silverwhittlingknife
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Hi, I'm Silver. I post my fic (also on ao3) and sometimes comic rundowns. I like all the Bats, but I mostly obsess about Dick and Tim.
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crazy how being dick grayson is like [suffering for the sake of being a light unto others] [suffering for the sake of being a light unto others] [suffering for the sake of being a light unto others]. tim, seeing this, is like, Wait, i remember, i too am a lamp! [proceeds to suffer for the sake of being a light unto others] [suffers for the sake of being a light unto others] [suffers for the sake of being a light unto others] dick says, Wait, it's too bright in here. dick says, You'll see the cracks. tim says, I can't stop. tim says, how can i stop? you were the hand that reached inside me, you switched the light on. dick & tim is like [perforated with holes, bleeding light] [bleeding light] [bleeding light] [bleeding light]
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Hate Hate Hate stories that reward characters for refusing to do triage. 'I refuse to choose only one to survive even if it means both die' [plot contrives for this to be the only way both survive] is so weak. Making difficult decisions with no good outcome is not a moral failing
#think whether this can be pulled off effectively relates to the broader theme of the work <- prev tags <3#yeah i LOVE triage beyond all things. but it's complicated bc i am also a sucker for a good 'rejecting despair' plotline#plus some characters are larger-than-life and ''no i REJECT your world of trade-offs and substitute my own'' can be a great moment#THAT SAID!! yeah!!! i hate it when this is framed as a moral failing - most of my favorite stories are grounded in the conflicts of triage#things like 'i chose to save you but i'm mad at you about it' (bc i had to sacrifice my morals or something else that mattered)#or 'in principle i understand why you had to choose morals/duty over me but emotionally i can't stop feeling betrayed' etc etc#the lotus pier show is full of no-win situations like this & that is why i love it so much sdfsdfds#mmmm i also think i tend to lean toward wanting 'nicer' and more heroic protagonists to do more triage#because it's a way of getting beyond the blandness of 'this character is generically nice to many people'#whereas with difficult characters where you're emphasizing personality flaws they've got their personalities to drive conflict#so i'm much more willing to let them get out of having to do triage#because the main conflict is Man vs. His Own Terrible Impulses rather than Hero vs. Impossible Situations#like. if you've got a guy who's always gonna pick the Virtuous Choice then i like to trap him w/o an easy good one#whereas if you've got a guy who keeps picking Evade Insult Attack then he's already got problems & doesn't need more sdfsdfs#i also think the point in the story matters a lot to me#i like happy endings so i'm very forgiving of stories that get a little handwavy at the end to ensure characters i like don't die#otoh at the start and middle i'm way more engaged when the characters are having to make tough choices#anyway sorry for tag ramble i'm still thinking about hypothetical 'jc & wwx try to escape triage' plotlines sdfdsfs#story talk
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The Untamed | Episode 24
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which would jiang cheng choose: yunmeng jiang or jin ling?
imagine the following scenario:
sometime postcanon, the jianghu of MDZS is invaded by aliens. (bear with me here). the aliens specifically aim to annihilate the cultivation sects of the MDZS world by massacring each one down to the last child.
the aliens crush lanling jin; jin ling plus only a handful of jin disciples flee to yunmeng jiang. after the aliens also kill almost all of the yunmeng jiang disciples currently outside of lotus pier, jiang cheng calls all of his remaining disciples plus the nearby local populace to shelter within lotus pier. however, his defenses are overwhelmed by the aliens' superior technology, and lotus pier soon finds itself cut off from all help and besieged on all sides by the aliens' forces.
fortunately, jiang cheng has another trick up his sleeve: at the center of lotus pier, he has a magic portal that can transport those who pass through it to a safe and very distant location, one jiang cheng chose in advance and one the aliens are guaranteed to be unable to access. now, jiang cheng plans to have all of his people - his disciples and the local civilians he evacuated to lotus pier - go through the portal, after which the aliens will be unable to find and kill them. however, the portal needs 12 hours to warm up and activate before it can be used; thus, jiang cheng will need to hold off the aliens for 12 hours.
at the 1 hour mark, jin ling attempts to sneak out in order to contact wei wuxian for help; however, he is immediately captured by the aliens. the aliens then offer jiang cheng the following ultimatum: either jiang cheng opens the gates of lotus pier and allows the aliens entry within the next 30 minutes, or the aliens kill jin ling.
the aliens bind this ultimatum by magic, meaning that for this ultimatum specifically, it is ontologically impossible for the aliens to break their word; in other words, if jiang cheng opens the gates of lotus pier in the next 30 minutes, then jin ling is guaranteed to live, and if jiang cheng does not open the gates of lotus pier in the next 30 minutes, then the aliens are guaranteed to kill jin ling. it is impossible for jiang cheng to rescue jin ling from the aliens; the only way to save jin ling's life is to abide by the ultimatum and sacrifice yunmeng jiang. if jiang cheng opens the gates of lotus pier in the next 30 minutes, then the aliens are guaranteed to kill everyone in lotus pier, thus annihilating yunmeng jiang entirely.
#oh man this is a very hard call hmmmm#i think he'd resolve not to open the gates because it would be Wrong & make it ALMOST to the last moment#and then he wouldn't be able to stick to it & he'd have some impulsive panicked moment & give in#telling himself that he'll just sneak out & the aliens won't notice and he'll be able to fix it somehow#but ofc it doesn't work because he is fundamentally not able to Do The Impossible#so then the aliens catch him & get in & kill everyone & leave him alive bc they decide that he TECHNICALLY took the deal sorta#and then he'd feel awful about it for the rest of his life & (unfortunately) take it out on jin ling and also himself#actually i would love to read a fic where something like this happens#(though i'd prefer not aliens - some other handwavy Bad Guys)#but anyway in the version i'm picturing then he tries to sneak out & it doesn't work & the Bad Guys also kill jin ling bc why not#maybe a FEW people escape bc he put it off for so long but most people die#and jc still survives bc he always survives it's his curse#anyway the fic i'm picturing would be in the aftermath of all this though#wwx and jc meet up somewhere after everything to be miserable and guilty and mad at each other#wwx is mad at jc for screwing up and jc is mad at wwx for not being there and they are both REALLY mad at themselves#and uhhhhh okay normally i like stories to resolve with hugs but this is very grim & i'm not sure i can fix it#except with like. time travel maybe. wwx & jc travel back in time & have to obsessively try to find a loophole together#''how do you save jin ling AND lotus pier??? they must find a way even though it is clearly impossible!''#(while still being mad at each other in unreasonable petty ways though. that part's very important sfsdfdsfds)#anyway [something something] & then it turns out that by resolving their emotional problems they can also defeat the aliens!!! yay!!!#why does this defeat the aliens? unfortunately i do not know#which is too bad because i've gotten kinda attached to this and would like someone to write it now sdfsfsdf#extremely good ideas / extremely bad ideas#the lotus pier show
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The divine right of kings but it's a curse
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hii i really really love your art !! <3
if you could draw more dick and tim being brothers that would be really cool <3 <3 (np if not ofc)
#them!!!#dick&tim#dick grayson#tim drake#thank you artist you are a treasure among us#i just know they're competing in some way as they do this#who can get to 80 pushups/situps first while [absurd extra condition]#dick offered a ten-second headstart which was soooorta sincere but mostly trolling#tim declined and is feeling extremely self-satisfied to be keeping pace#ofc tim has a lot at stake here so he is trying Very Hard whereas dick is mostly just entertaining himself#(which is not to say that he's gonna be so casual as to let tim win because no freaking way.)
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Prerobin Tim
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bro, the me inside your head is kind to you, right? haha? 🤨
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The Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander fucking beats ass. I love its lichen-like pattern and its huuuuge alien eyeballs. Salamander of all time.
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Tag yourself I’m Jason
Batman and Robin #10
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so we're not going to explain why tony zucco was trying to kill a twelve year old boy???? we're just going to leave it like that????
#whyyyyyyy#the tag where i complain about things#i finally caught up on the run now that it's all out and dick gives SO MANY SPEECHES AT PODIUMS sdfdsfds#and also even his inner monologue sounds like he's giving a speech at a building dedication half the time#or like. doing a voiceover for his political campaign ad. 'i have always wished the best for haven. which is why i'm running for -'#it's really too bad because the art is great & tt clearly loves dick grayson & has read a lot of comics#but the nonstop fluffy no-stakes vibes were NOT FOR ME >.<#i also read tt's dark knights of steel which i thought was fantastic & had good twists & good tension & uncertainty#but in order to do that you need to be willing to let bad things happen to your characters + for them to not trust each other etc#whereas this nightwing run was very much not willing to do that even a little so instead it's all#''a crowd of enthusiastic friends congratulates dick on how great he is while he does nothing in particular''#or ''dick worries over whether [x] unimportant decision is correct but OBVIOUSLY it is correct and all will be perfect forever''#or ''a cardboard villain shows up only to be immediately knocked over and defeated. rinse and repeat''#or ''once again dick grayson and his superfriends have saved the day with zero effort and also zero danger''#and I GET IT I GET IT it's a throwback to pre-crisis vibes and i get why it's so popular bc many ppl hate grimdark stuff#but i love grimdark stuff so. (sulks broodingly)
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hey so
in this week's world's finest, arthur curry, better known to most of you as "aquaman" or possibly "that guy who talks to fish" comments that his favorite baseball team as a child was the "portland sea devils." naturally, this sent me into a spiral.
look. despite my interest in the weird and wonderful world of dcu geography, documented on this blog, and my similar interest in the weird and wonderful world of baseball (not documented on this blog. that was another life) it had never occurred to me to wonder .............. what about the hypothetical dcu major league baseball teams?????
like. we all know that the dc universe has many fake cities, like gotham (fake new york city), and metropolis (fake new york city, but in a different way), and star city (fake seattle, unless it's fake san francisco), and coast city (fake los angeles, or possibly fake san diego, or possibly also fake san francisco). many of these fake cities have fake major league baseball teams, documented in passing in many comics throughout the years. do you see the problem yet. guys that's so many teams. there are already 30 mlb teams in, you know, the real world. i'm counting at least six more (the four i mentioned above, plus the keystone/central twin cities, and gateway city) (gateway city is also fake san francisco).
but that's not all. because -- look, you'll notice that the city that started this whole spiral, portland, is not actually a fake dcu city. it's a real city! a real city you can go and visit! a real city that does not have a major league baseball team.
this changes everything. the divisions. the travel schedules. there's a thousand complicated untold stories of inter-team rivalries and squabbling over cable markets that we'll never truly get to know because we can't even determine whether coast city is in fact, as the 1990 mayfair atlas of the dc universe suggested, sitting right there next to sausalito.
anyway. how many baseball teams does dcu california have. i'll take all your best guesses.
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this is 100% not substantiated (and is in fact contradicted by semi-recent detective comics, which suggests that the knights were established in 1946), but in my heart i know the gotham knights are an old "lovable losers" team that's been around (and hapless) since at least the inception of the world series and the gotham griffins are some 70s expansion johnny-come-latelys
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in my opinion, if you’re going to be writing an epic or large-scale tragedy, the thing that causes the tragedy (be it a character trait or a circumstance of the environment) NEEDS to be perceived as a good thing at first. in hamlet, it initially feels good to see hamlet both dedicated to revenge and acting carefully about it. in ju dou (1990), it feels good to see ju dou and yang tianqing fighting against the constraints of the confucian family structure. in the godfather (1972), as tears go by (1987), and menace ii society (1993), it feels good to see the protagonists rise and earn respect within their community. it’s tempting to make the fatal flaw tragic from the beginning, but being asked to feel bad about the exact same thing over and over until the story ends is like ordering a meal and being served a bowl of salt. there NEEDS to be some really potent good to give the bad meaning. after all, the real pleasure of tragedy comes from not just knowing but feeling why the characters willingly walk into the arms of death
#story talk#yeah!! i don't think this is the only possible mode of tragedy#but i love it partly because it minimizes your instinct to say ''well why doesn't the hero JUST --''#i like it when the hero's greatest flaws are directly related to 1) his strengths or 2) his traumas#because then you KNOW why he doesn't 'just' make the decisions that would lead to a different ending#and you sympathize and it makes the tragedy feel more real and inescapable
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#is he trying to clear jc's name or is he just unable to resist one-upping his brother?#who can say. who can say#< prev tags#the lotus pier show
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Alfred: The Huntress? Batman would not approve of your associating with her.
Tim: Well, I’ve done a lot in the past week or so he wouldn’t approve of. He may want to find a new partner even if I can convince my Dad to let me stay in Gotham.’
--Tim Drake to Alfred Pennyworth (Robin Miniseries III #5 – Circle of Darkness)
#^^^^^ dfsfdsfdsfs#my complicated-yet-beloved metaphor for tim & bruce's relationship is basically#that tim is a shift worker at bruce's family restaurant#which tim had a sentimental attachment to and thought was great for the community#(dating back to when bruce adopted dick & dick got bruce to essentially revamp the restaurant's whole vibe obviously)#anyway so when it looked like it was gonna go under because of bruce's drinking problems tim showed up to try to intervene#and ended up volunteering to work there#so now bruce is his boss and bruce is sometimes impressive and sometimes a total unstable nutcase - tim goes back and forth#and the actual job itself can be super-stressful and eats up a lot of tim's time#HOWEVER he does like the restaurant and one of the great appeals of a boss is#he has no actual authority over your home life#making him 1) an extremely appealing refuge from all of tim's real-life problems like the aforesaid dad and school and such#plus 2) since tim's just a shift-worker bruce really can't make him do much if he refuses to#and also 3) keeping secrets from batman isn't actually that hard if you conveniently don't live in batman's house#but instead in a completely different house where he can't keep tabs on you because your dad hates him dfdfds
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Imagine how unstoppable the Animorphs would have been if Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill brother of War Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul had actually managed to stAY AWAKE IN CLASS FOR MORE THAN FIVE CONSECUTIVE MINUTES
#pro: one member of your team is an alien from a society with super-advanced technology and knowledge!#con: he's a teenager who didn't think he really needed to learn all that stuff#animorphs#fdsfdsfs
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