#*pls don't kill me

[kas-eddie-munson]

Eddie was gonna kill that kid.

Steve seemed unbothered, stuck in this awkward encounter while Eddie tried to figure out where exactly Will fucked off to. This place was set up like a maze.

"So, not a fan of contemporary art, huh?"

Well. If Eddie was good at one thing it was digging himself into a hole. Might as well double down.

"Can't say that I am."

Steve nodded, took a sip of his drink, motioned with his other hand like he just *expected* Eddie to follow him, because this asshole's probably never heard the word no in his life.

Eddie followed him, but *only* out of curiousity and not any lingering embarressment.

They moved through an unlabeled door, to a quiet area full of cubicles and art supplies of all sorts laying around. Half finished paintings, bags of fabrics and beads, woodworking tools. Steve waved at an older woman in one cubicle full of pencil illustrations as they made their way to the back of the large room.

They stopped outside a cubicle of paintings, and Steve motioned to one of them.

"What do you think of that?"

Eddie scoffed. It was a big canvas on an eisel, pencil lines dividing it up like a grid.

"Dude. Is this supposed to be impressive? I could do this in five minutes."

Steve set his drink down on a table behind them.

"That's Will's."

Eddie's stomach dropped and he looked over the rest of the little area, noticing that the other canvases were full of dragons, knights, princes and princesses.

"It isn't far along yet. He was just working on it this morning. I didn't exactly time him but I'm sure it took longer than five minutes. Maybe thirty, forty five. Do you see the sketch?"

Eddie squinted, and sure enough it was, in fact, not just a grid. There were very light markings, barely visible. He couldn't tell what was happening, but Steve stepped in front of him and snatcheed a piece of paper off a stack of boxes. He handed it to Eddie.

"That's his main refrence there. I think his brother takes them for him."

It's a color photograph on printer paper, from a nearby park, thin lines cutting it up into a grid. He looked up at the gridded canvas and back again. He's thought he could make out a which shape was gonna become a tree.

"You know, some scientists did a study once. They had people look at abstract art made by a professional and a kid, and didn't tell them which was which. Anyway, as much as people say that abstract art looks random, all participants rated the stuff by professionals as better. There are a lot of intentional desisons that happen. People usually just don't look long enough to notice."

Steve motioned behind them and Eddie turned. The workspace was similar to Will's. Steve opened a desk drawer and pulled out a notebook, flipping it open to a page with a grid on it.

"Art doesn't have to be making stuff look real. It can do all sorts of things, tell a story, make you feel something. But at it's core, what I do, what Will does? I mean, we took some of the same classes together when Margret was running workshops last year. Color, composition, that stuff is all the same no matter what you're doing."

Eddie frowned. He flipped the page a few times and found a striking illustration of a dog.

"See! This! Why don't you do this? I, did you do this??"

Steve sighed.

"Yeah, I'm working on a birthday present for my mom.

"As to why I don't 'do that,'" Steve said making air quotes as he talked, "it gets repetive, I guess."

Eddie still didn't get it, but he and Steve talked for a while, eventually talking about unrelated topics.

Eddie may or may not have found and followed his socials after he went home that night.

Saw a post about kids of rich parents being able to pursue art cuz they don’t have to worry about money and it got me thinking…

Steve is an abstract artist he’s not like world renowned, but his work is in galleries and shared by niche art blogs.

Eddie who fucking hates abstract art shit talking him to Will not knowing that Will, despite being a more traditional artist, personally knows Steve and love his art. And Steve is so supportive of him being an artist, too.

So instead of saying anything Will invites him to gallery where one of his pieces will be displayed at, and personally introduces Eddie to Steve like,

“This is Steve, he’s the artist that you said is probably actually three toddlers in a trench coat. :) have fun.” Then goes off on his own to browse through the other art works because he’s actually such a little shit.

[wolfchans]

SEUNGMIN ♡ W KOREA BEHIND THE SCENES

[cerealbishh]

"Hey, we found you."

"I guess you did!"

[auuwmk]

family photo.....yeaahhh.👍

Inspired by this tweet....heh (and my own post iykyk)

[wr1ghtw0rth]

Really old artstyle Phoenix that I recently finished up on. I did improve a little, I think...

Also. That's him in court and no one can change my mind.

[falling-star-cygnus]

does anyone else feel like Boothill's inability to swear is an unexplored angst concept?

it's a hilarious add to his character, don't get me wrong, i love his dialogue- but isn't it just like- -> a wee bit dehumanizing? think about it:

someone literally REPROGAMMED his speech patterns just bc they could

i- that's got to grate on him right??

like the knowledge that anytime, anywhere, this random scientist could pop up again and just- change him like that

Boothill: what the- Dan Heng: fuck Boothill: were you thinking, Rosie? were you trying to get yer- Dan Heng: fucking Boothill: dumb- Dan Heng: ass Boothill: killed!? Argenti: ...i recognize i'm being scolded right now but- what are you two doing? Dan Heng: Boothill's.. alteration doesn't adequately get the point we're trying to make across here, so i volunteered to fill in

[alicentgwayne]

Baemond + favourite AO3 tags

Bonus:

[emberfriday]

a hug attack

[landomeowrris]

| norapinto/frando x reflections - the nbhd.

the next one will be a happy one i swear!!

[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.

[fishymom-art]

NOW WHAT? Chapter 17: Protect, Betray, Abandon

oops, sorry, I just ruined everything haha whoopsie daisy

[jona-draws]

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[kori-senpai]

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[secretly-a-trekkie]

pov you didn't get to do Halloween so you and your besties run around taking photos two days late

[tetheredbysin]

Would you hold my hand? They're the same ones I used...when I killed someone for you.