panel redraw of bruce and steph from one of the earlier GA 2001 issues
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do you call it 'soulmate' or 'I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.'
yes please :D
Ineffable Fandom manifesting S3 :D.
all of my ocs are inherently neurodivergent in someway because i dont know how neurotypical people work
this fic was absolutely amazing, i literally binged it in one sitting holy shit
authors note and chapter below the cut. thanks for loving this little au so much.
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read the fic here
notes: it is short, and thats largely because i could easily get carried away, drumming up countless scenarios of their little life together for the time being.
my #brand is kind of sort of love stories. and my mission statement is always this idea of...love comes with an asterisk of like "it doesn't always work this way". one of the biggest messages of ten reasons was for remus to learn how much of himself he had given away in a previous relationship, so much so that the only place he had to go at the beginning of the fic with a drop of familiarity was his childhood town. and you can see this with his speech in particular, how hesitant he is to give anything of himself away. and at the end of the fic, even though he's being brave and starting this relationship for real (and starting it the same way he started his first one that ended so poorly), he also knows this time around more of himself and more of what belongs to him.
he has an apartment of his own. he has a successful book that he is allowed to be proud of. he has the upper peninsula. he knows which friends he can count on (and one of them happens to be Marlene). so yes, it was a love story...but it also wasn't. at the end of the fic, remus knows this time around if it all goes to shit, he'll be okay.
(we could also say the same for sirius, who's last serious relationship was when he was high all the time and wasn't himself. its a love story...but its also not.)
without further ado...
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“Harry, let’s go!” Sirius said down the hall, “Your butt needs to be out that door in 10 minutes!”
“Telling me when I need to leave doesn’t help me go any faster!” Harry shouted back and Remus sipped his coffee at the table across from Regulus, both of them used to the morning hurricane that was Sirius trying to get a fourteen, going on fifteen-year-old out the door in a timely fashion, neither of them offering any help. In fact, most mornings, Regulus was content to make Sirius’ job harder with dry comments, occasionally sticking out a foot from underneath the table to see if Sirius would trip over it in the hurry. Remus was always impressed that Sirius managed to dodge it, and managed to get Regulus back later in the day. Remus had witnessed Regulus fall to the ground due to an assault from his brother more than a few times. Despite how early they were, and that Remus could’ve stayed in Sirius’s room, he found it easier to get up with the rest of the house, realizing that once Harry was out the door, the morning slowed down significantly and Sirius made a better cup of coffee than he ever could.
It never got old though.
The morning dance of Sirius packing a lunch (though these days it also consisted of giving Harry a wad of cash and hoping for the best); of Harry stumbling down the hall still half-asleep with his backpack over his shoulder; the banter and the reminders for the day.
“I’m here, I’m going, it’s fine,” Harry said, emerging from his bedroom, his shoes already on, but his school tie undone and the blazer over his arm.
“Seven minutes,” Sirius said, “You remember which train to take?”
“Yes, I’ve been doing it for months now.”
“Homework?”
“Packed,” Harry said, grabbing a bar from the pantry and an orange from the counter that went into his backpack as well. “Coffee?”
“You’re small enough, kid.”
“That was uncalled for. I’m growing,” Harry scowled and Sirius shrugged “I am! Tell him!” He looked at the table for help.
“I’m not telling him anything,” Regulus said, his hands wrapped around his own cup of coffee as he eyed his nephew, “But I am telling you that over my dead body are you walking out the door looking like you’ve rolled out of bed.”
“I mean, I did,” and Remus snorted at the reply. There was something so refreshing about getting to know a teenager and having them as part of his life. No punches were ever pulled, no stone of opportunity for back-talk and sass unturned. But Harry was kind like Sirius, in the way he held doors open for others when they went out together; the way it was always thank you and please when he meant it. The way he stopped what he was doing to listen if he thought it was important.
“I’m not above tucking in your shirt for you, Harry,” Reg put down his coffee, “Fix yourself, please.”
“Sirius said I have five minutes!”
“Four now,” Sirius said and Harry sighed, dropping his backpack to the ground in a huff, Remus smiling silently over his cup of coffee. The adjustment to private school uniforms was one of Harry’s biggest complaints. Though from the rest of what he had observed, and been told from Sirius, the smaller class sizes and the available sports teams were worth it. Harry had friends. Harry had a girlfriend. Harry was no longer the kid whose parents died so he moved, and was just another kid. “And it’s only two if it’s the subway, but I’m always happy to drive and can cut the time in half”
“You shouldn’t brag about that,” Remus said under his breath, Sirius hearing and giving him a wink.
“No one wears the uniform right…” muttered Harry, tucking in his shirt, trying to keep still as Sirius knotted the tie around his neck.
“Well, no one isn’t my nephew so,” Regulus shrugged, “Sorry about it.”
“Can you divorce your relatives? Can I sign a petition for an Uncle who isn't such a--"
"Shhh, it's too early, it's too early," Sirius's voice masked the undoubtedly unpleasant thing Harry was saying to Regulus, the man not entirely able to conceal his smile.
“Shame,” Harry pulled a face at Regulus, and Regulus returned it, the comments all said without bite behind them. Harry picked his bag up again. “Can I go? Anything else? Should I curtsy? Spitshine my shoes really quick?”
“Your shoes are fine, actually.” Regulus commented, “Would love the curtsy though, let me get my phone out so I can have it on video.” Harry ignored his uncle, turning back to Sirius who had caught his face in his hands. The same way they always did before Harry left for the day.
“Text me when you get to school, I love you so much, don’t get caught kissing in the halls again, babe.”
“I know the rules, babe. Love you, babe.” Harry rolled his eyes, Sirius still managing to kiss him on the side of the head before he walked out the door entirely, “Bye Reg, Bye Remus!”
Remus gave a wave. Thinking back to the mornings where Harry didn't acknowledge his existence at the table until after 10am. As if he wanted to pretend his godfather wasn't in a relationship serious enough that warranted sleepovers. Thinking back to the time Harry had cornered Remus by the shared bathroom and sized him up.
I like you. But if you hurt him, I will leave terrible public reviews on your book and drag your name through the mud. Don't underestimate the power of a teenager with a smartphone. Yeah?
As far as Remus knew, he was still holding up his end of the bargain.
Once the door shut, Sirius let out a breath, running a hand over his hair to tie it up.
“That’s an Olympic sport, I think. And I’d medal in it,” he said, walking over to Remus for the first time that day to wrap his arms around his shoulders. Sirius was always up first, and by the time Remus made it to the kitchen, the day at the races was on and consisted of lunch making and double-checking for permission slips and schedules for sports practices. Remus didn’t mind waiting for the morning kisses though. They always came.
Long gone were the days he once sat wondering if affection would come before the nighttime. Before substances and loneliness. Long gone were the days someone reached for Remus because he was there and not because they wanted to.
“Were you really going to let him walk out the door looking like that?”
“Careful, your snob is showing, Reg,” Sirius replied from where he had gone to fix his own cup of coffee, the scent of Sirius’s shampoo lingering somewhere around Remus’s shoulder. Only a few feet away and Remus already missed the weight of arms on his shoulders.
“I’m serious.”
“If you want to be the one who wakes him up after he shuts off his alarm, and makes sure he doesn’t leave his brain in his bedroom with his homework every morning, by all means. I will gladly take over and make sure his shirt’s tucked in before he leaves the house. Drinking coffee leisurely at the table.”
“How else would you get the gold then?” Regulus asked, sharing a smart look with Remus. Sirius came over to join them, immediately taking Remus’s hand and putting it at the back of his neck, Remus’s fingers running along black curls. Sirius’s eyes met his, a soft smile crossing his lips as he picked up his coffee mug.
“Good morning,” he said.
“Morning.”
It wasn’t every night that they spent together, and it wasn’t every morning either, phone calls and text messages bridging the gap between time spent underneath sheets, bodies wrapped around each other like trees grown together. It wasn’t every day they spent together, Remus having his own schedule that was being steadily filled out by meetings and interviews for book podcasts, the rush of finishing first returning quickly when his name stayed on top of the Best Seller list for months.
There was no resentment when Remus was gone. Just Tupperware of Remus’s favorite cookies tucked away into his suitcase to find for later. Just embarrassing Welcome Home signs at the airport. Just long kisses in airports, like they do in all the movies. Just daily reminders of what he was coming back to.
Miss you.
Proud of you.
I love you.
My novelist.
There was no insecurity (well...less insecurity) when Sirius was absent during lacrosse playoffs or what Remus learned was called installation week and Sirius would be at the studio for days at a time with his phone on Do Not Disturb mode, only coming up for air for childcare. Remus left the reminders on those days.
I hope you’re still getting sleep.
Harry is welcome at my apartment if you need more time. I don't know anything about teenagers but I have a television and a full pantry.
Friday take-out is on me
I love you
No matter what, they always came back together. Words dissolved into each other's arms and they caught up on the hours, the day, sometimes the week; hands just thankful to be touching once more, eager to feel warm skin again.
It wasn’t perfect, though Remus thought some days that this painfully realistic Hallmark movie that involved sleepless nights, lingering drug habits, grief, crippling anxiety, and a teenager who told the truth no matter what, was still light years better than the faux-fairytale he was in for his twenties. Remus was still repairing trust in others after being badly burned. Sirius was still learning to ask for help instead of burning out.
It wasn’t happy ever after, because that simply didn’t exist, as much as Remus would look at Sirius on his bad days and see a knight in shining armor.
But it was happy.
It was happy.
once the pro hero deku starts gaining in popularity, it becomes common knowledge that he likes to cosplay whenever he attends conventions
before long, his fans start actively searching for him on the con floor, and he decides to make a game of it.
he keeps custom sticker sheets on himself, and whenever a fan discovers him, he gives them a sticker as a prize, and stands there chatting with them for a while
pretty quickly, this little game spirals into something much bigger. fans start collecting the stickers for bragging rights.
sometimes, only a handful of people manage to find izuku, and the sticker for that con becomes super valuable
it’s highly looked down upon for people to reveal izuku’s costume and/or spread his location because not only does it ruin the game for everyone, it disrupts izuku’s free time too when fans are coming up to him every two seconds
there are some people that still do it, but they recieve so much backlash that it doesn’t happen very often
at the end of the con, izuku usually posts a pic of his cosplay on his social media, along with some fans who had managed to win the game
there was one particularly memorable year when only two people managed to recognize him during the entire con.
why? because the cosplay he was wearing was a super shitty version of his own hero costume. complete with duct tape and a pair of bunny ears
EDIT: I am having troubles with this post, probably because it’s too long. So we are going to split it in half. Part 2-A is here.
Also, a little late, but this is a celebration of my own for reaching 1k Tumblr followers! I do a lot of recs and reblogs of other creators (not just human AUs), which you can find here: Dannye’s fic recs and Dannye’s artist recs, and I am a writer of GO fanfiction myself (Ao3 HolyCatsAndRabbits)
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“sevika found herself wondering how she even got here in the first place
not here, as in piltover
or here, as in on a seat in the council
but here, as in laying on a sofa more expensive than any item she’s ever seen in her life, as councilor mel medarda rested comfortably on top of her body.
the gold that decorated councilor medarda’s hand (which lazily traced the blue scars on sevika’s cheek) complemented her dark skin well. so well, that sevika felt the need to capture mel’s smaller hand in her larger one, bringing it to her lips for a kiss.”
idk why but this specific paragraph has been stuck in my head since i watched the finale, and i’m really feeling the urge to turn it into a melvika oneshot… but idk