#/not too serious

[dumblemonchickenwing]

some lesser dad thoughts (under cut bc i dont want to upset people)

Rouxls is called mediocre and pretty bad by some and then he’d get compared to Spade King (who openly loves Lancer) and to Queen (who is agreed to be a cooler girldad than RK) and then I remember the game and...eeh..

I mean, ppl are right that RK is not a great parent figure and he kind of “sucks”. But implying that he is just as bad as the others or that mb the other two are Better than him feels..awkward. I mean, I know it’s just game formalities and plot conveniences (Queen is a boss of ch 2 so she was supposed to be in another world), and none of it should be treated too seriously but:

Spade King: Threatened Lancer, kept him in fear and made him feel unsafe. Plus it was implied that he didnt spend much time with Lancer

Queen: was not even there with Lancer the entire time until she was forced to come back bc her Dark world was destroyed. She Is cool but canonically she was literally absent despite being his mom. Plus she didnt seem to feel any sort of remorse for leaving Lancer. 

If canon details are so important then I guess that means Queen was not a perfect parent either.

RK is sucky and miserable and he isnt great at parenting but he isn’t really “worse” than other parents of Lancer. As some have said, he’s the lesser of the two evils. People tend to downgrade RK for vocally denying his affection for Lancer, which Does make him look like not a good dad. And canonically RK does seem to only do sth about Lancer because he was forced to, which is bad.

If anything, RK really cleans up the mess after  King and Queen so calling him a pathetic dad who’s worse than the two actual parents is a bit of a disservice to him.

Rouxls is Not Lancer’s parent, Spade King and Queen are. Yet he took on some of their responsibilites, did “all the cooking and cleaninge”, even though none of it was His responsibility in the first place. He was never a babysitter or parent yet he knows a lot of information about Lancer for someone whose real responsibilities didnt include caring for the kid.

If anything, RK always neglected his real responsibilities (making puzzles and protecting the castle) when he served the King and did whatever he wanted. When Lancer became king and all threat disappeared he started doing what was assigned  to him, which is kind of suspicious. I mean, he is The Dad, he could ingore what Lancer tells him, but he didnt.?

this post is made half jokingly because I am aware that the game is not serious about Lancer - parents things and a lot of details were made as a joke in the game. But  i guess I wanted to write what  i feel about “Rouxls sucks and he’s terrible compared to King and Queen” thing

edit: edited the post a bit bc i realized i sounded,,wrong here. idk if ppl actually argue that other parents are better for lancer or not but i feel like ppl think RK is suckier than the others 

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[themetalhiro]

hold that posture

[punnifullife]

Based off this post. funny doodles i took too seriously.

[dilfslayer1080p]

"he died for our wins" - 2024, LIDL Oil paint on LIDL canvas

[spacedace]

What is it about laying on the floor when you're overwhelmed that makes everything feel so much better?

[ditzybat]

i love the headcannon that both tim and cass look scarily alike, to the point they could be twins.

like they both share the same general lithe build, they’re the same short height, cass has a short bob while tim has his baby mullet, their training is similar due to their backgrounds with lady shiva and the loa, and (depending on your headcanon) both waisan- so i can definitely see instances where they’re confused for each other or where they mess with everyone around them.

cass on patrol in red robin gear so tim can go on a date with bernard:

random thugs seconds away from being one hit k.o’d: yo since when did red robin start melting into the shadows like an eldritch horror?

jason: hey tim -

cass: wrong.

jason: no, im pretty sure you’re tim, i gave you that scar right there in your neck

cass: nu-uh, this is from cain

jason:

cass:

jason: well this got awkward…

steph hugging tim from behind: hey babe

tim: wrong wayne

steph: ew, i should’ve known, your ass isnt nearly as —

tim walking away with his fingers in his ears: lalalalala im not listening to you

damian: i think you’re the only one in this family i respect

tim who has been silently hanging out with him for the past 3 hours: aw thanks damian, i’ve come to love you like a brother too

damian: drake? i thought you were cassandra, my apologies, i retract my previous statement

tim: don’t care, you love me, don’t try to deny it

lady shiva hugging both tim and cass: my beautiful twins, such well trained weapons, unfortunate that you both ended up with cain

bruce pulling his children back: tim isnt yours…

shiva: well that cant be right, he’s s the spitting image of my sister carolyn, and that birth was far too painful to only produce one small child

tim: woah full circle, my drag-sona is called caroline, maybe you are my mom, i wouldn’t put it past janet drake to adopt

bruce: tim no, you’re not even the same type of asian

cass: too late, we’re blood

shiva: see!

[capinejghafa]

David is the only valid tua cast member in this interview.... also, I love how they probably though he was joking he was was deadass serious and they're like jk!

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[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[chimchiri]

gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please

It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)

[imperceiveable]

[nutnoce]

The Sun! I miss it!

[lemon-wedges]

Im gonna be honest, i watched The Menu last night and all that been on my mind since then is getting a cheeseburger

[a-piece-of-kale-called-kazryn]

The two types of people

edit: It's official y'all he's a car

[midnight-coffeebreak]

[trans-androgyne]

“Women and non-binary people” stop. Do you mean people with marginalized genders? Do you mean gender-oppressed people? Then say that. Stop refusing to recognize the very much gendered oppression of other trans people. There’s not some chasm of difference between how our oppressors treat a very masc non-binary person and a more binary trans man. I’m also non-binary and very much oppressed for my gender but because I’m transmasculine I could never feel comfortable in a space that marketed itself like that. Tell me what the real harm is of letting gender-oppressed mascs into spaces discussing gender oppression is. Because the consequence of not doing so is denying them space for their experiences just because of their gender identity. Do better.