did nobody ask you for red letter day? absurd! *I* wanna know about red letter day!
hello captain and friend anon!!! I KNOW I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS IN SIX MILLION YEARS SO THANK YOU FOR THESE ASKS <333
okay SO the first thing is, you have to understand, my list of documents for this fic looks like this:
anyway i do love this fic even though it FIGHTS ME; it's supposed to have both Fights and Mysteries and both are hard to write 😅
anyway hmmm i'm going to cheat by including a Dick POV section that I am probably gonna end up cutting, because i like it but i also worry that it slows down the dialogue?
excerpt below the cut! the only context that you need is that Dick and Tim have been having the "should Tim call if there's danger in Gotham" argument again (Tim's position is "no"), partly because they both have genuine positions on this argument, but also because it enables them to sublimate an emotional conflict into a work conflict and thus avoid talking or thinking about their feelings, which is a shared pathology goal:
Dick would bet Tim never mouthed off to Bruce like this. One of the many things that suck about being the knock-off Batman is that none of Dick’s orders really stick. All of the responsibility without the authority to back it up. At least when Dick was leading the Titans, they did what he freaking told them.
…Mostly.
…Okay, sometimes.
The awful truth is—and he tries not to dwell on it because it’s pointless and doesn’t achieve anything, but—everything with Tim, sometimes it reminds him of the worst times with the Titans. The same uneasy feeling of dread, like he’s grabbing for someone who’s slipping through his fingers. Roy’s crossed arms. The clock creeping toward midnight, staring at the champagne, knowing in his heart that Kory wasn’t coming. After Tartarus: watching Roy walk out of the room, watching Donna follow him, staring at Vic’s back, Kory’s back, all of them walking out, and no one left but the newcomers. When the personal is so fucked up that all you can do is double-down on the professional, and even that doesn’t help, and then—
(Get a grip, Grayson.)
And anyway, this isn’t like the Titans, is it? Dick was out-of-line, there, in retrospect. He’s never been good at losing people gracefully. Pushing Kory for marriage when she was already pulling away, trying to cling to her instead of letting her go. Giving ultimatums after Tartarus, when he knew the team already resented his orders. Making decisions behind Vic’s back, trying to force him to stay. It’s an ugly bad habit, picked up from Bruce: things are slipping, and your people are mad at you, so you get scared, and then you get authoritative and controlling so you can hang onto them, except you can’t control them, so then they get even angrier and you lose them anyway.
It’s easy to see in Bruce, hard to see in himself, but he knows it’s there. He barely managed to catch himself in time, with the Titans.
Is he doing the same thing to Tim? Does he need to back off?
But Gotham is risky. Tim’s always been capable, obviously, but…it’s okay to be a bit authoritative, isn’t it? Tim should call if there’s someone who looks unusually dangerous. That’s just common sense. Dick’s not asking for miracles, here.
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anyone have recommendations for higher quality paper/notebooks? i want to try journaling on paper again but i have a chronic injury that makes writing for long periods of time basically impossible, but good quality pens that are easy to write with allow me to hand write for a little while without pain, and i want to see if good quality paper helps too. preferably something better than moleskine’s weird inconsistent quality.
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leosagis please answer this poll while im asleep so i can finish my fic tomorrow
please take a moment to fill this out im so torn
**update the kimono is winning so I'll do that... thank u everyone for ur help!!!! The poll will still be going bc I don't know how to end it early but thank u leosagi fandom for voting!! I will give u a shout-out in the fic notes thank u mwah
***update 2: tysm everyone who voted!! the fic is now here if anyone is interested
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Not to be that guy but uh- fic vote?
Option one is Resi 8 au where Karl is a kid and grows up in the castle and there’s angst but you don’t get to know whose it is atm bc I said so just trust it has hurt/comfort, found family, and past traumas. This one will prolly be just a couple of chapters tbh
Option two is Resi 7/8 au where Ethan is out doing his thing at the baker estate where he runs into Karl who’s also there to save a family member and also he might be the reason for the shit show who knows. Lots of drama and found family in this one too but potentially longer depending on how it goes.
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The Atlantic Canary
Also known as the Wild Canary, Island Canary, Common Canary, or just Canary.
The above images are all wild, though it is bred for various colors in captivity, including the iconic yellow. It is named after the Canary Islands, not the other way around.
And of course, the Canary in the Coal Mine, currently used as an idiom describing an early warning sign of danger and death. Derived from the historical usage of canaries by coal miners, who would keep canaries in cages down in the mines with them because the canaries were more sensitive to the toxic gases that were often released in the coal mining process and when the canary stopped singing it was time to get out before you were next.
And there he is. The wet paper bag of a man himself.
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Could you do nsfw headcanons with Serizawa? 👀 or a scenario whatever you’re feeling :) I wanna kiss him thank youuu
yes absolutely anon thank you for reminding me i hadn't done spicy ones for seri yet bc... i have many thoughts. he's literally so handsome it makes me angry enough to just kiss the living daylights out of him.
hovers like he wants to touch you but doesn't actually touch until you guide his hands where they need to be. once the seal is broken he's all over you but it's always very sweet the way his hands linger just beside your cheeks during the first few kisses. even once he gets comfy with you it becomes a tradition that he leaves his hands there as an easy way for you to give consent by taking his hands without him having to ask every time.
SO many kisses like- he kisses you absolutely constantly until he can't breathe and then some. sometimes he pulls away just to take a big breath in and go back to kissing you because breathing through his nose can only do so much. doesn't get offended if you have to shove him away for a break but it won't stop him from kissing wherever else he can reach. the gasping is a little silly but the way he literally can't keep his mouth off you is very endearing (and also very flustering)
honestly you know what fuck it serizawa can have a little oral fixation. as a treat. his favorite is having you lay on your back bc he can put his hands on your thighs to hold them open and it's just such a visual thing for him?? like- he loves seeing the way his fingers dig into your skin to hold you steady and feeling your legs shake and knowing that he gets to hold you like that and make you feel good? there's nothing quite like it
other favorite parts include when you lock your ankles over his shoulders and roll your hips up toward his face as you get close. and also… he can literally hold you in the air with his powers?? against the wall so that you can basically sit on his shoulders?? it's like face sitting with more steps but he thinks it's very worth it especially since he reserves it for Special Occasions
basically he's like… lowkey possessive but in a "wow i feel special and i want to cherish this in every way possible" way rather than a "nobody else can have you" way if that makes sense
no matter how many times you try to get him to go faster he always starts out by fucking into you so. slowly. it's honestly a little infuriating how he doesn't realize how much he's teasing you but you wouldn't have it any other way. (and the way he grabs onto your hips once he decides you're warmed up and slams in all at once more than makes up for it.)
very much a switch in that he's down for most anything. if it's an idea he brought up, it takes a little bit of reassurance that you're just as into it as he is, and he's a little nervous if it's something new for him, but he settles into everything pretty quickly. he never brings anything up on his own but he answers your questions pretty bluntly and doesn't think to be embarrassed until after so. it usually works out.
likes having his hair grabbed at, especially when he's bottoming. not exactly pulling per se but like… balling up your fist in his hair so there's just a little bit of pressure throughout and you can yank him around if you need to
pretty quiet until the very end. it's all raspy, low moans and almost growls until he gets super close to coming and then- then?? you better cover his mouth or kiss him silly bc he can and WILL wake up the neighbors. he once bit your shoulder in an attempt to muffle himself but he felt really bad about the bruise it left and it didn't even work that well.
(you mostly just shove his face into a pillow now. he doesn't mind. he likes when you put your hand over his mouth no matter what but it doesn't do anything for the sound at that point. he used to have a much better handle on his volume but you kept telling him you loved hearing him and now… well.)
likes cockwarming more than he'd like to admit. basically anything that has you really close to him is nice but there's something special about getting to be inside you with you on his lap while he keeps playing games. he likes being distracted some times more than others but he's always down for a couple kisses on his neck. if you end up squirming too much he absolutely refuses to bring it up but uh… it's pretty obvious when he starts getting hard again.
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So I know Betty wished for Simon to never get hurt when she was inside of golb, but while that keeps Simon from actual harm, does that mean he will die of old age? Does his human life progress as if he's 47, going on 48, 49, 50, or did Betty's wish COMPLETELY cease him from dying? Is he eternally 47? Is he essentially a deathless being like Hunson now?
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