I was thinking about how the run away with me au Robin and Steve "should we get divorced?" conversation comes about:
Theyre about 23 and Robin comes home in tears after another break up. The reason: Robin had asked her girlfriend of 8 months, Lorraine to move in with her and steve. Lorraine assumes this means steve is moving out and when Robin clarifys that no Steve is staying, he's an important part of her life theyre married for chists sake. Well Lorraine doesnt take that well, says she isnt going to spend her life playing second fiddle to Steve.
This isnt the first time a relationship had ended for either of them because a partner hadnt been able to accept that Steve and Robin were a package deal. Things had been especially rough for them romantically in the first couple years of their marriage. It wasnt until a particularly awful screaming match between Robin, Steve and Steves first real boyfriend, that they were able to admit their relationship was incredibly codependent and unhealthy. Steves boyfriend had been upset when Steve had cancelled on him for the 3rd time in a row because of a Robin Emergency™️ and decided to confront Robin about it while Steve was in class. Things escalated quickly when Steve came home early from class to find them arguing and immediately took Robins side. The argument and Steves relationship ended with a slammed door, a lot of tears and a new rift in Robin and Steves relationship.
It took a lot of long conversations with Carina and Marjorie, Steve working through his toxic masculinity enough to go see a therapist - He and Robin made a deal that theyd both go talk to someone about, you know almost dieing "do you think me being fucked up by what happened at starcourt makes me weak steve?" "No of course not!" "Well then why would it make you weak?" - and a summer spent apart (Robin taking an internship in rome to study latin) for them to sit down and have a long conversation about boundaries and ground rules for how they would navigate their relationship as well as dating in the future.
Steve and Robin agreed to both take a break from dating while they worked through their respective traumas, and figured out how to navigate their relationship in a healthy way. Things werent easy, the both of them occasionally backsliding into unhealthy behaviors, more than a few nights where one of them spent the night with Carina and Marjorie in order to have space from eachother. But eventually they get their shit figured out and decide to brave the world of dating again. Steve and Robin both have their share of flings and short lived relationships but nothing so far seemed to stick. That is until Robin met Lorraine.
Lorraine was funny, sweet and a little bitchy. They had immediately clicked after being introduced by some mutual friends from school. Robin really thought things with Lorraine were going to work out. Steve and Lorraine had gotten on like a house on fire, she had slipped into Robin and Steves dynamic easily, trading jokes and light hearted jabs, cooking breakfast together on days Lorraine would stay at their apartment. Robin had fallen hard and fast, she thought she had finally found someone who accepted that her and Steve were a package deal. So 8 months in when Lorraines lease was ending Robin (with agreement from steve) asked Lorraine to move in. Things don't go to plan. Robins dreams of a future with lorraine are shattered. She goes home broken hearted.
After Robin has cried herself out, her and steve cuddled together on the couch Steve is the one to broach the topic. Robin immediately bursts back into tears before he calms her back down again saying he doesnt want a divorce but he also doesnt want to hold Robin back, doesnt want to be the reason she cant find happiness. Robin replys by saying if anyone is holding the other back its obviously her, steve gave up everything to protect her afterall. Steve calls bullshit -years of therapy and he can finally say that word without cringing- says he would do it all again in a heartbeat, that she doesn't owe him anything. They stay up all night talking about it, about what the both of them want from their futures. Neither can see a future without the other. they're platonic life partners, one day they'll find their someones who can accept that and if not well, they'll always have eachother.
Of course they do find their someones in the form of a charming if infuriating metal head and a brilliant, sweet, and badass reporter. Through trial and error the four of them figure out how to navigate life together. They all live happy ever after.
Robin and Steve celebrate 30 years of marriage with divorce papers. They'll always love eachother but now they dont need a marriage to keep eachother safe. They dont need a marriage to stay as platonic life partners. They have eachother and they have Eddie and Nancy. They have everything they need.
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Lmk what you think! I'd love to have someone to scream with about this AU and bounce ideas off of :D
Tagging by request <3 @ramyayaya
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i lvoe having a digital camera im like if u gave a 5 year old a digital camera. taking pictures of my own cats sleeping. of a bird on the street. weird graffiti. trees at a park ive been to a million times. life is beautiful and transient and none of it will happen twice....i must capture it. badly on my 15 year old digital camera.
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I absolutely love that you made Luffy a model in your modern AU. He is so pretty!!!!
Is there a specific reason why you made him a model? Or did you just want a reason to draw him in a bunch of fancy outfits?
technically the latter but backward, i kept drawing in outfits and went 'ah, he's my model!' then the op fandom found iñaki's modelling pictures, kept redrawing them as luffy, i drew that and it all went downhill from there lol
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Something about Ted going to see the Sunflowers is sticking with me. The Sunflowers!! I imagine other people know their Van Gogh history better than me but - we have the sunflowers because Van Gogh's brother loved him and because he found treatment and because he was on medication!!! We think that art comes through pain but it's so often when healing has taken place. To have Ted look at this artwork, that has such a pervasive story behind it about how you need to suffer for your art, that Van Gogh was depressed and then committed suicide, and actually the story is that this beauty comes from friends and loved ones and healing!!!!! Bro that's nuts!!! Ted looking at this art and being reminded of Kansas, being reminded of his dad, but also, as someone who has seen the Sunflowers in real life that yellow is So Bright and So Intense that you can hardly see anything else in a room. It's powerful. No matter where you are I think that painting is a bright spot in the darkness. Idk I get emotional about Van Gogh and I'm always emotional about Ted
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hiii tumblr user dayurno <3what do you think would be kandreil social media usage post-canon? i love thinking about 35 year old neil posting throwback pictures of him, andrew and kevin at age 19...
i also have this idea of neil posting a headline about him being the fastest striker in the pro league (whatever idk sports terms LOL) with a caption like 'this goes out to kevin day, who one time told me i wouldn't always be able to rely on being the fastest player on the court. my entire career has been a way of proving you wrong' (said very lovingly of course <3) and kevin just very earnestly replies. i love you neil, you have been a pleasure to teach
or like it has been a pleasure to teach you everything you know. eheheh
idk very out of character for them but i think about it a lottt. what do you think :)
OH THIS IS CUTE OK. i think kevin's social media usage is and will always be strictly professional, to me he'd be chronically offline and only actually keep up with social media if it was about exy. he really really really doesn't get the whole gist......... kevin is those people that say "social media? id rather go hiking haha" but like unironically and genuinely
on another hand i think neil would like it! he knows enough about social media (almost nothing) that he thinks its all about posting pictures he doesnt want to lose, so hed like it......... :3 neil has the scrapbooker's temperament after all so i think hed appreciate having a place to store all these memories knowing theyd never disappear. i do think his account would be locked though
andrew doesn't do social media in the traditional sense but i really believe that he'd be easily caught in the tiktok/instagram reels/whatever dopamine loop LMFAO andrew likes being distracted and not thinking so he'd enjoy his 5hrs a day tiktok scrolling while smoking time. kevin disapproves of this on a level yet unknown
re: kevin telling neil he was a pleasure to mentor ............ :') I REALLY BELIEVE HE THINKS THAT...!!! kevin strikes me as the kind of person who would drop unbelievably earnest comments online and not notice the magnitude of what hes saying. just like he does it in real life
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omg iskra going back in time auau- but like- garak seeing two random cardassians on the station with no explanation why they r there, and they seem to know him like- what. Would they try to avoid him so he dont sus them out? what about names? They obviously cant say their surnames. And Ziyal 🥺 (sorry this is just such a edible idea anyway)
AWOOOOGH GARAK WOULD BE SO INTRIGUED! you KNOW he'd be hiding behind promenade pylons trying to get a drop on any information about the two cardassians that the captain has let stay on the station during the war against cardassia! You KNOWWW he'd be desperately trying to make eye contact with them at quark's! AND YOU KNOW ISKRA WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RESIST THE TEMPTATION!
Unfortunately Idan is a first year starfleet student and like any student is deeply passionate about the letter and not the spirit of the law, and thinks that they should barricade themselves in their quarters so as to prevent temporal contradiction (as recommended in the textbook). Iskra, who graduated a cardassian jurisprudence apprenticeship and has a degree in comparative galactic law, recognizes that every set of regulations has loopholes just waiting to be tugged open and wiggled through. And that involves meeting all her aunts and uncles in their glory days, causing trouble, making cryptic remarks and flirting up a storm.
They probably do ask sisko to get bashir and garak off the station to minimize interference (Iskra also requests several other random crewmembers be kicked out. Just so that there's no implication about future events.) But not before she gets to meet her yadek! (and maybe get hit on by s3 era julian, eugh)
Iskra goes by her birth family name when she's not on Cardassia to minimize assassination attempts, so they're both Ghilanas (until SOMEONE hacks into the computer on their rented shuttle and finds their ID info...)
And also Ziyal... wary of two shiny young cardassians but still trying to put on a brave face...swept up by their openness and enthusiasm but deeply wary of the secret they seem to be hiding...
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