#girlfriend has no idea what she's doing

[dracomeir]

Anyway, I had enough of paranoia preventing me from posting stuff. I haven't said shit about any AU of mine for a hot minute, so today I'll say something about King's Guard. I won't be writing this story for awhile (like a year or more in the future since I write slow), and this is prologue stuff anyway so it isn't that much of a spoiler. If you're like me, you'll probably forget this by then anyway. Still going to put it under the read more though. :3

Warning: Major character death, but also not.

For better context, Pico and Boyfriend had no idea about the other's true identity as an assassin and prince respectively. They happened to bump into each other in the market when dressed as commoners, and increasingly frequent encounters made them slowly fall for each other.

When the night the crown prince was going to be named arrived, Pico used the masquerade as an opportunity to sneak in. A few other assassins from the Ravenlight Order, the group he works for, joins him to ensure the prince with the Voice of Authority wouldn't escape. All the ginger was told about his target was that he had blue hair, and that he would be wearing a raven mask. He was also told to proceed with caution since there were rumours about the danger of the prince's Voice. It alone could cause the heaven's light to smite him, and he didn't want to get into a fight if the rumours were true. He could only do so much as an ordinary human after all.

As the target was walking to the throne to accept his role as crown prince, Pico emerged from the crowd to strike. He ended up slashing the man's mask in half, and saw his lover beneath it. With no time to think, he betrays the Ravenlight Order to protect him. An unknown third party overwhelms him as a curse of silence was placed upon Boyfriend. The ginger was stabbed in the back, and his vision faded as the prince was taken away. He thought it was over when a female voice echoed in the darkness.

"I can give you the means to live until you avenge your king. All I need is your soul."

[basslinegrave]

pin-up

b&w originals

[fanfic-writer-and-rambler]

Kate is the only one who can do this to him

Bruce Wayne is sitting at the kitchen table, eating breakfast. The morning sun filters through the windows, casting a warm glow over the room. The kitchen is quiet until Kate Kane enters, talking on her phone.

KATE

(into phone)

Yes, I’ll be there. Yes… Kelly, stop panicking. Hold on a sec.

Kate walks over to Bruce, casually reaching over and grabbing a few pieces of scrambled eggs from his plate. She pops them into her mouth, then eyes a strip of bacon and takes it.

BRUCE

(half-hearted protest)

That… That was mine.

Kate holds up a finger, still ignoring him as she continues her call.

KATE

(into phone)

Is Mike going to be there for the meeting? … You’re sure? I can’t have him just not show up again.

Kate leans in, whispering to Bruce.

KATE

(whispering)

I’m just gonna take the other strip.

She takes the second piece of bacon. Bruce looks at her, exasperated.

BRUCE

(sighs)

Hey, hey, stop doing that.

Kate pulls away from her phone for a moment, dismissing his complaint.

KATE

You’re fine, I’m in a hurry.

She returns to her call.

KATE

(into phone)

Sorry, my cousin is pestering me. Now, he’ll be there? … Good. I’ll be a little late, it’s—

Kate lifts Bruce’s arm to check his watch.

KATE

Shit, 10:10 already? So I’ll be there in another ten minutes… Yes, I’m aware I’ll be late, but Mike has been late fifteen times— Hold on.

Kate grabs Bruce’s glass of orange juice from his hand and drinks it down in one go. Bruce taps his fingers on the table, clearly aggravated. Kate finishes the juice, her face contorting at the taste.

KATE

Tangy. Is there pulp in this?

BRUCE

(trying to process)

Yes.

KATE

You’re weird. Here.

She hands the empty glass back to Bruce, who takes it, unamused.

BRUCE

(sarcastically)

Oh, thank you, I needed the glass back. Want my coffee too?

KATE

Nah, there’s no cream in there.

Kate returns to her call, as Bruce stares at his now nearly empty plate.

KATE

(into phone)

Kelly, we’re going to get into this expo. Just keep him busy… Thank you. See you in 10 minutes.

Kate ends the call and turns to Bruce, who’s left with only a piece of toast on his plate.

KATE

(smirking)

Business meetings, am I right, cuzzo?

BRUCE

(frustrated)

Hn, yup. At least you filled up on my food and drank my juice before heading in. Don’t want an empty stomach!

Kate ruffles Bruce’s hair playfully.

KATE

I know, thanks for that. I’m gonna head out. Thanks for letting me crash here while my place is being fumigated. I’ll be back in a few hours. What’s Alfred making for dinner, by the way?

BRUCE

(raising an eyebrow)

Oh, do you want me to make you a plate, or will you just eat off mine again?

KATE

(teasing)

You can make me one. It’s the least you can do as a rich man. Aww, you’re so sweet. I’m off.

Kate grabs the piece of toast from Bruce’s hand just before he can take a bite and heads for the door. Bruce groans.

BRUCE

(sarcastic)

Oh thanks, I didn’t want the toast anyway. I’ll be fine with coffee!

KATE

(calling out as she leaves)

Kay, I’m taking one of your cars! Bye!

The front door closes with a thud. Bruce sighs, rubbing his forehead.

BRUCE

(muttering)

I wanted… some of that. This is what happens when I’m a good person.

The Wayne kids, who have been silently watching the whole scene from the table, exchange glances.

DICK

(trying to process)

How did she manage to do all that?!

BRUCE

(grumbling)

Shut up… Welp, I’m not getting back up to get more. I’ll eat yours.

Bruce casually reaches over and takes Jason’s plate, starting to eat off it. Jason glares, grumbling.

JASON

(complaining)

Come to breakfast, you said. I’ll enjoy it, you said. Jesus!

Jason tries to grab Dick’s plate, but Dick slides it away, shaking his head.

DICK

(firmly)

I’m not the one right now.

Jason, not to be deterred, swipes Tim’s bagel instead and takes a big bite. Tim just shrugs.

TIM

(seriously)

I’m cool. I can actually be good with the coffee.

[dazeddoodles]

The proshipper and the odeppus anon fight the best case scenario they both end with eachother in that case everyone wins

They both see Luz as that one TikTok of the person who drew their mom sexy for Mother's Day and said it's okay because she's adopted (which btw makes me suspicious of the mom if she's okay with that kinda thing)

The only difference is one person sees it as a good thing, and one as a bad thing... only because it gets in the way of their ship

[altschmerzes]

…im having like. THEE most galaxy brained grey’s anatomy fic concept spring forth fully formed in my mind and it probably would sound inside to anyone else but im just. IMMEDIATELY enamoured by it.

[coquelicoq]

i refuse to feel responsible if my friend's relationship ends up being a bad idea even though there was a period of time in which he would have broken up with her if i had told him to and i didn't. because that is too much power to have in someone else's relationship. he needs to make his own decisions and if they turn out to be mistakes that is not on me.

[ivypond11]

i've been obsesing over a tlt twilight au solely because of the silly edit with harrow seeing alecto alla bella seeing edward and.

it's so silly and dumb but gideon being the vampire and ianthe being the werewolf and they both obsessively pin over the weird loner wet rat harrow that just moved into town. i wanna say camilla, palamedes, dulcinea (the real one), protesilaus, jeannemary and isaac are part of the same family, all vampires, with abigail and magnus being the parental figures (basically the cullens). the third and second houses i'm thinking are all the werewolves, maybe the eight too. i just love the idea of ianthe and coronabeth being raised to maybe one day both take over the pack until they find out coronabeth is in fact not a werewolf. john and all the remaining of the first would be the volturi ofc but all the cavaliers would actually be alive? i haven't thought that far.

[upsidedog]

a little over a month after max ended things with lucas a girl in her spanish class aproched her and asked if “lucas sinclar” is single. apparently she thinks he’s cute and has seen them hanging out. “no, he isn’t single” is what max wants to say because if she sticks to her plan of mourning their relationship for the rest of high school so should he, even if max was the one who broke it off. but max is a good person so she says “yeah he’s single.” but not that good so she adds “he just got out of a relationship though, and he’s not over her” and since she’s already crossed that first line “i actually wouldn’t even try.”

max only lasts an hour or two before she feels so guilty she tells lucas there’s a girl in her spanish class that he should ask out cause she thinks he’s cute. lucas is a little offended that his ex is trying to play matchmaker on principle but also because he was sort of planning on mourning his and max’s relationship for the rest of high school

[loptrcoptr]

Went on a trail ride with another girl I haven’t ridden with in a while l and said “hey let’s try this trail!” and then I nearly got us stuck in a fucking swamp

I literally said “haha, come on Bertie (my horse) it’s not like it’s quicksand” and then boom! it kind of WAS though and my pony is fat but she is small, so she got stuck up to her knees a few times but oh my god, poor Buster is a normal sized thick ol halter hog quarter horse boy and he almost went down. he sunk in on the left side up to his stifle. that’s like his hip man that’s like. Almost the butt. that was high-as-a-horse’s-hips mud. That was horse-thigh-gap-height mud. Oh my god.

This obviously scared the horse so then he scrambled out as best he could and he took his mom into a bank full of many sharp little trees and she almost came off and then had to get down and back him back into the mud to get him out and around the trees again

Was my horse as affected? No. Was I hit so hard in the face by tree branches that I bit my lip? No, but her horse reenacted the neverending fucking story for a minute there and she got pistol whipped by branches and I felt so bad 😭 in fairness, she never objected to exploring. not in fairness, it was absolutely my dumbass idea

This is why no one wants to ride with us, even when I try to have a chill walk-only lazy little trail ride I still manage to get us into some kind of chaos, because my riding style can only be described as Quaintly Unhinged™️

As pet tax, here’s my pony and her stupid stray dog she adopted, brave survivors of the sticky icky swamp

[harvestmoth]

no one cares but im gonna oc post real quick

[lapetitechatonne]

me and my girlfriend @gilbirda are very cute, and it gives me such joy to see the little opposite pic crews we accidentally made 💕 plus a meme by @gremlin-bot because when they’re right, they’re right

anyways i love her, that’s all 💕

link to the pic crew hehe 🤗

[beautifel]

i. hate that i cant ignore any longer how fucked up i am

[designernishiki]

You asked for a fic rec so I’ll toss this one at ya: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46767358?view_full_work=true Stick through the formatting for the characterization, tone, and really the whole vibe of this fic. I haven’t been able to get the bathroom call between Daigo and Majima out of my head for weeks since I read it with how naturally it all flows. My own little Daigo characterization booklet to review when I feel like I need a refresher on him.

so I may have stayed up until 6am reading this (would’ve slept earlier but I couldn’t stop reading it) and hgggahaghhhhaggahshhhhhhhh that was one of the most well-characterized fics I’ve ever read what the fuck. like the differences in how each character speaks (both tone-wise and in differing levels of authenticity) and how they speak to specific others (the daigo and majima dyanmic specifically- how they actually take into account how long they’ve been working really closely- SO good), the mental anguish and chaos vs the overwhelming emptiness of being daigo dojima but no longer The 6th Chairman Daigo Dojima……….I could keep going but I think you get it.

tbh I’d been wanting to write something exploring a similar set of dynamics/situation (post-kiryu’s fake death, interactions with haruka, daigo, and/or majima specifically, reflecting on his shortcomings while acknowledging the heavy Grief left behind) but now I’m like. well I still could but this was so well written in regards to daigo and haruka that, as far as something between those two goes, I don’t feel the need to.

thanks for the recommendation! my brain is broken now (affectionate)

[neverendingford]

Therapists have two genders:

Professional Asshole and

Well-meaning Incompetent

[villain-in-love]

Writing headcanons about Liang and Zero in situations where they are not in Nanba feels so weird… Like, there’s also a lot of stuff that can happen, and there’s a lot of things they can’t do while stuck in prison under strict surveillance, but the whole point of Nanbaka is that it’s a manga about prison, and that’s why it constantly feels like something is missing.

[skyeward-otp]

I miss Portwell they deserve so much better. If Rina really has been planned since homecoming then Portwell should of never been a thing because EJ doesn’t deserve to be heartbroken twice by a girl he really likes just for Ricky to somehow win her back in his life. I am so disappointed by the way the writers treated them there are other ways to make Rina happen that don’t involve EJ getting hurt in the end for putting his heart out there and to get nothing in return.

Goodness, I miss them too. they really did deserve better. they were just...so perfect. for being a teenage couple on tv on a disney show, you know? but like...they were so cute, and honestly, the heart eyes every time they looked at each other was magical.

honestly? i've learned over the years to not always trust every word that comes out of a showrunner's mouth, or that they'll treat my favorite characters/ship write. I've been burned too many times. a lot of them will bend truths and sort of stretch things done in the past to make it work for the narrative they're trying to create in the present. obviously not all of them are like that, but that tends to feel like the general vibe of a lot of showrunners. say whatever you need to say to make the majority happy and keep them watching your show, even if it alienates others.

also...how soon did they know that Olivia was gonna leave the show? i doubt they knew during the filming of s1 since she didn't really start taking off in her music until s1 was released (i'm pretty sure). and it definitely felt like the plan was to always make Rini endgame, no matter what else happened. and then they gave Portwell all of these beautiful scenes through s2, after setting up their rivals to friends to lovers arc so wonderfully, showing the both of them moving on from past relationships and focusing on themselves and finding that companionship and understanding in each other that they weren't finding anywhere else. something that wasn't intended as romance, in their eyes, but they were both happy to let it go there when the realizations hit them.

i really feel for EJ too, having two girlfriends that both ended up with Ricky in the end, proving to him, in his mind, that he's not good enough to have these two girls that he thought were amazing stick around or come back. that there's something he's lacking if he loses two girls to the same guy within the span of roughly a year, a guy that both girls already had some degree of history with.

if EJ is gonna be in s4, I need the writers to treat him better, like honestly. i will write his storyline if I have to. let the boy have a meltdown finally, or something, because of all the pressure he's always under (he should have had one in s3 and i will stand by that). let him find friends who will support him unconditionally and stand by him (like yeah, the wildcats are great, but they were all constantly bagging on ej during s3 [if i remember correctly, I've only seen it once] while he was trying to direct a show he didn't want to direct in the first place and it really didn't sit right with me). let him find a girlfriend WHO WILL STICK AROUND LONGER THAN A FEW MONTHS (as much as i love gina and portwell, my boy deserves some happiness too)

all in all. i love EJ the most. Gina is wonderful and amazing. Portwell will always have my heart. as much as i wish they hadn't broken them up, couldn't they have at least given them a better ending than that? like honestly. they all deserved better.