Barry: Okay. Stay here. I'll go check it out. *Picks up bat* If you hear me shout Code 16 use our home invasion plan delta.
Iris: Okay.
Barry walking through the dark house until he sees a light in the kitchen: AH-HA!
Danny eating out of the open fridge: Hmm-whaa!?
Barry: Wait a minute, you're just a kid. What are you doing?
Danny: I'm sorry! I was hungry! I didn't know anyone was home, but I swear I didn't mean any harm!
Barry: I see. How long has it been since you last had food?
Danny: I don't know.
Barry: Really?
Danny sniffing: I'll leave, I'm sorry. Please don't call the cops.
Barry putting the bat down: Leaving before my one am meal? You can't! Stay, I could use the company.
Danny: ....one am meal?
Barry: Yeah, I can whip us up some pizzas. *turning to yell* IRIS, IT'S ALL GOOD. GO BACK TO BED. I'M GOING TO EAT
Iris: OKAY! ENJOY!
Danny: Um?
Barry: I have pepperoni, sausage or plain cheese. Which do you prefer?
Danny: Wait. Are you really going to make me pizza?
Barry: Well, it's frozen pizza. It takes about 15 minutes in my toaster oven, but trust me, it's the best brand. My nephew swears by it. My name is Barry, by the way, what's yours?
Danny: I...Ugh I'm Danny.
Barry: Nice to meet you Danny. You want to crash here after we eat?
Danny: What?
Barry: Spend the night here. A nap after eating always feels best.
Danny: ....what?
A few hours later Barry slipping back into bed: Iris.
Iris: Hmm?
Barry: I've adopted a son. His name is Danny. He's fifteen, meta, and running from his parents. Sweet thing. He took over the guest room, so now when we have guests stay over, they have to sleep on the pull-out couch.
Iris half alseep: Sounds good. Does he have your eyes?
Barry: Yeah surprisingly he does. I tucked him into bed.
Iris: That's nice.
Danny two walls away dressed in Wally' pjs, with a full stomch and freshly showered: How...how did he convince me to be adopted in only one hour???? Is he a witch?????
I think it would be funny if most of Grace's eridian students went to him and asked for earth pronoun designations instead of picking for themselves, because they think it's cool to get word-gifts from the coolest teacher in the galaxy
and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it
he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??
eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh
Damian doesn’t see the importance of this project, the teacher insists though that it will be a fun activity while learning about letter structures, and a way for them all to possibly make a new friend. Which doesn’t interest him at all.
The project is basically two students from two different class periods will be paired up randomly and will have to write letters to one another. While doing this they aren’t allowed to say their real name or disclose any obvious information on who they are. Only after a month of going back and forth would their writing partner be revealed.
That last sentence was the only thing making things interesting, because Damian was going to use this as a test on his investigation skills. His only goal for this project was to discover his writing partner before the month's end.
The first thing Damian notes is that some students, himself included, are given letters. While others are directed to start writing the first letter. This tells him that his partner is someone in an earlier English class.
Opening the envelope and letter in his hands the first thing Damian notes is the handwriting. Messy but luckily still legible to read.
The second thing is the anonymous name his partner has chosen for himself, Pluto. A name suggesting a love for astronomy and/or astrology. A name meaning death and rebirth.
The letter itself, Damian is pleasantly surprised, isn't filled with basic getting to know you questions, but is instead something akin to an argumentative essay. Without realizing it Damiean is already writing a response; sharing his own thoughts on the topic. Things he agrees and disagrees with.
By the time he's done and needs to put his own anonymous name Damian chooses to by the name Mercury; known as the messenger.
Unattended Children Will Be Adopted and Taught To Kick Ass
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Baby ghost are supposed to bond to parents both for protection and for their cores to properly develop. It’s a deep and meaningful connection that all ghost parents wish to feel for the rest of the lives and all ghost children hope to feel for as long as possible. Both sides gain strength from their connection, can reach out and feel nearly anything that has to do with each other can just Know when they are needed and what the other feels. Danny is a baby ghost. Danny is absolutely Not Dealing With This Nonsense. Maybe Clockwork already Yoinked the position of Worlds Best Dad, or maybe Danny being closer to Maddie in life made his Core search primarily for a mother figure, regardless his Core is trying to get him adopted by any and all mother figures he has.(he tells Frostbite, Clockwork and anyone else that asks the reason his Core doesn’t bond with Maddie is because she’s already his human mother and he’s a halfa and halfas are weird. Not even he believes it.)
He doesn’t want to bond with some weirdo adult who’ll coddle and care for him like some defenseless baby! He’s a MAN. He can take care of himself. He has Been taking care of himself. He’s fought ancients, saved the world and/or universe a dozen times over, single handedly routed armies and so much more. He’s perfectly fine on his own. If only his Core would get the message and stop going “If not Mama why Mama shaped?” every time he’s in the presence of an even somewhat competent women he feels no romantic attraction to.
But it’s fine, if his Core won’t stop trying to reverse adopt a mother figure for him any time he spends time around a women who he could potentially view as a mother. He’ll just never spend any time around women who seem like they actually care for him and want him to both feel and be safe and happy! Problem Solved! It’s not even hard, there’s no one in his life who really qualifies to begin with. He keeps telling himself that’s a good thing like if he says it enough he’ll believe it.
Then he joins the Justice League and everything falls apart.
Phantoms hasn’t really been a member of the League for all that long. But despite being recruited less than a year after his debut in the modern era and having been a member for even less time the amount he’s accomplished is almost staggering. A heavy hitter that can keep up with Superman, master of technology, stealth and infiltration expert, healer, nearly immune to magic and capable of ripping through even the strongest of spells and more. With thousands of years worth of combat experience to boot. The full hazmat thing he’s got going on is kind of unsettling at first but anyone who’s spent more than 30 seconds in his presence will tell you that his power is easily rivaled, or even outshone, by his kindness. The thought and effort he puts into minimizing collateral, the care and gentleness he shows every civilian he saves, the compassion and forgiveness he offers every villain, there’s (nearly) nothing bad anyone can say about him.
Nearly.
There is one thing. Just one tiny problem. He’s sexist.
He at least try’s to keep it to himself and hide it, but he’s really bad at hiding it. Avoids all the female hero’s like the plague, comes up with excuse after excuse to avoid working with them, trades monitor duty shifts(even taking on extra ones) to avoid being in the same room as them, damn near refuses to do training exercises with them, comes up alternative plans in the field that just so happen to not involve him having to fight along side them. And when he does he can’t seem to make up his mind on whether or not he wants to ignore their existence or act like they’re made of glass and need to be rescued every other second. Seems damn near insulted any time a woman has the gall to help him out in a fight. It’s really starting to get in the way in the field, which means it’s time to sit him down in a meeting and make him figure it out.
So. Danny’s “never be in the same room as a responsible adult” plan has Not been working as well as he’d hoped recently. Primarily because he joined the Justice League. Genuinely kind + competent + emotionally intelligent + responsible == a pain in Danny’s neck. He did a grand total of 1(one)(singular) monitor duty shift with Black Canary and now any time he’s even slightly emotionally overwhelmed or stressed his Core screams at him to go talk to her, he can’t fight around any of the female hero’s without his Core going “oh no, Danger! Hide behind Mom!” and he can’t ignore it without outright ignoring them or overcorrecting and not letting them fight at all. Wonder Woman saved him one time, just one, and he still can’t be in the same room as her without getting drowsy because his Cores losing it’s shit over finally having someone he knows will keep him safe while he rests. He’s not even bonded with any of them and it’s driving him nuts.
If he does wind up bonding with one of them? If Black Canary gains the ability to feel if he gets a panic attack, wakes up screaming or just needs to talk? If Wonder Woman can just know that he’s injured or in danger? He’ll never half-live it down. Unacceptable. Nuh uh. No. He Will Not let his Core bond with Anyone. Unfortunately he’s got a meeting coming up with literally every female member of the League, and (hopefully) a few of the male members that he’s already skipped twice but they’re still insisting he needs to go to. Hopefully it’s just quick and easy and he’ll be able to get out dodge before Hawkwoman starts asking if he needs any help vanquishing his enemy’s again.
I initially imagined this prompt with a FullHazmat and NoOneKnows AU so that the league thinks he’s a grown ass man/several thousand year old guardian spirit who’s “from a different time” but really anything works.
For extra Angst you could flip it and have his Core on the hunt for a father figure with his age and identity not being a secret, resulting in the League having an underage vigilante with a creepy uncle for a nemesis who seems absolutely terrified of being alone with any adult men, flinching at the slightest move and damn near hyperventilating and bolting at direct physical contact. They come up with some mildly incorrect conclusions and Vlad wakes up at 3:00am blearily looking around his room while blinking sleep from his eyes only to see the Entire Fucking Justice League looming over him like sleep paralysis demons. Batman’s wearing Ghost Gauntlets, Superman’s floating ominously with eyes Glowing Red and Wonder Woman brought a Shovel.
a scene from Survivability Bias by Audliminal on AO3. This fic scratches an itch I didn’t know I had. I love it when superheroes work with first responders, AND I love DPxDC fics where Phantom gets some actual support and help. Phantom getting training from firefighters? Genius.
“you don’t even have a dog” is probably the most haunting line to me because a lot of times society determines worth by romantic relationships and kids (and by extension, a dog). it doesn’t matter how smart and talented you are, or how much of an impact on the community you have, or how much you love the fog and the sand and the forests and the cliffs. you don’t even have a dog, so what would you be leaving behind? asking who is going to miss you? instead of what are you going to miss?
vs rocky who cared for and trusted the man’s intelligence enough to risk his own planet to go outside his enclosure to save grace. who loved him enough to give him a home full of things he didn’t always understand and colors he could never see and an ocean the human missed with real, working waves, and a classroom of kids so grace could do one of his favorite things every day. who knocked on grace’s door early in the mornings so they’d have time to sit on the beach
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
rocky hunting grace while hes working like heh. going to pull big prank on grace. stupid human hearing so bad very bad and only 'see' with light-sense organ in one direction at a time. eridian best hunter on all erid, evolved best hunting veeeery quiet. scare grace a lot. very funny.
rocky is HORRIFIED mid stalk when grace suddenly stiffens and turns around to stare directly at him. HOW GRACE DO THAT HOW GRACE KNOW HOW GRACE KNOW
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I actually think I like the film Betrayal Scene better.
Like don't get me wrong, the book one is good (the idea of Grace having to spend multiple days locked up stewing about how he's gonna die before they even knock him out is deliciously angsty, as is Stratt's last attempt to beg him to understand why she has to do this) but fuck.
He like literally starts climbing the walls.
Like he came in there relatively composed. He had a rationalisation for what he was going to do, he probably rehearsed his little speech. He's putting the walls up because he knows he's not doing The Right Thing, but he doesn't want to let on that he knows that. He's probably pretending to himself as much as Stratt. He's doing it For The Kids.
And then the switch to just pure, animal terror when the doctor comes in. Like there's a degree of comedy to it. Grace is always slightly goofy, slightly immature (probably why his students like him so much) and now he's climbing and running like a kid playing tag. Except its not a game and it's not working.
Eva's tone when she tells him to “sit down, we'll do it different”. Like I know I'm murdering you, I know that you're not capable of seeing this any other way, but please at least see sense and spare yourself the trauma of having to be literally dragged kicking and screaming. Please.
The resignation when she says “he's running.” Like, she doesn't have to say who's running, or why. She knew this was a possibility. She knew this was a likely possibility but why couldn't he just fucking be the guy she needs him to be? Doesn't he know how hard this is??
The realisation that, if Carl is by the fence, then it's probably because they were concerned that Grace might actually outrun the guards and would need to be ambushed. The possibility that Carl specifically is there because, in that scenario, Grace would be more easy to catch if he trusted his pursuer.
Like I think one reason I'm attached to Ryland Grace is that I honestly couldn't tell you that I wouldn't behave like that in that scenario. Like sure, we all like to say we'd bravely sacrifice ourselves for humanity, but like it's not like I'm currently chaining myself to rainforest trees or throwing soup at paintings in museums or kidnapping oil execs or whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I don't even really attend protests.
There are significantly more things that I could be doing right now to make the world a better place that I don't do because they would involve upending my life and putting myself at more personal risk than I am comfortable with. I have no room to judge Ryland Grace.
Prompt idea where Danny goes back in time and meets Wonder Woman. It could be on Themyscira during the infini-map situation but I’m personally partial to him meeting Diana during the World Wars.
The basics of it is that for whatever reason, one of the speedsters, a random time traveler, a ghost, or because Clockwork needs Danny to learn something there, he sends him into the past and he quickly ends up meeting Wonder Woman and helping her. He decides to stay with her until he’s finished whatever mission Clockwork’s sent him on and she ends up all but adopting him.
She’s teaching him all her sword tricks and how to fight without relying on his powers as much. The end up getting closer and closer and quickly get to the point where Danny starts subconsciously seeing her as a mother figure. To the point where he accidentally calls her mom, to his eternal mortification. Diana takes this all in stride though, secretly happy that her little warrior called her mom.
Things happen and eventually Danny has to go back to his own time period and his actual life. It’s a very tearful goodbye but it ends with Diana giving Danny a golden wreath crown as a moment of her and her mentally promising to find her little warrior again. She’s fairly certain now that he’s going to be born some time in the future. She doesn’t have much to go off of but gods damn it is she going to try!
Cut to some years later and Diana has become one of the founding members of the Justice League. She still has not found her son but she doesn’t say anything to the other members because she honestly can’t be sure if he’s even been born yet. This all is thrown out the window though when one of the JL members bring up reports of this ghost boy in this little town in the middle of nowhere Illinois. She sees a picture of it an yep, that’s her little boy! He’s even wearing the wreath so that mean he’s met her! She can go see him without risk to the timeline!
She practically sprints all the way to Amity only to find that he’s not here? None of the townsfolk know anything but when she starts instead looking for his human persona she isn’t able to find anything. It’s only when she investigates his parents that she hears, holy shit he’s whimpering in the basement!? She bursts in, ready to defend her baby but the scene she come in on is worse than anything she can imagine. There, on an operating table, is her baby boy. Opened like a gods damned high school science class frog! She can see his organs and knows some of them have been removed.
She does her best to sew him back together and hopes to the gods that his healing will be enough to get him to the Watchtower, all the while he’s crying and calling her mom and saying it hurts, when his parents come back into the lab, guns blazing, ready to fight whatever ghost dared to take their specimen. They were not, however, ready for a very angry and protective mama Wonder Woman who’s fully ready to kill at this point.
my cat is completely obsessed with watching the bathroom sink drain and I have started calling this "her shows." as in when I'm in the bathroom and she meows and runs up I'll be like "oh you want to watch your shows?" and run the faucet for an extra few seconds so it fills a little. she will then sit there at the edge of the sink for ages totally entraptured by the drain. blorbo from her sink
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