Star Dust and Roses

I'm bored AF so.

Promptathon this weekend because I'm tired of this not writing shit. It makes me sad.

Marvel

DC

The Pitt

Animal Kingdom

Hit me.

Bucky: Someone’s feeling frisky

It worked best when it was Bruce. It used to be Dick, consummate actor, with his effective groans and alarmingly floppy limbs. While Jason was... away, the star role had passed to Tim, too skinny to be as effective in terms of flung mass, but more visibly pathetic and therefore a better lure for close combat.

But Jason was back now, and not just back, but back with the height and the brawn to usurp the order of things and steal himself a new role. And in the end, even Bruce had to cede to the data.

"You need to lay off the hoagies, B," Jason wheezed as he staggered forward, one arm clenched tightly around Bruce's waist.

Bruce didn't answer, for obvious reasons, but the arm slung around Jason's shoulder twitched, fingers pinching at the meat on the backside of Jason's armpit before falling loose again.

Even without words, Jason could hear Bruce's grumbled, Don't fat shame me.

Jason nearly dropped him out of spite, but their target was approaching rapidly, and he needed to focus.

Bruce was the best choice for Get Help for several reasons. First, he was Batman. He was infamous for being stupidly stubborn about medical care and his own limits. Batman wouldn't fake an injury. And second, he was Batman, and no one else was weird enough to make their own heartbeat change speed to a precise degree.

"Hood? What happened?!"

1) Gets kidnapped. Looks absolutely furious in his ransom photo, which would be understandable were it not for future context.

2) Becomes Plucky McGee as soon as Bruce shows up. There are guns trained on his goofy ass and he’s flashing the dimples LMAO.

3) The side eye and the “Shall we begin?”. Like, okay bucko.

4) Breaks out. Note that there have been no changes to his status since before Bruce showed up, meaning he had the ability to escape whether or not Bruce came.

Conclusion: Not only was Dick fine, I’m pretty sure this was just an opportunity for Dick to say hi to Bruce and get out of college.

shawn is the second from the right with his band, element, circa 1995

📸 last pic from mikedawsonsdrums on ig

Andrew "Pope" Cody x female!oc

summary: Pope wondered if she was an angel sent down to relieve him of his suffering, even if he didn't deserve it. It was the only explanation for the woman who appeared when he needed her most. Unknowingly, he dragged an angel into the dark with no plan on how to get her out on the other side. All Pope knew was, she had to survive. One way or another, she had to survive. Whatever the cost. Amina was never supposed to fall head first into another life of chaos. She was never supposed to get involved. Never supposed to fall in love. Now, she'd do anything to make sure she wasn't alone when she came out the other side. cw: MDNI 18+ (not super explicit, more waxing poetic, but I don't want minors interacting with my stories regardless), suicide ideation/thoughts, canon-typical violence & gore & manipulation (i mean, this is AK after all), canon-divergence, domestic violence, slow-ish burn, hurt & comfort, angst, trauma, ptsd, ocd, neurodivergent!pope (no one can convince me otherwise), protective!pope, obsessive!pope, season two!pope, sensitive!oc, bamf!oc, forger!oc, age difference (late twenties oc), original female character, entire cody clan, chosen family trope, third person POV, will add more tags as series progresses

a/n: This is my first time writing Andrew/Animal Kingdom, but also my first fic on tumblr. I've been over on archiveofourown, but I thought it would be fun to actually try posting on here. I've been unable to get this man out of my head and I'm incapable of writing a one shot, so here we are. This story starts during 2x12 and will diverge from there. If you want to be tagged when I upload the first chapter, please let me know!

♡ Any comments, likes, and reblogs are always appreciated. ♡

chapters

prologue - imitation, caricature, & good business (i)

to catch a firefly (ii)

the wedge, the shield, the confidant (iii)

ophelia (iv)

bonny belle & altar wine (v)

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

Examples:

Buying the Kent Farm. He couldn't buy the house outright, it would draw far too much attention and link his and Clark's identies, even with several steps in between. So Bruce bought the bank, then the Farm.

In Batman Begins, he buys certain gear in bulk to avoid suspicion. He gets thousands/millions of cowl prototype bases because buying ten would be strange.

All of the journalistic manuvering. It's very look here, don't look there. It's artistic. It's sleight of hand with the media. "Brucie falls into a fountain the same night Batman needs to take a night off" no, even better. Bruce, as Brucie, captures attention in a way that doesn't let you even realize that you should be paying attention to something else. He isn't taking away your attention. He has it, and that's the point.

The painstaking and painful steps he takes to fund and oversee the Justice League while maintaining credible distance. The fact that he's able to spin it as CSR without anyone putting the pieces together is impressive.

Tech/behaviors he employs to ensure the government thinks Batman is a low-level vigilante with limited access to complex resources.