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brb crying about the fact that vaughn did NOT get to choose the thing that ate them
I desperately crave a friendship like the teen titans have in Gabriel Picoloâs art
Cassie is explaining to Kon and Bart some of the reasons why Wonder Woman is, without doubt, the greatest hero of this age. Theyâre both too tired from the mission they just went on to leave so Cassieâs had a captive audience to lecture about her favourite topic for the past half hour.
Sheâs having, quite frankly, a fantastic time.
As sheâs moving on to her next point and Bart and Kon are letting out identical groans Tim comes in and starts making a coffee. For a moment Cassie wonders if she might be able to drag Tim into the audience of her presentation, heâs probably just as tired from work as Kon and Bart are from their mission, but then she realises Timâs already listening.
This wouldnât shock her, for all his flaws Tim can be an excellent listener at times, but Tim isnât wearing a listening sort of expression. Heâs looking at Cassie with the sort of complete shock that only belongs on the faces of burglars caught in the act, mouth hanging slightly open and eyes rounder than can be natural. Sheâs about to ask him whatâs up. Sheâs about to check to see if he just had some world shattering revelation thatâs going to save them all a world of hurt in the near future, but then Tim says under his breath, so quiet Cassie almost doesnât hear, âWonderTrash96â and Cassie is suddenly worried about very different things.
She takes a moment to curse her twelve year old self, well thought out arguments as to why as a hero Wonder Woman really is beyond reproach and all, for being idiotic enough to run a fan blog and not anticipate that it would come back to haunt her later on.
Then, before Cassie can curse her twelve year old self too thoroughly, she has the thought that Tim would have to know her childhood fan blog very well to recognise an argument she made there years ago. Then she remembers the semi-regular discourse she used to get in with a batman fan blog and how Tim has said a lot of the exact same things as that blog used to.
Cassie bolts upright, her eyes narrowing. âYouâ she hisses.
The two of them look at each other for a second, reliving years of vitriol in a moment.
Tim shakes himself and in an instant he looks normal again. âI would like to propose we never mention this ever again for the sake of both our reputations.â
Cassie nods slowly, relaxing back into the couch. âI have always loved a good state of mutually assured destruction.â
Tim gives a short, sharp nod in return and leaves with his coffee. Kon and Bart both look a little like they might want to ask what that was about but are too tired to do so. Thereâs a moment of silence before Cassie comes back to herself.
âAlong with her contributions to the 1983 United Nations summit-â she starts, talking over Kon and Bartâs groans and absolutely not thinking about the level of dirt she and Tim have on each other now.
~
That night, Cassie gets messaged on an account she hasnât touched since she was fourteen.
(22:34) I canât believe you havenât come up with better arguments since you were twelve.
(22:36) fuck off She types back.
Sheâs grinning before she even hits send.
New Fic!!
Word count: 1,338
Summary:Â Luz feels guilty all the time.
It wouldn't be so bad if she didn't know that she deserved it.
~
âBut you can do magic here, isnât that all youâve ever wanted?â Willow asks.
âHow can you miss being there when you fit in so much better here?â Gus says.
âThey didnât deserve you.â Amity snorts, like itâs obvious.
~
Fic under the cut!
Luz feels guilty all the time now.
Not guilty enough that sheâs consumed by it. Not guilty enough that it stops her from doing anything. Itâs just something in the background, something that pulls at her a little as she runs and fights and generally enjoys life more than she ever has before.
She mentions it to her friends. They donât quite understand it.
âBut you can do magic here, isnât that all youâve ever wanted?â Willow asks.
âHow can you miss being there when you fit in so much better here?â Gus says.
âThey didnât deserve you.â Amity snorts, like itâs obvious.
The last one makes Luz feel something different. She hopes sheâll figure out what sometime soon, once the guilt has ebbed away and thereâs enough room for her to step back and look at her thoughts from a distance. Once thereâs enough room that she might be able to examine the shape they take.
The problem is that Luz isnât even guilty for what sheâs done. If all she had done to her mom was leave her all alone in a different dimension then Luz wouldnât even be feeling bad. Itâs what Luz is going to do that keeps the low buzzing of guilt close.
Because Luz is never going back.
How could she? How could she return to a world where she canât do magic, where she never fit in?
(where they didnât deserve her)
Luz would do anything to stay in the Boiling Isles forever and considering the fact that all she has to do is not leave? Luz would have to have some twisted sort of mind to want to go back.
Her mom was going to send her to send her somewhere to get her imagination stamped out of her for three months. What if Luz returned and she tried to do that again? Then she might never get an opportunity to return to the Boiling Isles and then-
Then Luz would be feeling significantly worse things than a little guilt buzzing at the edge of her consciousness.
So she stays.
~
Luz is staring at the door that would take her back home.
Eda looks at her from over the cover of her magazine. âYou planning to set that on fire, kid?â
âYeah.â Luz answers without remembering that she probably shouldnât be saying that sort of thing. Oh well, she thinks. Itâs not like Edaâs going to judge her.
Eda puts down her magazine and raises a judging eyebrow in Luzâs direction.
Luz looks back at her and narrows her eyes. Theyâve never talked about Luz going home and she had really been enjoying that status quo. âYour eyebrows are judging me.â she informs Eda. Just in case she wasnât aware yet.
She nods slowly. âYeah, they tend to do that kid.â She pauses. Like she needs some time to come to terms with the unprecedented fact that Luz would do anything not to stay here forever. âBet itâs âcause they were wondering why you were going to set your only way back home on fire.â
âI guess that would make sense.â Luz answers, âIt would kind of be an odd thing for me to do, from the perspective of your eyebrows.â She tries her best to look serious since this is a serious conversation despite how theyâre both pretending that it isnât.
They stare each other down for a while.
King comes and interrupts before either of them can break the stalemate. Eda looks particularly affronted when this happens, like whenever sheâs avoiding telling Luz something she doesnât use this exact same trick.
Itâs odd. Luz thought Eda would have realised sheâs a fast learner by now.
~
In a particularly unexpected turn of events itâs Lilith that ends of being the one to confront Luz about the whole thing.
She just had a fight with Eda. Obviously. Because the only time Luz ever runs into Lilith is when sheâs just about to fight Eda or when theyâve just finished. It ends in a draw, like it always does, and Luz wonders why Lilith keeps coming back to fight Eda when she must know that itâs going to end the same way it always does.
Luz voices these opinions and Lilith squints at her with an expression that reminds her of Eda and her judge-y eyebrows. âDo humans not have families?â she asks, her tone full of honest confusion.
Luz isnât quite sure how to answer that. She stays silent, waiting for King to interrupt like last time but remembers that King isnât actually here right now and decides not to answer anyway. Maybe sheâll get lucky and someone else will interrupt.
âWell?â Lilith prompts, impatient now. âDo you have a family, human?â
Luz opens and closes her mouth a couple of times, âWhy do you care?â she asks, which isnât her best comeback but does the job of allowing her to avoid the question.
Lilith has the gall to roll her eyes. âI care about precisely two people in the Boiling Isles.â She holds up two fingers to illustrate her point. âMy awful sister,â She puts a finger down, âand my wonderful protege.â She puts the other finger down so that her hand is in the shape of a fist. An irrational part of Luzâs brain wonders if sheâs about to get punched. âSo I think itâs understandable enough that I might like to know if the human that has the full adoration of my two favourite people might be leaving them someday soon.â
âNope,â Luz starts backing away cause Lilith looks kind of angry and hence very scary, âNo oneâs leaving here. I am a-okay staying right here. Forever.â
âOh.â Lilith says, expression turning surprised. Her eyes arenât narrowed anymore and it makes them look far larger than normal. âI thought you were leaving.â
Luz looks at Lilith and feels something full of far too familiar guilt stirring in her chest. âThatâs weird. Iâve never thought that before.â she says, because itâs true.
âBut you have a family?â Lilith says because even if her and Luz donât talk much sheâs still one of the smartest people Luz knows, which is saying something since Luz is surrounded by geniuses these days.
âYep. Iâm staying though.â
Lilith frowns. âYou should visit them. Familyâs important.â Luz can feel herself starting to back away, the buzz of guilt rising again, but Lilith interrupts before she can get very far. âIâm sure that either Amity or Eda would drag you back before you could be gone for too long anyway.â
The words cause Luz to freeze. She hadnât thought of that before.
Lilith had clearly been aiming for the comment to sound offhand, an afterthought, but from the way sheâs a little tenser than normal Luz can tell that she really was trying to reassure her. It makes Luz wonder it Lilith might have enough room in her heart to care about three people one day.
âIâll think about it.â she promises.
Luz keeps her eyes fixed firmly on the floor as she says it but she can tell that the words make Lilith smile a little anyway.
~
Luz really does think about it. She thinks about it constantly, replaces the buzz of guilt with wonderings over whether she trusts that her loved ones have their claws dug into her deep enough that they could never let her go.
One night, lying in bed and wondering the same things as always, she comes to the conclusion that she does. After the certainty has settled itself in her bones she has the best nights sleep sheâs had in weeks.
In the morning she decides that sheâll wait a little. Let the certainty sink in a bit deeper. Let the amount she loves the people sheâs surrounded herself with grow until the idea she wonât be able to return becomes ridiculous.
But then the Emperor comes and the portal burns and none of it really matters.
Luz starts feeling guilty again. She doubts sheâll ever stop.
I watched the first episode of Greys Anatomy and Meredith is cool and all but why the hell is she the main character and not Christina?
its a legal requirement that all nightwing drawings need fangs now srry I dont make the rules
also this is super messy but I didnât wanna finish it so WUDHCNHA ALSO ALSO pls talk to me w the ask me anything button i wanna talk to ppl pstpsptpst
For a hot sec thought this was talking about Klaus Baudelaire and I was really questioning what I remembered happening in those books.
2020 is the year we stop acting like Klaus is an innocent baby who could do nothing wrong. Listen, I love Klaus; I adore him, but heâs a deeply flawed character like all of the other siblings. Heâs a traumatized addict who has been shown to steal and cheat and generally do whatever he needs to for a fix without regard for who heâs hurting. Even now that heâs clean we havenât seen any remorse for any of that. Klaus Hargreeves is a deeply complex and flawed character and itâs time some of yaâll stop acting like he can do no wrong.
Scars, India Lawton / Becca Stadlander / This Party Never Ends, Diana Zhuk / Burning House in Winter, Bettmann Archive / Daria Golab / Shadow Work, Indigo / Painting Disaster From A Distance, Motohide Takami / Burn it Down, Brian Luong / Red House, Morten Schelde
Watched Batman ninja and what an absolute fucking masterpiece would highly recommend