# well I think it's safe to say it's mutual
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS EP 1.05
Sherman: My future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized. Miranda: steps on a caterpillar and proceeds to drop to their knees and sob while apologizing profusely Sherman: That one. I want that one.
Ellis: Two brooooos! Cecil: Chillin' in a hot tub! Ellis: Five feet apart 'cause we're not gay! Cecil: Ellis: Cecil: tearing up Ellis: Babe, c'mon… Cecil: AND HERE YOU REALLY HAD ME THINKING WE HAD SOMETHING. Ellis: Babe…
Valentina: Since we're in a relationship now, your clothes are my clothes too. Don't ask me why I have your shirt on, this is our shirt. Austin: Fine, but when I come strutting in with your fuzzy socks I don't want to hear shit.
Drew: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives. Nyssa: I wake up at 4:30 AM every day to go to the forges. Drew: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives.
Travis: I’m in love with you. Katie: We called off the prank war last night at midnight, dork. Travis: I know. Katie: Ah. Okay. Um. Cool. Neat. Very cool. Cool. Cool. Coolcoolcool-
Mitchell: The first time I saw you, you stole my heart. Connor: But I'm a kleptomaniac, so that doesn't mean anything.
EXTRA
Lou Ellen: Too many songs about love. Not nearly enough songs about magic fights.
long distance iwaoi who leave sticky notes around their apartments for each other right before they fly back to their respective countries.
oikawa hides dirty jokes and cheesy one liners under plates, behind cereal boxes, and onto cleaning supplies. but he’ll also sneak in little heartfelt letters on occasion—usually tucking them into the sweatshirts iwaizumi pilfered from him or in his car visor next to their polaroid together. comfort to be found when iwaizumi misses oikawa the most.
iwaizumi smuggles aggressive reminders for oikawa to love and take care of himself behind oikawa’s coffee stash, in his sock drawer, and within the bathroom mirror. a long distance head butt. he’ll sometimes draw funny pictures and jokes to make oikawa laugh, along with scribbling out the rare love note. he puts them in oikawa’s coat pockets or on his comfort foods and movies. to be found when he really needs them.
it’s a way to make them feel like the other person is still there, still around, even when they’re thousands of miles away. a home built out of paper pieces and bad handwriting
Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.
Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.
He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.
Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.
But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.
Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.
Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.
So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?
Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.
Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.
Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.
Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.
Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.
Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.
But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?
Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.
Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.
So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.
Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.
At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.
The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.
Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.
All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.
Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.
But by GOD is he trying.
So you know the gender bent version of Little Miss Perfect? It’s called President Perfect and it suits Valgrace so well, like Jason pinning over Leo so hard and Jason not knowing that boys can like boys. And Jason always had to be perfect, like I can’t stop thinking about this. I’ll probably turn it into an animatic after I finish the one I’m working on rn
popping back in for a couple seconds, because I am obsessed with these two throwaway characters from the last new year's bit. I need to know more about this fancy overdramatic theater kid and IT nerdling's more-likely-than-you'd-think friendship.
(brb, building an entire mental headcanon around these random characters who will literally never appear again. they have a whole sitcom together...in my heart.)
Hermes: Who thinks I can fit 15 marshmallows in my mouth? Artemis: You’re a hazard to society Apollo: And a coward. DO TWENTY.
when it’s time for kageyama to pick a best man he asks if it can be hinata because he’s never been in a situation where he’s had to pair up and hasn’t picked hinata to be his partner. unfortunately hinata breaks it to kageyama that no, he can’t be his best man because hinata will be busy being the groom.
kageyama ends up picking suga, but only after asking if it can be no one. so suga is kageyama’s third choice best man after his husband and no one
Deuce: Ah, wait. I think we lost Sebek.
Jack: The hell do you mean “lost him”? How do you even lose somebody that loud?
Epel: Or somebody who’s that tall??
Ace: Or somebody with green hair???
Yuu: Irrelevant. But I have the solution to this problem.
Jack: Oh no.
Yuu, taking a deep breath and then screaming: MALLEUS SUCKS!!!
Voice From the Crowd Behind: WHO SAID THAT!?!? HOW DARE YOU!!! COME, SHOW YOURSELF!!
Voice from the Crowd in Front: HELL YEAH, HE DOES!
Yuu: So, the good news is that I found Sebek and he should be heading over here now. The bad news is that he’ll probably try to kill me once he gets here. And in unrelated news, I have also located Leona-senpai.
Jack: … Why?
leech parents in their eel forms 🦈🐬
ok i know papa leech is always looking different each time im drawing him, im figuring it out 🙇🏻♀️