forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!

I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️

Lol. Everyone in the notes freaking out like 'I live by the sea, don't jump in, it dangerous'.

Like, guys, guys, listen, you don't understand. They don't mean... They want to be... Listen, ok, I grew up on the sea, I've been through hurricanes on trawlers and gale force 9 storms crewing tallships. I've seen enormous waves absolutely destroy boats. I've been caught in riptides while scuba diving and felt the complete powerlessness of it. The sea will absolutely annihilate you, consume you, never give up your body, and not even notice.

I know the power of the sea better than most, however, I know exactly what they mean. Sometimes you see it churning with unfathomable power and all you want is to just get in the sea and have it absolutely fuckin blast you clean. Like sandblast your fuckin soul. Fuckin powerwash your bones clean. Ya know?

Can confirm, getting beat up by the ocean is a religious experience.

Amity Park is pretty isolated, so when Danny got a job offer at Lexcorp he didn't think much of it beyond "nice paycheck!"

He's fresh from having graduated his online college with a double Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Biotechnology, finally put that knowledge to use to shut down the artificial portal to the Ghost Zone for good, finally permanently solved Ellie (Dani) destabalization issue.

Now?

It's time to leave Amity!

He shoots out his resumes, but uh...turns out online colleges don't carry as much Oomf as he would like.

But he does get immediately hired by Lexcorp.

So it takes it.

His boss is weird and keeps wanting him to build doomsday machines and such, and keeps waxing poetic about how it's just a fallback plan for when Superman goes rogue, really Fenton don't overreact-

Except Danny isn't an idiot.

He was raised by not one, but two mad scientists that tore open a hole between reality and the Place Inbetween all reality, just to prove it was real.

But that paycheck?

He decides to compromise.

He'll build Lex's shit, but all of those devices primarily answer to Danny now.

Sure the code, upon being read, states that Lex is the only authorized user, but that shits easy to fake when Danny has access to literal Ghost Tech.

Lex goes a little too far with a massive fuckall robot?

Danny stomps his way out of the lab and gives it the shutdown code, and glares at Lex through the windshield of said robot while making the famous 'Come down here Right Fucking Now' hand motion that pissed off parents make.

Lex starts a cloning project with CADMUS and keeps Danny away from it?

"Tough shit Lex who do you think built your super security system? Yeah, my fucking Husband. Move over and-is that a wholeass teenager?

Lex.

Lex, I'm dismantling the last four projects I built for you.

I don't care if you fire me, I'm dismantling them.

Get that kid out of the tube and give him some pizza, he's going to have at least some semblance of a childhood. You can be a deadbeat all you want, my Wife and my Husband and I will take over from here.

No kids for you."

Danny is the unofficial senior engineer for any project Lex has and is using force to cement his place as Lex's external conscience.

okay but imagine this is how Superman first meets him

Like they're doing the mecha fight and he's desparately juggling the whole "protect civilians" and "put down robot" things

And then some Lexcorp goon rocks up and shouts a string of numbers

And Superman is just like "oh great, what's the robot gonna do now?!"

The answer is shut off.

Like. Robot just stops dead. And then the goon full names him.

"Alexander Joseph Luthor! Come. Here." *parental gesture of incoming doom*

And Luthor goes, telling himself it's just to lecture his insubordinate employee & tell him to restart the robot.

He ends up getting a lecture. A very long, very public lecture about how his friend - Superman and Lex both balk at the suggestion - may be durable and his tech may make him durable, but *far too many details on the fragility of the average human and all the ways they can die (Danny just listing off the top of his head from ghosts he knows lol)* "And a giant robot covers a lot of those ways!"

He goes on a tangent about property damage and how even if he pays for it it still takes time out of people's days and increases their stress.

And he starts recommending more isolated locations around the city where they can have playdates.

Meanwhile both Lex and Superman are just listening in shock and also abject mortification.

(there's def a video of the whole thing that someone takes and someone definitely gets the still of their matching expression & turns them into a meme. "when u & ur buddy just wanna throw down but u break a vase & mom says take it outside but gives a 2 hr lecture first)

Can you imagine how much Superman would get teased by HIS side as well though? Like... Batman? Would absolutely tease the fuck out of him. Lois? Does a whole series on it. The junior heroes? Keep reading the memes and shitposts where they know he can hear them. It would be awful.

And Lex? Would be hounded by the media about it. Mercy would not waste the chance either. And he could fire Fenton. He could. But he is so good at his job... And he was right. Damn him. He is supposed to be proving Superman is the threat.... Not being the threat himself. Clearly a more secluded area would be better to attack.....

Fenton DOES have him to rights with the whole "you've become everything you argue against, Lex"/"stare to long into the void..." thing. GDI. This is why he hires competent people. They tell him "no". Bootlickers just lead to stagnation at the idolatry of strong men like *hissed like a curse* Superman.

Worse! He WAS becoming like his Father. All because the boy was half alien? When that was HIS choice? Blaming a child for the choices HE makes is EXACTLY what his Father would do! Dear LORD he needs to shower til his skin peels off!

Would be very funny if that's Luthor's weakness - being compared to his father, like honestly. Not just jokingly or by someone who has no idea what they're talking about, but if people who's opinions he trusts tell him that then he IMMEDIATELY shifts gears and does the opposite of whatever he was doing before

Lex tells Danny to shut up exactly fucking once.

He'd been getting far too into it, and Danny had stepped in when he'd been so fucking close to winning even though Superman had assistance from other heroes.

Superman stares at him with wide eyes and slowly starts float away. Red Hood, who had been in the vicinity, immediately turns around and leaves. Batman, who was the reason Red Hood had been tagging along, hurries to follow.

Damian actually bows his head at Lex and says he'll procure the finest shroud he can before fucking off.

"Shut up?"

Lex feels a shiver down his spine.

Lex never tells Danny to "shut up" again.

Danny gets adopted by Bruce Wayne au but consider: Danny was brought up in a loving-if absolutely insane- household where pda and mushy gushy stuff wasn't only said, but expected.

The bats almost never voice thier love for one another, instead showing it in a variety of different ways.

What I'm saying is that Danny keeps nearly killing them by saying "I love you." I'm not even joking. Danny has nearly offed the bats more times in his week staying in wayne manor than any Gotham villian would dare try

Like it doesn't even have to be an emotionally charged scene. It can literally be Danny heading out for school and telling Dick, "Love you! Bye!" And Dickie will get thrown off and take a tumble down the stairs. And this is all of them.

For just a touch of ouch to spice things up:

Danny, being so used to such open love, is confused and a little bit hurt how the Bats never say it back. They're always so caught off guard, fumbling like they don't know what to do. Except for Damian, who is seemingly just enraged. Do they not feel the same? Was he too quick to start loving them? Is he making everything awkward and uncomfortable?

I love the idea that Danny just gets really sad about them not saying it back, but still can’t bring himself to stop saying it to them. Maybe the reason why he’s with them is because his family died so he regrets not being able to say it to them anymore or something so he wants to say it to the bats even if they don’t feel the same.

Maybe one of them finds Danny upset and he confesses what’s wrong and cries, making that person make an effort to always say it back and yell at everyone else until they do too.

Tbh it would be so freaking cute if this was Damian. Like he’s angry at first until he actually talks to Danny and they have a heart to heart so Damian knows the significance and that Danny actually DOES love him.

Danny, leaving for school: Love you! Bye!

Bats: 😭💖

Damian: I love you as well Daniel.

Bats: :O

Damian, glaring at them: say it back to him.

Bats: Wh-what

Damian: Tell him. You love him. Say it. Or else.

Bats: l-love you too Danny

Danny: 😭😭💖💖💖😭😭💖💖💖

the catholic old white guy asked me to explain lgbtq+ to him and it was honestly kind of funny

“okay! you have 15 seconds to explain non-binary to me if there are only male and female genders”

me: if you lost your genitals would you still feel like a man?

“no”

would you feel like a woman?

“no?”

so you wouldn’t feel male or female

“yeah what’s your point?”

So, you wouldn’t fit into the gender binary of male or female? :)

him:

“so non-binary just means not feeling male or female?”

Yeah basically

“so why do they use “they” so much”?

if you were a woman would you want to be called a man?

“no…”

And the opposite?

“no…”

Why why would you want someone to call you male or female if you’re not male or female then?”

it’s not a perfect way of thinking but i had 15 seconds and i think it got the point across

if someone challenges you to break through a wall within fifteen seconds, you use a wrecking ball, not precision tools. I think you did marvelously.

Anxieties! Attack!

WAIT NO

No, not me you fools! No! Not like this! Noooo!

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The idea of Dan Phantom working in the politics sector of the Daily Planet is haunting my brain and it won’t leaveee

What does he do? Does he write articles? Does he edit? Does he take a good hard look at some of them and go “you’re going to get shot if you report this, give it to Lane.”? Is he the department’s liaison for whenever Lois brings back a story that falls into their jurisdiction (often) and can’t stand management for their spineless nonsense? Is he aware that the Country Bumpkin two floors up is Superman? Does he give a shit?

Do he and Clark sometimes get into conversations where they end up speaking in Midwestern for their entire lunch break?

Hope Corgi and Dex-Starr personified.

Everyone would assume that Dan hates Lane because he keeps giving him the articles that would "defiently get you shot if you report this"

But then they seem them chatting it up over lunch and like ????

Would have been even better if Arthur died because he took a blow that was intended for Merlin.. like Mordred was fkn mad at Emrys and that was his revenge.. but Arthur intercepts the sword,, so that when Merlin ‘failed’ for the first time in saving Arthur, it was Arthur’s first time actually saving Merlin in return.

omg your mind…

its absurd that trio is four letters long and not three

are there no rules on this damned earth? are we just here to suffer?

there are rays of sunshine in this dark world

and then romeo-kun and juliet-chan inevitably committed the seppuku

sugoi. what light through the window comes, desu? it is the east, and my waifu is the sun. 

did my kokoro doki till now? forswear it, sight! for i ne’er saw true kawaii till this night.

o romeo-kun, romeo-kun, doushite art thou, romeo-kun? deny thy otou-san and refuse thy namae, or, if thou ja nai, but be sworn my daisuki, and i’ll no longer be a capulet-sama.

I’ve only seen this legendary post in screen shots

I’m in pain

I’m laughing more than I should be at this

Not even remotely kidding when I say that if you don’t fuck with the LGBTQIA+ community, I do not and will not fuck with you. Big ass love to all the queer folks out there. If you’re on my blog, you’re in a safe place.

Look! Seahorses!

@cat-with-no-name ur so fucking right

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

The excluded tags filter on Ao3 is such a fucking lifesaver. I love it so much.

Do I know what I want to read? No. Do I know what I DON'T want to read? Absolutely. God bless

Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It's almost like the ultrawealthy don't want us knowing or talking about what's at stake.

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Reluctant War AU Part 4

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Everything I know about Flash and the FlashFam (& Flash enemies) comes from fandom and theflashmuseum on tiktok so fair warning on that lol

Sorry if Barry is out of character or things don't line up with canon. Canon is a stranger I think I passed in a crowded room once, I did not ask for its number lol

Anyway, time to touch a bit more on that whole Ancient of the Speedforce Elle thing yeah? Here be a sprinkle more of that and I promise there's more to come haha

Gonna start posting this on Ao3 soon, probably Monday or Tuesday, so heads up I may stop adding these parts here on tumblr once I do

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It lived beneath his skin.

For a long time Barry had never believed in magic. His world was grounded, scientific, made of predictable rules and laws. Tools that could be used to explain everything strange or supernatural away as just another odd twist of the massive universe they all belonged to.

It took perhaps a little longer than it should have to admit that magic was as real as thermodynamics and gravity and atoms. That the world was a great deal stranger than even science - for all its own wildness at times - could account for. There were things that went bump in the night. Hells below and heavens above and things that crawled and clawed their way out from the places in between.

It was almost a little embarrassing how long it had taken him to admit to such things, when considering his relationship with the Speedforce.

A force of the universe. Like gravity or time, pushing and pulling everything along. Something that could be explained with all the familiar scientific concepts that had buoyed him along in life for so long.

Except.

Except.

Buzzing, burning, blistering. Not painful but felt. Making his hair stand on end, his fingers tingle and numb. Sliding against his veins, bouncing between scar tissue and freckles. Pressing out from the confines of his sternum, rattling against his rib cage as it shifted and moved. Twining around each and every vertebrae. Coiling over and under itself within his skull, darting along the paths of his neurons and nerves. It hummed in every cell in his body. Darted and danced in the space between the atoms that made up his very existence.

The Speedforce lived beneath his skin.

Lived.

Not existed. Not contained. Lived.

Reluctant War AU Part 3

Part 1 Part 2

More of the brain worm that has taken me over, gonna probably post it to Ao3 here before too long. Already got another part started and so many ideas for additional stuff, someone please send help I've been consumed by this thing lol

Sorry if Waller seems out of character, outside of fandom I'm mostly familiar with her through Justice League the animated show & Justice League: Unlimited and her vibe there has always struck me as "deeply incredibly unlikable character that also kind of has a point but also has done so much fucked up shit in the name of her goals that you don't really care about her point anymore." So you know, complicated lol. If she's completely unrecognizable let me know, but I'm hoping she feels at least somewhat like Waller.

Forgot to say this in the last update, but still feel free to use all this as an overly long prompt if yall want. Literally anything I throw out to the void should be treated as a prompt lol If there's anything at all interesting to you in any of this nonsense go for it <3 <3 <3

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Amanda Waller was someone who did what needed to be done.

Ruthless, heartless, vicious, cruel.

She’d been called it all. Wore the words thrown as insults as a badges of pride and valor. Because at the end of the day, when it came to the problems she was given to face, the issues she was meant to solve, those words meant she’d done what others had been too squeamish or cowardly to do. Life was a never ending slog of trolley problems and she the only one unshakable enough to pull the levers that needed pulling.

It wasn’t so simple as a matter of greater good.

Greater good was what the weak willed muttered to themselves after having feelings over doing the bare minimum. A justification used by people on all sides to do what they wanted with fractured, faulty logic thrown around like truth was a thing immutable. To assuage their guilt when they were forced to make a call they didn’t want to.

It wasn’t a matter of greater good. It was a matter of preservation. Of protection. Of digging through the filth to find the threats skittering beneath and crush them with ruthless abandon. Of facing a god and not blinking because if you did it could cost the world.

Of doing what needed to be done, no matter how underhanded or atrocious it was.

Hands dirty.

Hands red.

Hands wrapped tight around the throat of something that could threaten to destroy it all.