#same for barbara and tabs

[riddle-man]

look gotham might not be the perfect show but can we just appreciate the way it has a canon gay plotline, in the TEXT of the show and played by lgbt+ actors.

i love shows like hannibal and good omens as much as the next queer, they're works of art, but i can't deny that im tired of the most celebrated queer shows being subtext, up to interpretation, implied.

[enemui]

⁉️What your favorite Genshin Impact character says about you🫵

🐰Amber: Your favorite Pokémon is Eevee and your favorite Sanrio character is My Melody.

🌹Lisa: You're not scared of smart women but you are scared of interesting women.

🛡️Noelle: You don't know shit and plan on keeping it that way.

🫧Barbara: You either sell or buy gamer girl bathwater.

🦇Fischl: You're quarter-delusional. Like, you are delusional, but sometimes you're aware that you are delusional.

☘️Bennett: You have a soft spot for miserable little creatures and you desperately need a bigger character trait than that.

🍖Razor: You love dogs, even if they're old, ugly little goblins.

🐱Diona: You love cats and hate alcohol. Those are two rare instances of you feeling strongly about anything.

🔮Mona: You were assigned financial irresponsibility at birth, and haven't managed to do anything to change your fate.

🗡️Rosaria: You think having a healthy biorhythm is overrated. You also look like a human cigarette.

🖌️Mika: You let your feelings of pity towards others control you.

🍀Klee: You're the fun parent. You probably own a spoiled pet.

🦴Sucrose: You actually love to talk, people just hate to listen.

🧪Albedo: You're gay and neurodivergent.

❄️Eula: You're weak to corporate tricks. You should really work on that.

🦚Kaeya: You're not known to have functional relationships and healthy coping mechanisms.

🦉Diluc: You think you could get an edgy boy to open up to you. You couldn't because the moment someone is even a little cold to you, you will cry.

🦁Jean: You always order the same thing from the menu. Not because it's your favorite, but because you're scared of trying anything new.

🍏Venti: If being horny and annoying was a sport, you'd be an Olympic athlete.

🐇Yaoyao: You can be sold anything with a cute mascot plastered on it.

🌶️Xiangling: You wonder how a lot of different things taste like and you need to be stopped.

🧊Chongyun: There's a great disparity between how you want to be perceived versus how you are actually perceived.

💦Xingqiu: You are knowingly annoying and don't plan to stop anytime soon.

🎸Xinyan: You're misunderstood, but you definitely don't make an effort to be anything else.

⚰️Hu Tao: Your self-proclaimed pranks have resulted in actual damages to people's mental and physical well-being.

🎼Yun Jin: You've projected onto your partner before to the point you lost the ability to identify their actual character.

🥥Qiqi: You aren't swayed by public opinions.

🐍Baizhu: Close the wikipedia tab with a list of terminal diseases, you're fine, just severely dramatic.

🏔️Shenhe: You've been in abusive relationships. Not sure if as the victim or perpetrator, but you were in them.

🎲Yelan: You'd be perfectly content as a housewife. Just do chores and read smut.

⚓️Beidou: You don't mind putting in the work to change things to be more to your liking.

💎Ningguang: You have no qualms sucking up to people for a bit of societal advantage.

🍤Keqing: You've entered relationships before, thinking you could change them. No, that absolutely did not go well for you.

⚖️Yanfei: It's not just your exes who suck, you have an entire toxic friend group.

🔔Ganyu: You have an elaborate power fantasy about quitting your job.

🫖Madame Ping: You're a classy lesbian.

⚙️Guizhong: You present your opinions as facts.

☁️Cloud Retainer: You've been in a situation when you've found your girlfriend's mom more attractive than your girlfriend.

🪽Xiao: You're non-binary and depressed.

🐉Zhongli: You need a man to kiss the back of your hand. Also you have a strained relationship with your father.

🍁Kaedehara Kazuha: You don't care about looks, only vibes. You're also addicted to adderall.

🍃Sayu: You are serious about the silly and silly about the serious. Sometimes it's funny, other times you deserve to be dropkicked into the sun.

🎁Kirara: You have a crippling addiction to adorable girls.

🦌Shikanoin Heizou: You are guilty of the "thinking with your dick/pussy". Don't try to deny it, you didn't even care until his birthday became a national holiday.

⚡️Kuki Shinobu: You have better things to do than a well-paying job, such as arson.

👹Arataki Itto: You are a size queen. You also think you're way more interesting than you actually are.

🎇Yoimiya: You've had a crush on the same person for the longest time and every time you think you're over them, they make a request of you and you jump on it like a dog.

👺Kujou Sara: You could probably use hormonal therapy.

🍡Thoma: You think appearances don't matter as long as he's nice. You're also a terrible judge of character, so all your exes are just overall shitty people.

🪭Kamisato Ayaka: You cannot survive without your established social circle. Were it not for the luxuries of civilization, you'd be dead in a ditch.

🧋Kamisato Ayato: You have no self-respect, if a slightly above average man tells you to do something, you'll do it.

🐕Gorou: You don't need a man, you need a dog.

🪸Sangonomiya Kokomi: You don't know how to dress well, but you really want a girlfriend who does.

🦊Yae Miko: You think as long as a woman is hot, she can do whatever the fuck she pleases.

🌸Raiden Ei: You've been in a relationship with an unmedicated mentally ill person and walked out of that experience having learned nothing.

🧞‍♀️Dori: The world would be better off without you.

🌻Tighnari: You have an attitude and you refuse to reign it in no matter how inappropriate for the situation it is.

🪴Collei: You either have no idea what you're doing or you should be in jail.

🪷Nilou: You live quite blissfully, but dealing with you isn't easy. This is called ignorance.

✨Layla: Your best exam results come from days when you showed up to class hungover and on 45 minutes of sleep.

📐Faruzan: Your family broke the generational curse, which somehow had a negative impact on your character.

🪻Candace: You are the mom friend, but only because you have to be. Like, you're a mess, but you're a lot less of a mess than your friends.

🌺Dehya: You can draw yourself symmetrical eyeliner.

🃏Cyno: You probably have a good moral compass, but you still aren't easy to get along with.

🦅Alhaitham: You're, like, severely delusional. You either think he's like you or that you could be on good terms with him. Both of those are clear signs of delusional behavior.

🕊️Kaveh: I hate to break it you, but buying stuffed animals can't substitute for going to therapy.

☂️Wanderer: Most of the time, you're really cute, but you can be absolutely terrifying if you so choose. You're also trans.

💉Dottore: You're fairly submissive but if someone makes you mad, you'll make sure they regret it.

🌱Nahida: You're addicted to winning arguments. You don't even need to be right, you just need to feel like you've won, even if you resort to the method of wearing a person down until they no longer want to continue debating with you.

🌂Navia: You have leadership skills specifically in the "do as I say, not as I do" department.

🐧Freminet: You're non-binary and have anxiety.

🎩Lynette: You're very patient but you'd rather not be.

🪄Lyney: You have a dark secret and the dark secret is that you're actually a Danganronpa girlie.

🍷Arlecchino: You're not a good person but you genuinely don't think it's that bad.

⚔️Clorinde: You have fallen prey to misinformation on numerous occasions before.

🩹Sigewinne: You'd sacrifice your liver to keep a person happy.

🐺Wriothesley: You can be appeased by an act of hot girl shit.

🌊Neuvillette: You need a man to kiss the back of your hand. Also you have a strained relationship with your mother.

💧Furina: You're delusional. Could be affectionate, could be derogatory, it varies from person to person.

🦟Paimon: You don't know shit but you have an opinion on everything.

🐋Tartaglia: Your exes all belong in jail. So does your current and next partner. You never fucking learn, do you?

💰Pantalone: You don't need a healthy relationship, you need a sugar daddy.

🖤Capitano: You are, amongst other things, a monsterfucker. You want to be destroyed, but, like, lovingly.

🎀Columbina: You are a mix of a pomeranian and a Biblically accurate angel.

🎭Pierro: You are fatherless on an Olympic level. You don't need a father, you need a daddy.

💫Lumine: You're a hot girl. You're either stupid or evil, but you're a hot girl. If you're not a girl, you are a red flag.

☄️Aether: You have a crippling crop top addiction and you have no idea what to do with your hair.

🌌Dainsleif: You date people before getting to know them, but don't understand why you don't get along with your partners.

[desktop-writes]

Static on the Screen | 01

--A Lack of Backup--

<|AO3|Gala Au|SotS|>

(<- Part 2 of 14 ->)

[_|2|3|4|5|6]

{TW: N/A}

[Words : 1,736]

*Note: For any overarching triggers, please click on the Gala Au tab at the top. For warnings regarding this specific fic, please click on the SotS tab.*

Sometimes there’s a moment where you know things will never be the same. A turning point in a person’s life, if you will. It could be as monumental as the moment of the wrongful death of a loved one, leading to an obsession to right the wrong that had happened. It could also be something as trivial as bumping into a person at a coffee shop, leading to finding the love of one’s life. For Barbara Gordon, it was a simple click on a link.

It had started a week ago. Three meta-humans had attacked Jason, Cass, and Damian while on patrol. Seeing as all three family members had some connection to the League of Assassins, the first idea was that they were assassins. The fact that they seemed to glow a Lazarus Green color only provided more evidence for that theory. But as soon as someone verbally confronted them, the theory crumbled under its weight.

“They had called themselves Ghosts,” Cass had signed with their face screwed in confusion. They had emphasized the last word, marking it as important. The rest of the night hadn’t given her much besides debunking the Assassin theory. While she couldn’t do groundwork anymore, she is still one of the if not the best, digital detective on the team. She had made a file and labeled it accordingly, then she had started her search with the keyword ‘Ghost’.

It had taken her 2 days between her day job and getting roughly 3 hours of sleep to find what might have been a lead. A self-published research paper by the Drs. Fenton titled ‘Effective Warding Techniques Against Ghosts’. Barbara had spent 3 hours reading the paper, scanning every detail for information. She could barely find anything useful at the end of those three hours. A lot of it was opinions worded through a scientific lens and not actual scientific facts.

Spurred on by the lack of information, she searched for other papers in their names. Yet, the majority of it was filled with the same content. Descriptions of creatures in agony while being remarked as'manipulative' and ‘non-feeling’ by the two doctors. She knew this needed to be brought up to Bruce and the Justice League as a whole, but she needed more information for the presentation. Thankfully, she had the next day off, and she began a more detailed search of the doctors.

They had documents claiming them to be doctors, with Madeline and Jack both holding doctorates in biology and master's in engineering with minors in Supernatural Studies, but she couldn't find any records of their college days. A handful of papers referenced in the other self-published research papers had Vlad Masters as another co-author, but that dropped after Vlad’s accident. That set off alarm bells in her detective sense, allowing her to dive deeper into her research.

She was nearing the end of her research binge on the doctors and was gearing towards Vlad Masters when she spotted a weirdly named Web link on the last page of her search engine of choice. Thinking it was something similar to the doctor’s papers, she clicked on the link. While it wasn’t another research paper, it was something that grabbed her attention. A halfway-done website wouldn’t have been published unless they were hiding something, so she opened the source code, hoping to easily crack the passcode and start snooping around in whatever was hidden.

The code was surprising, to say the least. The code itself was the same Lazarus Green color as the Ghosts, changing languages every 7 seconds - yes, she had timed it -, and moving in a scattered pattern. The code fought back as soon as the cursor was placed in the text box, with the creator not far behind. With her getting little sleep and the surprise of the abnormalities in the code, she ended up losing against the person on the other side of the screen. With her loss, her screen turned black with a green I-beam in the left-hand corner. A message was written behind it.

<I don’t recognize your system. Who are you? What is your affiliation>

Barbara looked at the question before checking on the burner phone she had bought for this reason. They hadn’t touched any files, even though they had full access to her civilian computer. She went the complement route and hoped to get more information on what lay ahead.

<It has been a while since someone had bested me. You should be proud.>

<I will not ask again. Who are you and what is your affiliation?>

Barbara’s hope of the other hackers’ pride getting to them and spilling what they’re hiding diminished with their quick response. She debated her options mentally. She could lean on luck, tell the truth, and hope the person on the other side is an ally in her search. She could also make up a lie and hope they won’t see through it. While she was debating, a new message appeared.

<You have one minute to respond, or else I will destroy your system.>

It seemed the decision was made for her. Even if she were to call their slightly plausible bluff, there were way too many important files on her computer, including the one she was building against the Fentons. Plus, she had yet to receive a notification on her burner phone about a breach.

<I go by the name Oracle while online. My employer may need this information. Can you unlock my computer?>

<Only if I monitor your actions.>

It was a fair request, one she would make in their situation. From their perspective, she was an outsider wanting to look at something personal to them. She could handle a little monitoring if she could find a crack in this case.

<Deal.>

When the black screen disappeared, a light gray followed behind it, giving the website an industrial feel. Black text filled the tabs across the top of the screen, listing labels like 'Ghost Basics’, ‘Rouge Abilities’, and one with a lock emoji, among others. This was a hero database, given the mentions of rouges.

The database belonged to a group of small-town vigilantes, with the person she was conversing with filling in the guy in the chair role. She could tell they were young, with mentions of having to skip class or needing to find an excuse for the team’s main hero, Phantom. Just reading their rouge descriptions, as sloppy as they are compared to the bat’s, she could tell a lot about their team and how they worked.

She kept reading on about the rouges themselves. Even though the pictures were a blurry mess -similar to the stills she had asked Tim to try and clean up -, she could get some information through the written portion of the reports. Everything thing she was learning was leaving her increasingly shaken.

Needing a break from the rouges list, she looks to the Phantom tab to see if the Justice League needs to extend a hand or if they have it under control. She hovered her mouse over Phantom’s tab, only a tab away from the locked emoji. Right before she was about to click, her screen turned black again. Their previous conversation looked back at her, and a slight weight settled on her shoulders. On the other side of the screen was a child.

A child.

A child on an entire team of children being attacked by beings with the power levels of gods; who are being hindered by the very people they protect. At the very least, Robin had Batman, or even their junior teams, if something happened. She looks at the new message.

<Phantom is off-limits.>

She needed to keep the connection. Something is happening in Amity Park. Something big. She can feel it in her bones. Racking her brain for ways to keep the connection, she thought back to how unorganized and messy their reports seemed. Mentorship seemed like a good way to go with the kid.

<Your Phantom’s guy in the chair, right? I can help you with that.>

The next message was apprehensive, much like talking to an Alley kid. She should’ve expected this. She was a stranger who had attempted to hack into their database and then offered help with nothing in return. It had caught their attention, though, which was good enough for her.

<What’s the catch? Nobody would do that for free.>

<You seem to know a lot about Ghosts. We had a few show up in Gotham recently. You help me relay the information to Batman and the others tomorrow, then we can talk about our mentorship.>

It took a few minutes to get a reply, but that was okay. It gave her time to clear off her desk and start getting the papers strewed about in order.

<Let me talk with my team.>

<Take as long as you need.>

She continued cleaning up her apartment while she waited. While it wasn’t trashed, it wasn’t clean either. Taking empty snack bags and water bottles from the top of overflowing trashcans and putting them in a separate bag was repetitive and mind-numbing enough to pass the time. She set the filled bags by the door and rolled back to her desk, pushing the desk chair out of her way. It would be stupid to go out this late. She was finishing organizing the paper notes she took over the three days when she got a response.

<I accept. I am not giving you more access though.>

Her screen returned to normal; the same gray greeted her back. The only change was a small, lime-green chat bubble in the bottom left corner. She spent the next three hours getting a feel for Pharaoh’s setup while gathering more information on the team for her reports. She still had to collect information for the Justice League for them to look at what's happening ground-level. After three hours, she closed the database.

She told the bats, via group chat, that she had found answers to their meta case that needed to be discussed in person tomorrow. After closing the group chat, she checked the locks on the door for the second time that day. Assuring herself it was locked, she wheeled to her bedroom, locked her chair by the bed, and then pulled herself into bed. She went to sleep relatively easy, unknowing of the bombshell that would be dropped tomorrow night.

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Chapter 2 should be out by the end of next month at the latest.

[echollama]

Today to de-stress I made a Youtube Genshin Impact Character Demo View Count list, zoom in or open in new tab to see better

In the same tiers, charas are arranged, from left to right, highest to lowest view count, but ONLY based on the rounded up view count and not actual view count; some share the same view count so which ever came first will be on the right(There might be mistakes, sorry).

I included some Mondstadt folks in the 1-2mil tier because they appeared playable in the very first announcement trailer despite not having individual demos respectively; I also added both Aether and Lumine together because DO NOT SEPARATE!!!

Also Barbara is on the list because she has this video.

Things that surprised me:

Alloy ranking higher than most charas??

Xiangling's demo ranking higher than Hu Tao's???

SECOND PLACE IS EULA???

Beidou and Ningguang technically had a teaser trailer together but it was on Bilibili(guess they felt it was too gay for westerners)

Tighnari's demo hitting 19 mil caught me off guard yall love a fuzzy guy

Big Dong Zhong's fans' pilgrimages REALLY boosted his demo's view count(myself guilty as well)

[winter-leftovers]

Til The End Of Eternity || Chapter Four: To Catch a Changeling (4/?)

(Douxie Casperan x f!reader)

Summary: Y/n is trying to figure her life out but is going to be hard since her brother is the new trollhunter and she is plagued by dreams and feelings she doesn’t understand.

Chapter Summary: Y/n visit Douxie’s library

Word count: 1902

Warnings: no!

(Season 1 Episode 7)

Song?: Crush by Tessa Violet

Previous — Next

Masterlist

“You look like shit” Randy hit the counter with some papers distracting Y/n from her computer.

“I feel like shit” Y/n closed the seventeen tabs she had opened looking for information about Killahead, all useless “I haven’t been sleeping well”

They shared a look for awhile. Y/n rolled her eyes. She knew her coworker very well by now. There was only one reason why he didn’t interrogated about her sleeping schedule: he needed something

“What do you want, Randy?” Y/n looked back at the computer, a picture of a rat eating a fry stared back at her.

“Okay, remember my idea of a battle of bands?” He didn’t give her time to answer “Well, I need to help to set it up and I know you are a musical genius so your input would be much appreciated and I won’t be able to do it without you…”

“Aha” She cut him off “Would I get paid?” She raised a brow.

“Yes! And…and the free afternoon right now so you can sleep”

“Wow! you really want me to help” she started to pick up her stuff before he could change his mind.

“Great! Thank you! Here, have flyer”

She took the piece of paper. The colorful flyer made her smile.

Randy always loved music. She remembered when his mother told her the story of how Randy had threatened to steal a guitar if she didn’t buy him one. Music was everything to him and he saw the same emotion in Y/n when they met. She always loved music, even before she could remember.

When she was six, Barbara took her to school for the first time and there, on music class, she touched a guitar for the first time and it felt like coming home.

Y/n doesn’t remember her biological parents but as a kid she liked to think that they loved music as much as she did but, as she grew, she stopped thinking about her biological parents and at seventeen she stopped playing completely until last year. Three months into college she got lost, hopeless. She didn’t like what she was studying and didn’t know what she wanted to do. One weekend, while visiting her family, Y/n heard a piano. Someone was trying to tune a piano and awfully failing. She felt like the strings were calling for her, asking her to end its misery.

Entering the music store she had spent too many hours browsing back in high school she saw two guys not much older than her debating if that is how the key was supposed to sound.

“It’s really not” Y/n got close to inspect their work.

“Hello? You need help looking for something?” The man with the long blonde hair asked.

“You’re doing a shitty job” she pointed to the man with his finger in the key.

“No shit. I don’t know I’m doing” he laughed.

She looked back and forth between them.

‘Maybe I can make a quick buck’ she thought.

“How much for tuning it?” She crossed her arms.

The blonde man looked at his watch and back to his friend and said:

“I’ll give you twenty bucks to tune it in half an hour”

Y/n laughed

“It can take up to two hours to tune it after god knows what you did”

“Hour and a half for thirty bucks”

“Forty five minutes and sixty dollars” she stretched her hand.

“Fifty”

“Deal” They shook hands.

She took her jacket off and started to work.

“I’m Y/n”

“Randy” the blonde said.

Tuning the piano made her feel something she thought lost, the feeling of home and she’ll always be grateful to Randy for that.

“Hello, Y/n”

“Hey, Douxie! How are you?”

“I’m fine. How about you?” He looked concerned.

Y/n knew she wasn’t looking her best. No one would be after the night she had.

“Oh, this awful eye bags? Courtesy of my little brother” she laughed.

“I didn’t know you had a brother”

“Yeah, he is still in high school. How about you? Got any siblings?”

“Nah, it’s just me and Archie” he point to the window of the library where a black cat was grooming himself.

“Oooh he is so cute” Y/n crouched down in front of the window.

Archie meowed and rubbed himself on the window as a response, melting Y/n’s heart.

“Don’t feed his ego too much. He’s a total diva”

Y/n laughed “I thought the guy with groupies would be the diva”

Douxie blushed.

She chuckled. She thought guys like Douxie didn’t blush.

“Are you jealous, love?”

Now it was Y/n’s time to blush.

They stood there, smiling at each other. Y/n found Douxie so intoxicating: his hazel eyes, his blue hair, that smile that brought her down to her knees. Even though they saw each other a few times, she was enchanted by him the first time.

“Would you like to say hi to him…you know…without the glass” Douxie broke the silence. He seemed nervous.

“That would be nice” she smiled.

Douxie opened the door to the library, the smell of books, tea and something else filled her lungs making her warm inside.

The moment she stepped inside, Archie rubbed himself between Y/n legs, stealing her attention from the beautiful library.

“Hello, sweet boy” she sat on the floor to pet Archie more comfortably.

“He likes you” said Douxie. He was leaning against one of the few walls that wasn’t covered in books “He isn’t usually that nice, you know”

Y/n swears she saw Archie roll his eyes but assumed her tiredness was playing tricks with her.

“He seems super nice to me” she rubbed Archie’s cheek and he let himself fall onto her hand.

“Oh, don’t let him trick you. He has a temper”

They both laughed and shared a look. The power Douxie has on her made her crazy. Ever since the day they met at Benoit’s, she couldn’t stop thinking about him. Every time she saw him she would stare at him like if she moved her eyes he would disappear.

“Battle of the bands? Are you entering the contest?” Douxie pointed to the flyer long forgotten on the floor.

“No, I’m just helping set it up. Are you interested?”

“Yes, I have a band…”

“Oh! Ash dispersal pattern, right? Randy is a big fan” she tried to play it cool. She couldn’t tell him that she knows most of his songs by heart “I heard some of your songs. You’re good”

She saw a red tint in his cheeks and this time, she was sure her tired brain wasn’t playing tricks on her.

“Thank you” he scratched the back of his neck “I heard you play the piano you have at the store. I thought you’ll enter”

“Mmmh, I’ve played since I’m kid but I don’t think I’m good enough to enter. I’m helping cuz Randy asked” she looked at Archie, he was belly up between her legs, napping.

“What?! I heard you at the store! You’re nuclear!” Douxie crouched next to her.

Y/n turned her head and looked at him “You think?”

With Douxie so close the world seemed to slow down. They were the only people in the world. Their faces just inches apart. So close that a small breeze could change everything.

“Of course” He smiled

The door opened and the world was no longer theirs. Douxie stood as fast as he could and assisted the customer.

Y/n looked down at Archie, who was already looking at her and smiled. Her face was so hot that she thought it would explode.

She yawned and Archie mirrored, the last of her energy left with Douxie.

“Sorry, Archie but I have to go” she stood up and petted his head one last time “Maybe I’ll see you later. Tell Douxie I said goodbye”

—

Y/n fell on her bed like a bag of sand. Her body gave into sleep before she could take her shoes off.

When she opened her eyes, she was in a forest. Civilisation was nowhere to be seen. The air smelled fresh, familiar.

She kneeled in one of the trees and saw a heart with H written inside. A smile erupted from her chest. She mindlessly caressed the indentation, trying to remember something, someone, but she just couldn’t reach it. Only finding a warmth feeling in her chest.

“Y/n! Where are you?” A man’s raspy voice distracted from the tree “Come home, little bird”

A sword made of sadness and forge by loneliness stabbed her chest. Her eyes filled with tears.

“I don’t know where I am” she whispered as a tear fell down her face, burgundy streaks of light surrounded her. Electricity ran through her body burning her fingertips and heart.

She looked at her hands, they were surrounded by red smoke.

Y/n woke up covered in sweat, her heart was racing but she felt fully rested. She looked at her hands and when she saw no red smoke, she relaxed.

Outside the sun had already set. She looked through her phone to see if her brother or mom had sent a text. Jim sent her a text telling her about her study date with Claire. She smiled. Jim had a crush on this girl from his class for a while now and apparently it was going somewhere. She wished him luck even if hours had passed. When she went to answer a text from Randy Toby called.

She couldn’t understand what he was saying, only the words: changeling and dental hygienist.

“Ok, Tobes I’m on my way”

Y/n jumped out of bed and drove as fast as she could to Dr. Muelas office. She would probably get a lot of tickets but she didn’t care. Knowing what she knows now, she couldn’t risk disregarding a call from Jim or Toby.

“Toby? Jim?” She screamed as she followed the sound of struggle.

She got to the door and saw her brother stabbing a troll followed by a flashing blue light.

“There goes proof” said Aaaargh!.

“Oh, my gosh! She’s in my mouth!” Toby coughed. The troll’s ashes were everywhere.

Y/n couldn’t move.

“Oh no! I killed our only evidence of a changeling in Arcadia” Jim pulled his armour off.

“And my dental hygienist” Toby screamed.

Y/n laughed. Toby could make her laugh even on her worst days.

“You finished the fight, Master Jim, and in self defense, for that matter. Vendel may continue to have his doubts but we continue to have our lives. A fair bargain, I’d say” Blinky tried to comfort him.

“He’s right, Jim” Y/n grabbed his brother by the shoulders trying to make sure her eyes didn’t deceive her and he was ok.

“Y/n? What are you doing here?”

“Toby called”

“And just out of curiosity, what are you doing in Toby’s dentist office?” Jim looked at the trolls.

“I thought it was possible that danger may come to either of you should you cross paths with the wrong changeling. So, we followed Tobias as a precaution” explained Blinky

Aaaargh! Fell from the ceiling making Y/n jump.

Blinky started talking about how he was curious about human’s oral hygiene but Y/n didn’t listen. She was more worried about dusting the troll off her brother before getting to her car.

A/n: 👀

[gyllenhaalstories]

Hi Laurie! Very important ice cream questions are delievered right to your doorstep:

For your top 3 favourite characters at the moment: What is their favourite ice cream? Do they like to try new flavours or do they stick to the classics? Best occasion to eat it and best way to eat it? Coup, cone, fancy cone, out of the tub?

Kisses, love and spaghetti ice cream for you, byeeee 💖🍝

thank you for exposing my poor knowledge of ice cream flavours (i'm a simple girl, i like my soft serve vanilla & chocolate swirl). i have about 8 tabs open of lists of popular flavours, i'm putting in all the work and research because this is an important question! thank you for sending it back to me! i'm craving ice cream now! 💖🍦

divider credits: @/firefly-graphics (i've always wanted to use this cute ice cream truck divider, thank you for giving me the best opportunity to use it!)

RUSTY SABICH

cherry something. ben & jerry's cherry garcia, cherry cheesecake, just cherry related ice cream. or a very good quality vanilla bean ice cream, the one with tons of vanilla specks in it. he has his designated bowl in the cupboards, he never waits enough for the ice cream to chill a bit so it's always too hard and he always gets frustrated when he scrapes some off the top and it goes flying on his face. rusty is not known for his patience. i think barbara would appreciate pistachio or a good dark chocolate ice cream, so he steals some from hers but he never tells her. he mostly eats ice cream at home, sitting in the couch with his family or in the sun room on a rainy day that prevented him to go out for a swim.

i love how we both agree on the fact cherry ice cream is for cheaters (he probably genuinely enjoys maraschino cherries, there's truly something wrong with that man). yeah of course he's my top current fave character right now because i'm pathetic just like him. sigh.

ELWOOD DALTON

sorbet, specifically mango. i don't know what kind of fruits grow in the florida keys. if the university of florida says mango can grow in the keys, then mango can grow in the keys. i think coup is best with sorbet and i believe dalton would love to stick to the pure flavours of the fruit (similar to the dark cuban coffee), but he secretly likes to pick the tiny colourful plastic scoop that matches the funky shirt he is wearing.

i don't see dalton as much of a dessert guy anyway, he doesn't go out of his way to get some but he'll happily eat whatever dessert you buy or bake for him. i like to think that laura invited him to go out for ice cream the same way she offered him a ride and he said no the first time but then she teased him the next day about how yummy the ice cream was and then he was like :) okay :) and she invited him again and he accepted (this time it was only the two of them) and he had mango sorbet, he didn't really care what he was getting anyway. laura probably told him it was good, fresh local fruit and everything, and it became his favourite after the first bite. mostly because she seemed happy he liked her suggestion. he's very nice and charming with the workers so he always gets an upscale, whether it be an extra scoop or he gets offered the large size even if he paid for the small.

TOMMY CAHILL

cookie dough or cookies and cream. he's definitely the most likely out of this list to try new flavours, he just wants to try them all at least once in his life. these two are his favourite. if he's out and about, stopped at an ice cream truck or a proper creamery, he gets the normal sugar cone (with extra napkins, he always makes a mess). he can go for a dipped cone as well if he's feeling fancy. if he's eating at home, he definitely stirs his ice cream until it turns into a milkshake.

most of his ice cream related memories involve his nieces, isabelle and maggie. he takes them out for a swim at the pool or out at the park where he pushes their swings extra high (in the safest way possible) or even goes down the slide with them and their reward is an all you can eat ice cream buffet aka one cup they can fill with whatever toppings they want. grace and sam absolutely hate him for it, he brings back two hyper kiddos on a sugar high but tommy is just happy to have fulfilled his uncle duties. he made it into some kind of game as to who can make the craziest concoction. the kids would go for gummy bears with strawberry ice cream and sprinkles convinced that they won the contest, but then tommy would show up with a mountain of crushed oreos, mini m&ms, choco chips, drizzled with all the sauces they had and he would easily win. he'd get sick afterwards (probably because the girls ended up sharing his ice cream and he had to eat theirs instead) but it would be their favourite way to celebrate the end of summertime before school starts again.

DANNY SHARP (bonus teehee)

salted caramel. waffle cone. topped with a waffle cookie on top. danny strikes me as a caramel syrup person for some reason, so he probably asks for extra drizzle of it on top when he needs an even bigger pick me up. he has to eat it in secret, go to the creamery alone, so he doesn't hear castro begging to tag along (he will go out for ice cream with castro every once in a while and he will pay for his three scoops sugar extravaganza and he will complain about it although he secretly likes to make his employee/friend/flamingo zookeeper happy).

my first thought was neapolitan because he wouldn't need to choose so he could have a bit of all flavours (less anxiety inducing). that was probably his favourite as a kid, he could share with will and let his brother have his fave flavour. my second thought was distinguished ice cream to enjoy while wearing a cashmere sweater so that's why i switched my answer.

[random-movie-ideas]

Nightwing: Under the Red Hood (Movie Outline)

Here is the third movie for Nightwing set in the same cinematic universe all the rest I've written so far came from. This, like Batman & Batgirl: Arkham Assault, would come after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, with the two coming out around the same time, as their events happen parallel to one another. This one features the resurrection of Jason Todd, with Black Mask and Firefly acting as major villains as well.

The movie begins with Nightwing, Robin, and Spoiler all landing outside of a warehouse. Inside, the disgraced makeup mogul Roman Sionis has become a drug kingpin in the time since his company went under, wearing a black mask to cover up the damage done when he was attacked by Poison Ivy. At his side is his personal hired bodyguard, Garfield Lynns. Our three vigilantes interrupt the drug deal, and Lynns activates the special suit he’d been given, allowing him to fly while using a flamethrower to attack. At one point, Tim and Steph make a joke about him being a literal firefly. In the end, Black Mask and Firefly make a getaway.

The next day, during daylight hours, Dick, Tim, and Steph visit the grave of Dick’s deceased brother Jason, which had recently been dug up, the body missing. Dick is visibly distraught about this, Tim and Steph trying to console him to no avail. He decides he’s going to investigate this and assigns them to keep their tabs on Sionis.

Later that night, Nightwing follows the trail as much as he can, calling up Barbara for aid, discovering that only Alfred is around, while Bruce and Barbara are both busy with a situation of their own. As they talk, he and Alfred talk about Jason, remembering some story of their time together that will serve as a callback later in the story.

Meanwhile, Tim and Steph trail Roman and Lynns to another meetup, attempting to meet his buyer once again after the previous mission was botched. They watch on as they meet the mysterious buyer, a man wearing a red mask who seems to be staying to the shadows. They jump into action when the man ends up drawing a gun and shooting Roman right in the chest. A fight breaks out between the three parties, Firefly protecting Roman and helping him get away, while the man in the red mask seems to be going after Roman’s head. Tim and Steph intervene, and the man seems taken aback by Tim’s costume. After a brief battle, the man gets away.

Tim and Steph report to Dick and tell him about the strange man. Steph jokingly calls him Red Hood after Black Mask. Despite Dick still wanting to search for his brother’s body, he decides to help them against this person. Meanwhile, Roman and Lynns return to Roman’s penthouse where he is treated by doctors. Roman instructs Lynns that he wants that man’s head on a platter.

We get a montage of the heroes trying to track the Red Hood down. Dick reaches out to an underworld contact who tells him about the rumors of a new player in drug-running circles, a man who’s been killing off drug kingpins and crime lords. Dick asks why he hasn’t heard about any of this and the contact says the gangs have been trying to keep it hush-hush. The contact doesn’t know anything else, but he knows Roland Daggett is supposed to be getting a shipment that night.

Dick tails Daggett, telling Tim and Steph to hang back as backup. The meeting takes place, and once again, the Red Hood shows up, gunning Daggett and his men down. Dick steps in and the two fight. After a brief scuffle, the man’s mask is knocked off, and Dick sees his dead brother underneath, very much alive, with a shock of white hair and scars across his face. In Dick’s surprise, Jason gets away. Meanwhile, Lynns watches from afar.

The next day, Dick tells Tim and Steph about what happened. He tries to contact Bruce, Barbara, or Alfred, but no one answers at the mansion. He leaves to figure out things, and orders Tim and Steph to stay home. He revisits Jason’s grave, and follows the trail he followed before, coming up with nothing. He then revisits the scene of Jason’s death, the burned-down warehouse, and searches for answers there. Just as he’s about to leave, he hears “Figured you’d show up.”

Dick turns to see Jason in the flesh. He asks how this could possibly be happening, because he watched him die and held his lifeless body. Jason confirms that he did die. As for how, Jason’s not certain. A short time back (around the time of the Crisis on Infinite Earths event in this universe), he’d felt himself suddenly awaken inside of his casket. He’d clawed his way out and found himself picked up by a strange group that called themselves the League of Assassins, and how their leader had bathed him in a pit full of chemicals that restored his body and made him stronger than ever.

Dick is confused but moves to welcome him back when Jason rebuffs him. Jason says he’s not here for him, or for Bruce. He’s here to do what they could never do. When Dick asks what he means, Jason asks why Roman Sionis is still alive. Why people like the Joker and Batman’s other rogues are still alive. No matter how much they are beaten, they always come back, and innocent people always pay the price. He is now a member of the league, and he has come to finish people like Roman once and for all.

We get a brief debate between them about the ethics of killing, but that debate is cut short by Firefly, who’d gotten a look at Jason’s face the night before and had been tailing him ever since. The two brothers work together to fight the Firefly, having an intense battle, but eventually they beat him down and destroy his flamethrower. Jason makes to kill him, while Dick tries to stop him. Jason asks what happens when an innocent kid like the one he was ends up as Firefly’s next victim because of Dick’s weakness. When Dick can’t answer, Jason brutally murders Firefly and walks away.

Tim and Steph find Dick sitting on a roof nearby, having trailed him there. They comfort him, and Dick has a scene talking about all his regrets surrounding Jason, and Bruce, and everything they’ve ever done in their lives as vigilantes. We also get scenes intercut of Jason revisiting things of his childhood, calling back to the earlier memory. Tim and Steph are at a loss for anything to say, and simply stay with him.

We cut back to Roman in his base, recognizing that Firefly has stopped calling in. He looks at the picture Firefly had left him, showing the Red Hood’s identity. A short time later, the Red Hood shows up in his office to finish him off, only for Roman to spring his trap, his men taking Jason down and unmasking him. Making an educated guess, he reasons out that Nightwing’s identity is most likely his estranged brother Dick. A note is left at the apartment for him to come alone.

Dick arrives at the old burned-out warehouse, with Roman and his men holding Jason hostage. Roman boasts at Dick, saying this is probably a familiar sight to him. He threatens Jason with a crowbar, but Jason retorts that he’s not that kid anymore, breaking his bonds that he’d been cutting and attacking Roman. We get a fight scene of Dick and Jason working together against them again, with Tim and Steph showing up after finding a note from Dick.

The four make quick work of them all, but Roman makes a getaway. Our heroes pursue him, Tim reaching him first, only for Roman to take him by surprise and knock him unconscious with his crowbar. Dick and Steph manage to catch up, but Roman holds Tim at gunpoint to keep them back, boasting that that’ll be another Robin on the list. Before he can pull the trigger, Jason appears behind him and shoots him in the head. Dick is only relieved that Tim is alright, letting Jason go.

A few days later, Dick, Tim, and Steph are having breakfast together, with Dick getting a subtle prank message left by Jason somewhere to mess with him, also calling back to the memory. Dick tries to call Bruce or Barbara again, as he hasn’t heard from them in a while. Barbara actually picks up this time, saying she’s in the hospital, while Tim and Steph both notice a news story about a fire at Arkham.

What do you think? Would you watch a movie like this? From here, I'll do the animated movie starring the Golden Age heroes.

[earth-ambassador-jim]

If changeling!Toby and the Barbara and Jim of Lost Souls were to all exist in the same universe, how would you see that playing out?

This is a hard one.

Basically, Toby was just coming to trust the Lakes and care for them at the time that Jim was kidnapped.

For human!Toby in the cannon Lost Souls AU this loss resulted in him becoming a bit withdrawn and afraid to form attachments. For changeling!Toby the result would be similar except, as he is already playing a role, he simply leans more into it. He ends up becoming a decently popular kid but he isn't actually close to anyone. (He isn't willing to try trusting again.) He would get along a lot better with Strickler in this AU as he is acting more like the ideal changeling. (He still is skeptical of the Janus Order goals but he's taking the path of least resistance. He's working on some fallout plans for himself in case Gunmar isn't quite as thankful to the changelings as they're expecting. Which he suspects will be the case.)

Toby doesn't find out about Barbara and vice versa for a long time because Barbara is generally working within the Janus Order Headquarters and wears her armor when she's out and about.

Toby knows that Morgana has a champion but not who she is. Toby is simply too low ranking for Barbara to know about.

Toby does try to find out what happened to Jim with little luck. He knows that magic is involved but isn't able to get any further. He reported the incident to Strickler in hopes that it would be interesting enough for someone with more information clearance to look into it, but it never happened.

When Darci tells him about Merlin he passes it on to Strickler and tries to discourage her from looking into it more. She still maintains an interest in magic. Toby keeps tabs on her just in case she finds something.

By the present timeline Toby has for the most part moved on from Jim. The only people he really cares about are his Nana and the goblins.

Toby would end up being in charge of the goblins much sooner in this timeline. He would meet Barbara then. It would be unpleasant for both of them. Toby because it reinforces his belief that there's really no one you can trust or rely on, and Barbara both because Nancy's house cannot be a safe place for her and just the fact that someone that close to her has been affected by the Janus Order.

In conclusion: Barbara's reformation would be much tougher without Nancy's support. Toby would be officially Janus Order, but open to exchanging favors with the other sides. (Not Merlin though.)

[profounddestinyrebel]

Marinette and Tim as cousins. Tim while with Young Justice goes to Paris while Marinette is Ladybug. He helps with finding Hawkmoth with his detective skills and ability to trap and manipulate his opponent. Marinette gets injured at some point and Tim runs her blood and finds out Bruce is her bio dad and his cousin (farther related than that) he tells her and reveals the secret to her, but she doesn't want to tell Bruce. Tim agrees with her because Bruce would totally take over her life and she already has a family in Paris. Also, the fact that she's magical would not go over well. Miraculous it turns out leave stains or traces the longer and more intensely you use them. Marinette has been using the lucky charm and patrolling for at least 2 years by this point and she can now use some of the magic outside the costume. This of course only applies if the kwami is a willing partner. Its one of the only ways they can effect their wielder.

So fast forward, Young Justice never told their mentors about Marinette and now they have a secret magical god (basically) as back up if they ever need it and Marinette has them all on speed dial. They have meet ups where Marinette just portals them out from where ever they where and they catch up. All of their mental health is a lot better. They keep tabs on each other but Marinette put a magical glamor on herself so anything they say about her doesn't catch anyone's attention.

On Tim's world wide search for Bruce he gets her help. The three of them (Tim, Marinette, Cassie) where already leaning on each other because Bart and Kon both died, and Marinette helps convince Cassie that Tim's right. Everything goes pretty much the same except when Tim almost dies, Marinette helps indirectly. She then binds Ra's when he tries to kill Tim. Also blows up the Lazarus pits and Ra's after he leaves Gotham. This Tim is more relaxed about the no kill rule. He doesn't kill but if his friends are certain that it's the right choice he steps aside because he trusts them. Marinette and Tim are about the same age so Marinette waits until she's past 18 with a stable income before even thinking about telling Bruce.

One way the Bats finds out she even exists is because she has to do business in Gotham. MDC's identity is no longer a secret and so people know she's in Gotham, but here no one knows that she's connected to Tim. Until Barbara can't dig anything up about Marinette. In fact, none of the Bats can get info about her and the computer crashes if you try too many times. They eventually trace the interference to Tim, right before trying for a face to face meeting with Marinette (Hint: no they didn't, Tim let them trace it because he doesn't want them to meet Marinette yet) They interrogate Tim about his interference and he tells them she's his cousin and a friend. When pressed to stop and/or give them info about Marinette he tells them to back off or else. He specifies blackmail against each of them and they realize that Tim's willing to set back his Bat relationships to protect Marinette's privacy. Eventually (after loophole shenanigans that barely don't succeed) Marinette comes to the manor and they realize that Tim trusts her. The two of them joke and laugh and Tim relaxes in her presence. The way, they see, that he no longer does with them. He's more himself, less good soldier/child and more Tim. The way he is with his friends. Marinette leaves and the Bats still don't find out anything.

The next Big Bad comes and this time it's some magical one. Constantine, Zatanna and Dr. Fate are all immobilized and taken out (maybe even sent away) and the Magical Bad is now toying with the heroes. Not killing but severely injuring whoever he hits. Captain Marvel is taken out and then RR is shouting for Superboy to find LB. Not even 20 seconds later a portal opens up and Ladybug and Superboy arrive. Marinette meanwhile has been learning All The Magic with and without the miraculous and KO's the Magical Bad. An interrogation of both Ladybug, Superboy and Red Robin after everyone is safe, is interrupted by one of the magi's exclaiming about the inferno of magical power LB has and how the fuck does RR know her?

Don't really know where to take it from here but the reveal would totally have Tim siding with Marinette (and vice versa) with Tim maybe taking a break from Gotham and the Bats. Maybe he goes on a magic adventure with Marinette, maybe they just do fun around the world travel that they couldn't before because Tim didn't want the Bats to be suspicious.

Tim would totally use the mouse to it's fullest potential. the ability to split yourself into many versions of yourself? he'd have WAY too much fun with that

Also Bruce finding out Marinette is his bio daughter cannot be dramatic. it has to be a spit take. one of them mentions it off hand like 'didn't you already know that?' maybe they even manage to convince Bruce that he already knew and forgot because of all the concussions he takes as batman.

Side Note: I haven't watched Miraculous Ladybug in a while or finished it so it might not be accurate. Also, I cannot write dialogue. Conversation cannot be written by me, and that's a fact.

[whatsallthisnow]

What your favorite song from the Beetlejuice the Musical Soundtrack says about you:

The Prologue/Invisible: You listened to the whole album on repeat for weeks at a time and now you just need the opening notes to trigger your serotonin boost. It might not be the healthiest coping mechanism, but hey, whatever works.

The Whole Being Dead Thing: You love musicals. You think Alex Brightman's version is the best Beetlejuice. You've watched the Tony performance 8 times and you're probably going to look it up again as soon as you're done reading this.

Ready Set Not Yet: The 2020 lockdown was the best thing to ever happen to you. It really gave you time to grow, you know... Emotionally. Say "Hi" to your therapist for me.

The Whole Being Dead Thing pt2: You aren't part of the intended audience for this show but you're having a lot of fun now that you're here. Welcome!

Dead Mom: Wow. Those are some Big Feels™ there Buddy. Are you doing okay? Have you had water today?

Fright of Their Lives: You can be honest, we're all friends here. Are you a horror junkie or a monster fucker? Either way, this is your dream scenario.

Ready Set (Reprise): Same as the first one but you think you're handling it okay on your own. Say "Hi" to your mom for me.

No Reason: You use your 50+ Pinterest boards to cope with the fact that you can't afford a real house to decorate. Get yourself some coffee and ibuprofen, or as you like to call it: Breakfast.

Invisible (Reprise): No it's not. Try again.

Say My Name: You're right, objectively, but that doesn't mean you don't need to get off TikTok for a bit. Maybe take off the cosplay makeup and touch some grass.

Day-O: You prefer the movie and that's okay. Good on you for branching out and trying new things, even if it's only because your loved one who's obsessed with the show made you listen. It still counts.

Girl Scout: How many Ao3 tabs are open on your browser right now? What about Wattpad? Hmm?

That Beautiful Sound: You are the Gothy Teen. I'd say that you scare me, but you'd take it as a compliment. Please go to therapy. For everyone's mental health.

Barbara 2.0: You're the Mom Friend™; The Responsible One ™; The Voice of Reason™. I don't care if you have crippling anxiety and your room looks like a dumpster threw up, that's who you are.

What I Know Now: You are the intended audience and you're having a blast. You might still need therapy, but not for anything related to this show. Congratulations.

Home: Big Feels™ pt2. At least you're handling it better than those who picked Dead Mom. I'm serious about the water thing though.

Creepy Old Guy: Your trauma speaks for itself, and you're aware of it. Go clear your browsing history.

Jump In Line/Dead Mom (Reprise): You don't go here and frankly, you're glad it's over. This was the weirdest 2.5h of your life and you just want to go home and sit in the shower for a while.

[mitchipedia]

How Cory Doctorow uses browser tabs for productivity superpowers

Cory defends lifehacking, which “is in pretty bad odor these days, and with good reason: a once-useful catch-all for describing how to make things easier has become a pit of productivity porn, grifter hustling, and anodyne advice wreathed in superlatives and transformed into SEO-compliant listicles.” But at its core, lifehacking is just a collection of little tricks that help people be more productive.

He links to his notes from a 2004 talk by Danny O’Brien: “Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks”.

O’Brien’s inspiration was his social circle, in which people he knew to be no smarter or better or motivated than anyone else in that group were somehow able to do much more than their peers, in some specific domain. O’Brien delved deeply into these peoples' lives and discovered that each of them had merely (“merely!") gotten very good at using one or two tools to automate things that would otherwise take up a lot of their time.

These “hacks” freed up their practitioners to focus on things that mattered more to them.

… everyone who created a little hack was faintly embarrassed by it, and assumed that others who learned about their tricks would find them trivial or foolish. O’Brien changed the world by showing that other people were, in fact, delighted and excited to learn about their peers' cool little tricks.

(Unfortunately, this eventually opened the floodgates of overheated posts about some miraculous hack that turned out to indeed be silly and trivial or even actively bad, but that wasn’t O’Brien’s fault!)

Cory notes that he is a pretty productive fellow himself, having written nine books during lockdown. And he shares a couple of his little tricks.

One of them is having “a group of daily tabs that I open in a new browser every morning. The meat of this tab group is websites I want to check in with every day, either because they don’t have RSS feeds, or because I want to make sure I never miss an update.”

These include news and opinion websites, Wikipedia pages whose edits he is watching, and also personal finance and ecommerce sites.

I do something similar: I have three folders of tabs: One I open multiple times daily, another that I also open multiple times daily, but less often than the first group, and a third that I open 1x/day. I call them, imaginatively enough, “First,” “Second” and “Daily.” The first group is social media replies, the second group is social media streams, and the third group has more social streams, Discord channels and one or two blogs that have lousy or nonexistent RSS feeds.

Tabs, like lifehacks, are also in bad odor. Everyone stresses about how many tabs they have open…. But this is a very different way to think about tabs. Rather than opening a window full of tabs that need your detailed, once-off attention later, this method is about using groups of tabs so that you can pay cursory, frequent attention to them.

I find RSS, newsletters and daily tab groups do the same job, enable me to check on a couple of hundred websites daily in very little time. I currently use the NewsBlur RSS reader, which is also a great place to read newsletters. (If you don’t like NewsBlur, my friend Barbara Krasnoff writes up five good RSS readers.)

Also:

My little tab habit is so incredibly useful, such a powerful way to seize back time and power from powerful actors who impose burdens on me, that I sometimes forget how, for other people, tabs are a symptom of a life that’s spiraling out of control. For me, a couple hundred tabs are a symbol of a couple hundred tasks that I’m totally on top of, a symbol of control wrestled back from others who are hostile to my interests.

Cory talks about how tabs are an example of “generative” technology—innovations that users implement in ways that were unanticipated by people who developed technology.

It occurs to me that a reason I love the Obsidian documents app is that it’s an example of “generative” technology. I use Obsidian in weird ways that don’t seem to be the designers’ intent, but it works well for me—and I think that actually is part of the designers’ intent.

[renxias]

Batfam reading habits ( part 1):

duke: definitely dog ears pages, also uses any item he can find as a bookmark, memorized what page number he left on at times if there is no bookmark or is too much in a rush to bookmark. Tends to like to read on the hard floor with a blanket bunched up underneath and will stay in one position for hours. Also genuinely believe duke has adhd and will often opt for audiobooks when he has bad brain days and sometimes reading books can feel impossible and make him nauseous. In addition, when he finds a book he loves he cannot put it down and will talk about it for weeks and create theories if possible. He also tends to constantly annotate his books and will have a habit of using quotes from the book in everyday vocabulary and just LOVES watching other people pick apart and analysis his favorite books online.

preferred book choice for duke: not necessarily picky he’ll read almost everything ranging from classics to cheesy romance; HOWEVER, he’s more selective when it comes to sci-fi as in he’s not terrible big on the ones that take place in space. DUNE definitely one of his all time favorites though. Additionally, thrillers and mind games are up there in his favorite genres he finds them so exciting and they suck him in.

damian: he has a specialized bookmark that he was gifted from bruce and literally will never pass up any opportunity to use it. At times he is also notorious for memorizing book page numbers if he doesn’t have his bookmark on hand and absolutely despises dog-earring pages he gets upset at duke and tim over it because they’re dog-ear contenders. He literally reads in dead silence or he’ll listen to classical but only pieces in a minor key. He tends to love reading with Titus on his lap or next to him on his bed. He also has a designated spot next to the fire place and often falls asleep there reading after patrol is finished for the night. Once he finds a book he loves he will constantly pick words to use in his everyday vocabulary and tends to talk nonstop about the book only with certain people ( e.g jason, bruce, dick, duke, and maya). He constantly annotates his books as well same as duke and uses tabs for his favorite sections. He also isn’t terribly big on audiobooks and loathes sitting through them bc he could just read it himself yknow.

preferred book choice for damian: god he loves horror, classics ( especially gothic ones), anything and everything greek tragedies, mystery, and he has a soft spot for historical fiction romance. He also is a giant PJO fan and was super into reading the series of unfortunate events for a while. Shoujo manga is also a go-to.

steph:

well she oh my god collects audiobooks like crazy because sitting and reading a physical copy is difficult for her. Often times whenever she does choose to read a physical copy she’ll get carsick and often will feel nauseous and throw up so she finds it easier to read upside down from her bed with the blood rushing to her head. Forgets to annotate but when she does she will go crazy with it, writing constant comments in the margins. She also will use anything as a bookmark and even used flattened take out box once for one. Also one of her preferred reading spots is in cass’s room or with barbara. She likes reading under the table in the manor and tends to switch positions a lot when reading and gets up frequently for snack breaks in between. Once she gets hooked into a book steph has a tendency to block people out and not hear when they’re calling her. She’ll also rattle on and on about the book or it turns in her head like a microwave. She doesn’t mind analyzing the characters but god she has strong opinions about various literature and even literary devices it’s unreal and talks constantly about them with Jason and damian. She has to read with noise or else.

preferred books choice for steph: loves horror, historical fiction specifically the romantic ones, cheesy romance, she also loves greek tragedies with a female mc, wlw, she cannot really stand sci-fi I feel like that’s definitely her least favorite genre as well as nonfiction atleast some of them. Also poetry is a favorite specifically those that make her feel airy and light. She reads them a lot depending on her mood.

cass:

she’ll often switch from audiobooks to physical copies but she also tends to LOVE e-books. She has a bookmark that was gifted to her by both bruce and steph but most of the time she will just lay the book flat out whenever she pauses her reading time. She sometimes will begin her workouts by listening to oscar wilde poetry or even poe bc she tends to really like gothic poetry. She also listens to audiobooks to help her sleep at night since it’s relaxing and comforting but she’s super picky about the person reading. She finds it surprisingly comfortable to lay on not only the hard wood floor in the manor similar to duke, but she also will read a lot on the bathroom floor with her favorite blanket ( it’s a edward scissor hands themed one with an added hood that has cat ears). Once she finds a book she loves there’s just no putting it down she has to read it everywhere and anywhere. She’s not terribly big on annotating heavily but she definitely loves highlighting her favorite quotes and makes a miniature word wall full of the words she finds endearing in her room. Can read without music but loves listening to gothic rock to help her get into the mood of things.

preferred genre for cass: gothic literature/ poetry, she’s such a big tolkien fan, loves mystery especially sherlock holmes super into him and can talk nonstop about it with steph and babs and they love listening her talk about it. Fantasy is also a preferred genre for her and when she first read jane eyre she stayed up for days trying to finish and tends not to budge.

tim:

this man loves him an audiobook that’s for sure and will always opt for one. He also has a kindle but occasionally he’ll have a physical copy which he loves marking up so heavily. ALSO he dog ears pages like crazy which pisses off Jason. Tim also just tends to ruin his books as in he’ll break the spine open and continue reading books multiple times until they fall apart. The flipside to this is that he tends to forget that a certain book exists after getting so far into them regardless if they’re an e-book or a physical copy. He also will constantly add more and more books to his TBR list and read like 4 books at once which is something jason and duke do consistently ( NOTE: not so much dick because he needs to focus on one book at a time and sometimes he’ll read 2 at the same time). He prefers parallel play when reading so he’ll invite bernard to come do his own thing while he reads. His designated reading spot is the kitchen counter and the batcave spinning chair. The amount of times alfred, bruce, or dick has found him just passed out while reading in the bat computer chair is absence. Once he finds a book he loves there’s no putting it down, he’ll constantly talk about it all the time make references to the book in everyday conversation and even create theories and make spreadsheets depending on the book. Also cannot read without music and often listens to 80s rock music.

preferred genre for tim: god he loves thriller and mystery one of his all time favorites as well as fantasy. Super big on LOTR ( bonds with cass about it), the witcher, and just any fantasy series he’s not picky at all. he has super strong opinions on fantasy as a genre and especially when it comes to the magic systems. He has a giant soft spot for oscar wilde and enjoys reading russian literature, comics, and french literature.

dick:

LOVES LOVES audiobook listening for patrols and long ones especially moby dick hes read that countless times and probably one of the first books he ever read at the manor besides Robin Hood. Also tends to prefer romantic and atmospheric poetry when trying to fall asleep whenever he does listen to one for napping purposes it lulls him straight to sleep. He’s also not really one for reading e-books since it gives him a massive headache so he tend to opt for physical copies. This seems incredibly ironic considering his job as a vigilante does require him to look at screens most of the time but yes. He shifts around a lot when reading because he cant really find a comfortable spot and just stay there so he’ll move from chair to chair whilst holding the same book which drives Alfred insane as well as kory whenever they’re at home together. His preferred reading spot definitely varies as sometimes he’ll have weeks where he’s super into reading solely in a chair and changing positions in the same chair. While other weeks it’s him being super absorbed with reading on the kitchen counter. He also a stretcher when reading and will put his leg above he’s head at times. He’s definitely a crier when reading romance and even certain quotes just kinda bring him to tears easily. Once he gets into a book he really enjoys there’s just no getting through he’ll just not register the other person calling him and can’t stop thinking about it. Will constantly talk about the book, make references during fights, and just annotates like crazy.

preferred genres for dick: oh he’s a lover of all things heroic, he loves books with a heroic main character in most fashions. He’s a giant fan of six of crows for sure as well and fantasy is a favorite. Will never pass up a thrilling classic and mysteries are also an enjoyable favorite. He also has a very soft spot for romance and tends to read romantic short stories whenever he’s taking a break from reading a larger work.

bruce:

hes a physical copy kind of guy 100% which is why it took him such a weird time to get adjusted to reading e-books but they just give him a headache unless he’s wearing his glasses. I also honestly have a headcannon that bruce has an astigmatism so at times reading can make him nauseous without wearing them regardless if he’s in a moving car or not. When he was younger he read so much and devoured books which a lot of his recs came from both his dad and alfred later along the line. tim highly encouraged him to make a goodreads account since he mainly would keep his reading list in a google doc or in his notebook for safe keeping. His preferred reading spot also varies between his bedroom, the wayne family library, and the couch next to the fireplace as that was his designated story time place when he was a young lad. He doesn’t really move terribly much when reading, but he tends to constantly run his hand through his hair and keep it above his head while the other turns pages. Additionally, he’s also super picky about the physical kind of book which is also a habit that damian has as well. It’s a sensory thing that certain books need to be hard cover while others might not be as such. He has to read in dead silence with noise cancelling headphones and a cozy quilt made via the whole family. ALSO he loves reading with a warm drink as his preferred one is coffee or earl grey. Once he gets super into a book he won’t necessarily speak about in excess; however, he’ll constantly recommend the book to everyone but he most definitely has a soft spot about reading certain sections of the book to clark. He also just writes about his thoughts concerning the book constantly in his journal.

preferred genre for bruce: CLASSICS. He also enjoys psychological horror specifically.

jason: ( I had to leave him last otherwise it would’ve been ungodly long bc he is my favorite unfortunately.) ANYWAYS, he’s 100% a physical copy kind of guy; however, he loves audiobooks whenever his brain isn’t cooperating ( he also has adhd in my head). In this case, he tends to listen a lot to audiobooks during patrol and during family meetings whenever what is being said is unbearable so it helps a bit more with focusing. Just like Tim he has a major tendency for reading books multiple times until they fall apart and bends the spine frequently. He also loves annotating and will get so absorbed into it that he forgets to read the rest of the book especially if he’s just reading it for the first time. He has to wear glasses while reading otherwise headache does ensue and he’ll have to take a break and break up reading into chunks. ALSO has a goodreads account and has way too many books on his TBR. Additionally, when reading he tends to have two pillows one for his back just in case and just one he keeps underneath for his chest. Once he finds a book he loves there’s no stopping him talking about it. He has super strong opinions about literature especially when it comes to book to movie adaptations and frequently shares those opinions with duke, dick, steph, and damian since they all have a small bookclub together. He also will make theories constantly and frequently write reviews on his favorite books on goodreads as well as a pinboard dedicated to character analysis. In addition, also quotes a lot when he finds a new book he loves. He devoured books as a kid and constantly would hole up in the manor library, check out numerous books at the library, and read a lot under the table. ALSO him and Alfred often have a designated Wednesday where they just talk about books and share tea with each other and it’s the most heartfelt moment. His preferred reading spot also varies from his bedroom, roy’s room, the wayne manor library, and the carpet with his favorite hoodie.

preferred genre for jason: CLASSICS. Also he was a giant PJO kid and was deeply infatuated with maximum ride books as well. He has a giant spot for Greek tragedies, shakespeare, and a deep lover of poetry and often shares edgar allen poe recs with cass since they bond over poetry. He also really likes modern romance books which he tends to compare classic romantic literature and more recent. Also an avid fan of kafka and reads a lot of russian literature. vampire novels are also a guilty pleasure cannot resist as well as gothic literature an all time favorite.

ADDITIONAL STUFF:

yeah I think jason definitely argues with people over literature super frequently and it gets heated in all honesty. Also I hc that everyone in the batfam has either adhd or autism and you can’t change my mind about it 100%.

[dandelion-wings]

ngl whenever I write battle scenes I am 100% doing it with the voice-over pages of the characters involved open in another tab, down in the Combat section, because there is nothing I love more than using actual canonical voice-over lines for battle cries and other relevant lines. And honestly they often combine really well:

"Hah! No one escapes my sights!" a young voice cries, and Diluc looks up to see the Knights' red-clad Outlander swirling downward from the remains of one of the higher cliffs, gliding entirely on bodyweight as she nocks another arrow to her bow. "Barbara! Master Diluc! Need some help?" The urge to refuse any help from a Knight of Favonius is strong, but in this case, irrational. Diluc nods to her and readies his blade. "Let's finish this."

Amber, for the record, has some really dramatic battle lines that I honestly forget about/never expect in between fics where I write her in battle--'no one escapes my sights' feels a little overdramatic here in the same way that 'I'll never surrender!' felt just a little overdramatic in the climax of Along Old Roads, but they're both actual combat lines! (Burst and At Low HP, respectively.) And if she can't showboat in front of Diluc, Known Knight Hater and also a ridiculous showboater himself, where could she?

[doll-elvis]

Sorry if you’re overwhelmed by the asks! I just really like your blog and am curious about your thoughts on Elvis related things. I just wanted to lastly say I agree with everything you said. In a way sometimes I feel like you’re not allowed to be a fan of Elvis. It feels like we’re always being shamed for being a fan of him, especially on social media. It’s already bad enough with the whole “Elvis is a racist who stole black music” thing, but the stuff about his love life is also exhausting. I don’t condone any inappropriate behavior with teenage girls, but I understand it was a different time and more normalized back then. There are so many other famous male entertainers and athletes of the past who engaged in similar behavior, yet it seems like Elvis is only called out. The thing is, Elvis did also date several girls who were around his age in the 50’s like June Juanico, Barbara Hearn, Anita Wood, etc. Some people say Ann Margret was the love of his life and she definitely wasn’t underage. Yet they’re constantly erased from Elvis’s story. It’s frustrating.

aw don’t apologize at all, I really appreciate it because Elvis is lowkey my favorite thing to talk about, I could really talk forever about him, and I always annoy people irl with how much I talk about him hehe🫣 and I’m so happy you like my posts, thank you truly <33

btw I would get this ask tattooed on my forehead because everything you said is just so true 😭 what I didn’t expect before becoming an Elvis fan was that you have to constantly defend your love for him. I’ve literally gotten into arguments with family, friends, and people online who act like elvis was the most terrible person and if you’re a fan of him you’re a bad person also. people love to label elvis with the most harsh and untrue things it just breaks my heart because as fans we all know it’s just not the case. elvis did draw inspiration from black artists he has said it himself but he was never arrogant, he was always humble and appreciative of the artists before him. a lot of people say he stole music because he didn’t write his own songs… if people could open a tab on the internet they would quickly find out most artists back then didn’t write their own songs, for example hound dog was written by two guys that sold that song to artists who wanted to cover it like Big Mama Thornton and Elvis.

As for the women, it would take me a week to name every artist 50s and up that have had some inappropriate relationship with an underage girl. It does not make it right or excusable but what is not fair is to only hold Elvis to that moral standard and only call him out. You cannot be mad at Elvis for we he did and not be equally mad at artists like Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, etc. etc. for their inappropriate relationships yet I’m not seeing any documentaries “exposing” them.

In this new documentary trailer they say the phrase “14 was a magical age with Elvis” and it made me want to throw up and scream at the same time. There’s no denying he has had a past with underage girls, but to make it seem like this was an age group he prowled for and explicitly sought out is so harmful and wrong. A majority of the women he had real and long relationships with were in their 20s and up. I think Elvis was most attracted to innocence and that’s not something exclusive to underage women. For example Linda and Ginger were both in their early 20s but they were less worldly than other girls their age and that was what Elvis was drawn to imo. Also the idea that he would not sleep with mothers is another false thing pushed by media as he had affairs with Barbara Leigh, Susan Henning, and I believe Ann Pennington had a young daughter also.

like you said it’s frustrating being an Elvis fan and having to watch his name and legacy get slandered but I wouldn’t give it up for the world because he deserves all the love we have for him 💗

[wasteland-muses]

@courier2lw cont. from (X)

Yeah, this? Deacon deserved this, the cold, blunt anger that seemed to grow each time he reunited with West. All this time, Deacon had been telling himself he was just keeping West safe, that by disappearing and keeping tabs on him from a distance, it would keep the doctor away from the danger that followed Deacon like a shadow. The Institute, the Coursers, and every Tom, Dick, and Harry Deacon had managed to piss off between here and Diamond city; None of them could get to West so long as he was careful, covered his tracks, kept away until the loneliness became too much to bear until West really needed him. Sure, it would take longer and longer each time for him to get back on West's good side, but the anger always disappeared before long, and there really was no denying just how well Deacon and him meshed together. It almost reminded him of Barbara when they first met, and that's what scared him the most.

The point was, this, no matter how shitty it was and how awful it made Deacon feel, it was for the best, and it was working, so why would he stop?

Well...the answer was right in front of him, no matter how much the agent tried to deny it. West was...he was better off without Deacon, but every time he tried to cut himself off, to distance himself and let West move on to someone better, safer, he always found himself drawn right back in. The thing was, no matter if Deacon was there or not, West was always in danger, yet another meeting after the doc had fallen in trouble proved as much. Deacon could lie all he wanted, but at the end of the day, he wasn't keeping West safe, he was hurting him all the more.

All at once, lie after lie after lie flitted through Deacon's head as his eyes hit the floor like a scolded child, each one holding the opportunity of further burying his feelings of placating West enough so that Deacon could help like he came to do, like he always came to do, but to his surprise, the very thought of speaking any of them made Deacon's tongue burn, his stomach twisting into knots as his body physically rebelled against repeating this same mistake yet again.

As a side effect of literally biting his tongue, Deacon was quiet for a long, long moment, the agent having to swallow thickly around the lump in his throat as hidden eyes darted from the boy, to the blood, and then to West, all before squeezing shut in an effort to make it all stop. He couldn't lie, not this time, not to West, never again to West, but there was too much going on around him right bow. Deacon wanted nothing more than to shut it all out, and shut himself down, to help West like he came to do, and then disappear again until everything stopped hurting as he buried himself under a new pile of lies. Maybe this time for good. Maybe he would get a new face, a new name, he was overdue for those-

"You're right." In an act of much needed rebellion, the words were spoken before Deacon could stop himself, it pulling a shocked intake of breath into his lungs when he realized he had been the one to speak them. This...it was the truth, and as much as it hurt to speak, this is what they both deserved. West deserved answers, and Deacon...Deacon deserved every single bit of anger and distrust that was coming his way. There was no guarantee that he would be believed, but he needed to tell West the truth, even if the doctor couldn't see it as such. There had to be a way to fix all this, West wasn't Barbara, there...there was still time, a chance to fix this before it all blew up in his face once again.

"You're right, West." Said after a rough clearing of his throat, Deacon's whole body, the very air around him, seemed to cave in on itself, his shoulders slumping beneath his latest disguise --one of West's old shirts he had 'borrowed' the last time they traveled together -- as his rifle was propped up against the nearest table. "It is bullshit, and I...I don't know how to fix it." A truth, in a way, as telling the truth was the only thing that had any hope of fixing what they had, but...the truth and Deacon...even he didn't know what parts of himself were real anymore...

...No, that in of itself was a lie. He knew he loved West, cared for him, wanted to make things right between them, and if that was the only thing about him that was real, it was the best damn thing about him.

"You won't believe me, and I don't blame you, but...I'm...I'm going to tell you everything. All the things I know are real, and you're probably going to hate me, but-" 'I'm tired of this too, of the distance, of the loneliness, of hurting you...' all the things he wanted to say, but couldn't, not right now. Not unless West was ready for it. There was too much going on, too much on the doctor's mind, too much that needed to be done without Deacon adding to the mess. Maybe it was a way to further stall the inevitable, but it's the only card he had left to play, and by habit he was going to take the chance, no matter how self destructive it may be.

"Tell you what we're gonna do, Doc..." Despite this mask being used to pretend that everything was fine to keep Deacon from running away again under the guise of 'helping' West, it was donned by the removal of the agent's sunglasses, his shield, the one protection he had against someone being able to tell truth from fiction. Eyes were the gateway into the soul, or so they said, and there was no doubt about it that the only true way to tell if Deacon was lying or not was by watching his eyes. He always hated how expressive they were, that not one of his emotions could be hidden so long as they were seen, but now? Now he was damn glad he had this one giveaway.

Without it...he really would be nothing but a liar in the end...

"I'm gonna help you out here, whatever you need me to do, and then we're gonna get you some freaking rest. I mean, have you seen the bags under your eyes? Damn things could carry all the loot in the common wealth, no sweat." There was a grin, as there always was, but with the absence of the glasses, it was glaringly obvious it didn't reach his eyes, it begging the question of just how often that was the case with no one being the wiser. "Here, you hold on to these, don't need anyone here trying to swipe 'em while I'm not looking." A rather flimsy excuse as Deacon handed his prized sunglasses over to West with what almost looked to be fear in his baby blues. This was his last gambit, the final act, all West had to do was take the sunglasses, and Deacon knew he had an in. But if he didn't...

"I uh...I also got something for ya, consider it my business card." Pulled from Deacon's pocket at that was a holotape, one that looked to be brand new despite the usual wear and tear that covered the wastelands they were forced to live in, he had gotten it made, just for this. "If you ever need to find me, that's your map." Deacon knew damn well he couldn't always be by West's side, that even with wanting to tell the truth, he very well might disappear again -- be it as a way to hide, or out of necessity for the Railroad -- but at least with this West would be able to track him down no matter how hard Deacon tried to run. All he had to do was follow the freedom trail...

"What, uh...what do you need me to do?"

[vexic929]

1, 3, 6, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17 for Eoland, Berrie, Aria, and anyone else (tech asks)

1. Describe their phone case

Eoland: goes caseless because she's a monster

Berrie:

Aria:

Vice:

3. Do they use nicknames for their contacts or do they list contacts by full name?

Eoland: full name

Berrie: nickname

Aria: initials and a number if you've got the same initials as someone else

H Wells: full name and where she knows you from

6. Write out a text exchange between them and another OC

(I feel like this would be better presented in a fake screenshot than just text so I'll reblog this with that added soon lol)

10. Describe a photo they have saved on their phone

Eoland: a picture taken through Barbara Allen's bedroom window

Berrie: twelve identical selfies of him and his chess club teammates making silly faces while they were bored waiting for a match to start

Aria: a professionally taken "candid" photo of her to post to her personal social media account

H Wells: an old photo of her wife and daughter playing from when their daughter was still a small child

13. What do they use as an avatar or profile photo on social media sites?

Eoland: doesn't have social media for herself so if she was going to use anything it would probably be someone else's photo

Berrie: whatever new favorite selfie they've taken recently

Aria: a professional headshot

Vice: a photo of their band

14. You’ve just stumbled across their tumblr blog! Describe it

Eoland: kpop fancam type videos but of The Flash

Berrie: reblogs a little bit of everything and occasionally posts funny videos they filmed with her friends or the drawings he's been working on

Aria: it's a business tumblr that she's never even seen, her social media manager tries to be relatable and funny on it and fails horribly

Vice: just pure shitposts and the occasional song from his band

16. Let’s look at their search history. What are the last 5 things they searched?

Eoland: The Flash, Barbara Allen, [REDACTED]

Berrie: FIFA Women's World Cup, am I a lesbian quiz, am I a girl quiz, am I a boy quiz, how does gender work

Aria: local forecast, Moroccan food delivery, Lunaria Saeiqa net worth, local real estate listings, stock market

H Wells: accessibility remodeling, home physical therapy, NSF funding, contractor estimates

17. What’s the last thing they searched in an incognito tab 👀 (doesn’t need to be NSFW!)

Eoland: does not use the incognito tab because she has neither shame nor fear

Berrie: Barry Allen

Aria: does not use the incognito tab because she does not trust it to actually hide anything from anyone

Vice: VX neurotoxin