#*exhale*

[tapakah0]

@somerandomdudelmao...

Brother by Kodaline...

[frogaroundandfindout]

For a long time I thought Robin was his son, but now I know he was…chosen.

I don’t know much about their history except for what’s already passed into legend; Batman and Robin, the dynamic duo—mentor and sidekick—family by choice if not blood.

I’ve never caught his civilian name, but I do know that the first Robin has been heroing since he was a little kid—and that he’s friends with almost everyone in the superhero community.

I also know that even though things must have been rough between him and Batman sometimes, he’s wicked loyal…even now, even though he wears a different costume and answers to the name “Nightwing.”

(Batman: The 12-Cent Adventure #1)

[dollya-robinprotector]

PC can enter Robin's room naked and I think this should be taken to the next logical step where both of you are sitting naked and PC just casually cockwarms him the whole day. And they are playing games <3

You know what? Exactly my point, but since PC doesn't really come to school too often anymore cuz she's been busy fooling around with Wren, smashing stuffs in Remy's estate, go hunt the Ivory Wraith,... She'd prefer reading some books stolen from Sydney to maintain her school performance than playing games all day.

*Sigh* I wish PC and the school kids could graduate. School performance's such a pain to maintain when there are too many other things to do.

[ducktracy]

do you happen to know why there’s a noticeable drop in animation quality in the Daffy vs. Speedy cartoons? I’m very curious

short answer: studio shutdowns, the theatrical industry on the decline thanks to TV, lower budgets, all of their main talent either gone or mentally checked out beyond belief

MUCH longer answer reaffirming the above points!: the WB studio had a bit of a troubled lifespan, and the falling of the dominos can be traced back to the early '50s (or hell even post-war, since there were Technicolor shortages that caused lengthy backlogs) with the first--keyword, FIRST!--studio shutdown in 1953. 3D was on a huge rise around that time, and Jack Warner believed it would be the new industry standard. so! the cartoon department was shut for a few months so they could figure out if they needed to convert and adapt to this new format. Lumber Jack-Rabbit was a bit of a test subject for this

but the 3D bubble was indeed a bubble, and so the studio eventually reopened a few months later. a lot of the shorts are colloquially divided by this time period: "pre-shutdown" and "post-shutdown". the quality difference wasn't as big for directors like Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, as they still had their units intact, but it made a HUGE impact to Bob McKimson, who was the lowest in the studio hierarchy. he lost his entire unit and wasn't able to get any of his animators back, so he had to rebuild his entire unit from scratch (and in cases like The Hole Idea and most of Dime for Retire, animating entire cartoons himself.) his shorts likewise had the strictest budgets, and that's why you begin to really see a noticeable quality drop in his shorts

fast forward about a decade or so. everyone is getting older, a bit more disinterested, crews are being shuffled around and people are leaving. Carl Stalling retires in 1958, the same year as the musician's strike (which is why there are shorts from that year composed of stock tracks courtesy of John Seely), Milt Franklyn takes over for him until his death in 1962... theatrical cartoons are on their way out the door as TV is growing bigger and bigger. there's a clear decline, both for WB and the theatrical industry as a whole, which is why the Warner Bros studio shuts down for a final time in 1963.

this is where we get a little more relevant to the ask. Dave DePatie was the last exec in charge of the studio, assuming John Burton's role after he took over for Eddie Selzer, who retired in 1958. DePatie and Friz Freleng teamed up to start DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE), and so they leased the old Warner Bros studio and were contracted to produce their cartoons from 1964-1967. this is around the time where the Speedy and Daffy team-ups start beginning in early 1965. Friz directed the first handful or so, but DFE was ALSO making their own, non LT related cartoons at the time, and rolling in the dough with their new creation of a certain Pink Panther. so, Friz as a director started investing his time into these non LT cartoons, leaving Bob McKimson to finish up the rest of his dirty work for him. McKimson's crew is still the weakest, his budgets are still the smallest, and McKimson himself was growing more and more checked out with the job. he had for awhile now, but the death of his wife in the '60s certainly seemed to kickstart that sort of disenfranchisement further. the cartoons are the most obligatory than they've ever been

but don't you worry! the downward spiral still continues! once DFE's contract was up and they moved to a new studio, WB decided to bring back production in-house. such enters the Seven-Arts era, lasting from 1967 to the studio's last gasp in late 1969. Alex Lovy of Walter Lantz fame is brought in as the main studio director, and this is when you begin to see the emergence of characters like Merlin the Magic Mouse, Cool Cat, etc. they were still doing the Daffys and Speedys, budgets still cheap as ever, but attempting to lean into the late '60s animation landscape. all of the other LT characters had been retired by this point, and 1968 would see the last short with any formal LT characters in it (so... Speedy and Daffy)

i also neglected to mention Rudy Larriva's involvement with Format Films. going back to the DFE era, the Format Films studio (known for doing the '60s Popeye TV shorts and The Alvin Show) were used as outsourcing to make a handful of Road Runner cartoons. if you've ever watched a Road Runner and thought "wow, this sucks!" then CONGRATS! you're likely watching one of the "Larriva Eleven".

anyhoo, Larriva/Format Films also worked on some Speedy and Daffys (and when i double checked which ones he did work on, i was surprised to only see 3??? i thought he directed way more), and they too are cheap and quick for the same reasons above

SO! there you have it! and i've been slagging on the Speedy and Daffy shorts a lot, and i can't say it's without good reason LOL. with how many there are and in such a short amount of time and how utterly monotonous they are (as well as a reminder of the integrity these characters USED to have), it's easy to really point to them as the worst of the worst. but, unfortunately, they're just a portion of the studio's continued decline as a whole. all of the shorts were getting cheap and dull and droll--it's (unfortunately) not like the Speedy and Daffys were super flat and awful while the studio was also making amazingly lush Road Runner shorts at the same time.

like MANY of the most popular theatrical cartoon series, WB had a very unfortunate decline that i think is just more apparent to see because they were one of the studios that lasted the longest theatrically. i THINK Walter Lantz and DFE may have been the only studios that outlasted them, but i could be just as wrong so don't quote me on that! i'm not nearly as intimate with my 50s-60s history of the studio as i am the 30s and 40s, but i aim to change that!

[dreamtydraw]

What if i explosed uh ? What if i explosed uh ? WHAT IF I EXPLOSE-

[squilfmybeloved]

no my otp isnt pepperony or rhodeytony or stony or even ironstrange. its actually rhodey/tony/strange/steve/pepper/may/nat. do with that beautiful creation what you will. also fun uncles sambucky and fun kids parley parkner <33

[sapphire-heart-tippy]

Me: Suddenly I am in love with Kars-

The entire universe: I am going to indulge your affections to the highest degree and now you will start seeing this man everywhere you turn, your cheeks will not go unblushed, Kars will be there and he will love you too

[skyward-floored]

Time to fall back on my most beloved favorite fic ever in the whole wide world that always makes me feel better

[humanthatishuman]

i saw @lilliablog do this so i wanted to try :>

@kykywithabigheart @tilskkarishma @get-a-life-comedy @fyodorsushankaaa @kimisbunny @deeply-moonstruck @hunterisheree @windyskiez pls leave an ornament (if you want)

[kyliafanfiction]

Nothing will kill your faith in human empathy faster than watching a fandom in action.

Jesus fucking christ.

[mik0is0bored]

Undet the cut is my thoughts, a slight life update, and me basically complaining and ranting, so um yeah...🙂

Mainly I'm only doing this cus I just wanna like say smth so I can get it off my chest so hopefully I won't feel as stressed as I do. But every single year for the last 3 or 4 years I've gone black friday shopping with my friend and her family and when I get back to my own home I feel the holiday season finally kick in. And all year I wait and wait for this time of year but when it finally gets here it sucks. Nothing has happened around this time of year except for a few things, but thats for later or if someone wants more info (like my mutuals or smth cus I trust yall(mutuals) the most on this platform) ill do that but any other time of the year I'm fine but literally right after the end of the holiday season is my birthday (1st week of the month) and i remember every year since before 2020 I was afraid of getting older before but now it's only really during the holiday season because I'm old enough to get my license, but I don't have my permit, I've never had a partner (but thats the least of my worries right now) and too add on to it the strike in the area where I attend school is still going on. The strikes been going on for nearly a month. And I know there are WAY MORE important things than a teenage girl stressing about growing up up worrying about being alone for the rest of her damn life. Like once you turn a certain age (this is my opinion everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course) that once I reach a certain age I can't go and lean against my parents when I'm scared or stressed, and I can't go crying to them when I'm worried. I've said I've been afraid of growing up before but that was nearly 6 years ago when I was 9 or 10. I also feel like stuff has (obviously) gotten more violent around the world too, not just in the united states. The wars that are going on right now, although they don't affect me now, I still worry about the families over in those regions that are dying, injured, and sick. I've just been burnt out despite the 3 week shutdown due to th3 strike and I've been burnt out way before the strike started too. Chemistry is hard, it sucks, I have a c in painting, and my English teacher doesn't listen or even acknowledge mine (pr my friends) existence when we try ti talk to him. I've tried to convince my parents into getting me therapy, and that was shut down. Hopefully in a little while I can re ask the question because I've heard from several people now that therapy is one of the best things they've done. I dont have tramua I'm just so burnt out it's not even funny, i swear I'm not trying to unload my problems onto anyone else, which was the main reason I added the cut, so people could decide if they wanted to readbt my rant or not. But yeah anyways if you read this sorry for wasting your time if I did lmao have a good day/night

[tapakah0]

@somerandomdudelmao... it must have been done in one day, no matter how bad it might look or how short... I must have captured what I felt, the next day it wouldn't be the same... Second day, second memory, same misery, different fate... It's... it always such a miracle to see what you can make my brain do... Song : In This Shirt - The Irrepressibles

[foldingfittedsheets]

A phrase that’s always stuck with me was my friend Lia way back in middle school talking about sleeping too close to someone else. It was a big negative for her when she thought about cuddling, “You’re just breathing in their out air.”

I cannot explain why those words carved themselves deeply across my brain but they did.

When I’m too close to people and I can feel their breath I’ll deliberately breathe out while thinking, I don’t want your out air.

It is an act of love for me to be close enough to someone that I don’t mind breathing in their out air.

Every person I have told this phrase to has come back and informed me later that it lodged deeply into their psyche too. So here you go, Tumblr. Out air. You get to think about it now, too.

[coutureicons]

angela bassett as bernie in waiting to exhale (1995)

[justatumblinweed]

WAIT I THOUGHT YOU WERE JOKING.

I was literally just thinking that it would be okayish except for the exes part like NO?? That is a fundamental misinterpretation of both characters??? Why????

No nuance option

[saydesole]

Her Vibe is 90s R&B