#Shot in the Dark
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It didn’t take a genius to realize that Steve Harrington was devoted to his kids.
And they were indeed Steve’s kids. He knew it, they knew it, anyone who saw him with them knew it, including, oddly enough, the children’s actual parents. They might not have understood exactly why their offspring were so tightly intertwined—with each other and with Steve and with the small assemblage of Hawkinsians that included the chatty and rather eccentric girl who worked with Steve at the local video store, a straight-laced honor student turned journalist who had recently taken up a distinct interest in (and displayed an alarming talent for) deadly weaponry, the lead singer of a heavy metal band who was also known to be a petty drug dealer, and, perhaps most baffling of all, the former police chief.
The biological parents might not have known why, but they knew that these people made up their kids’ other family—their Chosen Family, as it were. And not a single one of them—for reasons rooted in either blissful ignorance, parental inadequacy, self-absorption, or just relief that someone else was handling the hard stuff—was about to interfere in that.
#stranger things#steddie#found family#mama steve#dad eddie munson#steve harrington#eddie munson#protective steve harrington#steve and eddie#dustin henderson#new to tumblr#suck at tumblr#shot in the dark#the party stranger things#dad!eddie munson#not that kind#not that there's anything wrong with that#mom steve
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Little personal post! Last night @kendsleyauthor and I were featured with another local author at a fantasy panel via our local indie bookstore! (Anne joined via discord on my phone!) We got to talk about world building, magic, The Heart Between Kingdoms and Shot in the Dark!
Dreaming forever that I can do this full time someday 🥺
So wild to be talking about Jon and Sylvia and Cliff to THE WORLD IN PERSON?? After all this time!
#support indie authors#gt#g/t#gt writing#shot in the dark#the restoration program#fairies#indie authors#indie books
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So Cute
Missing scene set right after Shot in the Dark where...
Bow asks Entrapta and Wrong Hordak to join the BFS (and is shot down, rip)
Catra confronts Bow about all the "so cute" stuff from Krytus
the gang finally arrives on Etheria!
(Missing Scene, 1,063 words)
Read on AO3
#shot in the dark#bow#catra#entrapta#wrong hordak#spop#she ra#shera#melog glimmer and adora are all there too obvs#tippen's fics#going there#yes I uploaded two chapters today#i do what I want
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my judgement isn’t very good, is it? Time and again I’ve been betrayed and lied to, by the people I care about the most. I am a King, not a mushroom, Merlin.”
A mushroom – kept in the dark and fed shit.
Whoever has written it...holy shit! You're awesome 🤧❤
#Arthur pendragon#fics#bbc Merlin#king Arthur#no context#shot in the dark#we roll#that's how bro was working#no wonder he died#Mordred#bad job#but anyway#thanks author#yohr fic is amazing#I'm rereading it#and that's something#i do very rarely
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s5 ep8 Shot in the dark
woohooo
Off topic but while looking for fan art of Catra from the portal (ugh I need to try different tags) I instead saw a bunch of anti-Catra and anti-Catradora and anti-spop blogs and jfc people need to get a life and touch some grass and if I'm saying that--
(I mean, I did leave the house today with Saer and their mom, we went to Powell's books where I spent too much money but I got a couple of wlw manga and a Judith Butler book among a few other things, and also we went to a vintage clothing store that seemed to have NO END but I bought one thing there, a lavender satin bathrobe, the short kind; the only thing wrong with it was that it's a bit faded in some places and it's a little small on me but it's a bathrobe, and it was like $26 AND 100% SILK)
a question many astronauts have surely asked as well!
these two squabbling but not actually fighting always sounds like flirting, it doesn't help that a split second after that screenshot, Catra actually smiles for a second
Look. I love them.
Bow: "Adora, Catra's right"
Everyone's eyes: go wide
Bow: "...that felt weird to say"
the startled noise they all make when he starts talking lolol
but Catra has some flashes (from when she was in the hive mind) and says Krytis is a planet, nice. There's something there Horde Prime doesn't want them to know--so they head for Krytis, roll intro theme
:O
oh man they really did start changing this up every episode. Look at poor Perfuma's face.
Anyway on Krytis they find an old Horde ship and everyone else is trying to figure out what happened but poor Catra is remembering what it was like to be chipped :(
there's a cute moment when she notices her tail is all fluffy from fear and smooths it out before joining the others
there's a "crack" video where Entrapta's little walk here is dubbed with a clip from an ancient Spiderman show's theme song
ahaha
LOOK AT HER the way Bow says this is so great
POOR CATRA
Adora laughs longer than anyone else after Catra gets the helmet off and Catra blushes and smiles and everyone stands around not wanting the ruin the moment--and then Entrapta finds something and squeals and startles the shit out of everyone and it's SO GREAT
Catra: "So, wait, the plan is to barge ahead into the structurally unsound building to find some mystery person that we know nothing about, in hopes that they somehow know how to defeat Horde Prime?"
Bow: "You know, we were just gonna recklessly blast our way through that blockade until you stopped us. So this whole thing is basically your idea."
Catra's starting to realize what DORKS they all are and that good-natured teasing is just part of the deal
the GLEE with which they are including her
I didn't mean to get a screenshot that makes it look like Adora is staring at Catra's butt, but(t) I'm not mad about it
Meanwhile, on Etheria:
yikes
"and yet we're still stuck with you?"
HAH
Back on Krytis Wrong Hordak is having an existential crisis as he realizes Horde Prime is not perfect
Catra fuckin' slices a door into the wall
Bow: dunno if that's safe
Glimmer: yeah I'm not sure about this either
Adora: MY GIRLFRIEND IS STRONK and has v sharp claws isn't she perfect
seriously tho Adora is BLUSHING
Catra's face
Glimmer's too, actually
oh god it's the bit where Catra keeps sneezing at the spore things in the air and Bow is just like 🥺
Adora's reaction to this conversation is also priceless
Anyway a second later, Catra leans on the wall and sinks into it, she shrieks and Adora yells "CATRA!!" and when they pull her out the wall starts sending out HUGE MURDER SPIKES
Back on Etheria:
Castaspella: "You said you had a plan. The only reason I'm following you is because if anyone would know about mind control, it's you."
Shadow Weaver: "Mind control? Is that what they told you? No. My gifts were always far subtler."
I dunno, I think torturing kids is hardly "subtle." But abuse is often hard to spot while it's happening to you.
y'know, like this shit
Okay in fairness she says she was less powerful as well and now he's chipped he's under control by the enemy and they're not strong enough to fight him
On Krytis, the Squad realizes they've gotten confused/turned around in the abandoned ship--"Isn't this where we started?!" There's a growling noise. The hallway somehow gets longer while they're walking in it. Creepy as fuck.
Oh and also it turns out Horde Prime and the First Ones fought over Krytis ages ago and Prime won but then abandoned the place anyway.
Entrapta: also there's someone right behind you
yay i know who this is lol
ALSO Catra insisting on protecting everyone is v cute
also it took me three times to get this screenshot ahahaha
and when she tackles it they both disappear
the audible PANIC
OH HEY i hit the image limit okay hold on
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Guess who drew fanart as a way to cope while I sob my eyes out?
ITS YA BOI!
Characters, au and fic are all made by @twaigsayswhat
This is currently a Wip, but I decided to post the sketch onto here :3
#art#digital art#my art#fanart#td#tdi#tdi au#total drama au#total drama island au#alternate universe#fanfiction#not my fic#not my au#Shot In The Dark#Not my ocs#not my characters#WIP#work in progress
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You have to know when to give the target help and comfort...
and when to take it away.
#one of my favorite episodes#burn notice#shot in the dark#sam axe#micheal westen#fiona glenanne#bruce campbell#gifs#mygifs
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But a shot in the dark one step
Away from you
A shot in the dark not a thing
That you can do
A shot in the dark always
Creeping up on you
Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
#Ozzy Osbourne#The Ultimate Sin#shot in the dark#1986#80's#80s#video#ozzy#madman#prince of darkness#Genre: Heavy Metal#hard n heavy#classic rock#Themes: War Fantasy Madness Society Love#UK#my gifs#my gif#my edit
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GALLADRABBLES: Shot in the Dark 🌟
Hi, babies🩵 So lots have happened the last few months. I won’t go into to much since this post is for GALLADRABBLES. But my sons in school now so I feel like I have some time to finally come back here to my Gallavich babes, I’ve missed y’all🥹
Without further ado, here’s my submission for this weeks @galladrabbles with the prompt of leap of faith by baby @lizelandre ☺️
Read from the beginning here.
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Mickey Milkovich remembers him. Mickey swiped right on his dating profile and actively chose to message him after seeing his face and recognizing him.
He thinks back. He had a huge crush on Mickey. Had fantasies about him. The bad boy persona was always a turn on. His rough demeanor. His south side attitude. The tattoos. It was always attractive.
Never in a million years did he think Mickey was gay and he sure as hell never thought he’d meet him again on a dating app.
So he takes a leap of faith. Messages back.
“Hey, Mick. Long time no see.”
#I love them#they’re gonna be perfect together#…after a little angst that is#but is it really gallavich if there is no angst?#gallavich#ian gallagher#mickey milkovich#gallavich fanfic#shameless#galladrabbles#chey writes#shot in the dark
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#ozzy osbourne#shot in the dark#1980s#1986#music video#the ultimate sin album#my fav ozzy song id say#my cell phone gif
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Sylvia x Poptarts coming at you MAY 14!!
Preorder (ebook) available now!
SYNOPSIS:
Welcome to a world where fairies and monsters roam alongside mournful spirits.
For decades, no threat has touched Elysia. The underground village where Sylvia has lived alongside her fellow fairies is well-fortified, providing safety in its earthen walls.
But Sylvia craves more.
Her curiosity leads her to trespass the strict boundaries of her village, leading her to cross paths with violent creatures she has heard of only by firelight whispers.
Human hunters— Jon and Cliff— who suspect Sylvia’s involvement in a string of gruesome disappearances.
A harrowing captivity transforms into an unlikely alliance when Sylvia saves Jon’s life by sealing a magical pact with the enigmatic Ancients— fae powers who demand a cryptic price.
Sylvia is left with no choice but to stay by Jon’s side while he and Cliff hunt for a ruthless werewolf, determined to free herself from the Ancients’ settlement.
As the dangerous hunt unfolds, Sylvia finds that not all legends about hunters are true.
The world is wider than she ever could have imagined in Elysia.
She realizes she and Jon may have more in common than she ever could have imagined— and icy hostility melts into forbidden attraction.
But… that’s impossible.
Can Sylvia sever the enigmatic bond in time— protecting her own heart in the process?
Find out SHOT IN THE DARK, our Supernatural meets Fern Gully urban fantasy novel.
SHOT IN THE DARK is an action-packed novel that explores the courage it takes to embrace our true identity entwined with haunting themes of forbidden love and found family.
@kendsleyauthor
#gt#g/t#gt writing#giant/tiny#shot in the dark#the restoration program#indie authors#fairies#g/t writing
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#spencer reid#criminal minds#cm#cmedit#criminalmindsedit#fieryfrankie#tusergabs#mgg#matthew gray gubler#whump#shot in the dark#within temptation#edit
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Within Temptation ➤ Shot in the Dark
Live at M'era Luna (2011) [✻]
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🍳Spice + Cozy + Captivate + Sunrise🍳
Promptober 2023
Shot in the Dark - Size Shifter AU (Jon and Sylvia)
~1000 words
In this AU, Jon lives in a house near the edge of the woods. After a run-in with a witch, he gained sizeshifting abilities and met Sylvia. She was shocked to find out he's human, and she's still wary of him. But also she's curious by nature and can't resist coming around for visits. 🥰
@marydublinauthor 🌸
Sylvia’s visits were unpredictable, much like her opinion of Jon. He made a habit of leaving the window open so that she would always feel welcome to enter.
Sometimes, she approached him straight away to ask him questions that only a human could know. Other times, she arrived without ever speaking a word to him—she’d simply find a perch out of his reach and make him wonder why she bothered to visit at all.
It was as though she couldn’t decide how bitter to be about his lies.
Her visits rarely occurred two days in a row, so he stiffened with surprise when a buzz of wings entered the kitchen while he was preparing dinner.
“Hey, Sylvia,” he said, his hand coated with flour and cornmeal.
She hovered in the archway and frowned at the bowl set on the counter before him. “What is that?” she asked rather than greeting him back. “Are you making bread? I thought you bought bread from the store.”
“Not bread. Something a little easier than that, actually.” He cleaned his hands off with a kitchen towel and smiled warmly, noting her hesitance. She had never arrived while he was cooking. “Shouldn’t be long. I can turn on the TV for you, if you like.”
“I know how to turn it on,” she snipped. But instead of retreating into the living room, she approached and sniffed the air. Jars of spices were open across the counter. Her wariness softened with curiosity. “What are you making, then? I’ve never smelled anything like that before.”
“Arepa con carne,” he said. Knowing she wouldn’t be able to try any, he swiftly added, “But I can nix the carne and put cheese instead. Would you like that?”
Her little face pinched with confusion.
“Carne is meat,” he explained.
“Oh. Like carnivore.” She shuddered. “You don’t have to change the recipe on my account. I already had my dinner—and it was delicious.” Still, her inquisitive gaze lingered on the jars and dough mixture like she could be persuaded to try something new.
“I was thinking about making it arepas con queso anyway,” he said breezily. “There’s never a bad time for comfort food.”
She narrowed her eyes, fully aware that he was fibbing. But she didn’t call him out on it. Darting higher, she found a perch on one of the upper cabinets and observed him while he finished the dough and started the cheese mixture. Sure enough, she was utterly captivated.
“Can I taste those?” she asked, pointing to the spices as he began mixing them in.
He held up each jar for her to take a small pinch from—oregano, parsley, cilantro, and Caribbean thyme. He firmly dissuaded her from tasting a handful of black pepper—though she relented, she was pouty about it.
“My mom taught me this recipe,” he said. “There’s something cozy about the simplicity of it.” He shaped and laid out three biscuit-shaped rounds of dough on the skillet, then looked up at Sylvia. “They can be any size, really. You want to make some?”
She pursed her lips. “You really didn’t have to change the recipe for me, you know,” she mumbled, face flushing.
“My mom also taught me to be a good host. Gotta make sure my guest is comfortable, and all that.”
She snorted, but she swung her legs off the top of the cabinet and flew down a few inches. “I’m more of an intruder than a guest.”
I was the intruder, he thought, biting back a wince. “You are always welcome here,” he reassured.
Tentatively, she dipped her hand into the bowl and pulled out a fistful of arepa dough. He grabbed his own handful and showed her how to stuff the dough and shape it into a thick disk. She bit her lip in concentration with an adorably serious frown, determined to be perfect on her first try.
Although she seemed embarrassed by her misshapen handiwork, Jon convinced her to drop the dough round on the skillet.
“It’s better than most people’s first try,” he said.
Naturally, it didn’t take long for her morsel-sized arepa to cook through. He carefully removed it from the skillet using a single fork tine and set it on the edge of a plate for her.
Upon the first bite, her expression melted, and she stuffed the rest into her mouth.
“Jon,” she practically moaned. “Why didn’t you just cook for me from the start? I would have forgiven you much faster.”
His heart skipped a beat. Forgiven.
He chuckled weakly. “Come on, now—I tasted your food at the village. It’s so… different. I wasn’t sure you’d enjoy something like this.”
Although she gave an insulted scoff, there was a pleased smile on her face. “Are you saying I don’t have a sophisticated palate?”
“All I’m saying is I thought you’d spit out anything that wasn’t loaded with sugar,” he said matter-of-factly.
That earned him a tiny fistful of arepa dough tossed at his shirt. If he wasn’t worried about her going home covered in cornmeal, he might have returned the favor.
Sylvia proceeded to make several more bites suited to her size. She flew around him with surprising ease, even perching on his shoulder to give her wings a break while she watched him turn the warm dough over on the skillet.
Once Jon’s plate was filled, they made their way into the living room. From there, she expected she would leave for the night. But no. For the first time, she made herself comfortable for hours on end. Long after the plate was empty, they continued talking—about food, about family, about what was on the television.
The sun was rising by the time Sylvia said goodbye.
#gt#g/t#giant tiny#gt writing#g/t writing#gt community#g/t community#gt fandom#g/t fandom#gt story#g/t story#my writing#size difference#shot in the dark#shot in the dark story#size shifter au#size shifer au story#oc: jon#oc: sylvia#gt fluff#g/t fluff#promptober 2023
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don't get me wrong, i love the new version of Shot in the Dark, but the old lyric distribution just hits different. the original version was meant to exist in the context of Big Time Concert, so it made sense for most of the song to be split between kendall and james, since the song was mostly about their relationship (though it was also about james's friendship with all of the guys). the line even goes "like angels you were floating to me". PLURAL. i love that we have one version within the show's context, and another outside of it. its like its come full circle
#big time rush#btr#shot in the dark#dont get me started on the lyrics themselves in context of btconcert#i'll pull up my old analysis
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