#rotten apples verse

[harveydont]

pursuit

#joker #batman #bruce wayne #rotten apples verse #ra verse #jobo #scribbles #i dont know how to fix the resolution quality so enjoy BLUR

[greedkinggreaser]

Calendar Girl, Harley Quinn has seemingly forged the strangest bond with Johnny Quick from Earth 3.

Calendar Girl is my design | Johnny Quick's design is @hermannco | Harley Quinn's Design belongs to @somnambulistsedge

original meme

#dcau #dcu #dc #earth 3 #Johnny Quick #Earth 3 Johnny Quick #Harley Quinn #calendar girl #Batman Rogue #my art #BoxVerse #Rotten Apples Verse

[hermannco]

Bunch of character cards I made the past few months.

My take on the Gotham Rogues / Batman villains, all together at once. (More to come when I get more time)

#the joker #oswald cobblepot #harley quinn #harvey dent #jonathan crane #pamela isley #jervis tetch #edward nygma #waylon jones #ra #ra verse #rotten apples #killer croc #the riddler #poison ivy #mad hatter #harleen quinzel #scarecrow #two face #the penguin #the noir art

[kylo-wrecked]

@brooklynislandgirl :// { cont'd from ~~~ }

—☾—

Just a night or two because she's generous and lonely, and he's greedy and lonely. And maybe because she catches on, and Beth somehow figures going out east will limit his access to certain party favors, but New York's New York. There's salt on the surf even this far out. Especially this far out. Ben does one tidy bump off the side of his hand in the bathroom—that's it, the last one—and minutes later, he's engrossed with every syllable that leaves Beth's wine-plump lips. 

Beth speaks, and Ben gets a taste of her world, flashes of shark fins in bloody sacks, colorless, scaly soups, trembling, knobby hands, reaching out for nothing. She's woven herself into the thread of the land she called home, through generations of sorrow. Even if it means most of what she knows is pain, Beth's thoroughly true to herself. Makes his cock warm, but that’s a problem for later. 

"You're a whole slice of angel, aren't you?" he says with tilted head. "Messenger of the gods. 'Every angel is terror.' Says some Austrian guy, who's probably right."  

'Wha' about you?'

The architecture of Ben Solo shifts then. His head jerks upright. The smile he wears is prim. He even frowns for a split second—just there—appearing ever so slightly puzzled once it registers, when the crescents of Beth's teeth blink from the shadows of his eyes, like lights going out, that she expects an earnest answer from him, as though there were any criteria of human mess Ben might avoid. Under the flickering storm lights, he is smooth as a Swiss Army knife with all its tools tucked away. There's a peculiar glaze over his features, an odd distance in his stare that is generally starkly present. 

"Come on, Riley," he says, tipping the contents in the bulb without drinking. "I'm the avoidee in this scenario. I'm selfish. I get bored. Then I get wired." 

He taps a thumb to the stem of his wine glass, keeping rhythm with the soft bass humming from the patio speakers on his right and clinking over the faint whish of conversation from the white tablecloths and the ocean to his left. 

"I'm a walking red flag." 

Ben shouldn't talk like this. It's just the blow coming off, the wine. Beth. He should stop talking. But he says, "It's bad. I try going to church. Confession. I always have my foot on the threshold. It's public knowledge." 

"I think..." He looked around, lewd eyes darting over sand-washed wood panels and paper furniture from Williams Sonoma. The cougars in Dooney & Bourke and double-hemmed white shorts. "It's just; I can't stand anyone who eats granola every morning but won't let the weedheads use the fucking beach chairs."

The Hamptons were fuckin' weird. Like a cold, Amish Newport or a pancake flat Malibu.

"Joking." Ben raises his glass to Beth, slides into a more comfortable grin, another topic. "I don't know limits, but I'd never eat an apex predator. To the sharks. They're having their revenge this summer—and to you."

He smiles. Not so prim this time. Big red flag, hoisting himself into the sky. 

"I like you."

He drinks.  

#brooklynislandgirl #m. a | music!verse ben: nowhere man #r. rotten apple; big soul #queue de la k #tw: drug mention #tw: drug use

[quitealotofsodapop]

If all versions of Sun Luzhen love apples and hates peaches, what about the other Wukongverse kids? Any favourites? It'll be funny the peach loving Wukongs have half of their kids not liking peaches. The betrayal of genetics.

At least Heaven's Peach Gardens are safe from them... Or are they...?

Referencing this post about Luzhen loving apples and hating peaches.

LMK Xiaotian/MK has canonically expressed his love for stonefruit, so he probably loves peaches. I've seen hcs that he absolute fave though is apricots ("Not too big, not too mushy, just the right amount of cronch!"). This gets his Au counterpart the nickname Apricot.

Mei would love any fruit thats brightly coloured - kiwis being her fav for flavor alone, but dragonfruit is a close second.

Bai He is in the kid phase of "fruit is gross", but Macaque has managed to get her to enjoy frozen blueberries and strawberries.

The Eclipse Twins devour any fruit offered to them like little piranhas, but especially melons. Give them a red watermelon, and the end result looks like a crime scene.

Yuebei is a peach fiend like her baba. No stonefruit left unturned. Her twin brothers Jidu and Luohuo are a little different since they loudly prefer plums and mangos like Macaque.

Hib!Liuer is a peach-fiend like his adoptive dad/mentor. Fa Ming probably convinced the little monk to eat his fruits by telling him how much the Monkey King loved peaches.

Hib!MK/Xiaoyun has a predicament... he does like peaches and other stonefruit - but his fave fruit is pomegranate, a fruit that requires a lot of dexterity to enjoy. Dasheng only found out Xiaoyun had this issue when he caught the one-armed kiddo trying to peel a pomergranate with his feet. Pre-peeled pomegranate fruit/seeds are aa god-send for him.

Shui Lian (the white vixen in the HiB verse) loves most berries and tree fruits, but her favorite is cider apples (like irl foxes) which confuses anyone who eats one and gets a mouthful of super-sour rotten-tasting apple. More for her then :3

In the Reborn verse; Qi Energy/"Fruitie" is a little fruit glutton. As shown in the film; the little nature spirit noms on what appears to be breadfruit, longans, and apples while in the village market. He also eats to replenish his powers. In the reborn au; as Xiao Qi he's even worse. Ever since he's been introduced to stonefruit, he ravages peaches like they're going out of style. The parents still joke that he's a fruit cannibal.

The two wolf siblings (Zhu Yu and Ku Ai) that Reborn!SWK & LEM picks up are used to forest fruits like berries and the rare crabapple. Their favorites are blueberries, which they will literally jump into bushes for. They don't see what the big deal is with peaches.

And ofc you got the 5 Stone-Fruit Monkeys, who are all named for said fruits. More cases of "fruitie cannibalism" the pilgrims joke; as the five babies have declared the fruit they were named for to be "their fruit". Fights will break out if you attempt to feed anyone other than Xiaotao/Little Peach a peach. They all agree that dates are a neutrally-enjoyable fruit however.

Netflix!MK/Xiaoshi loves peaches, but Netflix!SWK actually doesn't care for them that much - bad experience with the poisoned one.

The twin pebbles love cherries, and again, crime scene occurs when left alone with a basket of them. They also love raw tomatoes.

The Heavenly Orchards may breathe a sigh of relief for now... until the different MKs get into the celestial realms and start getting hungry. Xiao Qi and Yuebei probably give a few immortals pstd flashbacks with their snack runs.

#sun luzhen #qi xiaotian #qi energy #lmk luzhen #jiang liuer #wukongverse #lego monkie kid #lmk #the monkey king and the infant #the monkey king and the infant au #monkey king reborn #monkey king hero is back #the monkey king netflix #the monkley king 2023 #lmk fan children #jttw inspo fan children #jttw inspo ocs #sun wukong #liu er mihou #six eared macaque

[imaginarianisms]

full name :  misa amane / 弥 海砂. other names :   misa misa, backout queen, kyoto barbie, hollywood queen, the crimson whore, kira's high priestess, the second kira, goddess of the new world. age :   19-24 years old. (main). species : human (main); shinigami (postmortem). gender :   cis woman; likely some form of eldritch death xenogender postmortem. sexuality :   biromantic bisexual. origin :  kyoto, japan. (main; verse varies) current location :   tokyo, japan. (verse varies); she has homes in several places. nationality :   japanese. ethnicity :   yamato japanese. spoken languages :  japanese, english, mandarin, asl, jsl (verse dependent). family : a mother, a father who are both deceased after being brutally murdered; her feelings for them are complex, a younger sister she isn't particularly close to but she got into sex work to support after the deaths of their parents. partner(s) : a guy who was in the yakuza, particularly part of a bosozoku or motorcycle gang that she dated back in highschool; he died due to an incident with the japanese police (former); light yagami, her fiancé, her everything (main). occupation : sex worker (former), model, actress, tv personality, singer & idol. religion :  her father was catholic christian & her mother shinto; agnostic. height :   4' 11¾"″ (152cm) body type :  hourglass; petite. disabilities & neurodivergencies : she develops chronic pain & alcoholism due to heightened levels of stress later in life; she has ADHD, borderline personality disorder / bpd with antisocial tendencies & histrionic personality disorder / hpd. hair : brunette, almost black (natural), dyes her hair golden blonde & wears wigs of many different colors, her favorites being blonde, red, blue, pink & purple. eyes :   bright eyes; light golden brown, almost black; red when she obtains the shinigami eyes, wears eye contact lenses, mostly blue, green and her personal favorite, pink heart shaped eye contacts. tattoos :   a heart with light's name over her right breast; tattoos are generally frowned upon in japan as they're associated with the yakuza. piercings :   wears heart shaped & other gothic earrings. scars :   her upper arms and legs were filled with faint, light self harm scars. educational background :   was almost done highschool before dropping out after having a mental break after being sent away from school to a mental facility for her frequent lashing out at staff and alumni and then later the deaths of her parents. most things she knows now are from reading or being self-taught. social media :  likely has a secret tumblr somewhere in the abyss of the internet, definitely has a twitter, instagram & a youtube channel. (verse dependent, doesn’t check it often anyway in the later years of her life; forgets about social media due to not having an interest or simply being too tired to deal with it). smoking :   little, the smell may potentially bring back bad memories of her father. drinking :   struggles with alcoholism and substance abuse later in life to cope with her trauma, her struggling relationship with light yagami and his infidelity. drugs :   recreational marijuana & psychedelics to cope. (verse dependent).  athletics : dancer, it's practically her job, she used to do cheerleading & parkour back when she was in highschool hanging around her other female friends in order to escape trouble; misa & her friends were degenerate beauty queens. hobbies :   singing, dancing, flirting, shopping, makeup, gossiping, tarot, divination, the occult, magick & witchcraft, learning new things, vlogging, vtubing, engaging with her fanbase the rotten apples, ASMR, doing mukbangs, baking for her loved ones, motorcycling, doodling, beating a bitch's ass. favorite drink :   strawberry milk & strawberry juice. favorite food :   homecooked meals, but she loves mochi as a snack. favorite music :   pop, classical, rock & goth. clothing style :   goth & punk fashion, although less so as she grows older.

Tagged by: stole this from @hxgure (ily vee!!<3333) as it was in my likes !! Tagging: @dethdvncer @galaxyheld @velcryons @loyalpromise @woodblxssomcrowned @sevynhells @gutsing @helbroth @unsnare @hatredcurse @inmydrcams @familiarblood @shinobinvku @historias-multorum & anyone who wants to do this, steal it & just say we& tagged ya !! :'D

#misa amane. || headcanons. #dash games. #/ drugs mention #/ self harm mention

[an-american-anglophile]

I’m thinking a lot about just how perfect it is that this show was positioned from day one as being a legal drama, whereas Breaking Bad was always more of a straight crime drama. Because this is a dirty, perverted world these characters occupy. The Albuquerque of Vince Gilligan’s fictional universe is a broken place, governed by a pretty Old Testament-level system of consequences for our actions. So the fact that something as big as the law, the very concept of Law itself, is the backdrop for this show is important.

Because what a sorry profession the law is in Better Call Saul’s world.

It’s so very easy to look at Jimmy (and now Kim) and think they’re outliers. Rotten apples. They’re tarnishing the very notion of the law with the evil and selfish ways they ‘practice’ it. In the process, they doom themselves. That part is easy. But we know that it’s not just them. Chuck McGill was essentially the protagonist of his own Shakespearean tragedy, so consumed by his devotion to Law with a capital L that he lost the ability to tell when he’d begun to undermine his own principles. Chuck was damned, too.

But look at this very episode. At the way Howard and Cliff agree to put Irene Landry in a wheelchair so that she’ll strike a more pitiable figure to the mediator judge who’s coming. That’s a very mild sort of sin. Jimmy blows his nose with more evil in his heart than that. Neither Howard nor Cliff are inherently bad people for doing that, certainly. And yet it is highlighted. Howard first starts to feel the effects of the vet’s drug right as he’s invited Irene to sit in that chair, too. Starts to feel the heat.

Look at how Rich Schweikart pounces on the opportunity to settle this lawsuit the minute he smells blood in the water from Howard’s meltdown, just as Jimmy and Kim knew he would. Rich is the legal representation for a corporation that manipulates and abuses the trust of the elderly as a matter of course, the kind of behavior that made so many of us so viscerally uncomfortable when Jimmy tried dabbling in it at the end of Season 3.  

All of this is legal, what’s going on here. Some of it is a necessary evil, some of it is more defensible than not, but this is what the Law is. What does this remind you of? Because it reminds me of Slippin’ Jimmy. The kind of chicanery that Chuck so vehemently opposed him for perpetrating. But what the hell was everyone else doing this whole time?

You think this is bad? This chicanery? They’ve done worse. They’ve all done worse.

It’s a perversion of the law because the law is only useful as a concept so long as it’s the vessel through which we do what is *right*. The entire Albuquerque-verse is dominated more than anything else by the power we have to do the right thing and the wrong thing, whether we break bad or break good. So on a thematic level, for a group of *lawyers*, of all people, to reflect these kinds of qualities, these Slippin’ Jimmy qualities... is damning.

Walter White famously said toward the end of “Fly”, in an epiphany brought on by sleeping pills he’d been slipped by Jesse, that it didn’t matter whether a fly got into the meth they were cooking because “it’s all contaminated.” There is no truer statement about the stories of Jimmy, Kim, Howard, Chuck, and the rest of the Better Call Saul cast. It’s all contaminated. They contaminate it for themselves, for each other, and make it so very hard for decency to shine through.

To me, that’s the tragedy of Howard Hamlin. It’s the tragedy of all of them. These lawyers who so easily understand the law and so struggle to understand what’s right. Some of them (Chuck) are never able to see the world beyond their own perspective enough to make it to the ‘right side’, whatever that may be. Some of them (Howard) have just enough self-awareness to understand the way people are reduced to their most craven selves for nothing, but still can’t escape the pull of the current around them. Some of them (Jimmy and Kim) try to become one with the current, for all the good that does them when a true force of nature (Lalo) comes knocking.

When Howard was talking to Cary, the young employee restocking the fridge with sodas today who hopes he might become tomorrow’s Chuck McGill, his dialogue (”Well, maybe there are more important things”) evokes a line he spoke back in “Fall”, when Chuck himself was balking at the notion that he should become partner emeritus rather than remain a practicing lawyer: “Chuck, there’s more to life than this.”

Words worthy of his epitaph. Rest in peace, Howard.

#This probably makes very little sense but I felt compelled to write it #It all makes sense in my sleep deprived brain #BCS spoilers #Better Call Saul #BCS meta #Howard Hamlin

[cheesewelsom]

Opposite AU ( show verse ) where Alicent is taking care of flea bottom while Viserys is sick as fuck, then she sees how fucked up this land is and is like. ' how long can i fix this shit? ' and she does.

She hires people to clean flea bottom up, then she also hires people to check poultry, to see if it was rotten before serving it to the consumer, yadda yadda, she was dry cleaning Flea bottom.

And after all of that, the amount of sickness that was in flea bottom lessens. ( The problem is, that there's more paperwork, and she is in agony ). She also wants to kill Rhaenyra in her kid here.

So mean Alicent, who really wants to kill Rhaenyra in her sleep, she also has Aegon!

Sweet Aegon who knows how to bake, paint and is too kind to other people, he gives and gives until his arms are bare and he still somehow finds a way to keep giving.

So imagine Alicent is chewing someone out, like giving them the full smack talk, saying ' how are you this incompetent ', then suddenly Aegon comes in with a drawing on hand, then suddenly is like. ' mommy, do you want to see this drawing of us? '

And Alicent is like, ' later sweetie' but Aegon hands it in anyways and Alicent is like ' aww, sweetie is this us? Thank you! ' in the most sugary, mother voice you could hear and she kisses Aegon on the head and bids him farewell as he runs off with a smile.

Then she has Helaena! Helaena is a bit adventurous ( in Alicent's words ) always going out and doing something weird. Like that one time, she checked the floorboards of Red keep too many times to count, then, she always looked at green banners and red banners.

Helaena also never wore skirts, often preferring pants, and unlike Aegon, she loves to sword train.

Alicent saw this and just pulled Aegon out of sword training and let helaena take his place. ( Her and Aegon were switching anyways, since they look so much alike, no one has noticed Helaena has been taking Aegon's class )

Helaena seems to like being with either Aegon or Alicent more than not. So Alicenr takes Helaena whenever she doesn't have any meetings ( she just doesn't want her baby girl to see her shout at fools ) and Aegon takes Helaena whenever hes not doing charity work (Helaena's still not allowed outside of red keep )

So then suddenly, they have Aemond. Which is a surprise! By the council and the family ( not to helaena though )

By this point, Flea bottom is clean atleast, they are fixing up taxing, prices and availability of more jobs, Orphanages and Education.

Then, Aemond comes in to the picture. He hates books, hates sword training, hates history, hates Dragons and more. They are confused what sets him off from these things but don't try to force him.

Instead, Aemond loves planting, bats ( which is weird ), the Axe, and he dislikes their mother a bit. While this breaks Alicent's heart, she does try to make it better a bit, but it seems like Aemond really detest her presence.

Aemond has a really weird sister who would check his eye whenever it was closed, and a really weird brother who is trying to play this weird pouch instrument in his face, Aemond is utter displeased by the horrid sound the pouch instrument makes.

These people are annoying and keeps hogging his personal space, like the gods, you live like this? Calm down!

A few years down the line: then, Daeron is born that they are in utter shock..

"mom can still do that? " Helaena whispers

"dad is still alive!? " Aemond shouted.

" apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur. " Aegon sings.

Daeron, for the lack of better words. Is a coward. He hides from things as mundane as sunlight, cries when some he doesn't know touches him, cries when Alicent does as much as glare at him, and also cries when Aegon tries to play the pouch instrument.

" see, majority wins, you can now stop playing that monstrosity " Aemond.

" what!, Well, helaena likes my playing, right Helaena? " Aegon.

"you see, I don't have any ears so I don't hear this argument. Bye bye. " Helaena.

"bwah, bwah. " Daeron.

#heleana targaryen #alicent hightower #aegon targaryen #aemond targaryen #daeron targaryen #the greens #team green #HOTD #the green family

[skydalorian]

Favourite Character Bingo - 2023

Characters I first encountered in 2023 (not necessarily part of media released in that year).

These are intended to be ordered loosely according to genre, moving from classic to contemporary horror, sci-fi horror, thriller horror, on to drama, comedy, then comic/cartoon and fantasy. Naturally, plenty of these don't quite stay in their own prescribed mould and could be considered fitting for another genre, but this is MY PARTY and I make the rules >:(

The hardest thing I've ever done may just be forcing myself to choose only one Baldur's Gate 3 character. If this was ordered by fondness for the characters, Astarion would be up top, but it's not and I'm petty so he's last and least.

As may surprise no-one, the prevailing trends are trickster archetypes, gothic looks, autism coding, and sympathetic or misunderstood status and/or rebellion. Also Billy Crystal is there.

Listing below the cut!

Countess Marya Zeleska - Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Mrs. Danvers - Rebecca (1940)

Lady Sylvia Marsh - The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Nevena - You Won't Be Alone (2022)

Kim Diamond - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Brynn AND the Aliens - No One Will Save You (2023) (as an interacting set of characters, not necessarily as interesting actors singularly)

Violet and Corky - Bound (1996)

Andrea "Dre" Greene - Swarm (2023)

Gunther - V/H/S/85 (2023) - Goth boy who saves the day through his prescient lucid dreaming and rebels against being falsely cast as the villain, hell yeah.

Willard - Willard (1971) - would be in the top three if this were sorted by level of favoritism.

Gerd Wiesler - The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen (2006)

Primo - Big Night (1996)

Walter Tattersall - Yellowjackets (2021-) - of call the cast and I fixate on THIS GUY. Got me again, Elijah!

Willie Jack Sampson - Reservation Dogs (2021)

Barabara Howard and Melissa Schemmenti - Abbott Elementary (2022-) - My god these two gripped me. Just give them an entire season. Gregory can be there too.

Gregory Eddie - Abbott Elementary (2022-)

Sally Albright and Harry Burns - When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Raven - Teen Titans: Beast World (2023-) - solely for her design; I am practically floating at the departure from emo/punk Raven and a return to a more whimsical gothic look. Another artist draws her looking like Billie Lourd and I'm into it.

Sharon Apple - Macross Plus (1994/1995)

Spider-Punk/Hobie Brown - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

The Medicine Seller/Kusuriuri/薬売り - Mononoke/モノノ怪 (2007)

Astarion - Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - He's my best friend, he's my pal, he's my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy, and I've been so excited for you all to see his whole schtick since way back in 2020.

Runner Up's: Shin Hati (Ahsoka), Mirror Woman (The Art of Mirrors) - don't ask, Nearly everyone else form Baldur's Gate 3 but especially all the companions and the Emperor oopsies I'm a sucker, Padraic (Banshees of Inisherin), Mary (Carnival of Souls), everyone from Dungeon Meshi but esepecially Marcille and Senshi, Lorne Malvo (Fargo), Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell), Brigitte (Ginger Snaps), The Harppy (Harpya), Joel and Ellie (The Last of Us; kept out because of the Zionist higher plot), Dracula and Clemens (The Last Voyage of the Demeter), Martin (Martin), Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death), Father Amorth (The Pope's Exorcist), Deer Lady (Reservation Dogs), Elora Danan (Reservation Dogs), Adam (SAW), Carl (Skyman), Kris (Solaris), Kurt Kunkle (Spree), Sammi Curr and Eddie (Trick or Treat), Bitch Cat (V/H/S/94),

#favorite character bingo #favorite character bingo 2023 #2023 #mine #my art #myart #my media #countess zaleska #marya zaleska #dracula's daughter #mrs. danvers #rebecca #lady sylvia marsh #the lair of the white worm #nevena #you won't be alone #kim #kim diamond #blair witch 2 #book of shadows: blair witch 2 #brynn #no one will save you #corky #violet #corky and violet #violet and corky #bound #dre #andrea greene #dre greene

[echo-bleu]

For the wip document ask game: "hope"?

Thank you! That's a strong word 😆

From a vow out to the dark, a Sauron Wins the Ring War AU:

“Something has happened that the Enemy didn’t foresee. It will change many of his plans, and ours, as well. The future has become blurred, even to me. The path forward is now shrouded in mist.” “What does that mean?” Éomer calls out, never one for subtlety and riddles. “We are once again on the brink. One wrong move could bring our utter destruction. But hope will come to us from Mordor itself, unlooked-for." “Hope,” Imrahil repeats to himself. They’re in desperate need of it.

(that file has so many instances of "hope" that I had trouble choosing one!)

From those towers we built:

Hope and fear mingled make for a strange autumn in Imladris. The weather doesn’t seem to know what to choose, heavy with humidity without rain, a winter’s barren landscape with the temperature of the late summer. Apples and persimmons fall from the trees half-rotten and already spoiled. Elrond feels a certain kinship for them, as each of Celebrían’s period of wakefulness lands on him like another blow, another bruise on already layered wounds. It is as if she relives her nightmares every time she feels a hand on her, or spies someone moving in her vicinity.

From an untitled fic set in Gondor around Aragorn and Arwen's wedding:

Maglor would have loved it, he thinks idly. In fact— That harp work, the increasingly complex variations with each verse, those alternating rhymes… It sounds exactly like Maglor’s work. Elrond stands up abruptly as everyone applauds, hope blooming in his chest. No, it’s not possible, is it? He’s had too many false trails, too many disappointments. Still. He’s going to sail soon. He owes it to himself – to Maglor – to check.

#that garden ungrown #those towers we built #a vow out to the dark #echo's fanfiction #silmarillion #lotr #tolkien

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

12 pictures of the sun, each month, same place, same time.

[Planet Earth]

* * * *

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”

― Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse of

#planet earth #the sun #time #the seasons #quotes #Helen Bevington #poets #poetry

[harveydont]

“At any rate I’ll never go there again!” said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. “It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!”

Jervis and Jon designs by @hermannco

#batman #jervis tetch #joker #jonathan crane #mad hatter #scarecrow #bruce wayne #ra verse #rotten apples verse #scribbles

[lordoftherazzles]

Hi Razzy I love youuuu!! <3 Do you think that you could write a lil bit for the fic where Bilbo and Thorin elope in Vegas and then it turns out that Thorin is his new next door neighbor? Maybe using the prompt "berry picking" from the summer stories prompts? (imagine i've inserted the lil eyeball emojis here)

YES HELLO!!!

Thanks for sending in this prompt/ask!! :D This is my first time poking at this AU since the plot bunny, so this may or may not end up canon, but this is what I WOULD DO with this prompt and this AU-verse at this time, I think.

I hope you enjoy it, and get some sort of vibe as to what this fic could be!

-> Fuck Thy Neighbor (Plot Bunny) -> Summer Stories (Week 1)

Berry Picking

Bilbo wanted everything to be perfect for Drogo and Primula’s wedding, so when Prim had asked him to bake, he was going to do only the best he could. That meant fresh berries and fruits picked by his own hand. Not to mention, the local orchard farm was always a wonderful sight to see. The smell of ripe berries and fresh apples always tickled his nose in the best of ways.

This wasn’t just about the wedding sweets, but Bilbo often found baking to be a great passion, and a great way to relieve stress. He’d been dubbed a ‘stress baker’ for far too long, and to deny those labels now would be foolish. So the more supplies he had, the more baking he’d end up doing. With the current issue that was his new next-door neighbor on his hands…the house was going to be only two bread loaves short of opening up a damn bakery.

With a sun hat over his head and a basket hooked at his elbow, Bilbo just grumbled to himself as he inspected each apple carefully before either leaving it on the tree or plucking it by the stem to be sliced up later in his kitchen. He was a particularly picky man when it came to his fruits and vegetables, whether eating them or picking them out to see which had the most potential to be the most flavorful. Of course, his grumbling had nothing to do with bruised skins or fruit not being ripe enough for the picking. It was about that stupid neighbor of his.

A stupid neighbor that just so happened to be married to him in the eyes of the law.

Bilbo’s stomach lurched at the thought as he shook his head, snagging another apple into his hand and inspecting it before plucking it from the tree and carefully placing it in his basket alongside a few others.

Sooner or later he’d need to contact an attorney and relay this ridiculous story of how he had gotten accidentally married to some yeehaw whose last name he didn’t even know until a piece of Thorin Durin’s mail ended up in his mailbox by mistake. How embarrassing. The thought made Bilbo’s cheeks burn as if the sun were getting to him, and it prompted him to tug on that sunhat a bit harder in adjustment, grumbling to himself as his inspection continued.

Meanwhile across the lot…

“You can’t eat those yet!” Thorin growled towards a young blond kid who had berries in his hands and was running from his uncle while having the audacity to laugh about it. “Fili!” Thorin barked, tossing aside his basket of blueberries, and those laughing giggles turned into two and were more squeals than anything as Kili joined into the fray.

Two young boys were notorious for causing trouble. No wonder Dis wanted a day to herself and directed Thorin to take Fili and Kili to the orchard by himself. So much for ‘they’ll be on their best behavior!’, which was hardly the case as they ran, unclean berries in their hands and shoving them into their mouths–or trying to. The fact that both kids looked as if they’d stuck their heads in giant jam jars was something else.

Thorin was not handling bath time for them later. Rotten little rugrats–but he loved them dearly, even if his puffed out red cheeks at the moment said otherwise.

“Fili! Kili!” Thorin yelled, trying to wrangle the two kids, but for some reason, he had a hard time getting a hold of them. Charging after the two near the apple trees, and watching one of them clip their foot against a ladder as he was passing by, Thorin halted. The squeal from both of his nephews, and whatever gentleman had been up there picking apples rang loud in his ears. His arms automatically extended…and it was as if fate truly wanted to have the last laugh in making his day a big berry-covered and sticky misery.

“Wah!!” Bilbo squealed as soon as he had been caught, and stared into the eyes of his savior who had his firm arms locked around him…bridal style. “You!” With his brows knitting together, Bilbo wasn’t sure whether to start squirming or not as his cheeks continued to heat up in embarrassment, and even more agitation. “Put me down this instant!”

“You’re welcome!?” Thorin had half a mind to just drop Bilbo like a sack of potatoes at the lack of manners with such an unexpected rescue, but something in him tugged at his better judgment and placed his less than neighborly neighbor back onto his feet. “How about a thank you it’s not that hard.”

“It’s not my fault my ladder was jostled. I was minding my own business, thank you very much,” Bilbo’s eyes dropped to the ground where his perfectly plucked apples lay scattered, his face wilting in the process. “My apples…”

Thorin let out a heavy sigh, casting a glance over his shoulder toward two very guilty-looking young boys. “My berries…” He lamented, just as pathetically as Bilbo had before kneeling to start picking up the fallen apples from Bilbo’s collection. “Sorry.” It wasn’t the most heartfelt of apologies, but the intent was there. It was more than what the grump next door deserved in Thorin’s eyes, but then again…Bilbo had a right to be agitated.

“No, it’s okay…they’re kids, and they look sorry enough for the both of us,” Bilbo sighed as he was also collecting his spilled spoils before he and Thorin inadvertently reached for the same apple. One hand clasped over the other only to lock eyes for a moment too long. It was Bilbo who retracted his hand first. “Thank you.”

“Mm, welcome. I hope you plan to do something nice with these, you’ve picked all the really good ones.”

“Only the best for my apple pies. You should see the blueberry and blackberry buckets I have already. Primula is a big fan of my baked goods, but only if they’re fresh berries and apples. I’d hate to disappoint her on her big day.”

“A wedding?” Thorin asked with an arched brow as he placed the last apple in Bilbo’s bucket and rose back to his feet. “A properly planned one, I hope.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Bilbo squinted his eyes as he followed suit and rose to his full height, which was a head shorter than the man in front of him. “If you’re implying our make-believe Vegas wedding would have any influence on this one, you’re sorely mistaken–”

“Uncle Thorin! Your blueberries!” Fili shouted, Kili toddling up behind him as the basket of berries was being awkwardly carried by the oldest of the kids.

“Thanks, Fee!” Thorin’s tone changed like the flip of a switch, not wanting to confuse his poor nephews with talk of weddings, husbands, and especially not Vegas. “Your mother will turn this into great muffins, yeah?”

“Yeah!” Fili and Kili shouted in unison as their big eyes landed on Bilbo. “Sorry about your ladder, Sir.”

“It’s quite alright, no one was hurt,” Bilbo encouraged sweetly, wearing that same tone that Thorin did that told kids that there was nothing to worry about here, even if moments before there had been bickering between himself and his…whatever Thorin was.

Wasn’t it like every married couple to bicker? That was another thought that made Bilbo shiver, but there was also something insanely humorous about it, which meant a real smile stretched across his lips.

“We need to make our way to the blackberry brambles and then we’re out of here. Say goodbye to Mister Bilbo.”

“Oh, like your neighbor Mister Bilbo?” Fili asked curiously, sending Thorin’s head spinning.

Way to expose that Thorin had talked about the guy on at least one occasion…by name…and in a non-malicious way, because why would one share that type of conversation with a couple of kids?

“Yep, that’s him, my neighbor Mister Bilbo, now…let’s go,” Thorin sighed, scooping up his basket of berries and prodding both boys at the back with his hands, “before you say anything else to embarrass me…”

And as Thorin prodded his nephews off, Bilbo simply watched in amusement, wondering if he had gathered enough berries for his impending baking frenzy…or if perhaps he still needed a few more baskets of blackberries especially before calling it a day here at the orchard farm.

Well…why not? Berry picking was most certainly a calming and favorite pastime of his and it had absolutely nothing to do with Thorin and his nephews making their way towards the brambles. Not at all.

#the hobbit #bagginshield #thilbo #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #fic: fuck thy neighbor #razzywrites #razzledrabbles #the-girl-with-the-algebra-book

[hermannco]

"In a completely carnivorous diet as far as we are concerned. Not that she would need anything else."

She has sharp teeth

#poison ivy #pamela isley #the noir art #ra #ra verse #rotten apples #batman rogues #batman villains #dc #dc comics #dc fanart

[feline17ff]

2/?: This could give conflict bc the "rebooted" universe characters could have an existential crisis, thinking "Am I the real (Rebooted Character), or am I just a replacement?".. Perhaps the reboot characters, with the help of Brooke, who is wracked with guilt bc she was the last Narrator in the OG universe before her parents forced her to leave, travel to the OG verse to fix it. There, they find that all the characters have turned into weird, dangerous creatures...-NHA

Yes, that's a good conflict 👀

Hmm, weird as in how...

Are they like zombies? Only a crumb of what they used to be? (idr the correct expression)

I want their corrupted selves to have some reason to their appearance. But idk what. Hmm.

Books tear and yellow and fade.

How can that be applied to these human characters?

Or will we go according to their name or destiny? Like

Apple becomes like a rotten apple, has worms and is zombie-like

Briar has thorns on her body

Raven, Sparrow and Duchess have feathers and/or are feather monsters

MONSTERS! OMG WHAT IF THEY'RE MONSTERS?

Like this post I made once!

#ever after high #my asks #narrator headcanon anon #monster high #eah reboot

[pigeonwit]

hihi hello pidge! how are you ??

what is your opinion on detective noir (as a genre but ESPECIALLY the hard boiled detective trope)

(also I read your splasher tommy boy post and had a big happy wiggle it was soso good wbwbw) (I will reblog it with my full thoughts later but tumblrs being weird atm :’))

*gestures vaguely* hhhhhnghdahjjfffmmmnn... being perceived hard? overthinking a little bit? but we're good! anxiety is simply a bastard.

thats a good question cause like i said a while back im really not very well versed in noir media. i love old movies but noir is a genre that kind of slipped my grasp. i certainly love the aesthetics of it all - movies are so polished and sterile nowadays that it creates a viewing experience that is at best Average and at worse boring as sin, to the point where it can undercut the messages being put forward. i feel like theres a lot noir had to offer that still applies to our society today. it's dated, as all older genres are, but i really feel like it could be revamped. 'the batman' is proof enough that modern noir can definitely work and is well worth exploring, to the point that i actually got kind of frustrated when it had to be an action-superhero flick instead of this gritty noir crime drama. but i really think it could inspire some new noir movies - when compared to a lot of movies at the time, specifically superhero movies, the aesthetics of the batman were so unique, and the ideas of corruption and extremism, 'the little guy' and 'the big rotten apple' all being applied to a modern setting really worked (despite some of it being a LITTLE stifled by the typical 'murica' undertones that every profitable american franchise has to have now). even the femme fatale trope felt kind of progressive and refreshed. i also think the addition of modern technology could really benefit a noir mystery - the batman kiiiind of did that but you werent really solving the case WITH the leads as much as you were just listening them explain how they did it. i think if we were able to get more of a traditional noir mystery told through a more modernized way - not so much that it was bogged down by modern tropes or over awareness of itself - i really think itd be big.

i actually had a whole section of my tv studies class dedicated to the hardboiled detective trope/genre and its reinvention! i enjoy the standard hardboiled detective trope well enough, although i admit its quite dated and hypermasculine - most of the time the whole 'obsession with the case' part feels like a poorly masked pissing contest for the lead in which he HAS to prove what a good detective he is. which sometimes works for me, but more often does not. from what i watched for that class i just felt dissatisfied with how self serving the detectives were, and it just felt gratuitous to me. but when you get stuff like 'prime suspects' that recontextualizes the idea of the hardboiled detective (why theyre so obsessed, why theyre so blunt, etc, etc) i REALLY love it. i think i could like the more self serving hypermasculine types too but,,, in a very specific way. i think id want that self serving obsession to be their downfall, whereas in most of the shows i watched for that class, they were mostly just rewarded for it because hey, they still solved the case! i dont mean to brush off EVERY bit of hardboiled detective media because again i feel like those older shows had some good to them, i just need it to be done in a specific way to find it satisfactory - but i suppose thats true of everyone.

im glad you liked my tommy boy and splasher post! you are the Splasher Guy in my mind so im happy i got your seal of approval there. alas tumblr is shit but thank you anyways ion!!

#ask #walkman-cat #long post