#it'd be weird right??

[pinkandgreenarepurpleandyellow]

ok, so more no-Furnace!au hcs for the Skull boys

So they're still shitheads, just a little less so (pretend this is a universe that actually gave a fuck about delinquent teens/preteens and cares more about helping them than throwing them in prison). The gangs are still a thing, but violence is rarer and usually involves fistfighting and not knives or guns.

Bodie and Kevin constantly annoy each other. They're assholes, they're best friends, they'd strangle each other given the opportunity, they split lunches.

Gary and Bodie have a quieter dynamic. They don't talk as much but Gary doesn't smoke when he's around Bodie and Bodie balances out Kevin and Gary's short tempers as the one who's just a little more patient.

Kevin and Gary fight non-stop. They're problem children and they know it. Will put aside their differences if faced with a mutual dislike/threat or in the rare moments that both of them are in a good mood.

Ambrose is stuck trying to lead the gang and balance between the fact that they're typically fighting and breaking the law with the fact that they're a) trying to be a little better about it and b) kids, typically from not great homes. Despite the fact that Kevin is his lieutenant publicly, the gang has a more complex hierarchy and Ambrose pays attention to all of them.

Pete is technically still in the gang, but not really. He only comes out to help them if there's a real problem and most of his work is just scaring off rival wannabe gangs from picking on people in what is traditionally Skull turf. Call it his community service, but the bullying rate has decreased by quite a bit since he's started doing this.

Ambrose and Gary have a weird dynamic. They both would rather the other be gone, they both know the other one doesn't have any great alternatives, and honestly, neither of them can afford to lose the gang. They're the only people that make Ambrose keep his violent tendencies in check long-term and can at least direct Gary's bloodlust onto targets that won't get him arrested. Privately, Ambrose hopes Gary's father gets taken out of the picture soon and maybe that'll get Gary under control a little bit.

Adam has gotten out of crime shit and stayed out of crime shit, but he'll do Ambrose minor favors in emergency situations. This means mostly things like playing lookout for cops when there's an inter-gang brawl and helping steer some of the stray kids to the Skulls so they can either join up (and have their violence directed away from the civilian population) or be scared straight.

At the end of the day, at least some of the Skulls are damn well aware that this lifestyle isn't sustainable. They start turning away younger kids, sending them back to Adam and Oli and anyone else they can think of that'll help keep the kids away from crime as much as possible. This is half-compassion and half-knowing that the kids won't be able to handle their own in bloodbaths. One of the hardest questions that weights on the minds of guys like Bodie and Pete is whether or not they have the option to re-integrate into society one way or another, if it's not too late for them.

[eff-plays]

[beatcroc]

we do a little memeing

[metsantytar]

Huhhahhei my beloved, why aren't you as appreciated as you'd deserve?

[rebouks]

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18 hours and a lot of stress cleaning later, baby Ellis arrived 🤗

[sysig]

Just keep getting back up (Patreon)

[eyewyrm]

noel and identity loss...

trying to articulate why it feels wrong to call him charlie, because thats still him but at the same time not.

he's changed and things cant go back to the way they were, noel took up a new name one to remember but also to move on

i don't think noel is a fake name to him more so just a new identity he's taken up as an extension of himself. or at least someone he's rebuilt himself as after the dreamlands. i don't think he's discarded charlie as an identity but that he just has two names that are both very real to him, however just one of them is more in the forefront than the other so he'd be unused to his old name being used.

but i also think that he'd feel extremely disconnected to his old life and name that it would be uncomfortable and feel wrong for him, might feel that his past is catching up to him or maybe he'd be afraid that if he stops using noels name he'd be abandoning him in some way

or just using the name as an escape from the king in yellow who likely would've called him by his original name

i recognise this is like probably nothing at all but it is rotating in my brain and i need to get it out, i love saying shit and being completely incoherent

[mic-check-stims]

Walkshipping board for that one anon from forever ago who asked about my ships

X-X X-X X-X

[anti-fairy-world]

You know, while we don't think Stuck In My Head/Mind The Gap were bad episodes or anything, we kinda wish they'd been cut in favor of making that time the part one to The Battle of Big Wand, with the actually episode being part two. Make it a whole big forty to forty-five special instead of trying to fit it with a twenty-two to twenty-three minute run time

We actually like everything they were trying to do with the special, but we just wish they had more time to flesh things out and play around with the jokes between the plot moments. The writers probably didn't really have much of a choice with the time they were given to work with and had to prioritize where screen time was used, and honestly they did what they could, but sometimes it felt like 'and now this is happening so we can get moving with the plot'

[neosatsuma]

I for one would be thrilled if the big bads were defeated through 1) the power of comedy and 2) the criminal justice system (randomly applied)

[skunkes]

doing figure drawing studies because i know thats what i should be doing right now but also ive been in a very insane deranged state for the past 2 months that leaves me like this whenever i look at a man for too long

[i3utterflyeffect]

What would stick!Alan's reaction to meeting stick!noogai be?

mostly shock and confusion! he's very confused by this and very concerned for his counterpart!

noogai!victim also scares the shit out of him for obvious reasons and as soon as anyone asks about his victim they can unfortunately immediately tell they weren't as lucky.

[phoenixcatch7]

Why can't we have a batman is the spirit of Gotham au?

He already is, in meta, in character, in theming. Him and the joker. He is so very built upon what Gotham is made of, and Gotham builds from what he needs in turn, the setting of his story.

What if that is the reason he can take damage that would permanently ruin a physical career and come back? What if that's how he's managed to maintain his no-kill streak to such an extent? What if that's how he manages to maintain such high maintenance and all consuming identities?

For the heart and soul of a city containing all extremes, the richest nobility and the lowest of the poor, the cruellest villains and the most compassionate heroes, orphaned children and ancient lineages, a city rooted in fear and madness and grit-teeth determination and hard won kindness, what better choice could you find than Bruce Wayne?

But what if he wasn't alone in that? What if Gotham has sunk to such a low because its spirit is damaged and corrupted?

For the heart and soul of the cruellest city in the dc universe, the most unrelenting and uncaring, the one that practically laughs at your pain and suffering as you try to make it through another day, what better choice than the Joker?

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Fellas is this normal

[sysig]

I have an idea for the requesttober, could you make Scriabin like an endermen? I feel that Scriabin would be an endermen if he were in Minecraft's world

Day 11 - No eye contact >:(

[kyouka-supremacy]

It's actually quite curious that I've never found a sskk fic where Atsushi was jealous of the attentions Akutagwa gives Dazai