monarch

a young cryptid with a thought once every few weeks

[lgbtqreads]

do you know any lighthearted books with transfemme leads? something with minimal focus on transphobia and trauma

Sure, check these out!

Cheer Up! by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter (YA graphic novel)

The Summer Love Strategy by Ray Stoeve (f/f YA romance with a trans LI)

Chef’s Choice by TJ Alexander (m/f t4t romance)

Roller Girl by Vanessa North (f/f romance)

Fake It by Lily Seabrooke (f/f romance)

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver (f/f/f sci-fi)

Also it obviously has a focus on transphobia but I really can't recommend One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller highly enough; it's also a really fun and romantic sporty read.

[monarchbychoice]

im keeping this for future me xoxo

[bruce-wayne-enjoyer]

Little Jaybin fell into a bit of a Greek Mythos rabbit hole in his quest to read just about every book ever made in every language he knows.

One day, he trotted up to Bruce, who immediately turned away from the Batcomputer to give him his attention from the moment the Batcave elevator alerted Jason used his pass and was coming over.

"I have a favorite myth now," sweet, 11-year-old Jason said, the tiniest and cutest he's ever been.

"Oh? Do tell?" Bruce coaxed.

Jason pulled a chair close and sat down, excitedly passing his bookmarked tome onto Bruce's lap. Flipping it open, they found themselves in the middle of a story.

Orpheus and Eurydice.

"It's basically the first Romeo and Juliet, except it's between life and death," Jason explained, "It's so cool! I wasn't even that upset when he turned around! THIS is the love story of the ages!"

"More than Pride and Prejudice?"

"...Well..."

Bruce laughed at that. It has been easier lately, to laugh. Even just looking at this tiny creature who trusts him wholly and indefinitely, makes him laugh at the absurdity of it all.

"I was wondering," Jason pondered out loud, "Can you do that?"

"Can I what?"

"Not look back at me for 2 maybe 3 years," Jason grinned, "And while I'm squeaky quiet as if I'm not even there."

Bruce frowned, actually thought about it.

The longer the silence stretched, the farther Jason's smile dropped. "This is the part where you said 'I'm Batman' and mean that you can do anything, you know."

"Why would you want me to do that?" Bruce asked instead.

Jason blinked at him like he had grown two heads all of a sudden. "Well, what if not looking back is the only way to save me?"

Bruce is far too familiar with the myth, had known every variation of it by heart. Even the niche loss versions Talia collected over the years. Maybe one day, he'll find the time to tell Jason every version — how there is no version where Orpheus doesn't look back, because there's no version where Orpheus doesn't love Eurydice.

For now, Bruce answers: "I'll certainly try."

.

.

Bruce looked back.

That's how he realizes 15 yo Jason Todd is no longer in the spot he left him in, and his tracker is somewhere close to the Joker's last sightings.

Bruce looked back.

That's how he knows where to run to get to Jason, if he gets to Jason, when he gets to Jason, because he has to. God, he has to.

Bruce looked back.

Bruce looked back.

Bruce looked back.

And Jason died all over again because of it.

[crazysodomite]

the racism against indians is just overwhelming and insane. its everywhere. people go out of their way to talk about how indian immigrants are 'the worst kind of immigrants' when its people working their ass off to get a medical degree while working underpaid jobs in delivery just to get a better life.

people are literally chomping at the bit to say indians are the reason their wages are falling and their life is getting worse because indians are ready to work for less money or some shit. it's actually very disturbing

[monarchbychoice]

this, this a thousand times.

[newrider]

[wamscoastsmoker]

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

[notsocialphobixanymorelmao-deac]

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

[wamscoastsmoker]

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

[monarchbychoice]

H E L L Y E A H

[ask-the-fishdick-deactivated201]

REBLOG IF IT IS OKAY TO COME INTO YOUR INBOX AND SAY THE RANDOMEST SHIT I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU.

[madphantom]

You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.

[pingintech]

THIS!!! ^^^ get you at least a lil panza or i will send pizzas to your house

[monarchbychoice]

So, American Education System...

girl what the hell, do you need some help? some guidance? I'm not American, have never been to America so I have no idea what it's really like out there but that one trend on TT? The 'Can You Read' thing? IT'S MESSING WITH MY HEAD. Like those are HIGHSCHOOL SENIORS that can't read, and if they can, can't comprehend what they've read.

English is not my native language, and I've got a fairly good grasp on it whereas THESE POOR KIDS, BRO. Take away the Chromebooks and iPads from classrooms or I swear you guys are going to be raising an entire GENERATION of functioning illiterates.

I'm talking cause I'm genuinely concerned and I'm pretty sure anyone would be if they saw schoolteachers coming online to rant about how students can't read or comprehend or think critically. Here in my country, people look at you weird if you can't read the phrase 'extraordinarily magnificent' and I'm not saying it as a flex.

Education is so very important, you guys, and our generation has the possibility of outshining all those that came before us and, where I can see that possibility in me (a highschooler) I'm not so sure about a girl on TT who's asked to read a simple phrase off a piece of paper. And she is also a highschooler.

[only-cat-memes]

[monarchbychoice]

scandalous

[yooo-lets-go]

how’s roach holding up

The COUNTRY, Sanderson

[monarchbychoice]

that's MY bestfriend, y'all

[papayafromtv]

fed up with Bruce tracking them/invading their privacy in the name of safety, i like to think the batkids pull an uno reverse and microchip Bruce while he’s passed out after a bad patrol injury. they start tracking his phone activity and texting him about wherever he is. bringing up things they know he’s searched for one his phone/people he’s been talking to, showing up at wherever he is during the day and interrupting him just to prove they always know where he is; just overall trying to annoy him the best they can.

issue is, Bruce is just so happy to see and talk to his kids at any point that he doesn’t even notice the breach of privacy, and the kids just end up feeling really awkward about how happy their dad is to see them.

Jason will bring up something in conversation with Bruce that was only privately relayed through texts between Bruce and a colleague, smirking because he knows Bruce is gonna be really paranoid about who’s watching his texts, except Bruce just smiles and happily chats with him for thirty minutes and he’s in a good mood all day because Jason willingly had a casual conversation with him, and when the JL ask why Batman’s in such a good mood at a meeting later that day Jason just goes bright red and doesn’t know what to say because he didn’t realise how much Bruce genuinely craves just catching up with him every now and then.

Dick will stalk him for weeks and wait until Bruce has a really tough busy day at work, specifically so he can wait for the evening where Bruce finally has a single moment to himself in a bar somewhere to relax, and then he busts in loudly sitting down next to Bruce and talking non-stop while ordering a drink, thinking that Bruce is going to be mad because this was his one peaceful moment and Dick ruined it by constantly tracking him. but instead the second Bruce realises Dick’s there all his exhaustion disappears. he gets a really wide genuinely pleased look on his face and happily offers to buy Dick a drink because ‘it’s so rare that they get to hang out!’ and Dick is left floundering because he was trying to be an asshole but now he just feels bad that he doesn’t spend time with Bruce outside of patrol business.

Tim keeps watching him through security cameras and updating him through text on his location in an attempt to make him tired of the constant supervision, but every time he texts Bruce like ‘you just walked into starbucks for the second time today.’ Bruce will just openly smile at his phone and respond like ‘would you like me to get you a drink? i can drop it off at your office if you’d like :)’ and Tim has to give up almost immediately.

essentially i like the idea of the batkids trying to annoy Bruce with themselves, forgetting that Bruce is just a dad who really loves his kids and can’t ever be annoyed by them.

[monarchbychoice]

okay okay so get this. when dick tries to irritate bruce by "invading his alone, brooding time" and gets an excited papabat instead, he kind of... stops in his tracks. why? because suddenly, this man, whom he's loved and hated so much throughout his life, suddenly looks so many years younger. he looks like the first time dick had ever seen him-- hopeful, fierce and driven by the desire to make Gotham a better place. He sees bruce 20 years younger when he geared up, not with a detached, cold precision but smiling and joking with an eight-year-old orphan boy fluttering around his ankles in his new cape. he realizes suddenly how much has changed, how much time has passed. how Gotham's playboy now has a family of eight bright children who are more than just the billionaire's kids. but one thing is for sure-- they're bruce's and bruce has no idea how to display his love but loves them so fiercely that it burns him again and again. dick never talks about this with any of the other batkids but one can see, in the way dick would smile wide and soft when he talk gently with bruce, that, to him, this thing about "Pester B with All You Got" was no longer a game but a real show of his love.

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

If you take the time to leave comments on every single chapter of a multi-chapter fic, I can guarantee you that there's at least one author out there who thinks you are the greatest person in the history of people.

[an0neemouse]

Facts

[monarchbychoice]

no cap

[homenecromancer]

laughing on mama

[monarchbychoice]

cheeto 1 (has been trying to tell a joke for 15 min) : okay, mom, seriously tho *snort* why did th— *giggle* why did—

cheetah: *long-suffering sigh*

cheeto 2: i cannot bear to grace him even with a singular, most pitiful glance, mother.

cheeto 1: MINDY! i'm trying, ok? *more cackling*

cheeto 2: *squint* not hard enough, brother...

cheetah: *taking deep calming breaths* iamluckytobeamotheriamluckytobeamotheriamlu—

[monarchbychoice]

welp. guess its time to go weep face down in my dear friend's garden about the fact that my english teacher said my rather long short story was rather long for a short story.

[monarchbychoice]

you know what? the batfam things and the general DC things i see here on tumblr are just so intricately thought about and so gorgeously written like ??? where were you, oh great commander of words and ideas. when the canon was ripping our asses to shreds of indignant weeping and second hand embarrassment when it could have been THIS????

please like.... DO something about your ideas, make them canon, make bruce a better dad, make clark and kon banter more, give them everything you have imagined in your darling little blog-corners of warmth and hope.

[monarchbychoice]

man i just love it with my best friend. when one of us goes like "oh, holy hell are you seeing what's in my head rn?" and the other is like "watcha mean?" and the other says like one word and the person listening is like "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and there's a bunch of mad, clownish giggles that sound sweet and teenager-y and mad over a video call because we're still just bad little kids finding our fun in everything in the world

[unspeakablearchives]

[monarchbychoice]

imagine having to write as an obligation. imagine having to put down certain words— and only certain words— on paper because if you don't, you face the dangers of a higher authority taking that one thing of happiness away from you.

repulsive fiction? nothing is truly repulsive. someone out there likes it wants to read it.

therefore, yes, protect every piece of fiction you have with everything you've got. don't let the suits decide what gets to be read.

[robs-your-robins]

I keep thinking of Bruce being a panicked parent at first, like yes, he gets that Dick is not a baby and doesn't need coddling but Bruce has taken responsibility for him and he wants him to feel as if somebody is caring for him like a parent. So Bruce starts thinking of ways to do so, because he doesn't want him feeling as though he's missing out. So Bruce starts doing stuff that he associates with parents. He reads bedtime stories if Dick wants. He cuts the crusts of his sandwiches. He lets Dick hold his hand when crossing the street. He teaches him how to tie his shoelaces. And Bruce thinks he's doing terribly because he can't do 'the voices', he never gets the crusts off perfectly and Alfred apparently does it better and Dick has a habit of dashing across streets while Bruce tries to hurry after him, and everybody is judging him. He admits to Alfred that he doesn't think he can parent Dick, that he isn't being a good enough parent and Alfred has to sit him down and explain that he was in the same situation over twenty years ago when Bruce was a small boy the same age as Dick is. Bruce suddenly remembers crooked imitations of smiley faces carved by Martha on Bruce's toast, of Alfred taking Bruce on trips to Gotham University to visit the library like Thomas did and Alfred often looking stressed whenever Bruce was hurt or sick and clearly wanting his mom and dad in that moment of pain and illness and Alfred not being enough.