#The guardians suck

[goddessoftheforgotten]

I’m on season 5 of the white vault and when Graham said that he had hoped that Rosa was still alive, that somehow she made it out and became immune like the “people from the light”, my heart shattered and I couldn’t breathe

[lunarriviera]

BONUS:

[cringefail-clown]

hateful gaze

[fanfic-writer-and-rambler]

The Wayne boys first father's day with Bruce Wayne

Dick Grayson

Dick Grayson, 8: Happy Father's Day!

Dick passes Bruce a father's day card he made. Bruce takes it surprised, he opens the card and finds a sweet message and a few slips of paper.

Dick: There father's day coupons! Yeah, one of them is for a free hug.

Bruce, unsure how to react: Oh God.

Alfred chuckles, takes the coupon and passes it to the young boy.

Alfred: He'll use this one early.

Dick Grayson nods and hugs his father. Bruce isn't sure how to react at first, but then hugs the young boy with a half-smile, half-not sure how to handle love like this since his parents died.

Bruce: Can I reuse these coupons?

Dick: Yeah.

Bruce: Best father's day ever then.

...

Jason Todd, 13 at the time.

Jason: Um, here you go.

Jason passes Bruce a father's day mug labeled 'World's Okayest Dad'.

Jason: Thanks for taking me in, you're better than my dad. There you go, I'm going to walk away now.

Jason hurriedly leaves the room.

Bruce: Why do they keep giving me good gifts?

Bruce slams his head on his desk. Alfred, who has been dusting a painting rolls his eyes. He walks over to the man and pats him on the back.

Alfred: Means you're doing a good job... 80 percent of the time.

Bruce: I'm doing that well! Oh God, I can't handle these emotions.

Alfred: I know, just let it out sir.

...

Tim Drake, 15 after losing both parents

Tim rushes into Bruce's office with two gift baskets he made.

Tim: I tried to buy like two gifts, but you've done so much for me... Especially at this time and I couldn't... I didn't feel right getting one or two small gifts. I made these instead. With lots of gifts... Because I love you so much.

Bruce, blinking: Oh goodie... Can you leave so I can survey what you got me?

Tim, wiping his eyes and smiles. He leaves quickly.

Bruce: After three kids, how do I struggle with accepting these gifts? Why do all of these look like he put a lot of thought into them too?

Alfred, sitting next to Bruce, drinking his tea.

Alfred: He did. I watched him spend weeks doing so.

Bruce: Weeks?! I love the gifts they've given me over th years, but what do I say other than thank you?

Alfred: Thank you is the proper response, but as emotionless as you can be, and trust me you can, they know you love them.

Bruce: Sometimes I doubt it, but I appreciate you saying that.

...

Damian Wayne, 10 years old

Damian enters his father's room with a gift in his hand.

Damian: Here is your father's day gift. I painted it myself and it's something you'd love.

Bruce takes the painted canvas and is shocked how well done it is.

Bruce: You painted this?!

Damian: Yes, I watched one of those Bob Ross videos where he teaches a colorblind man to paint. I know you love blacks and greys so there you go. Do you like it? If not, I can-

Bruce hugs the canvas.

Bruce: Nope, this is amazing. Thank you.

Damian: You think it's amazing?

Damian smiles, holding his head down.

Damian: Father, I care about you. Happy Father's day.

Damian sits on his father's bed and hugs him.

Damian: The others are here, but I wanted to give you my gift early because I'm your favorite, right?

Bruce: You're all my favorite.

Damian: I'm going to tell them you said I was. Enjoy the painting.

Damian runs off calling for his brothers. Bruce chuckles, looking at the painting.

Bruce: Oh right, I forgot!

Bruce gets out of bed, reaches under his bed and pulls out a wrapped present.

Bruce: Oh Alfred, father's gift!

Alfred: You got me one again? I'm just the butler.

Bruce: Nah, you're my dad when my own dad died. Here you go, it's a tea set this time. I got it custom made. I... Happy Father's day.

Bruce hands Alfred the gift and walks off. Alfred smiles and takes the gift back to his room.

[stormingfrost]

hand made rotg hoodie!

I made this hoodie based on the design of the effects crew shirt (as seen here) and I’m super happy with it and excited about it :>

[warriorofthesky]

interesting tidbits from the trailer and my probably wrong interpretation of them

zavala is shown (?) the traveler leaving the percussor planet here i think.

see a bit later:

comparing to the season of the deep cutscene:

maybe the witness is showing zavala how the traveler left it (playing on zavala's fears, like when he began questioning the traveler for supposedly giving the hive the light back in witch queen)??? not sure

then it seems like he is in the same place where he meets veiled lady:

with cayde saying "you said it spoke to you?" as in the witness, right? the witness showed him the traveler leaving, then showed him... this?

so the million dollar question is: who is this?

idk but

veiled lady holding a shard of glass (???? im not sure what that is) right after the traveler leaves the precursor planet? smells like first knife to me!

no really. kind of.

especially because we get this later:

aka tons of veiled ladies dying/going puff. which makes it seem like veiled lady might be a representation of the precursors? like, they are all melting into smoke bc they united to become the witness. and the witness is asking zavala to join them/it. it also sounds like one of the veiled ladies is the one who whispers "suffering" to zavala, sooooo

i do feel like the first knife bit might be a stretch buuuut back in season of the deep (cutscene) we were told the precursors desired a "winnower to shape the garden". veiled lady with shard of glass might just be indicating that the precursors wanted to influence the traveler, which caused it to nope the fuck out and eventually led to the witness forming itself. idk.

it might be the ffxiv fan in me, but veiled lady representing the precursors sounds reasonable bc the precursors stripped themselves of individuality (literally!), as in, without faces, recognizable characteristics, etc, with the precursor faction (penitent, i think?) that led the idea of "cutting off" unwanted aspects of the precursor race, everyone becoming one aka the witness, with one single objective and motivation, blah blah blah. it is implied (both in the vidoc and in game, imo) that they didn't succeed in cutting off said unwanted aspects, tho (which is one of the reasons veiled lady whispering stuff to zavala sounds so fucking angry i guess). not all of the veiled ladies/precursors who are contained within the witness are happy about it, is the thing

(also the witness seems to be in front of the veil at this point, which imo just makes it more likely that veiled lady = precursors + quite literally the power of the veil, AS IN VEILED PRECURSORS)

but who knows!!! certainly not me

[laurzvahll]

kiru belongs 2 @wewerebornsextuplets

[heroesriseandfall]

Tim’s self-isolation in the beginning of Red Robin is actually so funny to me because it hardly works.

Tim @ most of his friends and family: nobody contact me. leave me alone. I’m busy. don’t try to stop me.

Tim @ Cass: hey, wanna stay in contact? :)

Tim when Chris Kent asks him for help: I’m actually not Robin anymore so saving people is not my job. Oh her life is in danger? …okay fine but then I’m going back to my thing.

Tim when Kon finds him: I’m busy…Oh you need help? okay…let’s have an accidental heartfelt talk and then we can help each other with our latest emotional crises.

Tim when Dick calls him: don’t call me…ohhh, that seems serious. fine I’ll come to Gotham but then I’m going right back to what I was doing. *finishes up what he was doing* okay I’m back, let’s team up.

Tim when someone he’s never met ends up as the League’s semi-hostage with him: Hey when we’re done do you wanna travel for business together & maybe go on a date?

[theladyofrosewater]

On Triforce Guardians Wild being the Big Guy with emotional damage, is this him?

Yeah pretty much

[goddessoftheforgotten]

I just finished the white vault season 5 and when Graham died and all that could be heard on the recording was Dragana’s choked sobs my heart shattered. Also I may or may not have been sobbing, in a very public place mind you, listening to Graham’s message for Irina. I know that the message was meant for her but damn it I needed to hear that.

[swagging-back-to]

worst trope is found family separating as soon as the antagonist is dealt with.

[lozerlist]

I went down an ao3 rabbit hole of jack frost/pitch black fanfiction and now i’m invested

also not the best drawing but I TRIED OK 😞

[freaquin]

i guess i'm running pr for this guy now

[the-marron]

All-Forgotten Fics of Yours Truly

You know who constantly forgets to post stuff on Tumblr? Me.

And so now when I tried to find a link to one of my fics I couldn't because it's physically not there 🙃 I am a pro at social media. So now I decided to do a round up of all the Guardian stuff I haven't posted before, just for archival purposes 😅

Guardian

1. To wild uncharted waters

Summary:

Tonight, Shen Wei is abandoning all of Aoguang’s laws and heading towards the shore, for the second time in his entire life. All for Kunlun.

Also known as mermaid!au, written for @birdbird-blog ❤

2. What happens to the heart

Summary:

“I bring an offering,” he starts, feeling the oddness of the words on his tongue. This is not an offering, not exactly. It’s not incense and gold worthy of a god, it’s not a string of worshipful words either, and yet with who they are, The Ghost King has no other word for it.

There is nothing else a ghost can offer to a god.

Novel-verse, an attempt at happy moment between Kunlun and Shen Wei

3. Spellbound

Summary:

Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei Vs Ancient Couples Counseling

Also known as duck!SW fic

4. The Way of the Househusband

Summary:

Zhao Yunlan vs household chores feat Shen Wei's existential crisis

Technically this one appeared on my self-rec post at some point and it was added to the art that inspired it but I technically didn't publish it here myself, so here it is. Domesticity, dear people, what else can I say.

5. hold every memory as you go

Summary:

Wang Zheng was her first girl friend. It sounds sad when she thinks about it, that the first woman she felt true connection with was a dead girl found by her boss and Da Qing in the woods, but that's still a fact. She didn't have true friends before, not like that.

Also known as: not a fix it people, just Zhu Hong post-canon, thinking about everything she's lost and learning to move on with hope

6. I've got a dream

Summary:

“I swear, if it turns out you have no idea where we are going, I will murder you and leave your body for the crows to find,” Chu Shuzhi said conversationally, stomping through the mud with the air of a man condemned to an unjust punishment. The object of his anger, Zhao Yunlan the Adventurer, just shrugged without turning back. Chu Nianzhi was certain that he had heard worse threats in his life, he used to work at the court after all. Though, in what capacity, Zhao Yunlan had never disclosed – ever since Nianzhi and Shuzhi met him at the inn, winning a strange map from a crowd of very suspicious looking men, all that they managed to get out of him was that he was on an adventure.

Written for an event, it has Chu brothers having The Time of Their Lives (Not) thanks to Zhao Yunlan who Apparently Has A Wife

7. Wish You Were Here

Summary:

Instead of falling asleep, Shen Wei gets to experience the millennia of longing, year after a lonely year.

Written for a friend, featuring, well, lots of loneliness

And I think that's all from Guardian? The rest was here because of the Guardian Bingo, I am pretty sure

And now, as my treat from me to me, the forgotten Luolins:

Luolin [WEILAN DERIVATIVES]

1. Unscathed [WIP]

Summary:

“Well, hello,” the man said, his lips tugging up in a smile. Not prepared for that, all Lin Nansheng could do in reply was to cough shallowly, the exertion of the chase getting to him. “You can let go, comrade, I won’t run.” Despite the lightness in his words, the voice was hushed, as if trying not to attract more attention. And yet, Lin Nansheng found himself letting go. The stranger used his free hand to support the bundle pressed against his chest.

---

A bitter and disillusioned Lin Nansheng gets pulled into much more excitement than he bargained for.

Post-canon longfic that I am still trying to write despite the lack of time. Totally not known as Godzilla AU, not at all good sir.

2. A Practical Arrangement

Summary:

It was a pure accident that Luo Fei and Lan Xinjie knew each other, and that the lady came to Cen Zimo with questions about a possible accommodation for her friend was a sign from the heavens. Luo Fei wasn’t convinced of course, but the argument of 'practical arrangement' swayed him in the end.

Technically it's not Luolin for it features an outsider POV of another deriv that has romantic plans re: LF, but let's be real here, I wouldn't break up Luolin for anyone so it's Luolin through and through. Sorry, Cen Zimo. (I am not)

3. we devour, like a falcon in the dive

Summary:

A quiet moment of trust that morphs into something much more.

Based on art, first attempt to give these two an actual happy ending and not an ambigious one

4. only a touch of dust remains

Summary:

He knows what he will find when he opens the door. He's known for a while, he's been preparing for it but still, the moment his hand touches the handle, he hesitates. He never hesitates, there is no reason for him to do so – there is nothing that can surprise him.

Angst. Outsider's POV. Did I mention angst?

5. All in the Scheme of Things

Summary:

And then Wu-laoshi brought in Luo Fei – a tall, handsome man in a well-tailored suit whose words were outpaced only by his thoughts. It was with relief that Lin Nansheng realized that they didn’t manage to discuss anything and would have to meet again – he had a good excuse to see Luo Fei again.

Modern Teacher!au, a prequel to one of my fics from Weilan Derivs week 2022.

6. Unmoored Academicals [CROSSOVER]

Summary:

A foreboding sense of familiarity washed over Zhao Yunlan. His mind had one, final thought of’ not again’, before the vortex of time opened for good and swallowed everything around him. -- The 'DCU moonlights as Shanghai University' crack that wouldn't leave my brain, with a dash of academia humour

Yeah, I wrote it mostly for crack reasons, but also to appreciate that while there are some similarities between them, SW and LNS are very different, as are LF and ZYL - it is a bit of a love letter to BY and Z1L's acting abilities, dressed up as a crack about a university jumping dimensions, just like Pratchett would have wanted

7. The man you seek is long gone

Summary:

After returning from Hong Kong, Lin Nansheng tries to find out what happened to Luo Fei. -- Mostly canon compliant with some fix-ity changes added

Presumed dead fic, because everyone needs one 🤗

8. It's falsehood's flame, it's a crying shame

Summary:

There is a man at the door, dressed in a rather expensive-looking suit, looking around with a faint air of distaste. He has a cane in his hand and a certain confidence around him – Lin Nansheng notices all of that, but it is dulled by the realization that the man is really handsome. * In an alternate universe, Chen Moqun becomes a crime boss instead of the Station Chief. Lin Nansheng follows him either way, until he encounters an unexpected complication in the form of Luo Fei.

Not-really (and yet) mafia!au which is also my first Luolin ever, written for @babischlong-six 😌❤

and now I am off to live that cryptid life because there are still at least a dozen weilan derivs fics that I haven't posted here either but I don't have the energy to do it today. Better to do something than nothing and all that ~

[stormingfrost]

ITS HERE

[soaked-ghost]

with how highly dream and nightmare think of themselves, as these 'beings' that are 'above' any human and monster for any reason or another. I found it so deeply ironic if they were regular monsters. not even boss monsters. just regular monsters.

they really like thinking that they're important, but no matter what purpose or value they might give themselves, in the grand scheme of things the two mean nothing like everybody else.

they don't have a purpose. they could die and the multiverse wouldn't even blink. but they still fight their pity battles like it means something.

I just can imagine. dream or nightmare fighting just a regular human, thinking there's no way they could lose, and then dying to that human like nothing. just having their entire reality shatter in a single hit. seeing their wound bleeding normal blood. like anybody else. wouldn't that be fucked up or what.