#they'll die at my hands

[befuddled-calico-whump]

thinking about a whumpee on a forced march through rough terrain

hands tied in front of them, on foot while their captors are mounted, sleeping out in the open, forced to beg for adequate food and water

maybe they're barefoot, a captured royal in silken robes

maybe they're in a torn suit or soldier's uniform

maybe they were stripped at the start, increasing the exposure to the elements, the humiliation

are they a terrified mess from the beginning, or do they try to endure with dignity? how long before they're stumbling, barely putting one foot in front of the other? how long before they fall?

[bacchuschucklefuck]

love thinking kipperlilly spends her afterlife looking for lucy in a familiar forest

[skunkes]

if life is categorized by Before Loss and After Loss then I exist in the before but with a countdown to the after. and the countdown is always always present and debilitating. the loss will be debilitating too but i cant help myself. i will always suffer twice.

[shylittlefrogg]

Maybe the mind forgets

but the heart doesn't.

[rabble-dabble]

it took a lot of thinking to settle on knowing if i was a trans guy but what really solidified it to me was being unable to live with the thought of dying as anything but an old man. i can't imagine not having grey facial hair and old faded top surgery scars and maybe grandchildren who call me "grandpa". i just cant live with the thought of my gravestone having "daughter, wife, aunt, niece, grandmother," carved into it along with the name of a stranger. they can't ask me to die as a her. They won't kill me as a her. they wont bury me as a her. Its not fair. They can carve the wrong name into stone and dig up my bones and say "this skeleton makes a woman" but i assure you i'm going to die as a man with the name those close to my heart know me by. and i'm going to live long enough to meet him, the future version of me, because if theyre gonna try to bury me as a woman theyre gonna have to try and kill the man in me to do it. and ill cackle from my casket knowing they had to try to erase me in death because i wouldnt let them do it while i was alive. I wouldnt let them.

[groundbreakingdot872]

think being mooted is a lot like being knighted :)

[distort-opia]

Did Bruce abandon Joker believing he would die at the end of Joker’s War, or did he know Joker would escape somehow? I find the ending kinda vague and it upsets me greatly that Bruce would walk out like that. What is your take on this? I need to be believe their dance is not over!!

Hey! Short answer is no, Bruce explicitly makes sure Joker can escape:

-- Batman (2016) #100

Bruce knew Joker had the tools to disarm the bomb. Him walking away was not leaving Joker to die, but rather something else. It's Bruce asserting a change in their dynamic, a refusal to play by Joker's rules. To put it bluntly... Batman and Joker are currently going through a bit of a divorce arc in the comics. I've talked about it in another meta, linked here. That answer goes into more detail, hope it helps with clearing it up!

[hidefdoritos]

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[lasnevadaslaborunion]

That's the thing about the bet in Las Nevadas 1, right from the outset: it never mattered who won.

Even if c!Q had lost, he could have walked out of there and never thought about that book again. What can c!Schlatt do to control him anymore? (Except sneer at him, and insult him, and beg and whine and cajole in that annoying fake-hurt tone that makes his stomach clench...)

And even though c!Q won, maybe he would have been desperately lonely enough to bring c!Schlatt back anyway, no matter how much he hates him. Maybe it was spite that fueled him, maybe he just wanted to prove that success wasn't a fluke. (Maybe it wasn't enough to say "fuck you" to a faded echo.)

Either way, he had a lot to prove and a void to fill, and even having a rotted heart in your chest is better than none at all.

Even though c!Schlatt lost, there was nothing c!Q could have done to force him to stay and work in Las Nevadas. He could have given him the middle finger, floated back to his gym, and drowned himself in protein shakes for eternity. (His grave is already drowing in piss, after all.)

And even if c!Schlatt had won, maybe he would have come to work at Las Nevadas anyway. Just to check in on his sugar pumpkin, make sure he's working. And hey, maybe he misses the view from behind. (Or the company. Or their inside jokes. Or the cute smile he never sees on that sliced-up face anymore.)

Either way, he's so, so alone, and it's all his fault, and he's not going back there.

[theinfinitedivides]

they took out my other daddy cop. rip you were hot while it lasted

[moth-without-toes]

not me wanting to vent and to feel comfort and be hugged by someone who doesn't yell at me over the tiniest things. not me wanting physical touch in general but also having select people from my friend group where i'm ok with it but also never asking for it because i don't want to seem clingy. definitely not nopeeeeeeeeeeee nopity not me here absolutely not.

[lovecracker]

hiding for a minute while we get mobbed at work

[navree]

i think the frankenstein version of dracula daily has arrived at the "justine is framed for murder and as such gets executed for it" portion which makes the petty part of me gloriously happy that a lot of people are going to finally realize that the creature is not, in fact, uwu soft baby and that he actively planted evidence on an innocent woman to get her arrested and then convicted and then executed for murder for absolutely no reason other than he felt like it because he's an asshole. and i'll finally get to see the death of "the creature did nothing wrong he's a sweet boy!" takes within my lifetime.

[angeltism]

rot.ary di.al the aqua bpder song ever

[crazy-walls]

inktober day 2

[synonymroll648]

absolutely evil fic idea! sophitz soulmates au where post-war they reconcile but also find out that fitz won't make it to 100 due to the severity of his shadowflux echoes and the reason sophie kept surviving seemingly impossible odds was because the black swan 'accidentally' made her immortal.

to make things extra cruel: consider how fitz canonically counts on having thousands of years ahead of him to build himself a future he enjoys, and how sophie canonically struggles w/ the idea of living forever due to her human upbringing (plus the canon-compliant possibility of her hearing ten bajillion tales growing up of how immortality is a curse) :D