#nate gardner

[whaliiwatching]

I dunno if you've ever seen a movie called Storks, but why not draw Nate and his father Henry trying to teach DD (the baby) to walk? But it's like she grabs onto their pants and pulls them down by accident when she trips 😝

father tries to maintain some degree of professionalism as his daughter who was made in a machine by birds learns to walk

[katriniac]

Hello sorry yo bother if you are comfortable with it could you share some basuc info and fun fact about your ikemen OC if you have one ? I wish you a nice day 🤗

Hello hello hello! 🤗

I have a lot of Ikemen OCs, and I LOVE to talk about them! Thanks for the ask @queengiuliettafirstlady 😁

Since I have so many, I might make separate posts for each one, and then just link them all back to this post in a list.

In alphabetical order:

Alyce Gardner - MidCin, IkePri

https://www.tumblr.com/katriniac/734251104056016896/meet-alyce-fixing-rhodolites-pr-nightmare?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/katriniac/736160251335835648/hi-i-hope-the-oc-questions-are-still-up-i?source=share

Bee - IkeSen

Carl Jung - IkeVamp

Elise Persiflage - MidCin, IkePri

Dorothea Nickelton - MidCin

Fiammetta Caracal - IkeVamp

Kaede Nintai - IkeSen

Isabel Mendac - IkeVamp

https://www.tumblr.com/katriniac/734251111211499520/meet-katarina-half-human-half-succubus?source=share

Katarina Koser - IkeVamp

Kate North - IkeSen

Katie Kelly - IkeRev

Kathryn Aquaneaux - MidCin, IkePri

Leta Bauer - IkeSen

Kay Tacurnes - MidCin

Nadzeya Koselig - IkeVamp

Noema Esbizi - IkeRev, IkePri

Nate Stromm - IkeRev

https://www.tumblr.com/katriniac/699480375203954689/in-related-news-i-have-a-new-oc-for-the-ikemen?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/katriniac/734251119747989505/meet-nate-the-3-of-hearts-in-the-red-army?source=share

Nora Trudelair - IkeRev

Solfrida - MidCin

Perdita Weist - IkeVamp

Vahil Stemward - IkeSen

Most of these figures don't exist anywhere except in my imagination.

Many are shipped with the canon LIs in the games, a couple shipped with NPCs. Some are stand-alone just for the heck of it. One or two were created to help me practice writing the game LIs.

A few appear in fanfics, even fewer are in RP stories.

But I love them all.

[theshortangrylesbian]

So I might actually be stupid😂

The other day, I had been rewatching Atypical as one does. That night, I wanted to rewatch Riverdale's Men Of Honor because Toni in that episode was amazing. ANYWAYS, I'm looking at Nick all, "Huh... both him and Nate look similar." I'm thinking there no way, because why would this man play two douches?

But in the end, low and behold, Graham Philips plays both Nate and Nick.

And I only figured this out recently.

[lylethewaterguy]

How could you do that to Nate…

[rachelgardnerfictionkin]

[theladyragnell]

ooohh, leverage ot3 talking late into the night?

(Set early in the Boston era.)

More often than not, it’s the three of them on Nate’s couch long after Nate’s gone to sleep.

After all, Alec is his landlord, and he’s not going to be a shitty landlord. He splashed out for the good internet connection, the kind that can handle the sort of load Alec works with regularly, and the bar and the apartment are in a neighborhood with enough utilities that nobody’s going to think twice about that kind of load, so it’s safer than doing the work in his own brownstone that he largely picked for the view and so he could enjoy people’s expressions when he says he lives in Beacon Hill.

All that to say, when Alec’s got work to do, and no matter what his teammates say he’s always got work to do, he does it at Nate’s, while Nate sleeps or pretends to sleep or makes whatever terrible choices Nate is making this week.

There’s no real reason for the other two to stay. Eliot claims he only sleeps four hours a night, and Parker thinks wandering around the Isabella Stewart Gardner at night trying to solve their unsolved heist is a good use of recreational time (which it is, but also her theories are wrong), but their work doesn’t take the kind of preparation and long hours of filtering through security footage his does.

When Eliot stays, he makes excuses about it. The rest of them are animals who never do the dishes from team dinner, or the mark’s security looked shifty and Eliot wants to make sure nobody followed them, or Nate’s kitchen has better wild yeast for a new sourdough starter, which was a wild conversation but the resulting bread was good as hell.

Parker doesn’t make excuses. She just twists herself up in a pretzel a few pieces of furniture away from him or finds some way to hang from the ceiling and hangs out. When Eliot makes a late-night snack of homemade soft pretzels or Swedish meatballs or spinach balls, she eats them. Sometimes she steals Alec’s orange soda, which she doesn’t even like.

So Alec talks to them. It’s sort of his natural state, talking to people, keeping up a running commentary on what he’s doing, and with Parker and Eliot, they’re pretty likely to chime in with something helpful sometimes.

Neither of them are chatty people, which is why he doesn’t really notice it when they do start chatting. He’s so used to one-sided conversations, and then he looks up from a laptop at two in the morning and realizes that Parker’s spent the last ten minutes telling him where she would put cameras if she wanted a thief as good as she is to know they’re there, that Eliot’s sometimes chiming in to argue with her about maybe tailoring their plans to make thieves a little less good than she is paranoid.

“What?” Eliot demands, a little aggressive like he can sometimes get, when he catches Hardison staring at them a few minutes later, fingers hovering over his keyboard while he puzzles over the situation and then puzzles over why he’s puzzling.

“Nothing, man. Just wondering if you guys need to get some sleep, that’s all. Don’t you have that early meet with the mark? Or am I doing all this work on identifying his security team for no good reason?”

Parker, who is upside down on the couch in a way that would have Alec dizzy if he tried it out, makes a face like she smelled something. “Oh, I’m not going to bed before that. I’ll sleep later.”

“I’ve got plenty of time,” says Eliot, who definitely doesn’t. “Especially if Parker is going to be wrong about parking lot cameras—”

“I am never wrong about security cameras!”

“You’re both wrong about security cameras,” says Hardison, who has looked at more footage than both of them combined, and hits his last few keystrokes before he can shut the laptop, work done, and argue with them for a few more minutes until Eliot admits it’s time to go to bed.

[lyricthecat-12]

Recommendations: Cartoons worth giving a chance. (Adult Series #2)

1. Pantheon

Creator: Craig Silverstein

Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction

2. Smiling Friends

Creator: Zach Hadel & Michael Cusak

Genre: Surreal Comedy

3. Fired On Mars

Creator: Nate Sherman & Nick Vokey

Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama

4. Bojack Horseman

Creator: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Genre: Tragicomedy, Satire, Psychological Drama, Surreal Comedy

5. The Kirlian Frequency

Creator: Cristian Ponce

Genre: Terror, Anthology, Mystery, Sobrenatural, Latin American Animation

6. In the Know

Creator: Brandon Gardner, Mike Judge & Zach Woods

Genre: Comedy

7. Arcane

Creator: Christian Linke & Alex Yee

Genre: Science Fantasy, Adventure & Action, Drama, Videogame Adaptation

8. Adventure Time With Fionna & Cake

Creator: Adam Muto

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fantasy

9. Castlevania

Creator: Warren Ellis

Genre: Adventure & Action, Dark Fantasy, Terror, Videogame Adaptation

10. ARK: The Animated Series

Creator: Jemery Stieglitz & Jesse Rapczak

Genre: Science Fantasy, Mystery, Drama, Adventure & Action, Videogame Adaptation

[sunnysky-evans]

It didn't feel real. Sam wasn't supposed to be hurt. Sam wasn't supposed to be in the hospital. He wasn't supposed to be covered in tubes and masks and wires. He was supposed to be with Owen and Violet smiling and in love. He was supposed to be joking around with his brothers. He was supposed to be hugging and kissing Sir Hunter.

Everyone his brother loved and who loved him was here at the hospital and he was trying so hard to work out what he was supposed to do to help them. He wanted to cry, but he didn't. Sam was strong when things were scary. Sky needed to be strong now for him. He looked at the person next to him and tried to smile. "He's gonna be okay. He's the strongest."

(open to anyone who would be at the hospital. tagging people, but don't feel obligated : ) @hunterclaringtonswitch @staceyevansxsubs @sawyerevans @dallasevans-gardner @domrobinxgardner @owenepierce @slaved-violetevans @dom-i-nate feel free to tag anyone I've missed)

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Atomic Knight redesign I finally gave up on

Sergeant Gardner Gayle was one of Earth's sensitives aware of events on other earths via psychic connection to the Bleed. Interpreting these visions as premonitions, Gayle volunteered for STAR Labs' Atomic Knight program. Bonded to a suit of Dilustel Armor, the Atomic Knights were designed as a deterrent to the rival "Doctor Manhattan Project" and its greatest success, the Quantum Superman known as Captain Atom.

What STAR Labs couldn't have predicted was Gayle's psychic entanglement with his other Quantum selves would result in him far outpacing his peer knights, taking his role beyond deterrent to personal rivalry. For Nate, all this meant was the Atomic Knight was just another enemy combatant, in need of Extreme Justice...

fun fact: Gardner has a giant pet dalmatian named Perdita

[multimuseficreblogs]

𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘

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𝐄𝐔𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍

𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 ❅ all the mandalorian

𝐛𝐨-𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 ❅ all bo-katan ❅ all bo-katan smut ❅ all bo-katan fluff ❅ all bo-katan angst 𝐛𝐨𝐛𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐭 ❅ all boba fett ❅ all boba smut ❅ all boba fluff ❅ all boba angst 𝐝𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐣𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧 ❅ all din djarin ❅ all din smut ❅ all din fluff ❅ all din angst ❅ all din x gn reader ❅ all din x male reader ❅ all din x plus size reader

[thistleandthorn-events]

BACK TO SCHOOL MIXER

The pairings have been made and are as follows (Dominant listed first):

Jughead Jones - Delilah Jones Gwen Morgan Daniels - Marcia Fogarty Nate Mantle - Jamie Prescott Oz Chang - Stacey Evans Ivan Carvahlo - Ross Berry Robin Gardner - Kyla Clarington Sebastian Smythe - Dallas Evans-Gardner Kurt Hummel - Austin Fabray Honeysuckle Rosewood - Daisy Blossom Danny Andrews - Joe Berry Veronica Lodge - Matt Fabray JB Jones - Teddy Cohen-Chang Sawyer Evans - Archie Andrews Kyle Keller - Owen Evans

Reminder - The theme is Greek Mythology and all scenes should some how involve a Greek god/goddess, or Greek myth to count. 100 points for every completed scene, plus standard guidance points. Scenes must either be recorded or in public to be counted. Let's make it a great start to a new year!

OOC -

This list was (almost) completely randomized. For transparency - one pair was originally the same writer, and that was the only change needed to be made. All scenes must be posted by September 30th. Remember ALL PLOT POINTS must be approved through the admins. Anything out of the realm of "normal" needs to be run by us. Once the scene is completed, please paste the link, along with the form for Guidance Submissions into the Back to School channel in Discord. Let us know if you have any questions.

[sy5starplaty]

Short answer: YES.

Long answer:

FIRE IN THE WATER - Chapter 31 (Lucas POV) Log in to AO3 to read/comment

Ch31 features:

Nightmare!Maya in a Lucas dream

several pep talks by Mrs Friar

Lucas & Maya looking at each other in class

the return of the 2B pencil

Charlie Gardner mocking Lucas

several pep talks by Zay

Lucas & Maya looking at each other in the library

FEELINGS

Or, read from the beginning...

Excerpt:

If only he’d received the pep talk the day of the Spring Formal. Instead he showed up at the bakery to state his case the day after and allowed Maya to take him down bit by bit. He didn’t feel worthy of talking to Riley after that, but something— Some type of gravitational pull drew him into Maya’s orbit as she raced away from the confrontation and into the arms of Nathan Pryce.

Lucas blinked away the memory of Nate touching her face; his smile as Maya hugged him; his fingers threaded within her hair. It was then Lucas should’ve recognised his jealousy. Nate had a closeness with Maya that didn’t make sense for two people who’d only just met. Why couldn’t Lucas have that with a girl he’d known for three years?

Why couldn’t he touch Riley like that? He loved her didn’t he? He was supposed to— Was what Nate had with Maya something else? Something physical? Something more physical than what Lucas once had with her— Something mature? Something adult? Was that why Maya liked Josh? Did she want to grow up quicker than her friends?

[reapers-lover]

People I currently write for!

If you plan to make a request please look and make sure it is someone I still write for, my hyperfixations change a lot so soon I once wrote about I may not write about anymore! Please keep this in mind as you make a request and if you have a question about this list please let me know! Please know I am fine with writing smut and anything else for all of these people/ characters!

•last updated May 23rd, 2024

☆Musicians☆

John Deacon

Brian May

Roger Taylor

Brian Jones

☆Actors☆

Joe Mazzello

Tom felton

☆Film and TV show characters☆

Eugene Sledge

Pat Murray

Gardner Langway

Charles Harper

Warren worthington iii

Draco malfoy

☆Book Characters☆

Aaron Warner

Coriolanus snow

Sejanus Plinth

Draco malfoy

Nate Hawkins

Henery Turner

Russ Callaghan

Grayson Hawthorne

[anxiousnerdwritings]

What are some of the DC or marvel characters do you wanna write more about?

These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head but there are plenty of others I would love to eventually get to.

DC Characters

Midnighter/Lucas Trent

Apollo/Andrew Pulaski

Blue Beetle/Ted Kord

Booster Gold/Michael Carter

Inertia/Thaddeus Thawne

Black Canary/Dinah Lance

Talia al Ghul

Ra’s al Ghul

Punchline/Alexis Kaye

Wally West

Bart Allen

Starfire/Kory Anders

Blackfire

Superboy-Prime

Lady Shiva

Cheshire

Power Girl/Karen Starr

Darkseid

Brainiac

Two-Face/Harvey Dent

Captain Cold/Leonard Snart

Sinestro

Bane

Green Lantern/Guy Gardner

Green Lantern/Kyle Rayner

Green Lantern/Jessica Cruz

Green Lantern/Simon Baz

Shazam/Billy Bateson

Marvel Characters

Sentry/Robert Reynolds

Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze

Ghost Rider/Robbie Reyes

Knull

Emma Frost

Cyclops/Scott Summers

Black Cat/Felicia Hardy

Elektra Natchios

Black Bolt

Medusa/Medusalith Amaquelin

Franklin Richards

Legion/David Haller

Any of the Symbiotes

Starfox/Eros

Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd

Matthew Malloy

Daredevil/Mathew Murdock

Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde

Rogue/Anna-Marie

Gambit/Remy LeBeau

Silk/Cindy Moon

X-23/Laura Kinney

Havok/Alex Summers

Polaris/Lorna Dane

Vulcan/Gabriel Summers

Angel/Warren Worthington III

Iceman/Bobby Drake

Dazzler/Alison Blaire

Colossus/Piotr Rasputin

Magic/Illyana Rasputina

Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner

Madelyne Pryor

Mister Sinister/Nathaniel Essex

X-Man/Nate Grey

Daken/Akihiro

Psylocke/Betsy Braddock

[vanderwoodlings]

yeah. that’s the moment. a nate/vanessa playlist (x)

Text version of the tracklist (and commentary!) under the cut:

1. “So Alright, Cool, Whatever,” The Happy Fits. How could I ever be so dumb/To believe I’d be the one that you would adore?/I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you/I wanna be barely hanging on! I love the energy of not necessarily being willing to admit how deep you’re in for natessa, especially in the sense of, like, it’s been a day and a half and yet—

1. “So Alright, Cool, Whatever,” The Happy Fits. How could I ever be so dumb/To believe I’d be the one that you would adore?/I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you/I wanna be barely hanging on! I love the energy of not necessarily being willing to admit how deep you’re in for natessa, especially in the sense of, like, it’s been a day and a half and yet—

2. “Cardiac Arrest,” Bad Suns. I'll try my best, how much do I invest?/Like cardiac arrest, high voltage in her lips. Wow I’m so into you where are you at: pt 2

3. “She’s Electric,” Oasis. It’s an extended metaphor! No but like i mean She's electric/She's in a family full of eccentrics/…She is electric, can I be electric too?

4. “Out of My League,” Fitz and The Tantrums. You were out of my league/Got my heartbeat racing/If I die don't wake me/'Cause you are more than just a dream

5. “Wake Me,” Bleachers. Is this the extended imagery playlist? Maybe! But this is also our first definite Vanessa POV song, for when Nate keeps. Leaving. Because he’s got Baggage TM. And I'd rather be sad with you/Than anywhere away from you

6. “Outer Space,” John Grant. I think you must be extraterrestrial/‘Cause you can open up the heavens for me/With just one smile, just one smile, just one smile. When you’re trying something with someone you didn’t grow up with for the first time. Also, ofc, it’s soft!

7. “Wildflowers,” Tom Petty. You belong among the wildflowers/You belong in a boat out at sea/Sail away, kill off the hours/You belong somewhere you feel free. It mentioned sailing and I couldn’t not. But also that idea of ‘I want good things for you, things that you want and no one else’ is such a natessa vibe

8. “Counting Blue Cars (Tell Me Your Thoughts On God,” Dishwalla.

9. “Falling Is Like This,” Ani DiFranco. Like you're trying to fight gravity/On a planet that insists/That love is like falling/And falling is like this. Something about the social pressures and about Nate’s fucked up relationships and about Vanessa being the outsider who no one approves of

10. “I Know Where The Summer Goes,” Belle and Sebastian. There’s just… a vibe to this one? Like, idk, I know where the summer dwells/When your underarm smells/And your kitchen looks like hell just has this kind of very ordinary place that feels so very Them and the way that they were really allowed to be kids around each other

11. “Boy Who Has Everything,” Annika Bennett. I just wish there was something he needs/Some beautiful thing I could be/To keep him from seeing the worst in me. Sad insecure hours… we have entered the breakup zone

12. “Polyester Bride,” Liz Phair. And I asked Henry, my bartending friend/If I should bother dating unfamous men/And Henry said, "You're lucky to even know me/You're lucky to be alive” you know. That Nate vibe

13. “I’m Nothing Without You,” Dylan Gardner. We're barely hanging on a thread, yeah/I'd never go away/To say that it's the only way/‘Cause now I'm here to stay/I could have never felt this way

14. “What Are You Waiting For,” Tantric. Waiting for the world to change/And it's your life and you are/So what are you waiting for?/Do you want me here for you? I’ve always heard the more aggressive and relationship-focused ‘do you want me here or not’ but it generally comes back to this back-and-forth of who are you going to be do you want to be it with me that was so defining to n/v as a ship—and that Nate ended up on the wrong side of :/

15. “You Don’t Owe Me Anything,” Tonight Alive. This is an ‘I fucked up’ song! It’s pretty straight up about it, and it feels very… right, as an n/v goodbye

16. “Peace Sign,” The Front Bottoms. So next time that she sees him/It'll be peace sign, middle finger

17. “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind,” Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris. Well, first of all, the entire Trio album is a masterpiece and you should listen to that and not this. Second of all… it’s a softer post-breakup song, for when they’re starting to move back together

18. “Missing You,” Tina Turner. I hear your name in certain circles/And it always makes me smile/I spend my time thinking about you/And it's almost driving me wild

19. “So Far Away,” Carole King. I think we all know about my obsession with nomadic adult Nate, at this point, and I see this one also as a point of really bridging that space between them. Long ago I reached for you and there you stood/Holding you again could only do me good/How I wish I could/But you're so far away

20. “When You’re Gone,” The Cranberries. Everything's stinking/Stinking without you

21. “The Tower,” Vienna Teng. I need not to need/Or else a love with intuition/Someone who reaches out to my weakness/And won't let go. Like, I wouldn’t necessarily say either Nate or Vanessa is ‘the one who survives by making the lives of others worthwhile’ as written in this song, but it’s an element that’s very there in both of them

22. “Bruce Wayne,” Memorecks, Jenna Pemkowski. I stopped comparing Nate to Superman long enough to compare him to Batman. This is Vanessa’s ‘unfortunately the stupid white boy is hot’ song

23. “Two People,” Tina Turner. Two people got to stick together/And love one another, save it for a rainy day/Some people got to stay whatever/And give one another shelter on a rainy day. They’re being protective of one another! In a more mutual and healthy way because they’re more grown up now!

24. “Exit Music (For A Film),” Radiohead. This is the ‘fuck you dad’ section, except both their moms suck as bad if not worse

25. “dear parents,” sundial. I'm scared to love like you do/The only way I know how to/I'm scared to love like you do/‘Cause I don't wanna lose him too. Like, it’s really very important to me that it’s such a bonding point between them, and also that it’s what breaks them up—Nate choosing to go with the van der Bilt way of life—and I just. See it remaining relevant

26. “Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes),” Dinah Washington, Brook Benton. Genuinely just schmoopy songs time. Just sheer warmth. Ooh, it takes a lot of lovin' to make my life complete/Mmm, and it takes a lot of woman to knock me off my feet/And baby, you've got what it takes

27. “Savannah,” Relient K. Yet I know you'll be there/‘Cause you'll know I'll want you to be there/And we'll say hello as you're smiling in love

28. “Heaven,” Brandi Carlile. This one’s one of my favorites from this playlist, because the sense of, like… safety it creates is just so right. Now nothin' can take you away from me/We've been down that road before/But that's over now/…/Baby you're all that I want/When you're lyin' here in my arms

29. “Power Of Two,” Indigo Girls. Baby, I'm here to stop your crying/Chase all the ghosts from your head/I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed/Smarter than the tricks played on your heart/We'll look at them together then we'll take 'em apart/Adding up the total of a love that's true. Tfw you’re traumatized but also super in love

30. “Home to Me,” Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Okay so I put this one last on the one hand because I couldn’t find a non-live version and I personally Do Not Like when that interrupts the transitions between songs but on the other because of the brilliantly militant refrain of That may be, but you're walking home to me because of the way it says I choose this, no matter if things are fucked, and that’s like. My thesis statement here

Bonus track (unfortunately too shouty to find a proper place in the mix): “Art School Girl,” Stone Temple Pilots. She wears the leather/I wear the makeup. Because they’re bi n gnc together <3

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It's that time of the year! Merry Christmas from the Gardner mansion~! Have a bite of this sweet and melancholic otome visual novel this holiday season. Available on Android and PC.

Link here: https://izumi-games.itch.io/heartstrings 🎨 Aihav Nating