Hilarious BloodyMary idea but honestly the ship doesnât really appear for a while, bear with me on this.
So Adrian gets way too worried about Rocky while theyâre separated and decides to shoot themself into space to follow after him. Maybe theyâre alone, maybe others who were family of Rockyâs crew came with, idk. Point is, they miss Rocky by a week or so and only find the remains of the ship.
Through the remains they piece together that the whole crew is dead and believe Rocky is also dead but not from the radiation, but from the human Rocky called friend. Maybe or maybe not on purpose, dealerâs choice. (Rockyâs on his way home to where he THINKS Adrian is with Grace in tow, and canât fix this misunderstanding rip)
Adrian is enraged and decides since Rocky is gone they have nothing waiting for them back on Erid and continues on to Earth to get answers, thinking Grace will be there
So Adrian gets there while only understanding pieces of broken English, whatever Rocky left on the ship of how to communicate with his human and whatever translation program they can cobble together.
Earth is understandably freaked by this alien ship appearing and thereâs WILD miscommunication going on with Adrian demanding answers and Earth trying to defend itself, idc. What I was thinking is Earth tries to give Adrian a prisoner they donât mind sacrificing to appease them and Adrian being more enraged by the idea that they would kill someone unjustly.
Adrian returns to Erid with their own emotional support human Simon
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Good parents Jack and Maddie crying as their baby boy goes off to college. They've turned off the portal and are in the process of correcting their initial findings so everyone in town tries to avoid them otherwise you will be subjected to the new findings which mark ecto entities as sapient and therefore deserving of rights or gushing about how Danny is off to college since his small business pays so well. He did so well he rejected the scholarships from Gotham University because he said it would be better going to someone who needs it and they did such a good job raising him because look at how successful and generous he is!
The business in question is more of a cheat since being king of the infinite Realms means he is fluent in any language to exist. Safe, dead, or extinct the status of a language doesn't matter to him. With Technus's help he sets up and online portal where people can submit pictures or copies of stuff for him to translate at a premium price. He refuses to take any money from the fruit loop and the money he learns will go towards his clone's schooling when she gets to that point. Right now she is using it for her travels and sending them postcards.
People who claim his translations as their own get black listed with a huge fee coming out of their bank account for the breach of contract. He is trying to keep his business on the down low so those breakthroughs that get on the news are not what he is looking for. His main demographic is rich snobs with private art collections. What Danny doesn't know is that his main customers are the Justice League.
There are some clues but he kinda ignores them. Like when a document submitted is a summoning ritual he sends back a partial translation since the summoning is not good (there are worst beings they could summon but it will still be a hassle) however revealing knowledge of the banishment is harmless.
Gotham cultists hate him because they know he can translate the whole document/book but all of their attempts to trace the sage of tongues (trying to give invisobill kinda vibes) they find a dead end. They try submitting from different computers, locations, routers, anything, but just end up giving Danny more money lol
The Justice League is almost in tears because the jusyice league dark could not agree on the translation of the banishment ritual and everything they tried before had failed.
His favorite translations are the stories that give alien vibes. They talk about certain structures (he thinks it might be structures) as if they are common knowledge. Unknown to him those are Kryptonian fairy tales that Lois submitted. She didn't want to give Jon a funny accent so Clark can read them in Kryptonian while she does the English.
Duke having a hard time with an assignment, sends an inquiry asking if he offers homework help (he wouldn't be using it for career advancement which is against the terms of service BUT he would be claiming it for points so he asked) and that is how Tim finds out about this sketchy website that can translate anything. Danny feels the sincerity and sleep deprivation in the inquiry so he replies back "I admire your courage and will do you a solid but only if your promise to sleep a minimum of 8 hours. I'll know if you don't and snitch so go to sleep đ´" The translation is attached and already in the format his teacher requested.
Steph: How is he gonna know?
Duke: Idk but he is a life saver!
Tim: Duke, did you just sell your soul for a homework assignment?
Duke: Let me sleep and then we'll see what happens đĽą
Tim is driven crazy because he needs to know who is behind the website. And also because Constantine was kinda in the area and said no. Duke has his soul even if he doesn't sleep, lucky bugger.
Tim feels like the world is conspiring against him when it sends the cutest distraction in one his gen ed courses. He will date the cute guy AND solve this mystery out of spite.
I started this WIP ages ago when I was rewatching TAWOG and I can't believe I finally finished it at the start of pride month, so for that enjoy a bonus:
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Peter Parker wearing his first suit hoodie, which has puffy paint webs and spider symbol on it. He's at a cafe, eyebags that look like teabags taped to his face and drinking a straight up afront to god. A guy walks past, stops, and points.
Peter is barely awake.
"Yo, where'd you get the merch?"
Peters eyes are barely open when he looks at him. He won't remember what he looks like the next day either.
"huh?"
"The Spidey merch. Where'd you get it?"
Peter looked down at himself, somewhat baffled, and squints at him.
"I...made it?"
"Deadass? I've got thirty bucks, could you make me one?"
The materials plus Peters time outside of classes and Spider-Man...he should get a sandwich out of it at least.
"Thirty-five?" He negotiates weakly. The man doesn't even blink.
"You got it." And takes out cash then and there. Peter stares at it, exchanges info, and gets the hoodie done in a weak between surviving and saving everyone else.
The guy is some sort of influencer. He shows it off on his story. People are going crazy. He texts Peter with a screenshot.
"Can I give them your info?"
Over a hundred people already want his hoodie.
His hoodie.
$35 per person, and so many out the gate?
Superhero-ing might pay after all.
Peter accepts.
This is how Peter is able to pay for his own meals, not completely rely on JJJ for his income.
Rewatching iron lung again (shock horror) and Iâm thinking about if there was a Bloodymary AU where Grace is a scientist for the COI, he would 100% try and help Simon and talk to him through the speaker.
Can you imagine? Simon yelling at him out of anger and then apologising and Grace saying âitâs ok, I once told a man he was a staggering waste of carbon once.â And thatâs what makes Simon laugh because Simon has caught a glimpse of Grace before he was put in the sub and he canât imagine the man who he saw spinning in his chair to say that. Thatâs what makes it so funny to him.
âAre you- are you laughing?â
âYes- I canât imagine you saying that to anyone.â
âWell I did so it seems we both have egg on our face.â
bloodymary au where Simon and Grace were together before Grace is forced to participate in the the mission to Tau Ceti. He canât contact Simon due to the million and one NDAs heâd signed and Stratt also bars any communication w anyone outside of PHM. When Stratt is finally confronting Grace about replacing DuBois and Shapiro after their deaths, heâs struck w terrible news
â
âYou have no one. No family. Not even a dog.â
âYouâre wrong! I haveâŚI have Simon!â
Stratt looksâŚwell, Grace canât fully tell. Sheâs always been good at keeping her expression neutral, but thereâs something about it that makes the pit in Graceâs stomach grow
âHeâs dead, Dr Grace.â
No. No no no no NO!
âYouâre a liar. Youâre lying! Whereâs my phone, Iâm gonna call him.â
Grace pats his pockets w frantic energy before Stratt very calmly slides something across the table towards him. Grace doesnât want to look at it, but he sees it anyway, canât tear his eyes away from the back and white photo of Simon staring at him from the newspaper
âHe drowned, saving a child. It wasâŚvery heroic.â
It canât be. This is fake, some kind of ploy to trick Grace into going on a suicide mission. Heâs so sure of it. He is! ButâŚno. Thatâs just what he tells himself. Stratt has never been a liar, and even if sheâs pulled the rug out from under his feet now, Grace knows this isnât a lie either. Maybe some orchestrated attempt at manipulation, holding back this information for so long, but itâs not a lie
â
Thereâs a strong gap in Graceâs memory, no matter how hard he tries to remember. Everything else had come back, the effects of the amnesia causing drug Stratt had administered fading for the most part. But thereâs something that justâŚstays out of reach. Grace knows itâs important, and Rocky watches with about as much worry as a rock can conjure with no face. At some point, living happily on Erid, Grace comes to accept that heâll never fill in those missing memories
â
It comes back like a flood. It almost knocks the wind out of him
âSimon?â
Dark, feral eyes widen in surprise before they narrow again
âWho are you? How do you know my name?â
Grace feels frozen for a long time, but he manages to get a handle on himself, reaching forward for the man he never thought heâd see again, the one he thought heâd lost, the one whoâd left him!
But before he can make contact, Simon is on him, straddling his waist as a hand wraps around his neck
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woe, another scenematch be upon ye (much lower effort I fear)
rambles about it below:
I honestly don't know what the theoretical context of this scene would be. I just heard Simon say 'red' and went..........mmmm....petrova line.....
I feel like I could workshop this more and come out with a better version but I truly can't be bothered rn. I WILL say, that clip of the planet going red has so much bloodymary potential as a shot of AT-5, I'm surprised I haven't seen it used before!
Also fun fact, I did all the foley for this myself. I edited out the music but I didn't like how that meant you couldn't hear any clicks or machinery so I just....recorded my own
i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.
lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.
arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.
swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.
i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.
how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!
i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it
i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!
another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!
I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!
People whose native language is heavily gendered often apply gendered pronouns to English words that don't have them. For example, my Brazilian sports coach referred to my knee as "she" instead of "it". It's even more interesting when you realise that Old English did have gendered nouns, much like German, and we've essentially lost that entire element of our language.
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âHey buddy.â Dick - as Nightwing â greets Damian â as Robin â as he sits next to him over the edge of a very tall roof.
It is still night-time, the two birds watch the sparkling city for a while in meditative silence⌠until Dick opens his mouth, that is.
âSo, you probably are upset and donât wanna know anything about Danny right now, but B took him to the Watchtower for interrogation.â
This makes Damian look at him, the way his domino mask bends indicates the older bird how distressed his baby brother has become over this news.
âItâs ok. All is good. Danny went on his own and he fully accepted to come along. He said that he will explain everything in detail to us and the league, but he wants you there too.â
âI-I donât know what to think, Richard⌠he lied to me! Why would he think that he couldnât tell me?â
âOh Dames, if only we had that answer every relationship in the galaxy would be perfect.â He says as he puts an arm around Damianâs shoulders and gives it a squeeze. âBut let me tell you something; He is willing to talk, are you willing to listen?â
âI do want to understandâŚâ
âThen, everything is gonna be alright. Not perfect, but if you both are willing to talk and listen, there is a good change you will stay in good terms.â
âYou think he is going to break up with me?!â Damian practically cries.
âI think he thinks youâre gonna break up with him.â Dick rectifies.
âWhat?! No! Iâm not going to break up with him just because he is metahuman or an eldritch entity.â
âWell, we better go up there and clarify that âcause he thinks you hate him now.â
âTt, that idiot!â The younger grunts and stands up, shoots his grappling gun and jumps, his older brother-slash-parental figure following close.
*Back to the present*
Batman and Robin advance in tense silence along the halls of the Watchtower.
Nightwing, along with Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Green Lantern, John Constantine, Zatanna and Deadman went to the viewing to watch the interrogation between Batman, Robin and the King of the Infinite, a.k.a. Danny, who is back to his human form, is sitting alone inside the interrogation room, hands on the table in front of him. He has changed his clothes and instead of the white suit the cult had put on him he is now wearing a dark gray hoodie and matching pants.
âThis is the King of the Infinite?â Aquaman questions in disbelief. âHe is but a sea bunny.â
âDonât let the dainty face trick you, mate. He is a force among forces, Deathâs chosen champion and master of Space.â
âThought, not many know his face.â Deadman adds, Constantine cast a spell for everyone in the room to see him. âSure, everybody and their shadow know of how he defeated the tyrant king and many more stories, but very few had seen his face directly.â
âThere are stories in Themyscira about the King of the Infinite, as well.â Wonder Woman joins. âOf how he aided Pandora in the creation of the isle, but that was centuries ago, about a millennium even, how come he is still so young? Not even a full-grown man.â
âSpace doesnât necessarily follow the same rules of Time as us.â Martian Manhunter interjects.
âProbably he can jump through it without much trouble then.â Flash adds.
It is then that the interrogation roomâs door opens, causing everyone in the viewing room to go silent as Batman and Robin walk into the IR.
âBabe, I can explain!â Danny quickly reacts, standing up as soon as his eyes land on Damian.
âWe shall talk after you tell the league what exactly happened with that cult and why.â Robin states with a stern tone, making Danny freeze on his spot.
In the viewing room Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Green Lantern, John Constantine, Zatanna and Deadman look at Nightwing with incredulity.
âYou got to be kidding me.â Constanine mumbles, cigarette falling form his lips as he looks at Nightwing.
Batmanâs oldest son only manages to shrug his shoulders and stays silent while in the interrogation room Batman takes seat on the other available chair on the other side of the table, Robin standing right behind him. Danny, with a defeated expression, sits back on his chair.
âEverything you say will be engraved in a special device designed to record the voices of magical and adjacent beings. The information you share with us today will be stored for future reference. Are you alright with this?â
âYes, sir.â Danny accepts.
Batman and Danny lock eyes, both reading the other and what they find is nothing but clearness and steeled resolve.
âWho are you?â Batman begins after five seconds that for Damian felt like an eternity.
Danny closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, exhales and opens his eyes.
âIn this dimension, my legal and real identity is Daniel Nightingale. But before moving here I had another name, Daniel Fenton.â
âWhy did you come to this dimension?â
âBack in my home dimension, about two years ago, I⌠I had an accidentâŚ
âBloody fuck is he gonna tell us about hisâŚâ Constantine gasps in the viewing room.
âI died there.â Danny drops the bomb.
Damian can feel his heart stutter at the news. He knows about the accident. Danny had told him about how he electrocuted himself in his parentsâ laboratory, but he hadnât mentioned⌠that.
âMy parents were scientists specialized in ecto-entities; what in this dimension is recognized as ghosts, spirits, magical and magical adjacent beings. They created an artificial portal into the Infinite, but it didnât work, or at least we thought that until I walked in and touched the ON button they had put inside the device, by accident! I swear! I didnât even believe in magic back then.â Danny says as he cleans away the tears from his eyes. It takes everything in Damian not to go a clean them away himself. âThe portal opened on me and, well, I died and I lived and I died and I lived and after many of that it just spat me out⌠and ta-dah~! Thatâs how I got my powers.â Danny swallows, the room starts to turn slightly cold, but no one comments on it. After a couple seconds of silence, he continues. âI had become something like a mix of boy and ghost. For a while it was ok, I just had to ignore the fact that I could turn invisible or my feet could go thru the floor and get stuck in the tiles or that sometimes I could just start floating because, why notâŚ
âI hated when that happened to me back in middle school.â Superman mumbles in the viewing room.
âBut the activation of the portal didnât only give me new abilities, it also became a lighthouse, an invitation to port of sorts, and the curious denizens of the Infinite tried to invade my hometown.â Danny shares and Bâs heart aches. âI fought them, I was the only one that could. It was a mess. Between my parentsâ poor attempts at ghost hunting and the slowly getting stronger enemies that came for my hide I barely had time for school, my grades started to drop and my relationship with my parents got worse because they hated ghosts and were anti-ghost activists and yeah, for a while they didnât know.â
âYour sisterâŚâ Robin mumbles but quickly shuts his lips.
Danny directs a smile at the other teen. Itâs small and sad yet grateful.
âShe found out on her own. Didnât even tell me she knew until I found out by myself that she knew. Anyways, I became king whenâŚâ
And Danny tells them everything. Everything about how he defeated Pariah Dark, about the GIW, about Maddie and Jack, about how they woke up Pariah again, about how they turned on him, how the portal over heated⌠everything. At some point Damian had to bite the insides of his mouth to not interrupt Danny and just carry him and take him away to someplace safe, the taste of blood filling his mouth as Danny kept talking.
âAnd thatâs how me and Clocky arrived at Gotham and why that cult kidnaped me.â
Batman stands up and starts to walk towards the door, when he walks next to Danny he gives his shoulder a squeeze, then he keeps walking, Robin stays inside the room with Danny. In the viewing room everyone starts to walk out as well, it is more than clear that the young king and Robin need some private time.
conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt 70 (masterpost here)
Jason: hold on, it's on my phone, let me pull it up.
Tim, audibly delighted: i can't believe you do this-!
Bruce: Robin, don't get distracted, i need you on my six.
Damian: *already distracted, somewhat forlorn* i wish you were an owl...
Bruce: that's not- *pause* what?
Damian: they don't need people on their sixes. they can turn their heads and just look.
*silence*
*distant crashing and gunshots*
Bruce: shit- focus, Robin!
Jason: i got it, it's still here.
Tim: please god read it out,
Bruce: *amidst grunting* you two aren't helping.
Jason, dismissively: then switch to a different line? everybody knows line seven is Red Hood's territory; go back to line one.
Dick: who needs to go back to line one?
Tim: ...Dick you've been here for thirty minutes, how are you not hearing us.
Dick: sorry- you know that thing where you disassociate and drive, and then you snap back to yourself as you pull up the driveway and you have that moment of 'how the fuck am i still alive?'? i think i did that with swinging.
Jason, grunting casually: oh yeah, i get that sometimes.
Dick, mystified: how the fuck did i get to Bristol...? sorry, anyway- what are we on?
Tim: Jason's grudge list.
Dick: Jason's what now?
Jason: i have a list on my phone of the worst things everybody has done to me, so i can keep track of how much revenge i need to get to 'win'.
Damian: ...win what?
Jason: shut up. aren't you fighting?
Damian: it's not that complicated a fight.
*distant gunshot*
Damian, casually, after a beat: Father?
*sounds of punching, hitting*
Bruce: yes?
Damian: how good of a mood would you say you're in?
Bruce: ...why?
Tim: i'm calling it now he got shot- you got shot, didn't you?
*silence*
Damian: tis' but a flesh wound-,
Bruce, resigned: oh my god- Robin.
Damian: you didn't watch my six.
Tim: *laughs*
Damian: it didn't even hit anywhere important,
Bruce: i don't care- just go to the batmobile and get the first aid kit, i'll be there after i finish getting the evidence i needed.
Damian: *groans*
Dick: are you guys done? because i wanna know what's on Jason's list for me.
Tim: yeah i'm- i'm also very invested in this. actually- is Damian on there?
Jason: uhhhh- yeah, by the bottom. i don't update this that much, to be fair.
Damian: what's written for me?
Jason: it just says 'looks too much like Bruce'.
Tim: *instant snickers*
Dick: wait wait- what's on there for Bruce then?
Jason: Bruce's- *laughs* ok, Bruce's has stayed the same since before i went to Ethiopia, and it's still the most evil thing he's ever done to me.
Bruce: *confused grunt*
Jason: according to the list, the meanest shit Bruce has ever done to me was when I was thirteen years old and he took me to an evening afterparty for this opera event, and i was bored as fuck with all the other rich-people kids and i wanted to go home, so to discreetly get B's attention, i texted him-,
Bruce: oh- *snort* ok i remember this.
Dick: what happened?
Jason, indignant: i texted him asking if we could go home, and this piece of shit proceeds to look at the text in the middle of this circle of people he's talking to, read the text from me OUT LOUD TO THEM, and then he looked at me across the room and yelled out 'what's wrong, chum? who don't you like, why do you wanna leave so early?'
Tim: *long noise of sympathy*
Dick: *cackling* THAT'S SO BAD????
Bruce: *another snort*
Jason: shut up Bruce. -and you wonder why we hated you; honestly.
Bruce: you were- *struggling to tamp down his amusement* you were being a handful, and that was the quickest way i could think of to make you want to be quiet.
Dick: *more cackles*
Jason: worst moment of my life to date, and i've literally been murdered.
Bruce, slightly amused: oh come now, chum, that's dramamtic.
Jason: IT'S NOT THOUGH??? IT'S PUBLIC HUMILIATION!
Tim: *wheeze*
Damian: *hiss of pain* oh- woooaaahhhhhh,
Dick, still snickering: -uh, Dami?
Damian: hm? oh, sorry, no, carry on, don't mind me- *under his breath* huh, that's cool.
Bruce, slightly concerned: Robin, where are you? i thought i told you to wait in the car.
Damian: i am in the car.
Bruce: then what are you doing?
Damian: taking out the bullet i got shot with.
Tim: ...the hell is 'cool' about that?
Damian: there's a second one already in there that i didn't know about.
*a beat*
Dick, baffled: what?
Bruce, stern: Robin what's your status, are you ok?
Jason: when the fuck did you even last get shot?
Damian: i dunno, that's why it's cool. i guess i forgot about it?
Tim: dude- what the fuck even is your life.
Damian: yeah i don't- oh, i think the second one was blocking a vein- shit, there's blood on the seats,
Dick: oh my god BRUCE GO TO YOUR KID-
Bruce: I'M GOING-
Tim, mumbling: like father like son,
Jason, instantly: -shut it or i put you on the list.
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