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ccss10987 · 1 year
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Heist Gone Wrong
AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43881277
Characters: Logan, Patton, Remus, Roman, Virgil, and Janus.
Words: 3,060
TW: I think it's all good. Let me know if I'm wrong
Notes: This is written for @lostinmyfictionaluniverses as part of the @sanderssidesgiftxchange I hope you have a fun holiday season and you get yourself a little treat. I would like to thank the mods for putting this all together. I had such a fun time writing this. I hope everyone who reads this enjoys this funny little art heist sanders sides one-shot.
"Does everyone understand the plan?" Logan asked, setting down his wooden pointer.
The group in front of him nods.
"Remus and Patton, do either of you remember what step 4 is?" Logan asked the two with a smug look on his face
"OOH!" Remus raises his hand quickly, jumping up and down in his seat.
"Yes, Remus?" Logan sighed.
"Kill everyone in the room and use the blood to cover where the painting was!"
"Maybe… go through the plan one more time, Logan." Patton said gently.
"That's what I thought. Step 1, Roman will create a forgery of the painting. Step 2, Janus will sneak into the museum accompanied by Patton. Step 3, I will hack into the security system and put all the cameras in a loop to make sure no one sees anything. Step 4, Remus will cause a distraction while Roman sneaks the forgery inside. Step 5, Janus finds the painting while Patton keeps all the other guards from finding Janus stealing the painting. Step 7, we replace the painting with the fake one Roman created. Step 8, we get out of the museum, and Virgil will drive us away. Step 9, we return the stolen art to the original artist. Are we all clear now?"
Once again, everyone nods.
"What's the worse thing that can happen?" Janus asked with a smirk on their face.
"You said that on purpose. I have a list I can read out for you, if you want." Virgil said, glaring at them.
"Okay, okay. Let's not fight. This is going to go perfectly." Patton told Virgil while standing in between the two.
"You can't say that either!" Virgil yelled, pulling at his hair.
"I'm sorry. Knock on wood." Patton said quickly while knocking on their wooden coffee table.
"So how is the replica coming along, Roman?" Logan asked, trying to change the subject.
"It's nearly there. It just needs something." Roman told him.
"Blood! Mucus! Slime! Some other questionable substance?" Remus suggested.
Roman scrunched up his face. "Ew. You're not helping."
"I will take a look at it and help you figure it out." Logan told him. Logan and Roman left the room.
"I started working on my costume months ago and am now done." Janus said, looking at their manicured nails. "In other completely unrelated news. Patton, you have a spare security uniform, right?"
"Yeah, you can have my spare. I'll go get it." Patton told him.
"I don't need it, of course. I simply want to compare the two."
The two left, leaving Remus and Virgil alone.
"I can't imagine this going well. I'm not even sure why I decided to do this in the first place. I'm gonna cause a police chase. We're all going to go to jail and I'm going to fuck something up-"
"Nah don't worry about that. If anyone is going to fuck something up. It's gonna be me, emo, but it'll be on purpose."
"Please don't."
Remus chucked and crept out of the room. "What a prick…" Virgil mumbled under his breath.
"I am not quite sure what you think is missing. It looks fine-" Logan said, staring at the false art.
"I don't want it to look fine. It needs to be an exact replica!" Roman was pacing around his studio, mumbling about all the details he put into the painting, trying to figure out what the art was missing.
"Roman, it does not need to be perfect. It just needs to look enough like the painting so we have the time to get away before we are caught. We have recovered works of art before without anyone knowing it was gone, and I have no doubt in my mind that we can do it again." Logan told him.
"Well what if it's not good enough!? What if my forgery gets recognized too quickly? We won't be far enough away from the museum when the police start chasing us. Maybe we won't even get that far. The security guards-"
Logan cut him off once more. "If everyone follows my plan, we won't need to worry about the security guards at all. Patton and Janus will have them distracted, most likely with awful dad jokes."
Logan didn't want Roman to know that he was also worried about the heist. It was his plan, after all. If something went wrong, it was his fault. He didn't plan for it and couldn't deduce a solution. Logan could not let Roman know this because he needed all the answers. Having Roman worry more wasn't going to help in the long run.
"Well you know what's best. After all, you're the smart one." Roman stated.
"Obviously. I am going to retire to my room now. Please try and get some rest, Roman."
"Will do, Specs."
In Patton's room with Janus, Patton was hunched over in his closet, pulling things out and throwing them on the floor.
"Are you sure you have this?" Janus asked.
"Well I might have given it to a coworker of mine…" Patton trailed off.
Janus pinched the bridge of their nose. "I can make do. This might surprise you, but I don't have a disguise ready.
Patton laughed nervously, still rummaging through his closet. "Oh really? I had no idea." he said as playfully as he could.
"Why did you give away the uniform anyway?' Janus asked.
"Well he spilled some soda on himself and I always keep my spare in my bag in case someone needs it. I told him that he could borrow the shirt. He was so nice and even said he would wash it before he gave it back to me."
Janus just nodded. Patton stood up and stretched his back out. Janus sighed, hearing the crackling of Patton's back. "Take this advice from someone who has chronic pain, you need to stretch more often."
"Yeah I know. I keep saying I will, but I never do. Just like me saying I should clean my room more often, especially the closet." Patton told Janus. He said this as he shoved the pile of clothes back into his closet.
"I should get started on that uniform so I can finish it before Logan stars nagging me."
"Good luck!" Patton called out while Janus left the room. He sighed, looking at the pile of clothes in the closet before closing the door. It was too much work to do to clean that up now. It didn't seem like a problem before.
Everyone had trouble sleeping that night. They were all worried about something not going according to plan, except Remus. He was just too excited to sleep.
It was the morning of the heist. Everyone was tired. Patton was still the first one up to start making breakfast for everyone. Logan was the next one down. Patton put on a smile for him. "Did you sleep well, Logan?" he asked.
"To tell you the truth, I could have slept better."
"Aw, I'm sorry to hear that, bud."
Janus came down just as Patton finished breakfast, followed by the twins, who all looked sluggish. Virgil was the last person to come downstairs, looking just as tired as everyone else, but that was a common occurrence.
"Based on everyone's faces, I deduce I am not the only one who did not get a good quality sleep last night."
Everyone mumbled in agreement, even Patton, trying his best to hide his drowsiness.
"No matter. I want everyone to try and sleep today. We will continue as planned. The more rested we are, the more successful this mission will be."
Everyone nodded and promised they would get some sleep before the heist. They had done this several times before, so why were they all so nervous?
Janus, Logan, and Patton were the only three who had tried to sleep before the heist. All three were unsuccessful.
Patton and Janus left a few hours before the rest of them to secure Janus' cover as a security guard at the museum. Patton had been working there for a while now. That's how they found out about the stolen art in the first place.
At the front doors of the museum, Janus took a deep breath. "My name is Dee Jordan. I am 31 years old."
"Why three years younger than you are?"
"Shush. I'm babysitting my nephew Declan, and I need the extra cash, hence the night shift job." Janus finished their mumbling, and they took another deep breath. "Alright, I'm in character. Let's do this." they said with a fake voice.
"Wow. That is amazing!" Patton exclaimed. He unlocked the door using his ID, and they entered the building.
Patton led Janus into the security room, where one of his coworkers was, waiting for his shift to start.
"Hey, Patty! I bought some donuts before I came here, do you want one?" Patton's coworker, Carl, asked.
"Thank you, Carl." Patton said before taking a chocolate-covered donut with sprinkles. "This is our new coworker-"
"Dee Jordan. It's nice to meet you. I won't have this job for long. It's just supposed to be an easy payment." Janus lied.
"Well, it's pretty dull. There's like nothing to do, and the alarms are always faulty." said Carl. "Do you and Patton know each other?"
"Yes." "No." Patton and Janus said in sync, respectively. Patton was not okay with lying to his coworkers. He had known them for so long.
"What do you mean?" Carl asked.
"What he means is we met here before, but we don't actually know each other." Janus said before Patton could speak.
"We should get started with patroling the museum." said Patton quickly.
"Alright. I'll see you later, buddy." Carl said to Patton."
The two started walking away from the security room. Janus turned to Patton and told him, "Next time that someone asks us a question, please leave the talking to me. I know you don't like lying."
"But, keeping information from people is still a lie." Patton huffed.
"It's not a lie if they don't have the right to know." Janus fired back. Janus sent Logan a quick text to let Logan know they had gotten inside with no trouble.
In the van a few streets away, Logan started to tap into the museum security cameras.
"Has anything gone wrong yet?" Virgil asked.
"For the hundredth time, no." Roman told him, inspecting his painting.
"Not yet anyway." Remus said.
"Would you three please be quiet. I need my full concentration. As long as everything goes according to my plan, we will be able to get away with this." Logan snapped at them.
Everyone was quiet after that, even Remus. The only sounds in the van were Logan's fingers tapping on the keyboard and Virgil's leg bouncing.
After a few moments, Logan got into the security cameras and put all of them on a 5-second loop. He was certain no one was on the looped footage and sent Janus a text saying step 3 was complete.
"Hey Patton, friend, buddy, pal, a synonym for a friend." Janus started.
"What is it? Did something go wrong?" Patton asked, worry in his voice.
"No, but do you remember what step 3 was?"
"Oh." Patton sighed in relief. "It was the distraction. I'm at least 87% sure."
Janus laughed. "That's a specific number. Too specific to be wrong. I'll meet Roman at the meeting point."
Janus got to the meeting point, a fire escape near the gallery the stolen art was in. Remus said the distraction was loud enough to drown out the noise of the alarm, so they opened the door. The fire alarm blasted, and Janus covered their ears. Roman wasn't at the door. They peeked their head outside and looked around. Roman wasn't in sight.
"What happened over here?" someone from behind Janus asked. This wasn't supposed to happen. Everyone was supposed to be wherever Remus caused the distraction. Something went wrong.
Janus turned around. "I heard the alarm go off, so I ran toward the noise.
"Ah, you must be new. This door is always a bit fussy. It scared me on my first night shift too. I swear the slightest gust of wind can cause it to go off. I'm Maddison, by the way." she said.
"I'm Dee." Janus told her. The two shook hands and jumped when they heard a loud boom and several crashes.
"I've never heard that one before. Let's go check it out." Maddison said. She grabbed Janus by the wrist and started running towards the sound. They found a giant hole in the wall. Everyone came to check it out, including Patton, who saw Janus at the scene and became very nervous. They weren't supposed to be here. Something went wrong.
"I cannot believe someone blew up a wall. Who would go through the trouble of doing this?" Maddison mumbled to herself.
"I didn't see anything on the cameras. I should have though, right?" Carl asked himself.
"I didn't see anything either." Patton said. It felt wrong to keep information from his two closest coworkers, but he knew he had to. He couldn't believe Remus would do something this extreme. Well, yes, he would. This came as a surprise to no one.
"What do we do now?" Janus asked, dumbfounded.
"We shouldn't call the police. They only make matters worse." Carl said. He gave Maddison a slight nod, who nodded back at him. Something suspicious was happening, and it wasn't just the art heist.
"You blew up an entire wall, Remus." Roman whisper-yelled to his brother.
"No way. I did not blow up the entire wall, just most of it." Remus said as a matter of factly.
"They know someone is sneaking in now." Roman told him.
"Then you better hurry up and replace the painting then." Remus told him as he started walking back to the van.
Roman would have argued more, but he was right. They had to finish this job now. Roman ran to the meeting point to meet up with Janus. The door was open, thankfully, but Janus wasn't there. Something went wrong. He couldn't wait for them. He needed to find that stolen painting as soon as possible.
Roman raced through the gallery, trying to find the painting. He eventually found where the artwork was supposed to be. There was a sign with the thief's name and their fake title, but no artwork. He sent Logan a panicked text explaining the situation.
"That was completely irresponsible, Remus." Logan scolded him.
"Hey, it was loud enough to drown out the fire alarm and caused all the workers to check it out." Remus defended himself.
"Including Janus. Luckily they left the door open for Roman. Unfortunately, someone stole the painting before we could."
"WHAT!?" Virgil yelled. He started mumbling to himself and spiraling into a panic attack.
"I'll help Roman get out of there. You help Virgil." Remus said. He wasn't stupid. He knew when it was time to get serious. This could have serious consequences.
"Not to worry, Virgil. This is a minor set back. We have to tell our client that someone else stole their artwork, and there is nothing more that we can do."
"They'll be disappointed with us." Virgil told him through shakey breaths and tears.
"No, they won't. I'm confident we got further than they expected us to get. Now, let's work on your breathing."
"Okay." Virgil mumbled.
Remus snuck into the museum through the open fire escape. He found his brother in the gallery where the art was supposed to be. "Alright, we need to leave before we get caught. Take the painting with you. We can't let anyone know we were ever here." Remus told him.
"Right." Roman said as he got up and followed Remus through the entrance they came in through.
The two made it back to the van without being detected.
"Okay, we will be here for another moment while I reset the museum security cameras. Then, we will be on our way back home. No one will know we were there. Janus and Patton will make sure of that." Logan said while sending a text to Janus and Patton to let them know the updated plan. The text he got back was far more concerning.
"Let's go back where we were and try to find the intruder." Maddison told Janus. She grabbed them by the wrist and led them away from Patton and Carl.
Once they were out of sight, Carl let out a sigh of relief. "I'll let you in on a little secret on why I'm not too worried about this."
"What's happening?" Patton asked.
"Do you remember when I told you that someone was taking credit for someone else's artwork here?" Carl asked. Patton just nodded. "Maddison and I were going to do something about that. We took the painting down and hid it in her car. We were going to say that the art thieves held us at gunpoint and threatened to shoot us if we tried to stop them. I really hope you don't think less of us."
Patton nodded once more. "I have a confession too." Patton explained everything he and "Dee" were doing but left everyone else's name out of it to Carl.
Carl called Maddison back to the hole in the wall and told them to bring Janus with her.
"Well I guess the cat's-" Janus started. "Meow." Patton interrupted.
"Now that you two are in on the plan, we can call the police." Carl stated.
Maddison started the phone call while Carl got the story straight with Patton and Janus.
The police came a few hours later and questioned all the security guards all individually. They didn't suspect a thing.
Janus, Patton, Carl, and Maddison all went home. Patton brought the painting to the original owner, who thanked him for returning it.
On the drive back home, Patton and Janus could finally talk without the fear of being listened to. "How come you didn't have a problem lying to the police?" Janus asked.
"I am surprised at you, Janus. It's always morally correct to lie to police officers." Patton told him. Janus laughed. "Too true." he said. A moment of silence went by before Patton spoke up. "You might hate me for this, but that spare uniform was in my bag the whole time."
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z-the-zebra · 3 years
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solangelo, notes
“Psst. Hey.”
Will turns around, confused and slightly annoyed, although he doesn’t know for sure if that’s because of the math homework he’s trying to complete during class or the goth kid behind him trying to catch his attention by throwing balled-up wads of paper at his head.
“Hey Blondie, do you think you could give me your history notes to copy off of? I’ll change the wording around and everything, I swear.”
Will raises his eyebrow at him.
“Look, I’ll owe you one. I’ll do anything, promise.”
“Never,” Will picks up the notebook from desk, brushing off the eraser and sharpener shavings, “Call me Blondie again.”
Goth Kid, for what it’s worth, has the nerve to grin at him.
“Sure, I’ll just call you next time.”
Will firmly denies blushing, nor choking on nothing but air. Goth Kid leans forward anyway, grinning that stupidly cute grin all the while.
“I’m just messing with you,” he says, as if he didn’t make Will have a gay existential crisis within three seconds. He squints at the name scrawled on the notebook, before reaching out to grab it. “Nice to meet you, William. Thanks for the notes.”
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VIOLET THE NEW CHAPTER AAAAAAAA I was so nervous at the beginning but now I'm so happy for them and how dare you make me feel so many emotions in one chapter
i simply must!!!
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wisdom-walks-alone · 3 years
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collab time collab time!
I had a blast working on this collab with my babes @shelbsart and @houser-of-stories! I did the damian sketch, the lines for shelby's babs, and the coloring for lucy's steph! click to see the parts I did up close and be sure to check out lu and shelby's posts too!
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batgirls-zine · 3 years
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cats, dogs, or geckos?
oh cats all the way -shelby
i'm a big fan of cats atm, but geckos get an honorable mention - mel
geckos because they remind me of axolotls for some reason - ellie
Cats definitely - pepper
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gingerly-writing · 4 years
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heya I hope you're having a great day!
thank you, I actually am! I finished my necessary academic work by 3pm, went to an exercise class, and got a headstart on my next essay 💖. then I had a great dinner (fish and spicy chips) and now I’m going to write some prompts and make an attempt to clear out my inbox (which....I haven’t cleaned out since the start of the pandemic so wish me luck lmao)
ty for the cuteness!
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podcastbigbang · 3 years
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I have gained acces to both my fingers this is interesting but LU NUMBER 7? I think? your thoughts on the strid please an thank you it is my country’s people swallowing river and my friend thinks it’s a hoax da she’s a wombat,
For reference: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bolton-strid
god i’m so terrified by the strid, you’ll never catch me on your island again since i’ve heard of it. i am so entranced by water -shelby
i would like to drink the strid. gently stick my hands in and get a handful of water and sip on it. tastes of death. amazing -cai
The strid haunts my goddamn nightmares. I hate the fact that I live on the same planet as it. If I had one wish it would be to wish the strid out of existence. The strid laughs in the face of humanity and reminds us that the world was not designed for humanity, we just live here. -Ren 
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What's your favourite part of LDAD?
probably the found family dynamics? like, the idea that lo/ro/vee were all kind of drifting without a family and pat and thomas both looked at them like dad instinct ACTIVATE must PROTECC like, i like to imagine they bond over that 
send me asks about established wips/aus or secret aus 
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inkjackets · 3 years
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Friday for the time asks!
friday: most self-indulgent fic you have ever posted?
i’ve already answered this here, but imma use this as an excuse to talk about another super indulgent fic :p so as you might know i am an absolute sucker for angst and that’s why i love Rain so much. like i just got into this Angst Zone when writing it, and simply did what i wanted and only wrote what i wanted to see, and i’m super proud cause it came out EXACTLY like i imagined.  ...it’s also probably the fic i go back and reread the most haha
thanks for the ask!! :D
fanfic questions themed around time
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shelbychild · 4 years
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‘*british accent* oh fuck, i can’t believe you’ve done this’ <3
adsflj love you lu
that’s a short story i was trying to write and i rewrote, like, six times - this being the first of those rewrites, a phenomena i was incredibly annoyed with myself for
a chunk:
Small time jumps is still all Ina can do, but she can control them, now, which is something.
Fixing the shattered glass of a shop window. Reversing the scratch on her sister’s face. Changing the location of the salt shaker so that one of her siblings has to keep scrambling for it, giving the rest of the table a reason to laugh.
Their crew shifts often; a girl will get a job that actually pays well enough for actual housing; someone will go back to their family; someone gets caught up in their own shit and gets arrested. (Ina can always tell when the latter happens; Dig’s lips will twist, the new dragon tattoo on her arm wriggling in irritation, tail flicking along her neck.)
Her girlfriend, with the pretty pink hair and eyes like an owl, tells them every time she’s found more. More magic, more runaways, more trapped girls - Ina doesn’t know how she knows, has never asked, but she finds them, and Dig gets her girls to get them out.
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fangirltothefullest · 5 years
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The cosplay is going to be awesome! How are you making it?
Got the fabric and accouterments! I hope I have enough fabric... basically I just made the pattern I’m gonna use to make a me shaped dress form so I’ll have something to make a mock up out of! then I’mm MAKE ME A PRINCE TOP
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mjmnorwood · 4 years
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Djarn’s character maker is possibly the picrew with the widest range of options I have yet come across, and I had a blast making the main characters from The Perception of a Poison!
Top row - Syra and Ramat
Bottom row - Caenan and Master Osmond (side note: this is the first time I’ve been able to make a version of Master Osmond that I am happy with. It is honestly so hard to find picrews for characters older than their twenties, but look, he has wrinkles! Also, the gills option even works as plague scars, which is not something I thought I’d ever find!)
Gonna add the TPoaP taglist, just let me know if you want to be added/removed.
@sybil-writes, @dczwrites, @permissiontobreathe, @ladywithalamp, @tea-em0, @thewalkingnerdx, @winnieleighwrites, @lostinmyfictionaluniverses, @mudtomagic, @adaparkwrites, @by-the-way-its-may, @dreamlande, @akindofmagictoo, @stardustandsun, @ryns-ramblings, @jennawritesstories
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z-the-zebra · 3 years
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Logicality, shoot (but make it as angsty as possible, I know you’ve got it in you z)
“Listen to me. It wasn’t my fault. Whatever happened to Patton—”
“Don’t you fucking dare say his name,” Logan’s outstretched hand trembles as fresh, unwelcome tears slip down his cheeks at the mention of his deceased husband, and he steadies the gun pointed at Virgil’s head before loading it. “You killed him, Virgil. He loved you like a son and you killed him.”
“Logan, this is not what he would want. Please, don’t shoot.” Virgil swallows, before continuing. “Put the gun down, Logan.”
Logan lowers his hands a little, vision still blurry from the tears. “I’m sorry, Virge,” he whispers hoarsely, before pulling the trigger.
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isanyonetoknow · 4 years
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To Win A Prince - reintroduction
So?
So what?
So why are you doing all of this? Traveling around the continent, doing ridiculous tasks... there’s always a motive for these things. 
Well maybe I don’t have one. 
I find that hard to believe. You had a nice life. No one leaves something like that without a reason. 
No one just... just gives everything up for nothing. 
... There is a reason. Some call it a bad one. 
And it is?
Love. I guess. 
Genre: (high) fantasy | POV: third person limited | Status: First Draft | WC: ~120k (projected but who really knows)
Triggers/Content Warnings: implied/reference violence, mild swearing. (excerpts with triggers will be tagged and this list will be updated if anything else comes up)
Summary: 
After receiving three ridiculous tasks from the king, ex-Knight Aurelius Lijne embarks out on a journey to accomplish them so that they can finally marry their best friend, the crown prince, in peace.
Along the way, they’re saddled with people from all forms of life--from the bard who’s only here for his finals to the elf who might be a spy but is definitely a convict and fugitive to the Fae who’s spent more years among cowboys than their own kind.
Then again, what did Aurelius expect, when one of their tasks involved stealing the Dark Lord’s shoes of all things? 
Current tag list (ask/dm/comment to be added/removed): 
@bigger-than-goofiest-fish​ @woodhouse-jay​ @lexwritesgayshit​ @andiwriteunderthemoon​ @lostinmyfictionaluniverses​ @anomaly00​ @bookofsummer​ @theworst-pirate​
[Posted 24 March 2020] [Updated 12 May 2020]
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wisdom-walks-alone · 4 years
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Stan! Jay! Hours! Is! All! Hours! !!!!
🥺🥺🥺 luuuuuu I love you guys!!!!!
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batgirls-zine · 3 years
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each of you, for each batgirl, get stuck in a lift for ten hours, get locked in an ice cream van without any ice cream for four, play monopoly
im not sure what this question is asking, but i'd lose monopoly to any of them. im terrible at monopoly -shelby
lucy this is beautifully incomprehensible. but i'd rather play monopoly and lose horribly than get stuck in a lift or an ice cream van any day - mel
play monopoly, definitely!! i always lose but i like collecting the property cards for the color arrangements i can make - ellie
Hmmm. I think I’d like to get stuck in an ice cream van with Steph, because I’m sure she could Hotwire it, and we could joyride. I would get stuck in an elevator with Cass, because we could play all kinds of games (and she strikes me as the kind of person to keep an infinite number of fruit snacks on her at all times). And play monopoly with Babs because, sure, I would loose. But I could learn valuable lessons in how to crush my enemies in the future! - pepper
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