#// ooc. || commentary .

[king-of-wrath]

Apparently, even in the year of Our Lord Two-thousand and Twenty-four, people need this simple chart explained to them at length

[lucaanis]

『💞』 — "Nothing I'm seeing makes me want to look away."

+ bonus live rook reaction 🥴

[gothamcity-official]

Tim Drake's 17th birthday

Today is Tim Drake's tenth 17th birthday. We wish him many good things as the years pass, hopefully including finally aging properly

[necrotic-nephilim]

this is not a ship post, but something that frustrates me a lot in fanon concerning Jason Todd that attempts to soften Jason's return to Gotham for the sake of found family domesticity or easy hurt/comfort or just sliding him into the Batfam sooner, is they all seem to fundamentally misunderstand Jason.

because there seem to be a lot of fandom popular concepts of Jason coming home much sooner and just not having his whole Under The Red Hood arc. which in theory is fine and i can see the want to simplify canon to make room for your lighthearted more fluff-leaning concepts. but in everyone without fail, the way they address the clown-shaped elephant in the room is by having some throwaway line that "oh Jason quietly kills the Joker and moves on".

when the Joker being dead or alive is not the *point*. if by some chance accident, the Joker had died prior to Jason's return, whether by ridiculous freak accident, getting whacked by a fellow villain, hell even someone actually doing so to avenge Jason, it *would not* satiate Jason's anger. because Jason's end goal in UtRH is not to simply kill the Joker: it is to make *Bruce* kill the Joker. Jason's anger is directed to the idea that to Jason, if Bruce truly loved Jason, he would've killed the Joker. that is love, for Jason. compromising your personal values for love and not letting someone go unavenged. when Jason was Robin, almost every angry or misguided thing he did was born of love. he wanted to kill/hurt Two-Face because he believed Dent killed his father. he was so angry at Felipe because an innocent woman was dead due to that man's actions. he wanted to save his mother in a situation he knew he shouldn't be in because he loved her. his anger, his violence, it is driven by love and feelings of righting wrongs. that is how he thinks wrongs *should* be righted. that is how you avenge and *love* someone.

because so long as Jason's return to Gotham doesn't end in Bruce killing the Joker (which, it never will bc Bruce is Bruce), Jason will never forgive Bruce. you cannot wave away the layers of hurt and complicated trauma by killing Joker offscreen. because Jason will still be angry that Bruce didn't avenge him. in his eyes, that means Bruce did not love him enough. he was not truly loved by Bruce the way he loved Bruce. bc Bruce was Jason's whole *world*. prior to being taken in, Dick and Tim, they had support systems. they had loved ones. they knew what stability and healthy family love looked like. Jason *didn't*. and that's not to say that Catherine Todd did not love him with her whole heart and thus he loved her, but it certainly wasn't a stable and safe support system for Jason to grow up in. Bruce was Jason's first real sense of a stable, healthy life. and so of course Jason poured everything into Bruce and loved Bruce so devoutly. Bruce was his world. like he says, if it had been Bruce, Jason would've stopped at nothing.

so his betrayal is rooted in that he was not avenged, not that Joker is alive. so long as the Joker does not die by Bruce's hands, it will never be enough for Jason. (in this era, at least.) notably, this is also why i don't think it would change a thing if Jason knew the whole "oh Bruce wanted to kill the Joker but Superman stopped him" tidbit that fanon has really latched onto as a way to pacify Jason's anger toward Bruce. Jason knowing that wouldn't change a thing, in my opinion. because Jason knows Bruce. and a tenant of Bruce's character is that he grapples with murder *every day*. the whole point is how *easy* it would be for him. he is a human weapon, trained by killers, trained to be deadly. he is the greatest strategist to exist. he knows he could kill someone and get away with it. *no* trace, no proof, nothing. and he knows he *wants* to. wants to kill the Joker, Joe Chill, anyone who's hurt him that viscerally.

but he *doesn't*. that's the point. Bruce wakes up every day with that question on his mind, and every day the answer is the same. Bruce's morality is not a decision he made in an alleyway when his parents died, it's a decision he continues to make every day and he *must* continue to make in order to remain who he is. Jason is quite familiar with the fact that Bruce grapples with this daily. i do not think it surprised nor fazed Jason to know that Bruce did *consider* killing the Joker. that he wanted to. maybe even planned to. but a consideration, a want, a plan, is just a thought. it's nothing substantial, and substance is everything to Jason. at the end of the day, Bruce didn't. he was talked down by *Clark* of all people with an excuse of diplomatic immunity, as if Jason and Bruce don't both know that Bruce could've *easily* found a way to make it look like an accident or some other loophole. because he's Batman. there's always a loophole. he always finds a way when he actually intends to. but he never actually intended to kill the Joker. so he didn't. and Jason would know that there was never an intent. it's an interesting piece of fodder to add to the nuance of Jason and Bruce, but honestly, i think it'd make Jason angrier to have that excuse thrown in his face. as if Bruce hasn't beaten Clark half a dozen times by now. it's a flimsy nonsense excuse that Jason would rip to shreds.

so while yes, i understand the wish for easy lighthearted fanfic that doesn't have to deal with the nuances of canon, i think that Jason's character will always be so deeply robbed and altered if you try to fix his thirst for vengeance with an off-page killing of Joker at Jason's hands. it was never the point. the point was that -in his own eyes- he wasn't loved enough for Bruce to make an acception. he realized that not even his *death* would come before Bruce's Mission. Jason truly believed that Bruce loved him and held him as the most important thing in the world, and now he has proof that Bruce didn't. because the Mission mattered more.

i'm not saying i have a solution to this conundrum if you're attempting to solve it for fanfic/fanon, nor am i even saying it's a bad thing it exists. i just think it becoming overwhelmingly common has led to misunderstandings surrounding Jason's motivations and feelings about this arc and it's an unsatisfying solution that only seeks to pacify Jason's rage and his trauma responses for the sake of found family-ification.

[tadcpomni-blog]

The wedding is starting rn!!! Happy wedding (first) anniversary for Ragatha and Pomni!

[stories-from-the-warp]

DIVERSITY WIN!

The unholy and abominable half-demon was spawned by NURGLE rather than Slaanesh!

[dvilsdesire]

// RAPHAEL'S ABOUT TO GO APE SHIT

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

It is somewhat curious to see the decline of the USA into "shithole country no one has any real expectations for." It's just like when, after decades of shittiness in Africa or the Middle East, the people finally get a chance at real democracy and they get the power to change things for the better - and they promptly vote for something that drags them right back into the abyss because apparently they are too stupid for this type of government.

It's definitely not a place I'm ever going to visit. I could travel to the poorest EU country and still would run less of the risk of getting gunned down by a random hobo under opioid withdrawals or lynched by a bunch of right-wing nut jobs for how I was born than I would in what was once supposed the leader of the western world.

Voting for that moron once can be accounted as an anomaly, but twice just makes it certain that the country is just populated by assholes and utterly irredeemable.

Guess it's time for the EU to take over. One Trump term was a curious footnote for history. Now, he is part of your cultural identity for all of living memory. Imagine irreversibly losing your cultural superpower status because you just had to "own the libs." These absolutelty insane libs which would barely qualify as center-right in most civilized countries lmao...

[spiderman2-99]

What’s with all of the… ah, unholy fanarts of me as a priest? Disgustingly inaccurate portrayal of the position aside, I’d make a terrible Father. Don’t have the patience for that even if I did believe in God.

And confession booths are stuffy; sex there would be atrocious.

[adrien-agreste-imagines]

(OOC) Going through all of the rpf imagines of years past, I do think it's interesting how many of them are pregnancy/family based. While a knee-jerk reaction would probably be to find it disgusting, I think it's worth talking about how partriarchal/heteronormative societal expectations would lead to this being almost an assumed conclusion of these rpf fantasies.

While some may argue that it's a lot harder to create 'post marriage' or 'adult life' imagines without including this, doesn't it say something that young girls have it ingrained into them that part of being a self-actualized adult is being a mother? That a necessary conclusion of loving your idol requires having kids with them?

Not to say that any of these weren't genuine fantasies on account of the writers, just that they exist within the context of society.

It probably goes without saying why I'm not going to be touching any of that with a ten foot pole regarding A.A.I., at least not anytime soon. Based on what little we can assume (and hope) about the in-universe Adrien Agreste fanbase, I doubt this would be a huge phenomenon, and even if it would be I'm not sure I could properly handle the subject.

[staticintone]

Toxic ships? On my dashboard?

Well I never—

[king-of-wrath]

Reblog if you like long-winded lore posts

[fvrtvne]

Hey gang, While it’s fun to mess with anons, let me offer some solid advice as we deal with this situation: Turn off anon. I know it’s not the ideal outcome, but we need to prioritize our mental health. If people genuinely enjoy writing with you, they’ll find other ways to reach out—whether that’s through messages, sideblogs, or other means. Right now, we need to stand together and show this person that we don’t care. They’re looking for a reaction, so we shouldn’t give them one. Whatever they’re saying or doing, leaving yourself vulnerable by keeping anon on without blocking the account will only encourage more of this behavior. If this person truly cared about their message, they’d come off anon and say it directly. For now, they’re just trying to intimidate you. Please protect your mental health. I promise, turning anon off for a month or two will be totally fine.

[arachnaemboss]

zee is so tall lucifer needs to speak up

[theharellan]

solas asks if ian would love him as a worm and when ian answers he would solas cries for five minutes, doesn't explain himself, and says he would love ian, too btw

[tadcpomni-blog]

"Ok so if this post gets 11 likes, then I will ask Ragatha to marry me..."

(plz do it before it's too late)