and now I'm addicted. Damnit. Write stuff on AO3, read for escape, newly diagnosed ADHD and PMDD. I'm 18+, they/them, and manage to say the wrong thing more often than the right (if I offended you I likely didn't mean it and would like to take it back now ta)
imagine: you are chilling in front you your house getting high. along comes an old family friend who you last saw when you were six, you are now in your 50s. after a brief convo where he is kind of a dick to you, he’s like damn you’ve changed :/. and your like yeah bestie it’s been five decades why the fuck are you here. he leaves. later that night a shit ton of people show up and trash your house. just throw and absolute rager. halfway through the family friend from earlier shows up. he announces in full earshot of everyone that he wants you to come with him to rob a bank. you of course say wtf??? one of the people who broke into your house calls you a pussy. another person shoves you a contract which declares if you get shot robbing the bank they will not pay for your funeral. you pass out. when you wake up you find the contract on your table and your house almost completely back to normal. you stare at the contract for a moment and decide, fuck it this is just as a good a midlife crisis than anything.
its so unfortunate when different peoples neurodivergent traits clash horribly. like yes i totally understand that the man at the other table cant control his stimming and loud vocal tics and i think he deserves to have a nice day out at a restaraunt without judgement. however if i dont remove myself from the audible vicinity in the next 20 seconds i will explode.
He’s studying for the SAT, he’s already been kidnapped by Vlad like, four times that week and it was a fucking Tuesday, he forgot his wallet at his new apartment, locked himself out of said new apartment (he could phase through the door but that wasn’t the point), he’s just been informed that the grant he applied for was denied so he needs to ask his mom and dad for college funds when he’d already told them he had it covered, and just…it was shit.
It had been shit. The entire week had been awful and annoying and he was ready to either murder everyone on the planet or go find a corner to cry in for the next three days.
So when the band of wild goons working for whatever villain of the week pulled up and tried to kidnap him, he snapped.
He used them to vent.
Shouted about how terrible his day had been, how terrible his week had been, how he’d already been kidnapped by his creepy godfather who was way too into him, how college funding was shit and the grant system was rigged, and how he’d have to call a locksmith or break down the door to his own apartment if he wanted to go to bed-all of it. He unloaded all of his frustration.
The goons actually backed off.
One of them gave him an awkward side hug and told him it’d get better.
Danny wasn’t paying attention to his surrounding. He doesn’t realize that the whole thing was livestreamed.
So when he gets home to his apartment later that day, his door is opened for him by the vigilante Spoiler before he can even turn intangible.
She brought over BatBurger and kidnapped Bruce Wayne, Gotham’s bumbling Prince, to talk about college grants.
I like that the Batfam didn’t even see the kidnapping thing as weird. 😂
Vlad is gonna be so upset when he finds out that brucie wayne upstaged him to help out danny. Honestly, danny should be *thanking* him for stressing danny out so much that he vented on a livestream and got financial support.
Seriously though, i love any characterization of vlad where all of his problems are self-inflicted. Literally all he had to do was be nice and help danny out, but he fucks it up literally every time. Meanwhile, this stranger won over danny by simply giving without any strings attached.
Vlad, throwing a hissy fit: Seriously, Daniel! What does that air-headed baffoon have that I don’t?!
Danny: Basic human decency. Kindness. My appreciation. A distinct lack of narcissism. No history of kidnapping me. Respects boundaries. Didn’t make demands. Need I go on?
Imagine that the reason why Danny’s grant was rejected was because Vlad meddled! He wanted to be the one to swoop in and offer to pay for all of Danny’s schooling! This was supposed to be his moment!!
I didnt even think of that! You’re so right!
Would be hilarious is bruce digs in to investigate vlad, and *this* is what clues him in that vlad is a creep, instead of the kidnappings.
Just imagine, if danny got kidnapped by vlad four times this week alone (and it’s tuesday), then vlad has likely kidnapped danny *easily* into the triple digits by now, possibly even quadruple. Only the most egregious ones get put on danny’s list of grievances because he’d spend more time documenting vlad’s abuses than suffering them if he tried to be exhaustive.
So bruce is investigate vlad, finds his secret lab, all his spyware and experiments, the cloning files, that vlad is a meta using his powers for illegal monetary gain, is the supervillian of a teen hero, it just keeps going on and on and on.
Vlad gets arrested (thanks vlad for creating the tech to neutralise yourself), danny gets called as a witness, and the judge asks for dannys testimony and he pulls out this ratty old notebook that is filled with danny’s complaints right out of his own chest. He turns to the first page.
“Page one, line one, stole my dna and cloned me. Line two, kidnapped and tortured me to try to stabilize one (1) clone. Line three, all clones died except for one (which was not the preferred one). Line four, attempted murder of the surviving clone. Line five, infected my sister with nanobots. Line six, forced my sister and i to fight to the death (we both escaped). Line seven, released spy cams into my home. Line eight, gave weapons to a minor and convinced her to hunt me. Line nine, controlled the employment of said minor’s parent to blackmail her. Line ten, attempted to murder my dad. Line eleven, hijacked a plane that my mom and i were commuting in. Line twelve, experimented on wild animals. Line thirteen, released those wild animals to attack me…”
And this goes on and on and on until they get to the point where danny gives up documenting everything, and each line is just the date and reason of another kidnapping attempt. Some dates have the word ‘twice’ scratched into the margin space next to them.
¾ of the notebook is just documented kidnapping attempts. The judge is appalled. Vlad gets the book thrown at him. Jason was there to witness it (supporting danny, idk how they met but they did) and swears on his grave that he will never complain about Bruce’s subpar parenting ever again. Holy shit, what a fucking nightmare!
After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city’s denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.
Fandom: Tian Guan Ci Fu / Heaven Official’s Blessing
Additional Tags: Ghost City, canon divergence, different first meeting (you know what I mean), slow burn, secret identity, identity porn, mutual pining, angst with a happy ending, fluff, friendship, found family, first kiss, first time, original characters, canon-typical violence, discussion of suicide, PTSD, panic attacks, masturbation, book spoilers, hurt/comfort, semi-public sex.
Found this fic after someone else on here made a beautiful fanbind of it & gushed about how good it was. They were right and if I find the post again (it’s on my dash somewhere) I’ll thank them for the rec.
If you like some identity shenanigans, very well fleshed out oc’s, found family and a touch of angst in the midst of a fair amount of flirting, give this a try. You don’t even have to know a great deal about the fandom as the fic is pretty self explanatory (be warned there are spoilers though and of course check the tags for tw).
my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina
in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag
but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:
“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????
“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking eat someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullshit language
its funny that people are calling this the gay fanfiction dilemma bc thats literally why i made this post. i was writing a gay fanfic.
Don’t put sharpie on your tongue and then put hand soap and then makeup wipes that your allergic to and then face wash to get off. It’s not fun. Or so I’ve heard
