The Waynes are putting in an official public appearance. One those ones they have to put on an act for and mask so hard even their vigilante personas are practically relaxed compared to.
They go to the mall. Dick is chatting up anything female shaped. Cass stays glued to Dad's side like a limpet which is making the cashiers feel awkward as Brucie Darling flirts with them. Damian's smile looks like it would make glass start vibrating and shatter from him looking at it. Tim is getting a lot of sympathetic looks as he is, comparatively, the calm casually goth kid who puts up with this shit and runs everything. Duke wonders what he did to deserve this. Alfred follows The Waynes with several bags, a proper butler, and this prevents them from buying out half the stock of Claires.
Everyone has to pretend Jason is still dead and talk nicely about him if anyone asks. Meanwhile Jason is breaking into the wine stash of the manor wondering where the f--k everyone is.
They crowd in through the entrance of the giant sporting goods shop, fully blocking the doors, and the two people exiting don't have time to dodge or retreat.
Tim and Duke are slammed in between two walls of people as Dick, Bruce, and the rest pile drive into them from behind.
The four of them go down hard and attempts to get them up are not successful until the third or so. Damian offers a hand up to Tim with a cheerful Wayne smile and Tim glares but takes it anyway, then Damian goes 'whoops' and drops him while Tim is still rolling his eyes. He crashes back into Danny (again), who this time catches Tim against one shoulder and gives Damian a look because he could tell it was intentional.
Once everyone is upright Danny and Jazz move out of the doorway to let them the rest of the way in. Apologies are made and then exaggerated, while the two look more weirded out the longer it continues and Tim tries to get them to stop. Danny decides he appreciates and sympathizes with Tim.
Dick, predictably, sees One (1) very tall redheaded woman that can bench press his entire body one-handed and swoons instantly. Full-on victorian maiden with a hand over his heart as he gets lightheaded and tilts sideways into Bruce, who catches him with reflex born of twenty years of Dick randomly flinging himself off anything from trees to tall buildings purely to give Bruce heart problems.
SUDDENLY, (lol), the doors next to them are thrown open by a third crowd in ski masks. They point AK47s at the cashiers in a way that shows they don't know how to use them - which is many cases is even more dangerous than someone who does know how.
Danny, Ancient of Space, doesn't need some fancy movement to concentrate his powers, his hands are not magic wands. He blinks, decides what he wants, and portals open up in front of the gunmen and sweep over them. They fall on their asses in the local police precinct at an angle so that if any of them pulled the trigger on reflex the bullet would go into the ceiling.
There is a moment of silence.
Danny and Jazz turn their heads back to the Waynes.
"-Anyway,"
Dick explodes with noise, gasping loudly which some of the others take as cue. Tim just stares at them.
There is a slight miscommunication here. You see, in Amity Park, random portals would be no big deal. In Gotham? The Bats are making some (correct in this case) assumptions that it had something to do with these strangers instead of the two cashiers.
Continuing Forward:
Dan Masters is at home babysitting gremlin Danielle Masters and the fact there are 4 of them sometimes but only two siblings legally has the Bats extremely confused.
The Bats think Jazz is a fake relative because she isn't named Danette nor has black hair, but they can't prove it and it drives them nuts for the entire fic.
Stephanie only shows up as Spoiler at first because she tries to keep separate from the Waynes - until Danny and Jazz go to the Manor for the first time, where she is added to the party with zero word of introduction like she was there the entire time. Danny and Jazz think she's a hallucination for a solid week.
Martha Mason shows off the "interdimensional portal" in her basement. Just one of the many remnants of the Transdimensional Temple Cult leader who used to own it.
The Transdimensional Temple was a small cult in Columbus, Ohio, that disbanded in 1984.
Finally resuming the list, we have a movie in which almost all characters are crayons that came to life! Those are the sentient object characters of the movie... and also a (3D) drawing of a car, by the way. It was quite a fun watch.
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[Image Description:Panel 1: (White woman in dreads saying: "I don't need to wear a mask because I eat organic avocados and am healthier than you."Trumper saying: "The virus is a hoax anyway! Wearing a mask is much more dangerous than death!!")Panel 2: (Kim, wearing a mask: "Hmm these alternate realities so many people are living in can only mean one thing...")Panel 3: (Kim, next to an open fridge with a swirling cosmic portal inside: "Oopsies, I left the interdimensional portal fridge door open again!")]
Spirit of the Woods - Oak trees, like the one in which this tiny church was built, have a sacred place in Slavic culture and mythology. {built by Dragoljub Krstic in Jovac, Serbia; animation added by beauty-funny-trippy}
Why is it that my bedroom feels normal during the day and in the evening, but once one a.m. hits it's like a whole different world? I can be sitting at my desk working and the atmosphere noticably changes around me. My cats act different. The lighting changes. And all of a sudden it's not perfectly silent anymore.
Working all evening is tedious and tiring. But one a.m. hits and suddenly I've been working until sunrise. I no longer feel the exhaustion of the previous evening. The wee hours of morning are calm and comfortable. Once the sun rises the feeling is gone and life comes sliding back into focus.
