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fishfission-dc · 1 year

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Batfamily Powerpoint Night! (Part 4: Jason)

<<Part 3: Tim | Part 5: Cass >>

[Masterlist]

Jason: Alright everyone get your hopes way down

Tim: I’m truly terrified of whatever you made for this

Dick: Let’s just be happy he participated!

Dick: Okay yeah nevermind

Bruce: Jason. This is-

Jason: Let’s just be happy I participated

Steph: If I’m not your favorite I’m rioting

Tim: Yeah this is the only right answer

Duke: He really does put up with way too much

Dick: Like childhood Bruce

Bruce: Hn. (in reluctant agreement)

Cass: (signs) I love you too :)

Damian: Cassandra is undoubtedly a very skilled combatant.

Steph: A rare good opinion from Jason

Jason: This is why you’re higher on the hate list

Duke: I am literally so honored, I would like to thank the Academy-

Barbara: He called you “Nightlight”

Tim: And said your suit is ugly

Duke: I don’t even care. I’m too low on the hate list to care.

Dick: He said you’re going to snap?

Duke: I mean I don’t disagree

Tim: I’M THE FOURTH BEST?

Jason: After some new information learned in the previous presentation, Timmy should probably be a lot higher on the list.

Steph: Oh calm down Timbo you barely got “tolerable”

Tim: HE TRIED TO KILL ME AND HE STILL LIKES ME BETTER THAN THE REST OF YOU

Barbara: Fair.

Dick: For the record, Jason, we are dating and I am not a cop anymore

Barbara: I still did date a cop though Dick he’s not wrong

Jason: See this is why she’s lower on the hate list than you

Barbara: You’re just scared to cross me

Jason: ...that too.

Tim: AHAAHAH

Damian: THIS IS UNFAIR

Steph: HAHHHAHHA

Damian: I AM NOT DONE GROWING YET TODD

Jason: You’re still short

Dick: It’s okay Damian, Jason was even shorter when he was your age!

Dick: ...crap.

Jason: Thank you for proving my point.

Tim: At least you’re not a cop anymore

Bruce: You broke his nose, Jason

Jason: He deserved it

Steph: ...wait a minute

Tim: (laughing, in realization) You mean... no

Steph: guys wait no-

Steph: NO WAY AM I YOUR LEAST FAVORITE

Jason: THE F*@#%&$ YOGURT HAD MY NAME ON IT

Steph: YOU CANT CALL DIBS ITS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE

[squabbling continues]

Dick: I’m surprised Bruce didn’t score the number one spot

Bruce: Hn. (in understanding)

Tim: I thought it’d be me honestly

Barbara: Oh come on, he loves all of us. He wouldn’t have come if he didn’t.

Cass: (signing) Agreed. I can go next?

<<Part 3: Tim | Part 5: Cass >>

[Masterlist]

#the saga continues #batfamily powerpoint au #these are still so fun to make ngl #i am unsure about the dialogue all the time though #i've never written a fic or anything so i'm just spitballin #i firmly believe jason loves all the little guys even though the joker is still alive #dc make jason happy challenge (impossible)#i liked his characterization in Cheer #dc comics #batman #jason todd #dick grayson #dc robin #batfamily #batfam #tim drake #bruce wayne

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captainkirkk · 8 months

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✩ WEEKLY FIC ROUND-UP ✩

All the fics I’ve read and really enjoyed in the past week-ish. Reminder: This list features any and all ratings and themes. Please look at tags and warnings on ao3 before reading.

Harry Potter

The Ordeal of Being Known by louisfake

When Auror Potter is anonymously cursed with silence by being forced to hide his own voice inside his mind, there's unfortunately only one person in the country with the qualifications to fix it: Certified and Licensed Healer Legilimens, Draco Malfoy, specialist in Mind Curses and Afflictions. It's obviously a terrible idea, a disaster waiting to happen, but Draco's never been able to back down from a challenge... especially from Potter.

Features fuzzy cartoon slippers, devious house elves, 90s music, and lots—LOTS—of memories. Ron is annoyingly hot, Hermione sees right through you, Harry is a powerful idiot, and Draco is a reclusive masochist that would buy an entire city if it would make a kid happy. (And Pansy is "5'2, I wanna dance with you, and I'm sophisticated fun.")

Super Mario Bros

Cooking Mama (Luigi)! by Little_RedHots_Riding_Hood

Luigi was having a perfectly peaceful stroll through the Toad Market - the sun was shining, he'd just found a lovely handmade blanket, and was on his way to the bakery before heading back to his and Mario's home.

Only... what was that sniffling noise from that dark, scary alleyway?

Of all the creatures he was expecting to find, the littlest prince of the Koopa Kingdom certainly wasn't it.

Star Wars

the tiger is out by elumish

Wolffe looks like he’s regretting having a second Jedi with them.

Cryp-Tim by PrinceJakeFireCake

"The cons of dating Tim Drake were innumerous. For one, he was almost impossible to photograph, and so none of Kon’s friends at school actually believed he existed. His family was scary, horrifying really, and all of them seemed to find joy in making Tim regret ever being born. And Tim had charmed Ma and Pa Kent so thoroughly, they had ditched their shovel talk to instead coo at him and offer him pie and compliment him for fixing their tractor, so Kon was at a disadvantage when it came to intimidating someone with his family.”

Kon and Tim date. It goes pretty well, all things considered.

Tim Has a Hero Worship-y Crush on Every Robin Ever by PrinceJakeFireCake

"Tim as an adult was bad enough, Tim with no filter as a child was too much to be around."

Cork Board Contingencies by PrinceJakeFireCake

If you don’t use a cork board to obsessively plan contingencies for every possible way a date with your best friend can go, how can you go on a date at all?

Excerpt: “Are you free next Saturday?” Tim asked, pretty sure that Kon’s jumble of words was agreement that he wanted to date Tim.

“Maybe!” Kon exclaimed.

“Cool,” Tim commented, taking another sip of his drugged grape soda (“Dammit, Tim,” he mentally told himself. “Do not give in! Buy new grape soda! Stop drinking the drugged grape soda! I’ve shotgunned another can of drugged grape soda, haven’t I? Dammit, that makes five!”) then saying, “That gives me just enough time to pass out for fifty-two hours and plan our first date."

Immunology by JustGettingBy

Hypothetically speaking. Could a hybrid creature become suddenly not viable? Like say it survives being an embryo, makes it through growing up, and then just one day… stops? the text from Kon reads.

Tim’s heart spikes up through his ribs. Kon. What’s happening?

(OR Kon gets the flu. It becomes Tim's problem.)

Change of Plans by PrinceJakeFireCake

"Who’s your friend, Tim?” the voice asked.

Jason hissed. This was his baby! Not his friend!

“Sorry, sorry,” the voice hastened to apologize. “I mean, who’s your parent, Tim?”

AKA, who has the time to be a murderous crime/drug lord when there are kittens to adopt

Motion Blur by sElkieNight60

At Damian's school art showcase, Bruce realizes he needs to help Tim reframe their relationship.

#my posts #weekly fic round up #dc recs #sw recs #hp recs #misc recs #fic recs #yes there is a bowuigi fic on here #but the found family is so good

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artxyra · 4 years

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Prom Proposal

So @enchantingdefendoreagle requested, “I have a request I am hoping for a Daminette fanfic. Where since Prom is canceled that the Waynes have offered to host Gotham Academy Prom because Gotham Academy is under reconstruction or something. Damian has seen Marinette for a while having a crush on her but never saying anything. “

Note: I wanted to try pinning Damian and a lot of things happened... so I hope you enjoy.

Normally, Damian would never make such a big deal over a school event cancellation. He would shrug it off as if it was beneath him. Well, that was the case until the Joker decided to turn Gotham Academy’s gym into a playground until Batman and Robin removed him from the premise. However, there was an absolute reason as to why this event had affected him so much. For a while now, Damian was actually looking forward to the annual prom dance. He was actually going to participate in said event, but the one person he was trying to ask to be date—they haven’t really spoken to one another outside of class assignments.

“Father I demand that we host prom.” Damian urges barging into his father’s office the second the school email about prom’s cancellation went to the students. What Damian didn’t account for was Grayson being inside the office as well.

“Hold, Little D. Why would you of all people even want to B to host prom? You didn’t go last year so why the sudden change.” Dick wonders at his little brother. So yeah, Damian didn’t go his junior year but once again this year is different.

With Damian being silent for a moment was all it took for Dick to realize something, “Is it for a girl…a boy maybe?”

“Tt. I have my reasons.” Damian counters crossing his arms and turning his attention away from his brother to his father, who appears to be done with everything going on.

“Damian, do you really think that having the manor full of teens is a good idea?” Bruce asks concern about his son’s mental health, but he too was wondering why the sudden change in attitude for one of many iconic moments in a teenager’s life.

“There is no reason father,” Damian says lying through his teeth. There was a reason, but he doesn’t want his family to find out about said reason.

Dick nor Bruce seemed convinced, but a simple quick look to one another, they knew getting an answer out of eighteen-year-old would be a battle they didn’t want to have.

“I’ll consider it.” Bruce states practically agreeing to his son plans to have prom at the Manor just like any other Wayne Gala he has hosted before. The only difference would be teens instead of adults.

It only took Bruce Wayne three days to send an email to the academy, offering to host prom night at Wayne Manor. The headmistress took that offer immediately know that there will be backlash for not accepting such a proposal. Two days after that, the school sends out emails informing the students that prom will be hosted in two months having it right on schedule. Those who order prom tickets will receive further information closer to the date.

After getting his father on board with the thought, Damian was internally excited, now just to put his plan into action. That plan over two months failed at least five different times.

The first attempt, in the classroom right after class was finished. He knows that she’ll usually stay in the class until everyone is out. Well, that didn’t happen. She was the first person out, running like her depended on it.

The second attempt was at the courtyard, a couple of days after the first attempt. Damian knew (well he asked Jon) that she had a tendency to sketch under the largest tree during the evening. He also knew that they shared the same independent study times due to having worked on projects together. Just as he was about to ask her, another student walked up to her. The bluenette, from afar, seemed to be interested in the conversation. Damian ended up walking away hoping to try again later.

The third attempt was almost a success. He was actually talking to her, but the words would not come out the way he had hoped. This just added to his stoic personality that she was used to. Then right before he finally mustered up the confidence, a girl with pigtails interrupted them implying that she only wanted to talk to Damian. Apparently, pigtail girl wanted to ask Damian to prom and he of course denied the proposal.

“You need, help?” Jon asks on the day before Damian could attempt his fourth go.

“Tt. I rather suffer.”

Jon raises an eyebrow, “Uh-huh. She’s in the art room.” Jon walks away with a smirk on his face. Damian could only glare at his retreating friend.

Sure enough, Jon was right, she was in the art room. However, it was clear that she was in the zone. A zone that is nearly impossible to get her out of.

“DC, can we talk?” She doesn’t acknowledge him. He tries again a couple more times. Damian should have known better. They barely speak when in class, so why the hell would they speak out of class.

“How it go?” Jon asks as he smiles knowing exactly how the encounter went.

“Kent, you could have told me she was in the zone.” Damian lightly punches Jon in the shoulder. “Do you have any idea what she’s working on?”

Jon chuckles and instead of answering he goes inside the art room. Damian couldn’t help but wonder about what they are doing.

The fifth attempt was really his own attempt. In fact, it was the girl he has been trying to ask out that ended all of his sufferings.

Damian was been avoiding practically everyone in the challenge to ask this one person to prom. Every potential idea was either scrap or too out of character for him—not that he was out of character trying to ask her in the first; he’s blaming it on this unknown emotion that has been haunting him since he had gotten to know DC. What makes matter worse is that prom was only a couple of weeks away.

“You’re going to love this.” Jon states dragging the Wayne heir across the school grounds. Damian put up a fight but Jon inhuman strength kind of won the battle. So, he was trapped in his best friend’s grip being to who knows where.

The next thing Damian knew was being stopped in his tracks and seeing black with little rays of light coming through Jon’s hand.

“Kent, I swear—”

“Yeah, yeah, just stay with me for a second.”

“A second.” Damian deadpans crossing his arms over his chest.

Damian may have not seen it but Jon was rolling his eyes and whispering some words to someone.

“Okay, in three…two…one!” Jon’s hand immediately uncovers his face. Damian was seconds away from turning to attack his friend, but something red, green, and yellow catches his eyes.

There standing in front of him, is the girl he’s been trying to ask out wearing a female version of the current Robin’s outfit holding a sign that says, “A Robin with a sword would be troubling, but a Robin without a sword wouldn’t be complete. Will you go to PROM WITH ME?” To the side of her is a try of Batfam theme cupcakes.

“Dupain-Cheng, you never cease to surprise me,” Damian states feeling a little stupid that he was worrying for nothing. “Yes, I’ll be your date to prom.”

“I know and do you have any idea how hard it was to pretend that I wasn’t interested.” Marinette awkwardly chuckles

“What?” Now he was confused. Hold on…pretending? Damian couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “You knew?” He accused Jon who simply shrugs and takes a cupcake like it was nothing.

“Seeing you two pinning over one another was the highlights of my day. Mari was always in a panic when she tried to talk to you but there was always someone in the way, and you panicking like it was the end of the world. So yeah, I needed my own fun with all of this.” Jon answers before taking a bite out of the cupcake.

Marinette and Damian eye one another before smirking.

Legend has it that Jon’s screams of terror echoes throughout the school.

Fast forward to prom night, the Wayne family finally understood why Damian wanted to have prom at the Wayne Manor. The moment they saw the girl he was escorting—Damian had taken the car earlier that evening without a word to his family—they were all shook. Dick was squealing saying that the little bird finally found someone. Tim wasn’t sure what was going on aside from the flashing lights. Jason knew that girl and went into overprotective brother mode (that was not for Damian). Bruce wanted to cry but he had to keep up an image. Alfred had taken photos of the couple—those did not see the light of day until the wedding.

All in all, the family was pleased to see Damian being happy with the girl as they dance the night away.

Tag List: *View my Tagging System guidelines for how to to be properly tagged or removed.

#maribat #daminette #ml x dc #mlb x dc #maridami #ml crossover #dc crossover #marinette x damian

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sidercal · 3 years

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* & ASK MEME ( ACCEPTING )!

@ofmusingsxandmayhem pinged: Mun Questions - 10, 20, 30,40 ,50 ,60

10. What’s the hardest thing for you to write?

very canon intensive things & smnut. once upon a time I thought I could write fairly well in regards to the latter, but I just stopped and then lost all skill lmao. as for canon things... i’ve always had this thing about being a stickler with knowing every single detail of the original lore. if it’s my own creation then pft– easy peasy. but it’s based on someone else’s imagination then um.. i’m a ball of anxiety.

20. How much time do you spend roleplaying on average a week?

oh boy.. a good amount I feel like since I take some time out to rp during work. but I don’t really write on the weekends anymore so it’s not an exhaustive amount.

30. What do you like about roleplaying fluff?

it’s nice, easy, and i’m simply a sucker for soft romance at heart. and while angst and dumb things are equally as great, sometimes it’s a nice change of pace to write some fluff every now and then. also, there’s a sense / reveal of how a character can be when vulnerable in a safe space, etc.

40. Do you like to plot or improv?

a bit of both! though I do like to plot a little bit with new writing partners. just so I can get a basis of how their character is / how we might vibe, y’know? after we’re pals of some sort, it’s a roundtrip to random town.

50. What’s something you like about FCs/Play-Bys?

helps give structure to specific muses / ideas for me. that’s.. about it though.

60. Who’s a roleplayer (or writer) you think you have learned a lot from?

Eh heh heh heh hehhhhhh IT’S MY TIME TO SHINE BOIS. THE FOLLOWING FOLKS HAVE MADE THE BIGGEST IMPACT ON MY WRITING, IDEAS, ETC.

@amelorates from the get go. longest mutual ( i think ) that i’ve been frequently(ish) writing with for... x amount of years. first person i made private muses for, responsible for a good chunk of my muses over the years ( all across x amount of blogs ), and highly influential with the way my writing’s changed overtime. also? definitely helped me overcome that weird fear of writing canon characters, and is a genuinely great friend.

@riastracl you’re next, bud. talk about a lore king. always insightful with potential dumb ideas, helped my dumb of ass with forming muses especially with the sea goons. also very influenced by the way he writes ( like hello???? all of that prose?? how can I Not? ). also a seriously great friend to have over the year(s) ( i lost track of time oops ).

@moonwoken where do i even start. the easiest would be how amazing your writing is. simply put, it’s always been jaw dropping. i vividly remember how inspired i was to follow along when we first started writing – not to mention how nice of a challenge it proved to be! also? the overall kindness you show to others is aspiring, and i’m truly grateful to have gotten to write with you thus far!

@huntershowl `taps mic` HELLO? IS THIS THING ON?? IT’S A CRIME TO NOT MENTION RAINE. the sheer thought and time put into hellhound actually inspired me to give dnd a try. i was also given the incentive to actually y’know draw my own dang muses, because before that i just.. never thought to do that??? but also, also i can say for a fact that you’ve brought so much additional life to some muses that i honestly wouldn’t have been able to do without that wonderful brain of yours ( like specifically litho and oryn ).

@conorbyrne hi, yes, hello i have always greatly admired your skill in writing from both afar and up close ( whenever i didn’t fall off the face of the earth oops ). also? those hc posts always blow me away, because wow the D E P T H is astounding.

@gothamicarus another pause because you are the sole reason joel and so many others have grown so much – hands down. not to mention, your writing has always been so beautifully constructed. also, i actually gained some interest in dc simply because your characterization of jason makes it impossible not to be.

@womanlives and HELLO YOU. i know we haven’t been mutuals for a horribly long time, but i just had to say how a) your writing and muses are striking and b) you are a mastermind when it comes to plots. like?? the ideas never stop and it’s never not interesting!

@godbanes i’m going to be 2000% honest here. i seriously didn’t know a whole lot about greek mythology until i started following / interacting with you. like the amount of knowledge you have blows me away – like at least 2 planets worth. and while it’s still a lil’ intimidating, i’m extremely happy to be able to interact with you and your muses!

@gentledeaths never have i ever come across a writer that has created so much inspiration and awe in me. like your portrayal of thanatos genuinely had me deep dive into hades and gather the courage to extent the few demigod muses i have with existing mythology. not to mention that your writing is simply flawless!

#* & answered .#* & ooc .#// ilu ALL #// and there are def others that i've learned from but the post was getting Long

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sassycassie-s-writing · 5 years

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He’ll Never Satisfy You

By: SassyShoulderAngel319

Fandom/Character(s): DC, BatFam - Jason Todd/Red Hood feat. Roy Harper/Arsenal

Rating: PG/K+

Original Idea: Soulmate!AUs are awesome, y’all

Notes: (Masterlist)(By Character)(About Me) ANOTHER Soulmate!AU? You betcha! I actually wrote this one BEFORE the Dating Drama saga (so another slightly older one) but it’s a similar premise. @welovegroot @batboys-and-other-messes

^^^^^

“This was a great date,” Jack said, holding my hand as he walked me back to my apartment.

“Yeah,” I agreed. “Thank you for dinner. It was delicious.”

“Well, only the best for my girlfriend,” he replied, planting a kiss on my temple. I chuckled, tugging my jacket sleeve more securely over my left wrist, where the words, “Are you alright, miss?” were burned black into my skin. Jack had never seen the words since I kept them covered. He didn’t have any. Many people didn’t. It was a fairly even split between people who had one perfect soulmate and those who were compatible with many people. Jack didn’t know I had a soulmate.

The words being burned black, rather than the red they used to be, meant that my soulmate was dead. Meaning my perfect match was gone, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t still find happiness.

A pebble clattered to the pavement ahead of us, falling from above. I glanced up. Jack did too, in sync.

A shadow disappeared on a rooftop above. I looked down at Jack. “Batman?” I suggested, not totally believing my words. I could have sworn the shadow had a red tint to the head.

For a moment I worried that Jack was somehow a member of a crime ring and the Red Hood was coming to take him down.

Then I remembered that Jack was the most straight-laced goof I’d ever met. That was probably impossible.

“Probably. We should get you home before it gets any later.”

We reached my apartment, shared a kiss and a goodnight, and I went inside.

I stripped my jacket off and threw it on the couch, already grabbing the hem of my shirt to take it off.

“You didn’t tell him that you’ve already loved and lost your soulmate before you were even sixteen,” a voice said from the shadows.

I shrieked and yanked the collapsible police baton I kept on me at all times out of my pocket.

The kitchen light flicked on.

Red Hood was leaned against my counter, arms folded, one hand returning from the light switch to complete the position. “Relax, princess. I'm not here to hurt you,” he said. I didn’t relax. Something about the way he called me princess made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

“How would you know whether I’ve already loved and lost my soulmate?” I demanded.

He waved a gloved hand dismissively. “I have my ways,” he replied nonchalantly. “But you didn’t tell your adorably tiny boyfriend that you had a soulmate. What’s up with that?”

“How do you know I haven’t told him?”

“Lucky guess. So how come?”

“I’ll tell him eventually. My soulmate died when I was fifteen. I don’t need his pity. I don’t need him to break up with me because he thinks he can’t be compatible with me.”

Red Hood snorted. “S’pose that’s a good enough reason. Do you love him?”

“Why do you care?” I snapped. “None of this is your business.”

“I guess not. But do you?”

“Yes. Jack is a good man who treats me well.”

“Hmm,” Red Hood grunted.

There was a beat of silence between us.

“I care because I still care about you and want you to be happy,” he added.

“You don’t even know me,” I snapped, but I finally lowered my baton, believing he wasn’t going to try and hurt me.

“That, princess, is where you’re wrong,” Red Hood said. He pressed a button under the jaw of his helmet. It let out a pssshhh! Something released on the back that allowed him to take it off. He pulled it off his head and held it under his arm before looking back up at me.

I gasped and took a step back, hitting the front door. “Robin?” I demanded.

The young man chuckled. “I'm kinda surprised you recognize me after, what, six years?” he remarked. “And it’s been a long time since someone called me that.”

“Well I never knew your real name,” I said.

He tugged the glove on his left hand off and bared his wrist to me. “Uh… I think so. Thank you.” The first words I’d said after he and Batman rescued me from one of the Riddler’s traps.

“Are you alright, miss?” Robin asked, holding a hand out for me as Batman cuffed the Riddler.

“Uh… I think so. Thank you,” I replied, taking his hand and helping me up.

The red words on our skin burned just enough to be noticeable. We both looked down, then back up at each other. “It’s you?” Robin wondered.

“I guess so,” I answered with a smile.

We were thirteen. That Robin died when we were fifteen.

And was now, somehow, standing in my kitchen.

He chuckled, as the Red Hood. “Yeah I was a little worried about putting you in danger,” he remarked. “So I never told you my name.”

“Mm,” I said.

“But I'm back now.”

“And you want to try us again?” I asked. “Newsflash: you’re not my soulmate anymore. You lose something when you die. Whatever you lost made our souls not perfect matches anymore. You’re free of me. Get out.”

Red Hood snorted again. “No I'm not here to get together with you, much as I want to. I'm here to make sure you’re okay. You’re happy. Would I love to try and make you and I work? Absolutely. But I'm not going to. If you’re happy with Jack, by all means, stay with Jack.”

“But?” I challenged.

“No buts. My life is a hard one. And you’re right. We’re not soulmates anymore. I lost a lot of humanity when I died. I couldn’t burden you with that. We may not be soulmates anymore but I still care about you. And I want you to be happy.”

“Robin. I mean. Red Hood,” I said. “I'm not a thirteen-year-old anymore. I can hear the but in your tone.”

“Oh fine then, princess. But we both know Jack will never satisfy you. Because you know he’s not your perfect match. And once he knows you had one and lost one, he’ll know too that he can never complete your socks.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“People are like socks,” Red Hood said. “Your soulmate is the other part of the matching pair. You can be with any other sock, but the matching pair is the one that’s just right for you. Darling, you’re a tall black dress sock and Jack is a white ankle athletic sock. You just don’t go together. He’ll never be enough for you and you know it. But you’re happy with him so by all means, stay together.”

“Hood…”

“Just… forget I said anything, princess. I just wanted to make sure that you were okay. And it looks like you are. So I'm gonna leave you now. Have fun with Jack. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do—and definitely don’t do anything I would do—”

“Is that a Spider-Man reference?” I asked.

“—and take care of yourself, okay?” Red Hood finished, ignoring me. He shoved his helmet back on his head, crossed to my window, opened it up, and leapt out.

I ran to the window. “Hood! Wait!” I shouted.

Too late. He was already gone.

I sighed and shut the window. “Never mind, then, I guess,” I muttered.

^^^^^

“So, how’d it go?” Roy asked.

Jason popped his helmet off. “Better than I expected,” he admitted.

“Did she plead for you to stay with her? To take her back?” Roy teased.

“If she did, I didn’t hear her,” Jason said blandly.

“Liar. I heard her call for you.”

“You little—”

“Jaybird. Come on. Soul Bond broken or not, you still feel deeply for her. Go back to her. Win her heart over. Who knows? You might replenish what you lost when you died and your words will turn red again. There’s only so much our world knows about soulmates.”

Jason heaved a sigh. “I’ll think about it, Harper.”

#He'll Never Satisfy You #Jason Todd #jason todd fanfiction #jason todd imagine #Red Hood #red hood fanfiction #red hood imagine #dc #dc fanfiction #dc imagine #BatFam #batfam imagine #batfam fanfiction #featuring #Roy Harper #Arsenal

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madcapmoon · 7 years

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Interview with Guy Picciotto

After beating the shit out of your guitars for over 15 years (or more?), do you still get that same kick each time you go on stage and plug it in?

I've been playing shows for about 17 years I guess and performing still has the power to completely re-order my mind. It is a little different now because I have a lot more experience so i have a sense of the possibilities (both positive and negative) of what could go down. When i first started playing it was almost impossible to contain all the adrenaline and i just felt almost too jacked up all the time - it was literally really hard for me to even execute the songs. Now, I still get really heavy doses of energy but i feel more in control, that's the main difference.

How did the lawsuit with that truckowner turn out? He sued you even though it wasn't your fault, right?

The lawsuit was for $300,000 which the van owner didn't get - he had to settle for $3,000 and my insurance was able to cover that. I still have no idea what happened with my car that day - one minute I was parked at the side of the road - the next the car was speeding down the street at full throttle and I smashed into a van, completely crippling it. It was definitely not the fault of the van guy - either I went temporarily insane or else the car had a cruise control malfunction. My car was so totally destroyed there was no way to do any kind of analysis on it. It was an awful moment in my life - completely fucking terrifying.

Please, tell us more about each member!

Alright:

Joe runs a record label called Tolotta Records which releases incredible records by the band Spirit Caravan.

Brendan is recording an album with Lois for the Kill Rock Stars label as well as composing music for television documentaries.

Ian works full time managing the band and booking its tours as well as running the Dischord label - he recently did some production work with a new band called "Q and not U".

I have a side label called Peterbilt which just released a split-CD with Dischord of one of mine and Brendan's old bands called One Last Wish...I also just produced records by Quix-o-tic and DeepLust.

How are you gonna break down the barriers between band and audience?

I actually think there is a natural line between the band and its audience- i mean you literally have someone dispensing the music and others receiving it and i'm into that. Things get weird when that line gets exaggerated and becomes a barrier in the sense that one side is privileged against the other. For us a good show depends on fluid interaction/communication between the two. I think there are a lot of ways to foster that vibe from low door prices (so there is no sense of the evening being solely a dispensing of "entertainment" and spectacle) - minimizing the presence of security -etc.

Why are you so much against merchandise? (Don´t tell me about the baker...)

Basically, we feel we exist to make music not to generate logos, t-shirt designs, coffee mugs etc. As a matter of convenience we haven't had to deal with carrying that shit around both literally and mentally - its like a weight off our backs. What other bands do is their own business but for us avoiding merchandise has greatly increased our sense of freedom.

Why don´t you play festivals? Is it the festivals you´re against or just against to play them?

Mainly because we are control freaks - we like to monitor all aspects of our shows from the entry price to the security and the sheer size of festivals just makes that much more difficult. Plus - there is a lack of focus at festivals - there is just such an overload of music that it everything just ends up feeling a bit diluted after awhile. Its like an all-you-can-eat cafeteria - after a while all you can taste is the salt.

How do you think your records have developed/changed through the years?

That is more a question for the people who listen to the records to decide. We rarely ever listen to our albums so it would be hard for us to judge the development. From the perspective of working on them I would say that they have become more and more fun to do as we got more comfortable with the tools of recording. The studio is a lot less alienating for us than it once was.

Who does all the artwork for Fugazi?

All four of us get involved with the artwork and along the way we usually collaborate with one or two other graphics designers to help us flesh out the ideas. On the first records up through "Steady Diet" we collaborated with a guy named Kurt Sayenga. For the last 4 we've collaborated with Jem Cohen, the same guy who directed our film "Instrument". On the technical end we've gotten a lot of help from Jason Farrell (who also plays in the band Bluetip).

How much money do you earn? (As a member of Fugazi)Can you live on the music though you´re underground in USA?

The amount of money we make fluctuates every year depending on how much we tour and how many records we sell. For the first 5 years of the band most of us had to work part time jobs on the side. Now, we can mostly make a living from the band though since Brendan has a family with 2 children I think it is a lot more difficult for him and he has had to do a lot more work on the side like soundtrack and production jobs.

I read somewhere that you thought it was a failing if people didn´t understand what you had meant with the lyrics to your songs. Please explain

My hope is not that everyone will understand 100% exactly what i meant when I wrote each lyric but that they will at least provoke some interest, that they will engage the listener on some level - even if it just sounds good to their ear. That is my hope but i don't consider it a failure if not everyone gets something from the lyrics - that's kind of an ambitious hope so i just do my best.

The Fugazi documentary is now complete. Are you happy with how it turned out? Can you tell us anything about it that you can´t see on the screen?

We worked on it for so long that once it was done it was initially a bit hard for me to watch but now i can be more objective about it. I do think the film offers a lot of different angles on the band - it’s not the complete story but it is a lot of good chapters. The only insider information i can think of off the top of my head is that we used one fake sound effect in the film - it’s the sound of a submarine diving ( that eerie drowned beeping) that we put under one of the studio shots.

Which movies and filmmakers do you admire?

Here's a few:

John Cassavetes - "Faces", "Husbands"

Robert Bresson - "L'Argent", "Au Hasard, Balthazar"

Jean Luc Godard - "Weekend",

Pontecorvo - "the Battle of Algiers"

Todd Haynes - "Safe"

Lars Von Trier - "the Idiots"

You used to tour 6 months a year... Have you missed being on the road, or are you happy to take a break from the touring?

Part of me misses it quite a bit because it was so relentless and demanding that really appealed to the part of me that likes that kind of challenge... getting to travel to so many places was always awesome plus playing live itself is just such a blast. But we did that kind of 6 month pace for a lot of years so its is kind of nice to try and find a different kind of rhythm now. we are still fine tuning what our approach will be with touring now that Brendan has a family. We'll see how it pans out.

Are there many people still involved in the DC-scene there were involved in the eighties? I mean if there are many people still around or if they had disappeared?

DC does have a strong gravitational pull but there's no hard rule about it some people are still about, others have disappeared, some disappeared and then came back, some disappeared, then reappeared then disappeared again - its like anywhere else i guess.

How long do you think Fugazi will be around?

I have no idea - as long as the four of us are into it we will continue to play - as soon as it starts to feel like a dead end, we will hang it up with no regrets.

As the question above says, Fugazi´s first show was in september ´87. But you got involved in ´88. Right? How was it? Can you describe it? How to turn from the roadie to a member in the band you loved? How was your feelings back then?

Fugazi only played one show in which i wasn't involved at least in some minor capacity and that was the first one. By the second show i was already kind of worming my way in on back up vocals and the position just grew from there. In one sense it kind of felt inevitable that i would join the band because brendan and i had been playing together for so long (before Fugazi, we had been in Insurrection, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish and Happy go Licky so we had a really strong bond). At the time though I wasn't really sure what i wanted to do and it took me a while to really commit myself to the group. The early Fugazi thing was very loose – a lot of people came on stage and played with the band- people would play trumpet or percussion or dance on stage or play organ or whatever so my being on stage felt like part of that openness. it wasn't until the band started to tour that we kind of formalized my position and I started to feel like an actual member. In retrospect, I'm really incredibly glad things worked out the way they did.

Rites of Spring has often been described as emocore-starters and so on...How do you look at that time now? What is emo?

I have nothing but incredible memories of that band - my only regret is that we were way too volatile to ever get any touring done. we really only played like 14 shows and all but 2 were in DC. Still, the kind of intuitive communication we had as a band was really intense and the shows were always killer. A definite high point in my life. As far as "emo" goes - I have no real comment because I have no fucking idea what it is supposed to refer to. Rites of Spring had nothing whatsoever to do with any genre designation particularly one as amorphous, bogus and tacked on as "emocore".

What is "the Positive Force"?

Positive Force is a organization of young people in DC involved in radical protest and political organizing. They have collaborated with us a lot over the years, particularly in setting up benefit concerts and protest rallies.

Which Fugazi-album is your favourite? And why?

Like i said earlier i never really listen to our albums. That said i have a soft spot for "Red Medicine" - it felt like we had found a new way to attack the studio. but actually sonically speaking, the one i enjoy most hearing is the "Instrument” soundtrack because it is the most spontaneous and loose of them all.

What is "The Black Light Panthers"?

The first time Brendan and i hung out in 1982 we formed BLP. Over the years the 2 of us have performed under that name at parties or small concerts. Last year we put out a 12" with the first boombox tape we ever made in his bedroom on one side and a more modern piece from 1997 on the other.

I´ve heard you did a recording with Steve Albini or Bob Weston but were disappointed and re-recorded it... It is true? And when was that? Can you tell us about it?

Right before we recorded what became "In On the Killtaker" we did take a trip to Chicago and recorded with Steve Albini at his old house. It was not intended to be an album - we just wanted to demo our songs and we also really wanted to get a chance to work with Steve. He was awesome - he is an incredible engineer and a fucking amazing guy. Our only disappointment with the tape had more to do with our performance on it than on the sound quality of the tape. More than anything the session was the beginning of a long, sustained friendship between us and Steve and by extension his band Shellac who we have often had the pleasure of sharing the stage with. Plus we got to school him in dice.

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Live: Jensen Huang Keynotes NVIDIA’s 2018 GPU Technology Conference

9:37 – Jensen says there are 400 games made every year, it’s one of the largest industries in the world. They use ray tracing to render entire game in advance. As a result you get wonderful shadows and details and whole world comes to life. The film industry uses this in 500 movies each year – every frame is rendered multiple times. Imagine if one CPU takes hours for a frame just how long this would take. Additionally there are 12M designers and 150,000 architects, many of whom aren’t making square buildings but round ones.

Now there are 1 billion images rendered every year, and that could go up 10x as more real-time rendering is reduced by Quadro to one-fifth the cost, one-seventh the space, one-17th the power

Virtually everyone is adopting RTX Technology – he presents a slide with three dozen key partners, gaming, design, film, architecture. This technology is the single most important advance in computer graphics in 15 years.

9:32 – Quadro GV100 is the world’s first workstation GPU based on Volta architecture. It also has a new interconnect called NVLink 2 that extends the programming and memory model out of our GPU to a second one. They essentially function as one GPU. These two combined have 10,000 CUDA cores, 236 teraflops of Tensor Cores, all used to revolutionize modern computer graphics, with 64GB of memory

9:30 – Steve Parker, an NVIDIA ray-tracing expert, talks through how ray tracing is able to show light striking a surface, bouncing off the surfacing, and then striking additional surfaces. Recreating this follows billions of rays.

Doing so, Jensen says, takes supercomputers than can calculate these rays. The more reflections, the more refractions, the harder it is. Everything that’s being seen visually is in real time.

This complete demo is running on just one DGX Station – not a supercomputer running one frame in hours, but one DGX-Station that costs $68K, with four Voltas, doing this in real time.

So, Jensen announced NVIDIA RTX technology that runs on a Quadro GV100 processor. It’s a big deal, he says, because for now we can bring real-time ray tracing to the market. The technology has been encapsulated into multiple layers. You’re also seeing deep learning in action, without that we couldn’t trace all the rays. It predicts rays.

9:24 – Then, Jensen shows a scene that looks like it was from the Last Jedi with chatting storm troopers, but Jensen said it was actually rendered in real time with ray tracing.

9:21 – Jensen moves right into fourth gear. He’s talking about graphics being the driving force of GPUs.

Computer scientists have been recreating photo-realistic images for decades, he notes. Ray tracing follows every photon as it bounces through a scene, based on the materials that it strikes. This is how the film industry does it, it requires thousands of CPUs. One CPU would take hours to compute one frame and there’s hundreds of thousands of frames in movie. For four decades we’ve been trying to close the gap to create a full movie.

He says we use all kinds of different tricks to improve visuals – like ambient occlusion, light baking – so long as things don’t move very much, the light conditions are well produced. Global illumination – where light moves from ever possible source and bounces accurately — helps bring a scene to life with extra-sharp detail.

But ray tracing is the most beautiful way of doing it. This is tough, especially with curved transparent surfaces like a drinking cup (regardless of what you’re drinking).

Some objects absorb light and then release some, things like jade or gummy bears, or car paint, or our skin – light goes through, picks up shades and then re-emits.

9:14 – And with that, Jensen takes the stage. He breaks out a new leather jacket ever year and he looks in this new one a bit like a superhero.

GTC is the GPU developers conference, which we do for all of you, whose work is impossible without a supercharged computer, he says.

We’re going to talk about amazing graphics, amazing science, amazing AI and amazing robots. So let’s get going, he says.

9:11 – And now an updated version of our I AM AI video swells up on the screen.

It depicts how AI can support humans in a broad field of endeavors, with a voice over that professes to be AI. And it comes with a sound track itself that’s composed by AI and played by a true-life orchestra.

“I am a protector,” says the narrator. And there’s a scene of sweeping work by the NASA FDL/Seti Institute’s project to better predict comets that might have Earth’s number. Also, some amazing work by Wildbook, which is able to identify individual members of a species that might otherwise look the same – like the zebras here. It has lots of use for tracking and helping to sustain the diversity of species.

“I am a healer,” is next. It shows how Image biopsy uses deep learning to quickly analyze the shape of the knee, with some snazzy color-coded keys for measurements.

“I am a guardian,” and then “I am a helper” which has some cool scenes. There’s an IAmRobotics autonomously navigating through warehouses, identifying objects and plucking them off shelves – at a rate of 200 picks an hour. That’s faster than a water pick. And back on the keyboard is jazz pianist Jason Barnes, who lost an arm in a work accident, is shown using Georgia Tech’s prosthetic tech that detects individual finger movement. And there’s a full autonomous selfie Skydio drone with 13 onboard cameras tracking a jogger.

It’s all brought to us, the video says, by NVIDIA and brilliant minds everywhere.

9:08 – A list of sponsors, topped by IBM and Facebook, comes up. The soundtrack pumps up. You could just about bop your head to it. The NVIDIA logo comes up again, and then the sponsors, following by the ever-connecting synapses of the visualized neural network.

9:05 – Okay, the music is beginning to shift. The blasphemously named Voice of God comes up and tells everyone in the nicest possible way to sit up and behave. The event is about to begin.

9:01 – NVIDIA starts planning for GTC virtually before the previous one wraps up. It’s an all-on challenge that Jensen leads. A ton of the work falls on the Creative department who have created a mini-Netflix full of videos for the show. The first one, the opening one, is always a highlight of the show and helps set the tone for the next couple hours. I can tell you in full confidence that this year’s is terrific.

8:56 – The stage itself is pretty cool. It’s broad, running about two-thirds the length of the wall, with the screen a deep, inky black. It’s flanked by large NVIDIA-green airplane-wing like triangles that are interconnected. Triangles, of course, are the building block of computer graphics and, by the time, they’re the theme of our iconic new headquarters building in Santa Clara, comprised of two five-acre-sized triangular floorplates, covered with an undulating roof of interlocking triangles, with the occasional triangular skylight peeking through.

8:55 – More time than you’d think goes into picking out the walk-in track for GTC, which is reliably warm, soulful and upbeat.

Among the tunes we’re hearing, there’s “Crazy,” by the Lost Frequencies and “Glorious,” by Macklemore. Also we’ll wrap up with a couple tracks from The Greatest Showman soundtrack — “This is Me” and the eponymous “The Greatest Showman.”

There are some fabulous graphics coming up against the deep black screen. They’re green synapses, like those in the brain, that connect to other points of light. They suggest the workings of a neural network, which underpins how deep learning works, with connections being made that might otherwise not be apparent, ultimately sorting out data in an image that enables the network to recognize an apple from an appliance, a banana from a bandana, a carrot from a carob. Well, you get the point.

8:50 – Folks are beginning to come into the hall at the Convention Center. There’s a rub. It seats 4,000 or so, but there are twice as many attendees. Good thing there are spillover rooms. The biggest fans among GTC attendees got in line early. First guy showed up at 6:45. By 8:30, there was a line that ran the full length of the center and ultimately out the door, onto the sidewalk.

You may have a more comfortable seat watching the webcast, which will have tens of thousands tuning in.

8:40 – Well, we’re back at GTC, 10 months after last year’s. But, yikes, a lot’s changed, with huge progress in AI, which is changing just about every service that’s delivered. The way just about any company with data operates.

The first one of these was held down the street here in San Jose at the Fairmont Hotel, where we had about 800 attendees. This year there are 8,500. That’ growth of about 30 percent a year each year. And that’s just in Silicon Valley, our seven GTCs around the world last year drew in a total of 22,000 – from Beijing and Tokyo to Tel Aviv and Washington, DC.

Monday 11 am – Less than 24 hours until NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote at our ninth annual GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, and the action’s already begun.

The crowd more more than 8,000 surging into the McEnery Convention Center — which includes researchers, press, technologists, analysts and partners from all over the globe — is our largest yet.

The 600+ talks on the docket may be the best testament to the spread of GPUs into every aspect of human endeavor.

Attendees are already crowding into conference rooms to hear about how GPUs can be used to model the formation of galaxies, generate dazzling special effects for blockbuster movies, and even analyze scans of the human heart.

Their mood: happy. At least, that’s what the Emotions Demo, set up on the convention’s main concourse, tells us. The demo uses deep learning to instantly read the facial expressions of people nearby in real time – whether they’re happy, neutral, afraid, or disgusted.

Also on the show floor: a pop up store selling NVIDIA Gear. The best sellers? The NVIDIA “I Am AI” t-shirt, and our much sought after NVIDIA Ruler, according the store’s staff.

We’ll be buttonholing speakers from a broad cross-section of these talks and interviewing them for AI Podcast, where we’re recording in a sleek glass booth positioned on the show floor.

If all this makes your heartbeat a little faster, check back for live updates from our keynote Tuesday. And keep an eye on our blog throughout the week for the latest news from the show.

And if you’re feeling nostalgic, check out last year’s live GTC keynote blog.

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