#since (ahem) i am an oldest sibling and i used a lot of my own experiences as one to cultivate the voice i gave dick in this fic

[bluegarners]

Hi! I am so absolutely in love with your fics! Would you maybe wanna share some info about your most recent Dick Grayson WIP?

omg hello anon!!! thank you so much for liking my fics 😭💞🤍

it always means a lot when people take time out of their day to compliment my writing or just pop in the inbox to skjfhskjd or whatever else expresses joy for them! it takes awhile for me to write things, especially fics i want to have a certain impact, so i appreciate it so much when people also appreciate my work <333

and i'd love to share some more info about my most recent dick grayson wip!! unfortunately... i can't actually share much... IM SORRY!!

it is coming out soon, i think june 10th is the publication/release date, and the reason for that is that this wip is for the dick grayson big bang for 2023! it is my first ever participation in any kind of group collaboration for fics and art, and let me tell you, i've had an enormous amount of fun!! i got paired with the absolutely insanely talented @ikol-616 (art blog is: @magpie-murder) for this project, and im just!!!!! the art is absolutely breathtaking, ive been telling vali every other day how excited i am to show off its art because so much effort and beauty was put into it and AHHHHHHHHHH im just so excited and grateful i got to work with vali on this project

the fic i will be publishing is going to be released in chapters that follow along parts/arcs, and i'll be able to explain a bit more about that when chapter 1 goes up, but it's a kind of long journey that if i didnt have a deadline for, would be wayyyyy longer. along with some of the chapters, i have also been creating some webweaves to pair alongside them! im also uber ecstatic to share those too <33

overall, the barest and most simple synopsis of my fic that i can give is essentially this is my take on the "eldest daughter"/but actually more just "oldest sibling" trope that dick embodies sometimes, and how he handles that realization that, well, people are changing and he doesn't quite know how to process that

again, if i didnt have a deadline and was a bit more proactive on my writing schedule, this fic would easily be dozens and dozens of chapters long, but for now we're looking at somewhere close to 10 chapters, along with a part 2 that i have no idea when it will be released and is also not part of the DGBB23 collaboration

[toxicinfirmary009]

I need to vent about a toxic parent for a moment

ahem

So my dad and I tend to butt heads a lot, but we love each anyway. Well, apparently that has changed. For context: I was physically abused as a child by his at-the-time girlfriend. Ever since he told me he filed a police report. Well, 15 years later, the truth came out. He did not file a police report on my behalf, but he did file a police report on her when she physically attacked him the night he confronted her about my abuse. And then went on to marry her. Because I discovered the truth, I needed some space and time to sort out my emotions and thoughts on it. My mom had a conversation with him and spilled the beans about why I wasn't talking to him, and he exploded with anger. I have 3 younger siblings (on his side, but blood never mattered to me, and never will) and he told my mom that I am wrong. That I am not allowed to figure it out because it happened so long ago. Don't get me wrong, I've moved on from the abuse, but for him to have lied by omission for the past 15 years, is a lot to process, and makes me feel like he never believed me in the first place. He told my mom that I am no longer allowed to contact him, or my siblings. Because, in his mind, he is the parent and that means he is always right. So I am automatically wrong. I would like to add that I suffer from severe clinical depression and anxiety, and am currently unmedicated because I am enlisting in the army. So, logically, me taking the time I need to process is healthy and necessary. But because I am his child, I'm wrong. Despite the fact that I am in my mid 20s and fully capable of making my own decisions and understanding the consequences.

For added context: my mom fought tooth and nail and got me a pfa restraining order against her for 18 months. After that time, my dad told me that I had to make her feel comfortable around me.

And the woman who abused me, my father's wife, now abuses and manipulates her oldest son, who is also special needs. And our father doesn't believe him either. Instead, he placed my brother in residential, and expects him to "get in line" with his mother. And he (my brother) is fully aware of who his mother is behind the act she puts up. Many people have contacted CPS and the authorities, and no one believes us when we tell them.

Some "Cinderella stories" aren't fiction. And no one believes them.

Toxic parents people, toxic parents.

[nightmaretyrantvantas]

So I’m finally getting around to writing out a bunch of info about my Sander Sides au so I hope youre all ready--(its like 1 am im so sorry for any spelling mistakes and missed tags)

So its 1 am on a work night and I cant sleep and I’ve had lots of ideas and canon things for this au bouncing around my head for days and now TONIGHTS THE NIGHT ITS HAPPENING IM DELIVERING YOU ALL THE DETAILS AND EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF AND TYPE 

Also please feel free to ask about this! I know I got a few new followers from all my recent sander sides art and also thanks to @sugarglider9603 reblogging some art I made of their au I got the biggest flood of exposure and attention on my art ive ever had and I have so much to thank them for, for all recent exposure ive gotten the past couple days( theyre so sweet and lovely and easy to talk to sugar deserves all the love--) and its given me a huge surge of motivation and confidence to post this. And please, my inbox is always open to talk about my aus or my art! Ask questions, send requests, send headcanons or ideas, send fluff angst im open to anything and I try to do all requests sent to me(sooner or later)

Oh oh! and please id you catch any and all the little inspirations or anything let me know

And finally this au is a LAMP au with Remile and Demus on the side

Ahem ahem anyway onto the au!!!

More under the cut so I dont flood your screen too bad!

Ok so! 

This Au was originally inspired by @residentanchor‘s amazing fanfic A Lesson in Practicality and also a little bit by @prettyinaccurate‘s fanged virgil au( I’ll get more into that further down) 

So it takes place in a (currently) unnamed bigger city I based off San Francisco and Sacramento( because I live in Cali and those are the two major cities ive really visited ya know?) The boys are all in various stages of their twenties when they move into a four bedroom apartment together: Patton Foster is the oldest of the roomies at 27, then Logan Masters at 26, Roman Prince at 24, and finally Virgil Collins at 22. They move in together because it all works out for them really, the apartment is in a good distance to all their current jobs, whether by bus or even in Pat’s case in walking distance and with all four of them it was well affordable and was pretty nice. I mean hey it even came with a little communal balcony ( since theyre on third floor of the building) 

Things are understandably a little rocky at first , i mean isnt it always though?

Virgil has alot of anxiety and so he tends not to talk really at all at the beginning unless he ABSOLUTELY had to, mostly communicating in noncomittal noises and soft grumbles, and he was fresh out of collage and barely two years into his job and out on his own for the first time and he wasnt really ready for it either like christ too many people

Patton was bright bubbly and caring. This wasnt his first rodeo with roomies, I mean cmon, hes been sharing a room with his older brother Damian(deceit) on and off almost all his freakin life, nor was it his first time living on his own with strangers(hes lived in two different parts of two when he was job hopping before he settled down in his current part time job)

Roman was extroverted loud and exciteable, he too was used to sharing his living space( he had TWO siblings after all) and before he had moved into the apartment he had tried living on his own and with other roommates while he attended collage, but those just didnt work out well ( he ended up staying with his older brother Remy in his studio apartment across the city while he finished out that semester and searched for a job to keep an income.

Logan was serious minded stern toned and confident, he had a minor degree in teaching that he was slowly repursueing and had been out on his own for awhile before he had moved in. And though cold at first he soon found his group of housemates...enjoyable.

Its about a month into them living together that they learn exactly why despite slowly getting close and getting to know each other Virgil still kept a wide distance: He had entirely sharp teeth.

“ I dunno....I was born with them..theyve always been a sharp pain in my ass...” - virgil, about his teeth

Of course just having sharp teeth wasnt bad enough oh no. You see a few years back when he was about 18 he was young and dumb and made horrifically stupid and reckless decisions under peer pressure and ended up doing something that not only pointedly (haha oh god im not funny) chipped his front teeth but it fucked up his teeth pretty majorly, he went from having a normal overbite to almost having a goddamn underbite and crooked all his teeth, and the only way to fix it( because somehow miraculous for all the damage done it turned out to be mostly reversable aside from the chipping) was getting braces to realign his teeth. So he’s had pretty purple braces over his fangs since he was 18 and they werent expected to come off until he was AT LEAST 25 and he was insecure about them. ( he got mocked for them through his two and a half years of junior collage)

Once the gang finds out they are understanding and helpful and dont make a big deal about it( though virgil gains a significant amount of more vampire related nicknames from roman)

Once they get close and comfortable around each other the apartment is pretty warm and lively! 

Virgil works at the art store as an assistant manager and head stocker( a bit of a dream come true since he was an art student)

Roman works as a part time waiter at a family resturant as well as working at a nearby theater( he was of course a lovely theater major) 

Patton worked at a nearby cafe and bakery as a bit of everything! He helped wait tables, serve behind the counter, and helped in the back in the kitchen( the owners were family friends and he’d been working there almost four to five years at that point, boi knows how to do everything) 

Logan worked at a big name bookstore, and also provided tutoring sessions for highschool students on the side by commision

More FACTS~~

Family ages for the big families go as follows:

Fosters: Damian(28), Patton(27)

Prince: Remy(26), Roman(24, older twin by 10 minutes), Remus(24, younger twin)

Emile is 27 and is a licensed therapist and works as a counselor for young adults that volunteers at the nearby library to ready to children

Remy works as a coffee barista in Emile’s building

Remus does alot of odd jobs, kinda working as an independent for hire and gets a surprising steady flow of work and pay. Hes still a trash man though, but hes a successful trash man( partly thanks to Damian calling in favors with connections)

Damian works at a law firm slowly moving into the position of prosecutor

Virgil doesnt really get along with his family and at some point Emile offers to take virgil in as his adopted brother, with Damian assuring him if he wanted concrete legal papers to start changing his last name, cutting ties with his family, anything needed for it he’d see to it that they’d be providing(something our boi really appreciates)

Remy visits Emile on his breaks since hes literally just...two hallways down and vice versa

Damian and Remus live together in the next, slightly smaller city over because Damian’s work transferred him to a different office in order for him to keep moving up in the ranks so to speak. 

Hes also good at what he does.

Family nights happen whenever they can

Patton got to teach them how to cook alot of complicatied dishes from scratch, a bonding time he adores

Roman got Virgil an Espeon hoodie after they all start dating and virgil loves it and wears it alot around the house because its a thicker hoodie and warm( though he tries to ignore the big ears and the obnovious tail

Virgil also loves visiting Roman’s work on what Ro likes to refer to as “ hellish days” AKA kids day which means goofy kid friendly theme days. His favorite was probably alice in wonderland day when Roman was Tweedle Dee

Roman played J.D at the local theater and likes to hum some of the his songs to switch up the Disney

The balcony is covered in houseplants and and a corner of old blankets and pillows to sit and chill on

Once a month Logan and Patton have what is affectionately referred to as the Cat Discourse

After any particularly rough days at work Patton tends to massage Logan’s shoulders and back to make sure Lo doesnt get any really bad stress knots

in return when Logan sees Patton’s head a hard day he makes Patton’s favorite drink and pulls him into a hug and let the older man fall asleep in his arms while they watch movies

Pat and roman sense each other’s bad days and order in some cliche diner food and hole up in pattons room with Pattons computer and relax the shittiness away with comedy specials and movies 

Likewise Virgil has a knack of picking up Roman’s bad days and always grabs a couple glasses and a bottle kinda cheap wine and they end up curling up together on Romans bed marathoning Disney movies on Virgil’s laptop 

and when Virgil closes himself off more than normal Logan manages to lure him out of his room and they end up sitting out on the balcony quietly talking and stargazing

so loving and fond and soft with each other

you hurt one of them you gonna get BEAT by the others. 

Speaking of getting beat, never EVER mess with Roman or Remus in Remy’s proximity

Remy Andrew Prince can and WILL fuck you right up if you hurt his little brothers. He’s protective.

and where Remy will rearrange your face Damian will ruin you mentally and legally if you so much as mistreat a single freckle on his little brother’s face, despite knowing that Patton is fully capable of taking care of himself. 

Everyone protects Virgil, dont mess with or hurt virgil or you have the pack coming for ya throat

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand thats all I have for right now! Of course more will be added but now its almost three in the morning and I have work at 1:30pm and im sleepy finally! But I hope you guys like this! And please, feel free to talk to me about it, my inbox is always open!!

Taglist: @phantommoonpeople @sweetsweetemo @loganberrysanders

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

rainbowtown replied to your post “Honestly I have headcanons about most of the Weston boys’ home lives,...”

I am extremely interested in hearing about my favorite shit head Maurice Cole.

YOUR FAVORITE SHITHEAD AND MINE. :D

Ahem. Welp. Maurice is one of my favorites to talk about, tbh. We know he’s the youngest in his family, but we don’t know how many siblings he’s got. So, my headcanon is that he’s got twelve older brothers. He’s the youngest of thirteen children, making him the baby, and you can bet everyone refers to him as ‘the baby’ despite the fact that he’s like eighteen years old. Naturally, his mother, Clara, coddles him quite a bit because he’s her youngest child. She loves him and her other sons very much, but she rarely ever says no to Maurice. Honestly, she kind of wants him to stay with her for as long as he can, so, she’s reluctant for him to grow up. That maaaybe explains why, even though he’s smart and cunning, he’s also prone to using those skills in an immature and inappropriate manner. He’s learned that if he pouts, his mother tends to just give in, so he’s become pretty manipulative.

His father, on the other hand... is an abusive bureaucrat who only really cares about his oldest son since he’s the one who’s being trained to take over the family business. He couldn’t care less about Maurice, and honestly, Maurice has known that since he was pretty young. That’s why he seeks approval from people like his brothers and Edgar. His father still expects a lot out of Maurice, though, which is part of the reason that Maurice gets other people to do his work -- he knows that the grades he could get on his own are average and wouldn’t please his father. Mr. Cole rarely involves his sons in physical abuse, but doesn’t hold back in abusing them verbally, and quite a bit in his childhood, Maurice saw his father beating on his mother. It’s messed him up a lot; it’s pretty bad, mainly because Maurice has just been emulating his father’s behavior by acting polite and kind to the people who “matter”, then turning around and bullying those who are weaker than him.

Once Maurice’s father finds out that Maurice has lost his status as Prefect’s Fag, it... is really not going to be a good day in the Cole household, and Maurice is probably going to need makeup to cover more than his average features.