#Atlas Rogues

[a-roguish-gambit]

Was at a con this weekend, so I decided to draw all the mini mutants in kigurumi. Enjoy!

[evil-youth-messrs]

when heterosexual couples are implied to be in romantic relationship/have feelings for each other in media, people will take that as a stated fact that they are indeed involved.

(for lack of better examples, atla and rogue one. both have scenes where the main couple is in a dark place and their faces are close. from my experience people tend to interpret those moments as first kisses and a confirmation of the couple's involvement.)

but when it's a same-sex couple, they could be all over each other, saying the most romantic soulmatey kinda stuff and people will still not acknowledge them as gay, unless there is a (unquestionable) kiss and/or a direct statement that they are dating.

(here I will inevitably mention yuuri on ice. that shit was gay as hell they literally got engaged and still there's discourse whether they kissed in that one scene or not. also from what I heard saltburn has immense gay vibes and some people deny it??)

the double standards man, I'm tired

[1000sunnygo]

One Piece 1120

friendly reminder that Law would've loved to see the robot 😔

some chapter thoughts and rambles under the cut

- We're so soo close to egghead's closure woah.

Next week has an anniversary spread so the chapter should be stacked. Throwing in an easy prediction: Emet will launch an attack that'll completely immobilize the gorosei, forcing them to retreat so Luffy and team can smoothly escape without the Elders chasing their tail. Basically, I think SHs escape within next chapter or the one after. Law update soon 😤

-Regarding D lore, I find it interesting that there are at least three D's who served the government. Recruiting them or purging them, both might've been a result of the government acknowledging their potential to upturn the world. Maybe Monkey family served the navy for generations even before Garp, and Saul had giant genes which gave the govt incentive to keep him on their side. The D's who defy the government never bothered to hide their identity, like Xebec, Teach, or Roger. Their families might've faced discrimination too, for all we know, Teach had a rough time growing up

- I wonder what happened to Portgas bloodline, were most of them already annihilated by the time Rogue met Roger? Did Rogue's resilience come from a difficult childhood? What happened to Gol family, and who gave Roger his hat? At this point, I'm pretty sure Roger will have his own spinoff at some point.

-Agree with everyone who speculates that Robin might be D. Hell maybe she is already by association, similar to Sabo.

-Once again, the official translation did a better job. "what does he mean, Gol D.?" was better than "did he just say Gol D.?", Clau D. was also more Oda-like choice of word, better explained by Artur in his tweet thread.

-I wonder if Toei will give Emet a child-like voice? Similar to Alphonse, maybe?

-There's a Sulong Bepo vivre card on Sept 4th and this week's jump featured a page to promote it! Maybe I'll make a separate post on that one..

[cocoabubbelle-newblog]

SCOGUE-“Tember”

Day “5”: [🌊🪨🔥💨] Avatar: The Last Airbender

Cocoabubbelle ATLA wasn’t part of the prompt list yes it is [now] shush

[amoratearte]

just the six fanarts challenge I did of non asoiaf characters to have some fun

[slyandthefamilybook]

OH! "choke on your aspirations." aspirate. like to choke. damn it's a double pun

[sisaloofafump]

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[herebecritters]

How bout some spicy D&D drama today?

Geshtu and Hopp’s edgy dnd characters: Ilawela and Atlas

Atlas belongs to @ickyguts

[shitpostingkats]

Elite hacking tip from Mr. Crow Hogan

[serpentinegraphite]

...re: your tags on the WFA Jason crowbar incident -- might one be directed to your referenced essay?

Since it's been a min, here's the DC meta post this ask is referencing.

I thought it was on my blog, but I haven't been able to find the essay in the weeks since this ask came in? It might have been a tag rant more than the proper essay I thought I had posted. Or I might have been thinking of a broader and more general essay on the current trauma in fanfic portrayal, which I have definitely posted on this blog somewhere and in several friends' inboxes.

The gist of the essay is that a) fandom as a whole has a tendency to treat panic attacks/flashbacks as the Only and Right Way to experience trauma, even though that's by far not universal and b) will apply this even to characters who have canon trauma and show specific trauma reactions!

With Jason Todd in WFA having a Crowbar Sound Flashback, it's a perfect microcosm of both! The problem, therefore, isn't necessarily WFA being Uniquely Terrible and Inaccurate; WFA just exclusively plays with a lot of softball, fandom-popular tropes, so it remains popular even and especially with people who aren't super familiar with the canon. And because WFA thrives on softball, popular tropes, of course it's going to pick up on the Best Way To Write Trauma.

The essence of the problem is actually the way trauma symptoms in fanfic are homogenized to the most palatable, most sympathetic reaction guaranteed to woobify even the most hardened crime lords and war criminals: a panic attack. But not ANY panic attack! Specifically the hyperventilating on the floor, curled up in a ball kind of panic attacks! (Characters who lash out in anger when they're scared? Characters who shout mean things? Not anymore! Now they're hyperventilating on the floor and they need tender care and possibly a hug.) The momentary full helplessness is integral to creating a miniature h/c journey for the characters (panic –> helplessness –> rescue –> bonding).

Panic attacks actually have a pretty wide range of symptoms! Sometimes they're focused more on derealization reactions or heart racing (loads of people irl end up in the ER thinking they're having a heart attack, when it's actually a panic attack).

This specific portrayal of trauma as panic attacks is, I think, most egregious with characters who would actually fucking die if they had this exact trauma response. E.g., Jason Todd, who infamously both commits crimes and fights them. If he has a panic attack at every scum bag who waves a crow bar at him, he's probably getting beaten to death with a crowbar again. If even one of his regular criminal contacts or enemies catches wind that he has a crowbar panic attack weakness, he's dead! And this could be played for drama in this kind of fanfic, but it never is. (Because drama isn't the point, quick and dirty h/c is.)

Distilling his trauma about dying into panic attacks dismisses his entire history and canon trauma response (rage and vengeance and trying a completely different tactic from Batman to better the city of Gotham when the Red Hood is being a good guy and not just being a crime lord for profit). Here is a solid discussion on how Jason reacts to his own death (I'm new here and this essay is already long lol, I'm not citing whole comics runs or anything myself), with a great addendum from Ragnarok-hound in the tags on the Doylist reasons for why the canon goes over Jason's death again and again anyway.

The problem further stems from everyone learning panic attack symptoms from a combination of personal experience (which for the AO3 crowd in the shippy tags does not as often include people with uh combat or crime experience) and actual mental health web resources, so any panic attack scene reads like it was written by someone between high school and college age checking off a list of psych textbook panic attack symptoms. So it makes sense why they would go with the thing that is easiest to write for them and stick with the approved symptoms they know will garner the most sympathy from the audience and, importantly, other characters in the scene. E.g., to return to bullying WFA's portrayal, having Bruce arrive to tell Jason everything will be okay and fix everything.

(I think ymmv more on Bruce portrayals, depending on Your Preferred Batman, whether that's the corresponding era of comics with Red Hood, the animated series, or some campy/classic live action Batman portrayal, but one thing that is pretty consistent in every Batman media is that he's not fucking great at feelings, so even with a generous reading, WFA simplifies a lot of fraught history between Jason and Bruce here. Further, I could write an entire second essay on how bystanders in fanfic always have the perfect response, to either use the right therapy speak and handle a panic attack perfectly or hug the person to help them calm down or what have you, but this is long enough as it is. To be brief, though: sometimes, especially in a situation like Jason and Bruce's, it's perfectly normal to see someone panicking and then also panic and fuck things up even worse! It's also common to feel frustrated or tired of seeing someone panic over the same thing! Like I know fanfic and WFA are wish fulfillment, but like. There's a lot of nuance and basic trauma understanding missing here.)

And that brings us to another point, which is that PTSD triggers don't necessarily manifest as anxiety disorders and textbook panic attacks. I mean, this feels obvious, but there are a lot of ways to experience PTSD! and that's the thing about Jason Todd! He has trauma, not an anxiety disorder! While panic attacks as the default and most common trauma reaction are very common in fanfic, it's not like even the top most common trauma trigger reaction? And it's weird that it's everywhere like this. Trigger responses have a wiiiiide range, e.g., nightmares, lashing out (the Netflix Jessica Jones show was especially good at this actually! Billy Hargrove on Stranger Things is a fucking perfect example too), dissociation (The Raven Cycle books do a great job with this, and then the fanfic forgets that it happened entirely), or simply activating one's fight or flight instinct (and we've seen with Jason, it's often a fight instinct!). There are probably also loads of Batman comics exemplifying each of these variations, but a) as stated I'm new here, I don't have comprehensive citations for every character (yet) and b) I really want to illustrate how fanfic specifically keeps sticking to one particular portrayal in a way that most canons don't.

Jason Todd can be easily written as having a Specific Traumatic Incident (dying hideously via crowbar) or having complex PTSD (little daily bullshit! you can do an entire deep dive on complex PTSD resulting from poverty, homelessness, and regular repeated exposure to violence as a child e.g. by being Robin, which is not even getting into the stuff you can gather from popular hc/later retcons about his mom's drug use or how his dad's working for Two Face and getting sent to prison might have affected him; another example it's a common hc that he's straight edge because of what drugs may or may not have done to his mom depending on the canon you're working with, but I don't see a lot of people writing him with the corresponding control issues that often pair with that). There are a lot of options is what I'm saying.

WFA choosing to double down on the sound of a crowbar scraping (when also like he's the one using a crowbar for actual mechanic things in this scene, he's probably used to a variety of metal scraping sounds, okay I'm nitpicking here again) over any of the more complex trauma under his belt is very lazy writing. They're distilling his entire history to one specific sound that causes a very targeted panic response, which I know. Is the format. That's how WFA works, it's not supposed to be deep, but this is again, a pattern I keep seeing again and again in fanfiction (to bully another fandom: Stranger Things fans insisting that Steve Harrington is afraid of his own swimming pool when the canon strongly contradicts that; he's swim team captain for 3 years running after this AND that's actually Nancy's trauma reaction, not Steve's).

Again, the problem isn't necessarily specifically with WFA or people who enjoy it or with h/c. But, yeah, the crowbar scraping sounds panic attack is a huge disservice to Jason's character, and it's like a ubiquitous pattern of writing trauma in recent years.

[survivalove]

about me

fandoms

star wars: rebels, rogue one, clone wars, old republic

pjo

atla (ugh!) & lok (that means some. times.)

bleach (halfway through)

arcane (knew i was forgetting one. been avoiding this fandom the most)

fave characters

ahsoka, sabine wren, satele shan, obi-wan kenobi, the daughter, ezra bridger, jyn erso, cassian andor

annabeth chase, percy jackson

katara, sokka, yangchen, aang, korra, KANNA (you guys just don’t get it)

toshiro, orihime, rukia, ichigo

mel, jinx, vi

ships in order

kataang

percabeth

obitine

yangvik (casual)

ichihime

any other orihime ship (platonic or romantic)

any toshiro ship (within reason)

sabezra (not an anti but don’t ship it romantically that much)

renruki (for now)

some posts of mine

colonization of the southern water tribe

katara & tropes

who is the best female fighter in atla?

air temple island - architectural digest edition

katara vs sokka

katara & yue

katara the self care queen

random interests

sleeping beauty (the most beautiful animation ever)

beyoncé (not really random as she’s the queen of my life) follow abitmodish

fashion: versace, valentino, christy turlington follow abitmodish

dnis

katara antis

mel antis

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zutara shippers***

zukka shippers***

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mel antis

fire nation stans in general

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[the-badger-mole]

Any headcanons on Zuko and Katara would do if they had a child that was rebellious and a bully or like overall "bad"? Kinda like a black sheep compared to other steambabies who in countless fics all seem to possess inherently "good" traits

I actually have a headcanon that they have a rebellious child. I wrote it a while ago. I don't think any of their kids would bee bullies, or turn out like Azula, but I think one of their kids would have trouble finding his path, and it would lead to him being a wild child party animal. He'd probably get caught up in philandering and gambling and/or some ridiculously dangerous hobby (like gerry rigging submarines to explore the ocean). Zuko and Katara would do their best to get him in line, but once he's an adult, they know they have to let him go, and just hope they can be a safety net for him. I don't know exactly what happens yet, but he either makes good, or he dies tragically young.

[s0ph9]

Alright so, you know that song “PERCEPTION CHECK” by Tom Cardy?

Now imagine, Sokka as the Bard, Zuko as the Rogue and Suki as the Barbarian (idk she’s a warrior it just matched).

And the cloaked figures? The rest of the Gaang, Aang being the Child.

It might be after the Boiling Rock breakout or some probably canon-divergent event, they’re trying to get back to the rest of the Gaang after whatever.

You can’t tell me this wouldn’t be in character

I NEED to see that animated😂 pretty please to the animators of the fandom I rly rly wanna see that🥺

[sigery]

How would the not alone crew react whenever Blue Moon sporadically teleports back into their universe. Assuming he never came back to the RV, and never teleported there willingly. (Whether or not he was successful in killing Moon I don't know.) He's going to spawn in next to the twins or radio.

It could have been a good couple of months. Perhaps even half a year.

I'm not sure if the teleportation has any signs like noise or flash of light or anything of that sort. But upon noticing, Rogue and Rascal will be getting in front of the others, even before seeing who actually showed up. When they see Blue Moon, they start growling. Neither expect it to actually scare Blue Moon off, but they hope it will be some type of deterrent.

Radio upon seeing Blue Moon flinches, pulling Atlas closer to him so he can hide his face. Razz doesn't know exactly what happened that night, but he knows Blue Moon is the reason Radio cried so much. He doesn't squirm when Citrus pushes him behind the older.

It is probably abundantly clear no one is comfortable with Blue Moon's presence.

(Blue Moon probably did kill Moon. Earth is in charge of the daycare now. Fazbears spent so much money buying her off the creator)

[ihavea-natural-curiosity]

“zuko would play a rogue” “zuko would play a barbarian”

FALSE he would play a wizard, i mean, “i dont CARE how small the room is! I CAST FIREBALL”

[slyandthefamilybook]

wait if you can go rogue from having your disc removed for too long doesn't that mean disc fighting is like fighting underwater with no SCUBA gear