Bruce being just as guilty of introducing Jason to people like he is but a small little guy.
Bruce at gala supporting youth literary comprehension programs: Have you met my son Jason? As stubborn as kids can be I managed to get him to attend.
Beneficiary: oh that’s wonderful! Does your son enjoy literature?
Bruce: oh absolutely! That’s what convinced him to even come! He has so many respectable hobbies for someone his age. Kids these days rarely find value in the classics but not Jason! Honestly he reads more, and more in depth, than I do! He’s a little mechanic too! When I first saw him he was trying to take the tires off my car with a lug wrench that was bigger than him! It was quite a sight and a rather unconventional way to meet your son but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Beneficiary, blinks as they try to process all the proud dad info: …well that’s lovely, we have some activities for the children of the donors so that none of them get too bored!
Bruce: that’s great! I’ll let him know. Jason, can you come here for a moment?
A very tall, wide, and muscular man turns around and raises an eyebrow.
What a coincidence, that dude must also be named Jason.
He walks towards them
Jason: what do you want old man?
What
Bruce: there are activities at that table if you’re bored.
Huh
Jason: thanks for the memo but I’m not exactly at coloring book age anymore remember?
Bruce: I suppose you’re right :(
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I am goddamn begging for the selkie AU lore holy shit. There’s SO much potential there. KONS JACKET SPECIFICALLY BEING TORN AS SHIT??? 👀👀👀
OKAY SO it's still percolating it's still cooking & @mamawasatesttube is responsible for a lot of it BUT as for Kon specifically... man... obviously Cadmus (and later Lex) have his coat in the early days. but he doesn't actually even really KNOW how messed up that is bc he's a kid and no one told him!!! he doesn't understand that that's his basic personhood and it belongs to him. he knows almost nothing about his selkie heritage or what it means, and so he doesn't know why he feels miserable and discontent and can't stay away for very long and is just kind of sickly ☹️ and ofc when Clark eventually realizes what's going on he is capital H Horrified and immediately tries to help him get it back. but it's a process and it's a very bitter and traumatic thing for Kon to realize how deeply he was being manipulated (very analogous to canon in that regard).
and for Kon's jacket being a bit patchwork - selkie coats are essentially an outwards extension of the soul! they're very unique and personally individualized, and can be both altered and damaged by painful relationships with that part of their identity (or just physical trauma). some of the threadwork on Kon's jacket is work done to repair damage from the neglect/abuse of his coat by Cadmus, and some of it is Kon trying to make it his own! Selkie coats are magical which makes them somewhat fluid :)
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Hey have you ever though about how magnulia sounds like magnolia? This isn't relevant to the fic or anything but yeah
@taznovembercelebration Wood or gold
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Is it practical to carry two massive sheets of plywood on the bus? No. But Magnus doesn't have much other choice. His truck is on the fritz, none of his friends with cars big enough are avaliable, he couldn't rent anything last minute, and his cabinets need to be fixed right now immediately.
He's shuffled himself to be as out of the way as possible and settled in for the bus ride back to his place from the hardware store. When his stop comes up, he shimmies out of the bus, then lifts the wood over his head to walk the rest of the way home.
He's just started on a third cabinet when Julia comes home and finds him in the garage surrounded by cabinets, plywood scraps, and sawdust.
"Magnus?" He doesn't hear her over his drill at first. "Magnus!" He looks up and she says, "what are you doing?"
"Fixing the cabinets."
She smiles at him, amused. "I wasn't aware they were broken."
"I'm... improving the cabinets."
"Why?"
"I mean-" he scoffs- "why not? I don't want shitty cabinets."
She walks over and holds a hand out to him. He takes it and she pulls him to his feet. She kisses his cheek and says, "you're stressed, Maggie."
He laughs and splutters, "I'm- me? Stressed? Never!"
"Magnus," she puts a hand on his chest, "you've been fixing random things all week."
He sighs and puts an arm around her. "Okay, maybe I am stressed. Just a little bit."
"Every detail is in order, we have nothing to stress about except doing the damn thing."
He kisses her temple, "promise you'll say yes?"
Julia laughs and says, "only if you clean up your mess once you've fixed my cabinets."
Magnus looks around and nods pensively, "I think I can handle that."
"Good." She kisses him and says, "I can't wait to marry you."
He smiles, perfectly lopsided and goofy, and says, "I can't wait to marry you."
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so the only new location in headspace i’m allowed to be aware of atm is the conference table, which Little Prince initially conjured up to host Middles Union/Youth Center meetings, but which is now used as a general shared space. and despite the fact that she’s the one who made it, Little Prince failed to make the chairs tall enough for either her or her brother to properly use the table.
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