#Because I'm bad at it

[es-draws]

💕Love💕: Sketching

🚫Hate🚫: Shading

[just-another-blog-of-fluff]

Congratulations on the baby 🥰 hope you are both well 😘 I’m excited for your next prompt and was wondering if we could see a snippet from it👀

Thank you lovely anon! 🥰 We are doing very well thank you!

It's been a bear trying to get myself back into writing - I feel so out of practice! I shared a little snippet of what I've written so far here (I think it got lost in all of the asks I answered that day!) This prompt is especially difficult because I'm trying to create a story behind why there's a blip in the universe, which is requiring quite a lot of creativity... and a LOT of refreshing myself on Marvel lore for accuracy 😅

I do have some more written, so here's another snippet that explains some of the backstory I have planned. It will take place two years after Endgame (and obviously I had to tweak the story a bit to explain why Loki is alive):

"No, wait a second!"

Peter had been uncharacteristically silent up until this sudden interjection, drawing the attention of the room. The teen's eyes were sparkling with sudden revelation.

"I think I figured out what's going on!" he elaborated, gesturing to Thor and Clint. "You two don't remember that Loki's been living here for the last few years, but we do. What's the one thing they have in common that none of us have?"

"Kid, I'm not up for playing Scooby Doo right now - just tell us your theory," Sam urged exasperatedly. Peter's enthusiasm was undeterred as he continued.

"They survived the snap!"

"What is this 'snap' you speak of?" Thor inquired. "Is this some sort of Midgardian slang?"

"You don't remember the snap either??" Sam asked in surprise. "You know, when Thanos wiped out half the planet??"

"I... feel like I'd remember something like that," Clint muttered sarcastically.

"See?? We remember the snap, but they don't!" Peter proclaimed. "Whatever caused that purple lightning in the sky must have erased their memories! They don't remember anything that happened after the snap."

"And the medic?" Bucky asked.

"Survived the snap as well," Loki informed. He had the sudden sensation of a large boulder weighing in his stomach at the revelation. If Parker was correct, and you couldn't remember anything from the last seven years... His fingers curled into fists as the anger welled inside of him. "What... who... what could have done this??"

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

i don't care that joe biden is old and tbh, i don't actually think the media cares either. they just want trump back because him sucking makes for easier clickbait

[lazylittledragon]

made a sticker for anyone to slap onto their work if they need to

[ghostlypinkbiscuit]

will the hunger ever end

[mourn-and-watch]

ekko describing jinx from his timeline to powder as someone who's just different but whose ideas change the world. jayce saying to machine herald!viktor that his imperfections are a part of everything that made him so admirable. powder getting mesmerized when she sees different timeline!ekko before he leaves. jayce building his whole life around the idea he got from different timeline!viktor when he saved him. love does transcend reality after all

[blackkatdraws2]

[Toon x Mobster] drawn for fun, he doesn't know how to hold that thing wwwwww

[lil-lemon-snails]

sometimes you just need to hear it v some stills below the cut v

[miraluking-respectfully]

MEAN TO HIM!!!

[gotstabbedbyapen]

It's always "Hades isn't bad or cruel, his deeds are just metaphors of the inevitable death" or "Hades kidnapping Persephone represent the premature death".

But when the argument "Zeus has numerous affairs and many children because he represent the fertile rain" is brought up, all nuance is suddenly out of the window and Zeus is just a womanizer who can't keep it in his pants.

[raynewolferune]

DC x DP Prompt: Bruce is bad at emoting but at least ghosts are empathic (too bad bat kids are not)

Was reading Twincognito on AO3 when I stumbled across this gem again:

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" “Danny, Tim. I was just…checking in. Is everything alright?” Curse his inability to make meaningful conversation when it wasn’t a life or death situation.

They glanced at each other and shrugged.

Then Danny hauled himself out of the bed and walked over to Bruce.

Bruce tried not to let too much excitement show on his face. "

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Now I really want to read a story where Bruce adopts Danny post Meta trafficking and is being his usual emotionally constipated self. His kids keep getting mad at him because he's treating their new meta brother who was trafficked poorly (generally being stilted in conversation with him, walking away hurriedly mid-conversation, avoiding Danny when he's feeling really awkward, etc). They think Bruce is discriminating against Danny for being a civilian, meta, dealer's pick, but really it's just Bruce being horribly socially awkward. Danny knows this because of ghost empathy and find the whole thing hilarious. The whole thing comes to a head with the Bat Kids staging an intervention in the Bat Cave.

[kaahmbem]

my experience in fields of mistria so far

[akanemnon]

That was faster than expected.

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[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.