#Stand for your man

[pan-flute-skeleton]

I wish you would write a fic where... Kari feels compelled to put a member of Dethklok in their place by any means necessary

Okay I think I got one. This one is related to the small pocket AU I got going on with @raddouchebag's Bastian where they a happy couple with two daughters. It warms my heart every time I think about them and the unit, but this is a story of Kari putting Dethklok in their place. And for this, I chose Pickles for something he did. So please enjoy.

She perfected the waddle. Any minute, Kari was going to burst and bring their second daughter to the world. The conversation she needed to have could have been done earlier, but scheduling conflicts and morning sickness really made things difficult. But she knew where he was, where always hid when he was alone. Passed out in his bed surrounded by beer cans and bottles. The stale smell of malt in the carpet and stagnant vomit in the toilet nearly made her turn around and flee. But it was now or leave it to chance in the future.

"Pickles, wake up!" Kari shouted.

He rustled over his bedsheets, crust cracking over the Egyptian cotton. Pickles rubbed his eyes and flicked eye boogers onto his pillow. "Mornin' mama. Whatcha need?"

"We needs to talks." Kari tried not to look at the filth, but it was hard when Pickles himself was so filthy.

"Sure, yeah, can we do it o'er some coffee at least?"

"No, right nows." She took a step closer, baring him, "Heidi wills be here any day now. Bastian and I ams very excited for Katja to have a sister."

"Hopin' it's a better deal than Seth and I for them."

"Yes, t'ank you. But Is needs to make someting very clears to you."

"Whut? Am I off babysittin' dooty?"

"You ams not to do what you did before. That cans not happen agains."

Pickles crossed his arms and straightened up, "I don' know whatcher talkin' bout."

"Shuts up! You do!" The shout made him jump. Kari steadied herself, trying not to get too worked up. "I knows it was you who showed Katja de Muppets. Yous knew Bastian had the fears."

"Pssssh," he scoffed, "I mean I didn'..." Kari glared, burning right through his soul, "w-w-what I mean is...I was just messin' wit him."

"And you ams to never do that EVERS AGAIN!" Her anger made her loom over him, casting her shadow. "Yous wills not meddle wit my family any mores. Or else."

She didn't know what 'or else' would be, but she heard it in enough movies to know it meant business. Kari kicked cans away to make a path for herself and left Pickles with that stern boundary. Heidi was born the next day.

[stil-lindigo]

an ex-zionist jewish man recently went a bit viral on tiktok for sharing exactly how he sees zionism tie israel to the jewish identity and his personal experience with breaking away from it - I think it’s a really great watch.

He also made a follow up talking specifically about how he learned to humanise Palestinians, and a really integral part of it was his school, which would often bring in Palestinian speakers who’d share their perspective (here’s a link to it).

[ballpitwitch]

𝐊𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐮 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐍𝐉 - 𝟏𝟎/𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟑

[amid-fandoms]

tragic day for the soft phillie community

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[rosepompadour]

AUDREY HEPBURN + looking miserable in tiaras: A SERIES

[houseswife]

bro can you imagine being tritter. you’re a power hungry cop who just wants to get revenge on the asshole doctor who humiliated you, so you approach his prescribing physician saying “here’s cold hard proof that he committed several crimes and endangered your career”. and instead of testifying against him in light of this information he’s like nooo he didn’t do anything wrong!! it was my fault actually that he committed felonies without my knowledge!! don’t take him away!! send me to prison instead!!! like. what do you even do with that

[undertheredhood]

jason todd is much like a typical dad in the sense he will share something extremely outrageous that had happened to him/he did out of nowhere and will never speak of it ever again no matter how many times he’s asked to elaborate.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 268

Fright Knight sighs, running a clawed hand through his hair in an attempt to stop the flames from flickering into being. It had been far too long since he had taken a human-ish form. His human-ish form. Ugh. He didn’t exactly care for his human form after so long as a ghost, but needs must he supposed. 

Especially with the whole, we’re going to punch a backdoor into the literal daycare part of the Infinite Realms and be surprised when literal toddlers go exploring. 

Well, at least it got him off of guard duty for a bit, which was relieving. Not that he didn’t love the darkness, but it got boring in the shadow of his sword for literal centuries with nothing else happening. He was a warrior for Realm’s sake! Borderline an Ancient in both power and age! He wasn’t meant to stay so still for so long. 

So while ghostling wrangling wasn’t exactly in his area of expertise, he could definitely gather them back up to the Realms. And deal with the curs who had decided to attack literal babies. 

The Daycare area was already understaffed due to just how large it was, and the one in charge of this section had practically sobbed to the Council (In another world they would have been put on hold for a century in line for their concerns, and then more once a Sarcophagus was opened, but they had told the other ghosts in distress, causing others to let them go up in said line) how they were almost certain they had felt at least one core form Outside the realms thanks to the breach. 

Which had understandably put everyone at an uproar. 

So here he was slipping between shadows to do reconnaissance and take stock of if any Ghostlings had left the city. And gently scruffing those he comes across in exasperation because what are you doing, ghostling? Look at the mess, what would your caretaker say? 

[jhonny]

"kakyoin is the rational one" "kakyoin is mature and calm" FALSE he saw a baby avert eye contact and his FIRST thought was to punch its lights out

[kagoutiss]

does anyone. share my vision

[justins-foley]

Legitimately cannot believe I’m walking on the same Earth as this man

[clairedaring]

You should save your 'first time' for someone you want to be serious with. Please don't waste it on someone like me. Well, do you already have someone you want to be serious with?

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.01

[autismsupersoldier]

daniil dankovsky only ever leaned & slipped & lost his balance & just only brushed his hand against & just only unbuttoned his shirt so that he may see the wound better & everything else that may have happened was not in his control nor can he be held accountable or said to have been aware of anything

[furkrum]

how are these bastards called??? i only know greenblings whats the platonic name for them,?? #sara and sou?? # stupids?? #crazy???

[syn0vial]

love when we get our first chance to see boba lead a mandalorian strike team as mand'alor and you expect him to be super badass and in control but actually his energy is much more that of "tired old man strongly regretting his offer to chaperone field trip of galaxy's most destructive elementary schoolers"