#not his circus. not his monkeys.

[mamawasatesttube]

timcassie is so compelling to me. they were not into each other even a little bit. it was such a messy coping mechanism fuelled entirely by grief. they were making out with each other because they were both substituting each other for kon. cassie was far more aware she was doing this than tim was. unironically, dating a girl here is one of the gayest things tim has done

#rimi talks #it is SO messy and its so fun. i don't think geoff even realized the implications but they sure are there when you read it #god... you know its BAD when modern comics have me missing tt03 of all Fucking comics #but like. todays ''tell don't show'' writers would N E V E R do something this interesting #tom taylor would be all. oh! tim we shouldn't kiss. i'm just substituting you for kon because i miss him and you were his best friend! #and then he'd have tim go oh wow cassie you're right i didn't realize that! my bad. all forgiven? yay!!! :) #GOD YOU KNOW ITS BAD OUT HERE WHEN I THINK *GEOFF* DID SOMETHING RIGHT. GOD. GOD #GEOFF MY MORTAL ENEMY GEOFF. grits teeth yeah geoffrey i have to give you this one............ #its just such a deliciously unhealthy coping mechanism. theyre a MESS. theyre using each other. theyre only able to go on bc of each other #its not a romance but it IS a codependency #bart isn't even dead yet when this happens. like. he's just off being the flash. #bart (extremely depressed bc he couldnt stop sbp and hold him in the speed force forever): :| ok #not his circus. not his monkeys. #well it is his monkeys even if he left the circus. but he's too depressed to deal with it #but its so fun. this relationship is haunted. there's a ghost in the middle. they both want to kiss him instead of each other. #tim #cassie #timcassie

[spacedace]

DPxDC snippet/prompt:

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“John.”

Zantanna’s voice had that cadence to it. Faintly strangled. Forcibly calm. Her rising blood pressure and rapidly approaching limit for his special brand of excitement evident in every single letter of his name.

Felt like old times.

“Z.” He said, smoke curling out of his mouth and billowing towards the dreary grey sky above. The one nice thing about Gotham, it had the same gloomy dark ambience of ol’ London town. “Long time no see. How’s show biz been treating you?”

He saw the faintest of twitches at the corner of her eye. Could almost hear her counting to ten in her head. He smiled at her winningly, leaning back against the damp bricks of the alleyway as he waited. More smoke drifted upward from beside him in time with a bored sigh. Patience was running out on all sides it seemed.

“That’s a child.”

“Sharp as ever.” He said, taking another drag. He nudged the child in question beside him gently with his elbow, glancing down with a sly grin. “See this is why the Justice League pay her the big bucks. Nothing gets past our Zantanna Zatara.”

He got a cloud of smoke blown directly in his face for that, little shit.

“John.”

“Z.”

“Why do you have a child? Why is the child smoking?”

“Long story.” He said with a wave of his hand.

“I learned it from watching him.” The kid said, with the same cadence as that old American commercial. All dramatic and overwrought emotion. The gremlin swooned against John's side in an imitation of collapse, hand holding the lit bifter coming up to their forhead to really sell the melodrama. He nudged his ghostly companion off, grinning at Zantanna’s slipping patience as he did.

“Don’t worry about it. Kid's fine.”

“A child wandering around with you in a dark ally in Gotham smoking cigarettes is fine?”

“I mean, I’m already dead. And short. It’s not like smoking is gonna be able to do any worse to me.”

#dpxdc #dpxdc prompt #john constantine #zantanna zatara #dani phantom #danielle phantom #elle phantom #danny fenton #i wrote this with Elle in mind since I have an entire Paper Moon AU brewing in my head with her & John #but it absolutely could be danny instead #zantanna is already so done with all of this #she's having flashbacks of John smoking in the corner with baby Jason Todd when the kid was still Robin and Bruce losing his shit about it #she wants to say not her circus not her monkeys *so badly* #but very unfortunately John and his bullshit probably is her deranged little monkey in her very on fire circus #and now he's got a feral dead kid following him around this can't be good

[paradimeart]

For you divorce baby Au: Jetstorm and Jetfire. It's a comedy film in my mind, I can just imagine the chaos two (flying?/hovering?) baby orbs can chaos in elite guard headquarters, driving everyone nuts, dodging all the hands trying to grab them, the go to baby sitter who can keep up is Blurr.

ps. all your au's and art are amazing

i HAVE thought about the jettwins in a proto-orb scenario though its a lil different than what uve described

they cant fly until they get limbs and little baby thrusters but they sure can use their other powers. also the part about blurr i drew something stupid and then remembered rise of safeguard actually takes place during season 2. have it anyway

#blurr wouldnt be involved anyway not his monkeys not his circus #my art #orbabies #clarification also divorcebaby is ratchet with protoform optimus the general orb shenanigans are just. in the orbabies tag #jazz tfa #sentinel prime tfa #perceptor tfa #wheeljack tfa #once again not . really gonna tag the orbguys #wheeljack has a mustache and beard but no mouth. got rid of it so he wouild stop ingesting poisonous gasses #BASICALLY what happened was. well when the original refinery workers fucking Exploded the only way they were able to stay alive #w how damaged they were was for them to turn back into protoforms. so theyre kind of like. entirely different guys now. except not really t #theyre exactly the same as they were before they just fly now. but on paper they're new guys. and also fetuses at the moment #transformers animated

[batfamhyperfixation]

Dick came over to hang out with the family, he was taking Titus out for a walk and comes back in terrified and outta breath, having to explain what’s wrong: It was like something out of a horror film. It was nearly pitch black in the back yard with the sky dark blue and starless, barely lighting the ground, the grass was darker than the sky. I took him to his favorite tree, but he just stood there, he didn’t go to the bathroom, he just stared out like someone was there, stalking us. As I looked around, I felt queasy. I didn't know what was out there, but I knew it was for sure out there. I started walking back with him, and as we walked, I heard another person's footsteps, but I didn't dare look back. I just sprinted back in

Jason, in muddy shoes after purposely scaring the shit outta dick in the back yard: yeah crazy

#scaring your siblings brings a whole different kinda dopamine rush fr #as a sibling I can confirm #on another night dick may have investigated but he said not my monkeys not my circus and noped outta there #someone who actually lives there can deal with that problem #his only responsibility is to make it to the manor alive #dick grayson #jason todd #batfam #batkids #bat family #incorrect batfamily quotes

[britneyhayne]

somewhere in seattle hisam is chuckling to himself

#and i love that for him #not his circus not his monkeys #bb25

[wonderinc-sonic]

@lea-andres you actually cannot do this to me I giggling too much at this

"Pre-owned House-Ninja! Free to a good home!

After minutes of consideration, Myself and Me have decided this chameleon needs a new place!

He is single and does not mingle. He will read you poetry. Must like 8 p.m. bedtimes and eyes that move independently. Feeding optional but advised.

Applicants need only come and take him from the front doorstep."

Poster for context (no slips have been taken)

#the chaotix having a normal one #espio the chameleon #charmy bee #team chaotix #i like to think vector just let this play out #'not my circus not my monkeys' (very much his circus and monkeys) #wonderincs #lea-andres #he probably like made him eat cabbage or smthn

[prettypersuasion]

Unearthing more cool stuff from the dungeons of the GNR forum.

Absolutely love this interview with Izzy in 92 in the Ju Ju Hounds era. He just sounds so happy to be free of the circus.

#izzy stradlin #Izzy Stradlin and the JuJu Hounds #not his circus not his monkeys #1992 #moving on

[jerejerejere]

Also can reporters/interviewers stop asking artists or whomever to 'perform a little bit' for the viewers of ''poppyseed-collector's weekly'' :D:D It's goddamn awkward and nobody involved seems to enjoy it. At least I don't enjoy seeing it. Ask a nice insightful question that hasn't been asked 100 times this evening. How about that?

#I would be so Done with these shit little interviews if i was him #käärijä #at least make the interview worth his time :') #i get why he feels like a circus monkey

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

Okay so: Izuku as Inquisitor.

We keep everything from the last post. Izuku is actually the child of Solas and fake Mythal, the gods are actually not the Evanuris who pretend to be, Solas worshiped as Fen’Harel is a god now as unlike the fakes he is the only one. Izuku and his friends leave their world because society has just kept going and nothing changed.

But this time they get to Thedas before the explosion, and Izuku makes it his mission to bug his father about not going through with it. He ignores it, and argues back. It ends up coming to be Izuku runs to try and stop the Temple from blowing up but can't.

No instead he's now the Herald of Andraste and like… Izuku has ALREADY pulled together a country and fought in a war. Sure he came to Thedas knowing he might need to kill his birth father, but for the LOVE of THE GODS, are you joking?

His friends laugh at him and he is Problem Child Forever.

Now he's got to run this stupid organization.

He hates it so much.

Izuku does his best though. He tries to be a fair person while also shoving his father’s face into the changes of the world.

I do think he'd be slower to confess the truth of him being from another world here. He would eventually do so because he has to. (he would not continue to lie to those who have bled for him).

Solas instantly runs with the narrative he was trying to find his son since he went missing, and Izuku just is angry he's not doing anything but he won't rat out his dad. Not unless he has to.

I think there would be a lot of confusion and a lot of eye opening but everyone accepts it. They even accept Nezu who is thrilled he gets to walk around like normal without the cloak. They figure out someway to make it acceptable to others (AKA Cole messes with their minds to make them accept it).

Izuku would just be the kindest Herald/Inquisitor to those in need while also RIPPING apart Orlais and Ferelden and everything he can.

“This is BULLSHIT,” he says at the Winter Ball before he goes off and blackmails Celene and Gaspard while handing over everything he has to Briala so she can rule through them.

“I fucking HATE this,” he grumbles when he's dealing with Nobles. Ugh.

(Aizawa hates dealing with Fereldens and their dogs)

I'm also gonna talk about the others to:

Yaomomo is a fucking Goddess who helps Josie. I also am saying she ends up with Dagna and when Sera joins in (encouraged by Ochako) chaos reigns. When the secrets are out, Dagna and Harrit basically beg for all the help. Sadly she can't make the more fantastical elements but steel? Wood? She can. Silks to.

(she takes over the entire winter ball cause those are ugly as hell uniforms)

Aizawa works as an advisor and helps spread rumours when he can. He'll slip out and lurk in corners being a ‘drunk’ while picking up info. Also he's trans and upon learning Krem is goes: same.

They then proceed to spread rumours Solas and Aizawa are Eri’s parents for the hilarity.

But yeah Aizawa is his grumpy self.

Midnight I am 100% pairing with Blackwall and she susses out the truth early. Convinces him to confess but work to rebuild. He regrets what he's done it's obvious. And frankly, look at the Templars and their abuses. Yes what he did is horrific but he does better training people to fight back and defending the weak. She and Blackwall now run a minor training boot camp for the ambush fighters.

Nezu is Nezu and happily plots with Leliana who delights in her new friend. Perhaps he is the one to help her back into the light to.

Hitoshi works with Josie as an assistant and she finds he is just as good as her at reading people. I already mentioned how she gets him losing her voice differently then the others. Hitoshi isn't just his Quirk and his ability to speak and manipulate are things she gets. It's very adorable.

Tenya and Shouto work as inner circle folks and help Izuku. They also run around as his messengers and as intimidation because Izuku is still damn short and knows it's cause he's an elf.

Ochako? Ochako is inner circle and causing CHAOS as much as she can. Her quirk is so good with bombs and weapons and getting into position on a roof. She is the ‘DEATH FROM ABOVE’ Queen. Sera loves her so much.

Eri of course is being cute but she's also being portrayed as Izuku’s sister which gets attention. Luckily she has Cole around who will stab. She also works with the doctors and when her secret comes out uses her powers. Carefully, oh so carefully with Cole right by her side. Just in case.

I think romances would stay the same. Bull/Aizawa, Tenya/Shouto, Izuku/Dorian, Ochako/Sera and all that to. It's just like… as Inquisitor Izuku is more involved and more willing to dig down roots. He doesn't get a choice. It's not just murder your dad and fuck off. No it's serious. He has to build firm bonds with these people.

Here he sits down and listens to Vivienne more, tries to understand Cassandra’s faith. He sits with Cullen and they work through the bullshit he has internalized (I run with an AU Cullen in my head because otherwise I could not get through the game and my head version actually admits his faults). He talks with Sera and learns of Pride Cookies. He sits with Bull who fears madness (but will never regret saving his men). He holds Blackwall’s hands and say he is a good man. He stands by Dorian, facing down a monster who hid behind kindness. He helps Cole learn who he is. He sits with Varric as he tells stories and tells his own, eventually being hugged by a man who thought he'd lose his friend. (Izuku wouldn't let it happen. No, not when Iida can run faster then anyone else, can cause a distraction so that they all get free. No never. Hawke and Alistair live, both of them)

Izuku is himself and shines so brightly. And the others want to shine to. Vivienne still believes in the circles but now thinks of a school system like the ones from their world. Cassandra believes but also knows that the ashes of corruption can linger so it is best to be careful. Cullen begins making amends more and more (a letter sent to a mage who makes her partner read it, the Antivan elf carefully speaking the apology from within, the mages harmed in Kirkwall, Templars so scared of him dropping to their knees in shock). Sera who learns to bake. Bull who figures out he is not a monster. Dorian, who does not speak well of slavery but speaks against it, plotting to tear down Tevinter with his bare hands. Cole who stays both human and spirit and is all the better. Varric who laughs and smiles like he once had.

And what of Izuku’s friends?

Tenya and Shouto who lost everything (Tensei choking on his own blood after refusing to give up valuable intel. Fuyumi blowing herself up with Dabi to beat him. Natsuo dying trying to protect Rei who died to. Endeavour still around with NOTHING changing) being happy again. Laughing and getting married with everyone they love there.

Ochako who lost an arm and refused to back down, who lost Tsu and mourns her so badly. Who nearly was killed because her naivety over Toga’s manipulation almost cost her life.

Hitoshi who lost his voice and only got pity, no help. Now he's regained it in a way, working with his wife who loves him dearly to be able to be the diplomat he was born to be. (and who makes it stylish to learn sign language)

Momo who is burned and hurt. Whose girlfriend left because they could not keep up, she's to much. Who was taught to keep her head down. She's creating things again. Laughing and smiling. Is kissing someone oh so sweet who has the same mind.

Midnight who lost her sex appeal and caused people to toss her aside. Acting like she's not human anymore. She's now happy with a man who ADORES her and all she is. She's smiling again.

Nezu who has tried over and over again to change the world. He now has in his paws the chance to help and make a difference. Who joins the Chantry when Leliana is Divine and helps shake things up. He's happy.

Aizawa who lost his husband and mourned so deeply. Who felt useless and broken. He has a purpose. He's working to help others, has a man who helps with aches and pains, who loves and accepts him.

Eri who was a lab rat and who had to learn to smile. Her smiles are bigger and wider here, her laugh echoing in her joy.

Izuku did this. He brought about change and happiness. He feels good.

He still hates Orlais.

@dark-elf-writes the second option if you want!

#bnha #bnha au #dragon age #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #listen #orlais sucks #it does #izuku hates it #Izuku in this Au is WAY more likely to be involved with everyone as inquisitor #otherwise it's Lavellan’s circus and monkeys #here it's his #he hates it #least Dorian is fun to smooch #Look Cullen is good idea bad execution if we want to talk about the corruption #of Templars by the chantry #Samson is better #but we’ll keep him for now

[lavenoon]

Abyss (~4.9K Words)

You are born in the abyss. Who can blame you for never knowing the light? An introspection piece on Gunmar the Black, with many headcanons towards how he may have grown up, and why his role as the villain was inevitable.

I don't like one dimensional villains so I have been plagued thinking about this guy. Remember folks, a sympathetic villain is still a villain, and this is no attempt to excuse his actions, only explain them.

#post let luce #my fic #tales of arcadia #trollhunters #gunmar #gunmar the black #[end of organizational tags. do not copy further. do not copy op tag or my fic tag] #hi folks i keep grabbing the toa villains to make them make sense #well. the troll ones anyway #wizards added a lot to gunmars depth and i jumped on it #but i still wanted to flesh him out more #lots of headcanons in varying levels of implication #and only the show as inspiration #whatever happens in the comics/ novels is not my circus and i dont care for its monkeys #but yeah this was a fun VERY spontaneous experiment (i started writing yesterday)

[mamawasatesttube]

i think we also need simon valentine back bc his possessiveness and jealousy over kon is so funny (sorry simon). i need him to witness bart just casually using kon as a jungle gym and grind his teeth about it. i want him to try to infodump about frogs to kon but tim interrupts like oh thats cool. hey i modded my car this weekend do you wanna see!! and simon is like. excuse me. i was infodumping first. sims negative reaction. and bart is STILL sitting on kon's shoulder like a weird parrot.

peak comedy to me is simon valentine stuck in a room with tim kon and bart. kons in the middle of it and doesnt even realize. simon is radiating intense jealous vibes but tim and bart are both like lmao ok anyways, this is OUR kon. <3 Autistic Hostility (intensely one-sided) (but also somehow 3x combo?) (kon is oblivious but he can pick up on the vibes) (the vibes are rancid bro) (Autistic Hostility.)

#rimi talks #sajan and lori are NOT helping kon with this situation. not their circus. not their monkeys #like simon was sooo jealous over sajan. and kon just met sajan #he would be INSUFFERABLE about tim and bart #at least with cassie he could console himself that oh thats his ex... shes allowed to be close w him... #but with the Totally Straight Bro Dude Friends. bc no one in this story has figured out the gay thing yet. well #simon is having a terrible time. kon's not having a great time either. tim and bart are just chillin tho. #theyre not above being gatekeepers. the thing they are gatekeeping is kon. they are kind of assholes but its funny #(see also: tim and bart coming back to yj and them all just being like ok bye ray youre old and we dont need u so u cant sit with us!!!) #(gatekeepers. lil dipshits. but its funny.) #kon #bart #simon #tim

[teepussilakana]

käärijä brainrot isnt terminal but it is incurable

just listened to huhhahhei and i am BACK to listening to his songs and looking up pics from his tour

#petra rants #käärijä #so proud that a finn is so big out in the world #hopefully he will not get overwhelmed i saw an interviews where he said #he felt tired from the tour like he was very happy about being so popular and making ppl happy but #felt like a monkey in a circus #I DONT THINK HE MEANT IT IN A BAD WAY ITS ONE OF HIS SONGS AS WELL #hope he tales care of himself

[chekovsphaser]

My fatal flaw in video games is minding my own business. I see a fucked up hole full of weird shit? - this seems like none of my business I will find another way around.

#this is about bg3 #and im doing another run #trying to fully explore #because I missed SO MUCH last time #bc i was like this is not my circus not my monkeys #literally didnt find astarion or wyll until after the goblin camp #and i saw gale in his hole and was like that is not my problem

[emocatkeith]

*TW: Blood & Mosaic-ed Gore*

so i may have caved in and,,,uh, made a tadc oc lol. was originally going to have one of those "fisher price talking phone" characters but i went with the sea monkey idea instead since i wanted to do a more aquatic themed character

got any questions for zim? ask away! i love answering questions

btw this is what the bottom drawing is referenced off of lol

#btw did you know that sea monkeys are actually just brine shrimp? #i was just trying to replicate goose's style with leevi's big eyes but i feel like they fit really well now lol #zim's ass says shit like “shrimply marvelous” and “krill or be krilled” #also using my mind beams to make you believe i spelled ian's last name right and totally didnt forget the l in malcolm #blood tw #gore tw #violence tw #kaufmo #not tagging the twink rabbit since i dont want his poor fans to see him getting mauled LMAO #but yeah seriously no worries he'll be fine just give him a few minutes and he'll be back to usual #tadc #tadc oc #the amazing digital circus #the amazing digital circus oc #fan oc

[spending-life-pretending]

5 years since first reading aftg and I still need to know: does Wymack think Andrew and Neil fucked on the bus

#me #aftg #the kings men #andreil #bus scene is so funny bc like #I know the answer is no; Wymack is too Tuned-In to their personalities but still #him waiting a second for them to get off the bus and then just shaking his head and leaving always makes me think #‘damn he really said not my circus not my monkeys; if yall are set on being mushy just don’t make me see it; out of sight out of mind’

[jibril-thelibraryangel]

“Not my circus, not my monkey”

-Percival de Rolo after giving a gun to a monkey and setting it loose on the world

#making it absolutely his circus #and his monkey #in the most literal way possible #critical role #critical role spoilers #cr #cr spoilers #campaign 3 #cr3 #bell’s hells #bells hells