#Clarity Series

[gothamite-rambler]

"Okay, but how were you able to taste heroin?" I asked, confused.

Bruce (confused years later hearing this story): Wait a damn minute... Wait a damn minute. Wait a damn a minute!

Tim: He's trying to say "How did you know what heroin tasted like?"

Dick (tense): What?

Bruce (already prepared to give the drug test): Oh, that wasn't the right answer. How did you taste it and not get high? How did you taste it and NOT GET HIGH?!

Dick: Alfred knew what it was too!

Bruce: He was in the war he has an excuse! Did you do drugs with... ROY?!

Tim: Bruce, chill.

Bruce: I will chill as I make a call.

Bruce sat down, grabbing the landline phone and dialing a number. Dick sat in his seat, his eyes darting nervously.

Dick (thought voice over): I paid him... I should be fine.

While Bruce talked to Jason on the phone Tim yanked his brother to his side.

Tim (whispering): Who gave it to you, why, was it Roy, and do I need to handle your rehab stay?

Dick (pulling away): I'm not on drugs!

Tim (incredulous): Anymore?

Dick: Never was. I never was! Roy will vouch for me!

Bruce: Let's hear what Roy has to say.

Bruce put the call on speaker and all that could be heard was Jason cackling. Roy's frustrated sighing could be heard in the background.

Bruce: All right, Jason's cackling too much to answer. Roy... repeat what you said to me!

Roy: It was one party and he was stupid enough to want to try it once with me. I was already heavily addicted and even I told him not to try it. That hospital stay afterwards made him not touch it again.

Jason laughed.

Jason: Tell the other part... tell him.

Roy: He did smoke a lot of weed in his college years.

Bruce: He... WHAT?!

Roy (chuckling): Whoops forgot to tell you that earlier.

Dick (angry stuttering): I- I- I fucking paid you not to tell anybody.

Roy: And I said that wasn't guaranteed if I ever got clean! The money is gone now.

Jason: On drugs you bitch.

Roy (laughing): Shut it.

Bruce (monotone): Okay, Dick, five second head start, and then I tackle you and give you a drug test.

Dick ran out of the room as Bruce counted down. Bruce hung up the phone then chased after his eldest son. Alfred entered the office carrying a tray of small coffee cups.

Alfred: What's going on?

Tim (taking a coffee cup): Bruce found out Dick used drugs in the past and he's giving him a drug test.

Dick (running the other way): I was just a young boy!

Bruce (following behind him): SHAMEFUL!

Tim took a sip from his coffee, nodding at the good taste.

Tim: Did you use heroin?

Alfred: What happened in the undocumented war stays in that war. That and it was the old days, I stopped using it after I moved to America.

Tim (shook his head with a smile): I'm glad I'm not addicted to anything.

[thatrandomblogsays]

Annabeth: it’s been five years and Chiron has STILL never let me go on a quest

12 year old me: omg that’s so unfair

Adult me: cause you’re A BABY

[clarityroses]

teehee

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A fan at Yankee Stadium during the 1951 World Series. Obviously a Dodger fan, but giving a Bronx cheer anyway!

Photo: Ed Clarity for the NY Daily News via Getty Images/Fine Art America

[pharawee]

[kirbyddd]

between Dread continuing from a game on GBA (and really every game prior to that too) and Prime 4 continuing from 2 games on GameCube and Original DS, Metroid has the longest narrative endurance of any multi-creator series I've ever seen. Threads left in stasis decades ago when the series was shelved picked right back up once development resumes—an entire generation of developers later—like nothing ever happened

[strqyr]

as much as i love 'war' as a song, i do kinda wish the fight between team rwby and the ace-ops was presented more as a tragedy(?) rather than as a moment of ass kicking. ya know, like qrow vs clover was; it doesn't have to be this way, and as an audience you shouldn't want it to be this way, they should be allies, friends, etc, and maybe there was a way to prevent it from ending this way, but it was not the road taken.

obviously it would require for there to be more interactions between team rwby and the ace-ops beforehand in positive light; not only in terms of training—with team rwby taking the advice they get from these more experienced huntsmen and huntresses to heart—, but also on more personal level, but overall, as the fight is, it just feels tonally... off. it's mostly masked by the banger of a song—and the soundtrack in general—that plays in the background, but it's just... with salem in the horizon, i don't think a fight between allies should make me feel hyped in the moment.

i don't know if this is the best way to phrase this to really get across what i'm trying to say, but again, comparing team rwby vs the ace-ops with qrow vs clover, because of the difference in tone, the latter feels like it has more depth to it; that these characters are taken more seriously, while with team rwby it's like... as long as they look cool, it's fine, ya know?

but i want more than that. i want the same depth, the same seriousness for team rwby as other characters get in similar situations. but at times, it feels like the writing is either too unwilling, too afraid, or just too uncaring to do so.

[girl-intrigued]

Swear to God Pleng thinks more about Ek and his relationship with Wan than Wan has ever thought about them in their whole relationship!!

Pleng still thinks Wan needs to have Ek so she isn't alone whereas Wan doesn't give 2 flying fucks about Ek because she knows the one she loves is Pleng and she could never love anyone as much as she loves Pleng!!

Pleng still hasn't come to terms with her love for Wan and constantly tries to undermine it while Wan is aware that this isn't a normal friendship that they have. Pleng open your eyes see what is so clear !!!!

[chemdisaster]

i need need need joel to win the life series at some point please i need to angst him so bad

just imagine. joel, so focused on the simple, human things in the game, both denying that it is a game and at the same time playing like it's one in the hopes that maybe if he does, it won't matter, won't have the power to hurt him - joel, winning and seeing the beyond with his very own eyes. seeing what's there at the end of it all, after everyone dies and the blood seeps into the soil. what's there after all the bases are burnt and the jokes and bits are forgotten, gone with the rising smoke of explosions. joel, understanding how little everything truly matters, but not in the way he thought. understanding both the gravity and the insignificance of their existence. understanding that nothing matters, and everything does.

joel, the epitome of "ignorance is bliss" and "what i can't see won't hurt me" in everything he does, witnessing more than he should, shouldering the burden of knowledge and ultimately being undone by it all.

[clarity2electricboogaloo]

The “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” caught me so off guard. That wasn’t very “tragic Hephaestus life story” of the mechanics god but like slay or whatever

[iamdispleased]

i have been trying figure out who ted spankoffski reminds me of since the day tgwdlm came out and i finally got it

joe from sewage from parks & rec

[veinsfullofstars]

Idea that bandanna dee reminds dedede of Box Dee

Hm… I’m assuming you meant to say Bow Dee, anon? If so, then I can kinda see why you’d think that.

While I wouldn’t call it a one-to-one comparison (Bow is a bit more impulsive and abrasive, while Bandee can be nervous and kind-hearted to a fault), there are definitely some parallels you can draw between them: the energetic personality, the love of adventure, the courage to stand up to danger despite the odds, etc. Dedede doesn’t get to see Bow as often in the future - busy with their duties aboard the Halberd after earning the title of Sailor Dee - but I think he’d still pick up on these similarities regardless, having grown up with one and practically helped raise the other (or so he boasts).

On one hand, it’s probably nostalgic for him to see glimpses of his old friends in the young spearwielder - smart and skilled (and a little skittish) like his father, brave and joyful (and a little reckless) like his godparent. It’s like little reminders of his youth, the adventures had and memories made, living on in the next generation.

But, on the other hand, he might feel a pang of dread. “Oh great - now there’s two of them.”

Sketch started and finished 04/24/24.

[thebroccolination]

SERIES VS. COUPLE

Do your favorite BL couples match your favorite BL series?

I feel like this must be a phenomenon, so I want to see what other people's lists look like. \:D/

These are mine. I'm very proud.

Voila:

TOP 3 SERIES: Be My Favorite, SOTUS, Until We Meet Again TOP 3 COUPLES: WinTeam, KongArt, KawiPi

Because, like, we judge series and character based on different criteria, right?

Be My Favorite shot to the top of my list by episode eight last year because the writing was immaculate (Waa took extra time to really hone the script, and it shows!), the directing is phenomenal (the behind-the-scenes footage and interviews show how much influence Waa had in bringing out the best in everyone), the premise is right up my alley (subjective, but y'know, favorites lists are subjective by nature), etc. etc. etc. It's just all-around an incredibly well-crafted show, so it's sitting pretty cozy up there at the top.

But!

When I think about couples, WinTeam and KongArt are firmly first and second.

WinTeam have been my favorite BL couple from Day ONE, and no one's even remotely challenged them since even though Between Us is somewhere around #5 or #6 on my list (depending on how much of the series I choose to selectively forget).

And KongArt? We saw them grow from age 19/20 to, like, 26/27? (I haven't math'd the years in a while, but the Our Skyy episode is definitely set during their late twenties.) Experiencing that much development for a BL couple is rare, and their relationship is portayed so beautifully.

So, y'know, both lists are completely subjective and don't always have anything to do with quality or whatever. WinTeam are my favorite couple because Win's my favorite character archetype and Team is a sassy traumatized gremlin, and Be My Favorite is my favorite series because holy shit I love gay time travel and it's the only series I've seen that's treated leitmotifs seriously.

SO TELL ME YOURS. \:D/

[chaos0pikachu]

that last shot of the doctors eyes after tharn and phaya boned the night away was so fucking funny like I'm picturing him at his home sipping his tea and all of a sudden going like this

[jenna-louise-jamie]

disclaimers: this covers books 1-11 again. answers can span across multiple books, though i tried to limit that this time around for the sake of clarity!

reblog for a bigger sample size! everyone is encouraged to vote, even if you've never read/watched/heard of alex rider!

[jammatown919]

Rewatching Tangled the Series and honestly all I can think about is how much the show could’ve benefited if Disney just had the balls to show a poly relationship.

Cause like, I love Rapunzel with Eugene, but you are LYING to me and to yourself if you say Cass and Rapunzel didn’t have something going on. Just let Rapunzel have two partners!! It is a normal, okay relationship model to have and to represent in media. I would’ve LOVED to see how those three would’ve worked out their emotions and settled into that dynamic.