#/i tagged you fan just 'cause i can

[one-chaotic-neautral]

Arcane ships ranked, for fun

The main ships and some rarepairs I've found, I like pretty much everything in the first 4 rows. I probably missed some but idk what they are and I'm too lazy to add more rn.

feel free to add your thoughts or ships but again its just for funsies :)

[heartorbit]

so when's the wxs phantom of the opera set

[washiinmachiine]

briar in a modern fit bc i love clothes. also some fan skins i made for fun for the same reason. cafe cuties one is kinda old but ill shove it here anyway..

[chaos0pikachu]

man some of y'all have never learned the home training of "keep your hate/critique out the main tags and on your own blog or in critical tags" and then wonder why ppl be vagueblogging or reblogging with disagreements like you didn't show up to the crochet lovers group telling everybody how crocheting was actually Not Fun At All and really hard and doesn't make sense to enjoy, or Problematic, actually instead of keeping it in the group chat with the haterella besties

[freakinator]

thinking about kab and the thing about her i think is she knows just enough to keep herself safe Generally but not enough to really predict what would happen should something more... complicated??? unforeseen??? idk whats the right word to use but something not covered by someones reputation and/or vids happen, believe it or not this also affects her view of clownpierce (we'll get to that)

for example, mapicc has a reputation for being an violent, angry, & impulsive guy and nothing else which makes sense but is incredibly surface level and something that only really works if you dont have a lot of experience working with him

another is reddoons, his betrayal after the base incident while shocking is not unforeseen but his reputation as being a guy whos seen as being a reasonable person whos fairly loyal to his team made it seem like something he wouldnt do even tho it absolutely is

regarding how it affects her view of clown, since he isnt perfectly aligned with his reputation she instead pivots in the complete opposite direction and forgiving basically every crime he does even tho hes something much more mild and complicated than either his reputation or her view of him will ever be (think madonna-whore complex which is especially obvious when it comes to kabs vs woogies view of him)

another side effect of this Just Enough amount of knowledge aside from being blinded by her own expectations is that it frustrates ppl who think shes oversimplificating things (like me and seemingly several other tumblr users as well) especially when she claims that shes objectively correct and the smartest in the room at any given moment

how this roughness in her analysis affects her in the server still has yet to be fully seen but we do still have at least a couple months until the end but 'til then shes just gonna keep stumbling as more and more complicated situations pop up as is typical in lifesteal to happen and eventually shes gonna have to learn to adapt or else she'll be suffering the consequences one way or another

[girlishwhimsies]

i love looking at hot takes and realizing that some outsiders fans don’t realize that fandom is something fun. nothing is truly that serious at the end of the day.

[cosmicdraghon]

Does anyone want to be my fav person by writing a hero Rangshi Au ?

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Can we talk about how fcked up Charles can be sometimes? Can we talk about how Charles can sometimes be actually scary as a person? Like he can legit be nefarious sometimes, but those moments are not as talked about as Erik's warcrimes (aside from the holocaust visions from TAS)

girlfriend i promise we're all very aware about how wack charles xavier can be and i assure you his nefarious moments are talked plenty from what i run into. like outside of this inbox most times you breathe charles' name to someone they'll be prepared to start swinging

[themintman]

I am filled with HATE and SORROW y'all know how like Nurm is my favourite character my number 1 guy out of any piexe of media ever I love him dearly which sucks cause he's pretty unpopular but whatever whatever. N I'm like "man I really want to see some new Nurm content but everything I find I've either seen before or I created ☹️" and then I. I go on tiktok and I KEEP seeing edits that start with a clip with Nurm in them and then haha surprise it's actually a Petra edit!! Cause it's ALWAYS PETRA GOD DAMN IT and I love her. I love Petra so much. She is a fabulous character but ohm y god I am tweaking. I genuinely started crying y'all I am not sane nor normal. I'm so normal about him. Oh my good god I am going insane I am 💥💥💥💥

[seilon]

please don’t by k.will did more for the gays back in 2012 than any boy group can possibly do with fan service and crop tops in 2024

[scuorge10]

Y’all can like Eurylochus without dragging Polites down by the way, in case y’all need a reminder.

I genuinely don’t understand why a lot of y’all are dead set on dragging Polites through the mud just to try and make Eurylochus look like a better character. Just say that you like Eurylochus’ character better and that you wish he was appreciated more by the fandom as a whole.

[killershrike]

yall this is the lowest I've ever been and I can tell cause I'm playing supernatural episode 1 again. I haven't seen supernatural in years. I stopped around season 11. it was one of my favorite and closest fandoms for a long time untll I just naturally grew out of it. and now that I'm at my lowest again, how fitting that I find comfort in sam and dean once more. dudes about as fucked up as I am lmao

anyways sorry for any supernatural spam from here on out, but it's the only thing keeping me from eating a bullet right now and I'm not even joking

[mbirnsings-71]

@pup-pee I know you have notifications on now but like hands you Magical girl Kyle!!!! He's done!! :D!!!

Magical Girl Guy can be found here!

(Transparent version under the cut because I like using that feature!!)

[soap-is-an-artist]

Hooray... it's 7 in the morning and I stayed up all night listening to the imperium... I feel so happy and satisfied with my life choices...

I am feeling very much not cowabunga, dude

[SEVERE rambling in tags]

[coffee-at-annies]

Well this post crossed my dash again and my brain was like what if I went on another unhinged rant/infodump about how baseball and hockey are different? And well gestures here we are.

Today on these two sports are different, we are going to talk about game flow and we are going to talk about offense and defense. The original post was for hockey fans unfamiliar with baseball. I’m gonna try to make this coherent for people who aren’t familiar with either but who knows it’s the xkcd average familiarity comic.

So in hockey you’ve got a standard sized rectangular rink separated into two zones with a goal on each end. The zone with your team’s goalie is your team’s defensive zone and the zone with the opposing goalie is the offensive zone. This means that at any point in time depending on where the puck is your team may be on offense or defense and game flow transitions between those two states. Teams can often get stuck in their own [defensive] zone or things like power plays can lead to a lot of [offensive] zone time. Keeping up with the play requires fans to be aware of what zone the puck is in. There’s the neutral zone which is just the middle of the rink and isn’t important at this time except for like extra rules and the blue lines re: zone entries and offsides. Not important here.

So for hockey you’ve got a continuous game flow of offense to defense to offense etc. It’s not always back and forth that explicitly but at any point the puck can take a bounce out of a zone and shift the flow of the game.

Baseball isn’t like that. Baseball is played on a diamond shaped field divided into infield and outfield. The infield is a dirt portion of the field consisting of 4 bases that make a square with 90ft on each side and a pitcher’s mound in the middle. The outfield is covered by grass and is considered everything between the two foul poles extending from the infield square up to the outfield fences. (Fun fact there’s no standardization about outfield sizes just minimum distances that aren’t even enforced that much).

You may be asking yourself is the infield the offensive zone and the outfield the defensive zone and the answer to that is yes both and neither. To explain that, I have to explain how baseball game flow works. Unlike hockey, where the game is broken up into three twenty minute periods and the game ends if there isn’t a tie at the final buzzer, baseball is divided into nine innings. The innings are then further broken up into half-innings called the top and bottom of the inning. The top of the inning (first half) will see the visiting team batting (offense) and the home team pitching/defending (defense). The bottom of an inning will see the reverse. A half inning ends when the team on offense gets three outs, thus each inning requires six outs. Idk how to define an out. There’s dozens of ways to get out and I would end up in the weeds trying to explain.

Also worth noting, unlike most major league sports, baseball doesn’t have a game clock. A half-inning takes however long it takes to get three outs. That can be two minutes and three batters or it can be twenty minutes and ten batters. It depends on who gets on base and how. MLB instituted a pitch clock to cut down on pitchers taking their damn time between pitches to force the average length of innings down.

Going back to game flow, there is a back and forth, but it’s dictated by the inning and the outs, not who has the baseball (the defensive team always has the baseball). So when a team is on offense they are batting. There’s no transition and putting pucks on the net. It’s all just batting. Players stand at home plate and try to hit the ball into play and then make it around the bases. In play is defined as between the two foul lines thus everywhere in play is the offensive zone for the batting team and the defensive zone for the defending team. Offensive players have to touch the bases to be considered safe on a play and the ball can go out of play in a couple scenarios (ground rule double, home run) and still be considered a fair ball, but that’s some basics.

I’m doing a bad job of explaining putting the ball into play because honestly most at-bats end up with an out. That’s the defense of it all. It starts with the pitcher, trying to throw the ball such that the offensive player (the batter) can’t hit it. I could get into the anatomy of an at-bat with balls and strikes and what the defense does if the ball is put into play, but I don’t know if that would be interesting when you can watch a baseball or softball game.

So I’ve talked about game flow and a little bit about offense and defense. What that looks like for baseball and I’ve kinda glossed over it for hockey but if you’ve got any passing familiarity with hockey or soccer/football then it’s probably familiar. The ways it’s different are the edge cases and I’m not explaining offsides or icing the same way I’m not explaining fouls vs hits. It’s not worth it.

Time to talk about offense and defense and what that means for players. In hockey, positions are split up into three categories, forwards, defense, and goalies. You can have 6 players on the ice at any time, generally in the configuration of one goalie, two defensemen (a d-pairing) and three forwards (a line). You can only have one goalie on the ice at any time but any combination of forwards and defense. At any point anyone on the bench can sub in for anyone on the ice (called a line change) so long as you don’t go over that six player maximum otherwise it’s a penalty (too many men on the ice). Baseball rosters are split into pitchers and hitters. Pitchers are split into the starting rotation and the bullpen. Hitters are usually divided by position but mostly it’s just what nine players are in the batting order for this game and whoever is currently pitching. In hockey, anyone who is on the bench can go into the game and everyone else is out of luck. This is good in that anyone can sub in at any time, but bad if someone gets injured during a game as the team will be forced to just play on with one less person. There’s exceptions for goalies and the ebug and we’re not going there. For baseball there’s nine positions on the field and nine spots in the batting order and that’s it. Technically since we don’t force pitchers to bat anymore there’s nine or ten active players at any time — pitcher, catcher, four infielders, three outfielders, and the designated hitter (who can be the pitcher but isn’t usually - Ohtani georg is an outlier). You can sub in someone from the bench/dugout at any time but they have to play the rest of the game. This is nice in case of injuries or if you gave your best hitter a day off and now need him to come in and hit a game winning home run.

The most common substitution in a baseball game however is the pitcher. Throwing balls well is hard. It can fuck up your elbow like nothing else. Baseball has a surgery named after a player because this specific elbow injury and resulting surgery is so common. As such, pitching is a committee job. A starting pitcher will usually pitch between four to six innings (throwing sixty to one hundred pitches) and then the bullpen will take over one inning (three to four outs, usually about nine to thirty pitches) at a time. A team’s closer is their bullpen pitcher who is the best at getting outs and usually pitches the ninth inning. Hitters all have a defensive position on the field except the designated hitter (DH) whose job it is to bat for the pitcher. I think I’m getting into the weeds of specifics again.

So going back to the original post that was complaining about picking up hockey players and dropping them into baseball. Pitching is a defensive-only position that is frequently done by committee. Hockey forwards are generally on the ice to make plays and score goals. They do backcheck and play defense as a matter of game flow but they are primarily on ice to score. Thus it does not make sense to cast prolific goal scorers like Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, or Connor McDavid as a pitcher when pitchers do not even play offense. It’s worth talking about what type of defense they play on the ice and how that would shake out to a defensive position on the field (or as the DH because they don’t have to play defense — that’s where I’m putting Ovi) but it requires an understanding of how an inning functions regarding defense and different play styles at the different bases. Your best forward is going to put the team on their back and score. Your best pitcher is going to put the team on their back and defend. Pitchers can get shutouts the way goalies do. It is a purely defensive position.

So yeah, you can compare shooting styles to blaseball pitches but it makes way more sense to compare shots to hitting styles than it does pitches.

Ummm @guentzel tagging you since your post was first. Feel free to ignore.

[necrotic-nephilim]

back on my bullshit. jaycasstalia (all combinations), cassrose × cheshire, deaddove jaydonna, jaytemis × rose, cass × artemis (that one wfa panel), koricass, jaykori dead dove, jay × jessica cruz

hello welcome back i adore the bullshit. i have to admit that i dislike JayKori and tbh i don't like or know Kori well enough to enjoy any ship with her she just. exists outside of my periphery and isn't the sort of character i'd enjoy. so those i fear i am unable to give thoughts there BUT THE OTHERS-

JayCassTalia is !!! so good? i really like Talia and i've been getting more and more into the al Ghuls so i find that fascinating. i think the respect Talia would have for Cass could almost border on a motherly jealousy, wishing *she* had honed her child into such a perfect weapon. i think CassTalia could be such a fun sort of mother/daughter incest ship of Talia promising to take better care of Cass. and then Jason in the mix is so fun bc Talia rlly shaped Jason for who he is today and i do think she loved him. maybe she loved what she saw of Bruce in him or maybe she loved how he existed outside of Bruce. both work so well. Talia being into both of them and them both falling for the attention of an older woman? yes i love it (also i will one up you with this- JayCassTaliaNyssa. fuck with Talia and Nyssa's complex over each other)

CassRoseChesire is so good from the thought of traumatized daddy issues and all of them being raised to be weapons, not ppl. the solidarity in that combined with feeling like being the only ppl who understand what that's like? it's so good. and it also has such fun conflicts in where they all fall on moral issues. very much a "you don't have to be human around me so stop pretending" sort of throuple and man, the potential in that complex in general. i feel like they'd get cannibalism as a metaphor for love shit.

dead dove JayDonna is VERY interesting, oh my god i never would've considered dead doving Donna. i haven't read a *ton* of comics with Donna but something about Jason expecting her to be a safe person on the Titans he can go to during his very brief period on the Titans and it turns out she's not and she takes complete advantage of him is *so* fun. i like if she's maybe projecting a want for Dick onto Jason too, but she sees Jason as a Robin that she can mold into a better partner than Dick is so this is the even better choice. she gets a blank slate she can make whatever she wants and it's so easy to make him obsessed with her if you lean into the "Jason is a Wonder Woman fan" sort of thing, with her telling all sorts of stories about Diana and promising she'll introduce them someday just to keep Jason coming back around to her.

Jaytemis and Rose truly is a ship that is just "Jason Todd deserves to be torn to shreds by strong woman" and ykw, i support that agenda. i do not think he'd be able to walk half the time but i think he'd enjoy it. i personally enjoy 90s Artemis the most and i think that version of Artemis before DC softened her for Jason could be SO fun oh my god. she would not put up with his shit and would drag him around like a leashed dog. and Rose is a great third for them bc she's also absolutely unhinged and fucked up enough to want Jason on a leash. tbh i see this almost very dark in a controlling with, but that's the fun of it for me. <3

i've not read enough of WFA to know what you're referencing BUT i think CassArtemis could be fun. (tho i hate that one Outlaws comic where Artemis oneshots Cass and calls her a child bc wdym Artemis can oneshot Cass but anyway-) typically i like Artemis and Helena as far as shipping her with a Batfam woman, but there's fun in letting a strong woman look down at Cass and just decide to chuck Cass over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes. i think she'd enjoy just how strong of a fighter Cass is. freak4freak but it's sapphic and they're arguing most of the time.

Jason/Jessica is SUPER interesting. i don't know if Jason and Jessica have a ton of interactions in canon? i've not read much of Rebirth BUT i will always love sticking Jason with a Lantern. JayKyle is my personal fave but i'd love to see Jason helping Jessica out of her shell and getting her to be more confident after her trauma. they cope with trauma in very different ways so i find the idea of putting them together sort of fun to see where they'd clash and align. would he scare her? yes but that's the fun of it. fear kink core.

also, i offer you some of my Jason and Cass rarepairs bc i think you would Get It anon:

JasonOnyx (i just wish we got more out of their interaction in UTRH and Onyx should hunt Jason down for revenge and they fuck nasty about it idk)

JasonBette (Bette's whole obsession over Dick when he was Robin, but she's obsessed with Jaybin instead and it carries over when he becomes Red Hood and Jason cannot get rid of her)

CassBarda (all i got out of the current BoP run is "mmm. sapphic size kink.")