experience or qualifications because you’re rich and have connections (which he was born into). like idk to me that’s the perfect example of how fucked american politics are. you have a business personality and reality tv host as the candidate to run your country. because he felt like it. and this is putting his politics aside and just looking at how he got here

[ursbahajolaf]

[kitwilsonsass]

sending an extremely karen email because my power company that said i didn't need to worry about anything because their whack ass bill was being corrected has now, without notice, put a SHUT OFF WARNING ON MY ACCOUNT THAT I ONLY SAW BECAUSE I LOGGED INTO THEIR WEBSITE TO SEE IF IT WAS CORRECTED YET SINCE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BY NOW