#I didnt forget about this

[localbreeze]

For art requests, citrusshipping please \⁠(⁠>⁠o⁠<⁠)⁠ﾉ?

Classic/ on-model, emoshipping, au I don't mind I love it all so much XO

Sending hearts regardless tho have a good one dude ♥⁠╣⁠[⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠]⁠╠⁠♥

No way. Me posting citrusshipping?? Now wayy

shoutout to the nature brushes yall r real ones 😔 🤚

THE FACT THAT THIS IS MY FIRST TIME DRAWING THEM THATS A CRIME EHSJKWKW

(Click for quality)

Also you cant tell me that a dude (gender neutral) that didn’t brush or/and wash their hair for like 40 years has silky smooth hair??? Morro with messy hair>>>>>

[overwhlcmed]

status : closed / ( @foxtcils​​ ) location : the library imani be working out !

☁️  ⠀    ⠀  ⠀    ⠀  ────────────    as  the  temperature  dipped  so  did  the  amount  of  bodies  that  filtered  in  and  out  of  the  library’s  front  doors.  the  consistent  snowfall  made  the  trek  to  the  building  a  harsher  one  to  make,  and  with  school  being  let  out  for  the  holiday  break,  staying  inside  where  it  was  warm  and  comfortable  was  much  more  appealing  than  any  festive  activity  she  could  come  up  with.  normally,  this  time  of  year  made  her  feel  lonely.  she’d  sit  at  her  desk  looking  out  into  the  empty  aisles  and  create  vivid  stories  of  the  kids  who  use  to  the  fill  them  and  how  they  were  spending  their  holidays  with  a  house  full  of  family.  happy  as  she  was  for  the  kids  and  her  imagined  full  tables,  sparkly  presents,  and  loud  laughter  as  snow  angels  were  made  with  friends,  there  was  always  be  a  tinge  of  envy  there;  a  longing  for  that  type  of  a  belonging  never  dulled  within  her,  it  just  pounded  longer  during  the  holidays.  this  season  she  was  grateful  to  have  a  distraction  in  a  loose  fitted  cardigan  and  a  smile  that  always  reached  his  eyes.

the  vacancy  within  schools  that  resulted  from  holiday  breaks  also  meant  akira’s  library  visits  becoming  more  frequent.  every  time  the  library  doors  would  slide  open,  he  head  would  snap  in  its  direction  as  if  it  was  her  personal  pavlov  dog  experiment.  the  pleasant  smile  she  were  for  all  guests  only  growing  into  a  delighted  one  whenever  he  came  through  the  door.  approaching  him  became  easier,  but  it  didn’t  meant  finding  the  right  words  to  say  did.  the  confidence  she  had  built  up  from  previous  conversations  dissipated  the  second  she  locked  eyes  with  him.  since  the  snowstorm  had  knocked  the  power  out  she  was  hopeful  that  lack  of  lighting  would  help  with  that.  after  shifting  through  the  desk  drawers  of  her  and  her  coworkers,  she  came  from  behind  the  front  desk  with  five  candles  and  a  lighter.  “  this  feels  like  the  set  up  to  the  emotional  midpoint  in  an  apocalyptic  story...───  ”  she  started,  careful  to  set  the  candles  around  the  books  as  to  not  disturb  his  set  up.  “  y’know  where  the  heroes  lick  their  wounds,  and  unveil  dark  histories  and  lost loved  ones  they’ve  lost  because  of  whatever  clever  name  they’ve  given  their  monsters.  ”  she  let  out  a  quiet  laugh  as  she  lit  the  candles  one  by  one.  “  that...───  probably  didn’t  make  much  sense  but  um...───  there’s  a  little  light  now  !  i  also  have  blankets  back  there  if  you  get  cold  or  anything,  and  snacks  too.  just  let  me  know ! ”

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

"You and me, Ethan. Together we go save Rose, and then we can grind Miranda into paste!"

[pouletpourri]

I know the circustances didn't make it avaliable, but..I kinda wish we had a farewell scene

[hinamie]

theyre soft your honour

[kkoct-ik]

yttdisms now im moved in

[fanaticalthings]

Jason being the easiest kid is super funny. Bruce looking at Jason and remembering Dick at 18: “we can work through this. He’ll come around if I don’t give up on.”

Bruce, watching over a freshly street-snatched Jason: Why is he so calm

Having Dick as the rambunctious, feral, and unhinged first child must've given him SO much whiplash once Jason entered the picture. Lil guy just vibed in his own world. Just reading books and doing schoolwork. Baby Jason hurt nobody.

Bruce will just be going over the ground rules of the manor, remembering all the chaos Dick brought upon the household.

Bruce: No swinging from the chandelier.

Jason: ?? I wasn't planning to?

Bruce: No murder.

Jason: What? That never even crossed my mind-

Bruce: And please, for the love of God, don't sneak out and try to beat up the nearest criminal on our block

Jason:

Jason: WHO is responsible for these rules being created??

Bruce will just come home from a long day of work. He's tired and just wants a nice, quiet evening, but he's subconsciously psyching himself up to prepare himself for the chaos he'll witness once he enters the manor

but then Jason's just quietly doing his own thing, maybe even helping Alfred with some chores, reading, or just lounging about in the manor. In general, just causing no trouble and Bruce just turns to Alfred, all worried like, "Is he sick? I don't think children are supposed to behave this way."

[hailsatanacab]

A Persuasive Argument - dpxdc

"Great!" Danny says, clapping his hands together to get everyone's attention. The dinner table falls silent as everyone looks towards him. It's a full house today and, honestly, Danny's a little nervous. "I'm sure you're all wondering why I gathered you here today."

"It's dinnertime. In our house." Duke mutters, while doing a very bad job of concealing his yawn. He holds his fork poised over the braised beef, but, just like everyone else, still looks towards Danny before tucking in. It's intriguing enough to wait.

"Yeah, no one misses Alfie's dinner." Dick says, with a brilliant smile that Danny can't help but return.

"Precisely! What better time to talk to you all than when you're all actually here!"

"Wait, I thought you came round to work on our English essays?" Tim asks, blinking owlishly.

"I'm afraid I've lured you here under false pretences, Tim."

"This is where I live."

"I would still really appreciate help on that essay though, I mean, what the hell is Hamlet even about? I just don't get that old time-y language, like 'Hark! A ghost hath killed me!' - absolute rubbish, what does that even mean?"

"The ghost never kills anyone in Hamlet, he's there to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Have you actually read it?"

"No, but it sounds like you have. Tim, I want this guy to help me with my essay instead. I know for a fact that you haven't read Hamlet, either."

"So? We don't need Jason, I've read the Sparknotes."

"Hi Jason, I'm Danny, pleasure to meet you, summarise Hamlet in three sentences or less."

"Am I auditioning to help you write your essays? I can't believe you’ve gone through your whole school life without reading it, it’s good!"

"Hamlet, along with a number of other classics, was banned in our house because it portrayed ghosts as intelligent and sympathetic beings rather than evil, animalistic beasts. I didn’t even get to see The Muppet's Christmas Carol until last year with Tim! It was surprisingly good, and I hate Christmas because everyone always argued and it sucked. But we're getting off topic. I—"

"No, no, please go back to that, because what the fu—"

"Boys, please." Bruce interrupts, looking to the world as if he wants to hang his head in his hands. "Danny, you were about to say something?"

"Oh, yeah, Mr. Wayne! Thanks!"

"Please, call me Bruce."

"Well, that very succinctly brings me to my point, because I'd actually really like to call you dad."

Nobody says a word. Nobody even blinks, all as shocked as the other, watching open-mouthed as Danny pulls his laptop out from beside his chair. Bruce can definitely feel a headache coming on.

"Before you say anything, I've prepared a 69 slide PowerPoint presentation on why you, Bruce Wayne, should adopt me, Danny Last-Name-Pending. Please save your questions, comments, and verdict until the end, thank you."

[elizzsush]

Deadpool coded reader:

Reader: dramatically and sadly, “Day 925, the bats show no sign of releasing me- a totally normal and amazing citizen from this prison.”

Reader; “he has left the second scariest Robin to guard me, Jason.”

Red hood: a little offended; “Second?”

Reader: shuttering looking like she’s reliving something, “Damien is like a angry dog, he bites.”

Reader: “also is this lega- and he walked away. Hey! I want to speak to a lawyer!!”

Reader: now yelling “I have rights!!! I think- do you have rights in Gotham?”

_______________

Batman: finally shows up.

Reader: “hey It’s You! You know if I head a penny for a rich completely normal guy who is the center of a multi million  franchise of hero’s- while also being a hero himself through the means of money… well Id have two pennies!”

Dick: “what…?”

[ohvun]

D E V I L C H I L D >:D

I just think it'd be cool if her demonia fleur was a lil more grotesque yk?

Got super inspired seeing this post by rly cool @wigglesdtuff about a year ago and finally finished it!!:D

I ended up using a picture of a figurine to get the wings to work better bc I was s t r u g g e l i n g ;-;

[kaeya-senpai]

What do yall think of my shipping chart

[industrations]

INDI I COME WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR REMUS FITS

THE PANTS ARE EXTRA SILLY TO ME BE BC HES SO FREAKISHLY TALL

anyway love yaaa

[aroaceleovaldez]

What is the PR disaster in question that made Rick announce TSATS? I wasn’t active in the online fandom at that point

Of course! This was awhile ago so it figures people don't remember it/aren't familiar:

Basically a couple years back (2020) the fandom had some posts circulate discussing the ways different characters in the Riordanverse were written poorly or offensively. There was a masterpost that went around tumblr but the two major points people were particularly focusing on were Piper and Samirah (particularly because Piper had featured prominently again in Trials of Apollo recently and the third MCGA book had further emphasized and discussed Samirah being Muslim, since it was supposed to take place during Ramadan). Basically each had multiple posts breaking down the ways they were depicted incorrectly or offensively. The entire fandom for a little bit was VERY intensely discussing this (and it's around this time the "RR crit" tag got very popularized on tumblr - it did exist before, but suddenly was being used VERY frequently - cause it was that wide-spread - though the discussion took over basically every side of Riordaverse social media on different platforms). People really wanted Rick to respond to these criticisms, so he did!

He made two blog posts, one about Piper and one about Samirah. He has since deleted both so the links are to archived versions. The short version: he essentially tried to justify his poor research and double-down that he hadn't written them offensively, actually, people were just being mean to him. The fandom, of course, reacted poorly to this.

[Further elaborated events under the cut since this got a bit lengthy]

(Fun fact, this all happened within a month or so of the time i posted an open letter on aphobic tropes in the Riordanverse that Rick replied to, and then he immediately followed with announcing that Reyna was intended to be ace-coded [which cause a LOT of fandom debate] before Rick dipped for a couple of weeks, and then came back to post the blog posts in response to Piper and Sam stuff. So I like to jokingly refer to this as "The time I imploded the fandom/drove Rick off of twitter." Twas I that set the house ablaze.)

Rick fully left social media after this and the LT Musical social media manager became Rick's social media manager for the time being.

So this all happened June/July of 2020. Tower of Nero would end up being published in October of 2020 and a few months after that Rick would state that he was done with the series and wouldn't be writing any more series installments involving Percy, and also that he wouldn't be writing a Nico quest following Tower of Nero as it "wasn't his place to" and encouraged the community to write their own versions of Nico's story.

The community continued to circulate the tumblr posts and discuss the topics of Rick's offensive character depictions, and this is also where we see the dramatic shift in how the fandom depicts Piper in fanwork (though in most cases it is admittedly not an improvement 😬) because of all this discussion. This is also around the time when the fandom brought Viria under scrutiny claiming that she was whitewashing Piper as part of the same discussions, through the justification that she was drawing Annabeth as having tan skin (which she does canonically), and if Annabeth has tanner skin then Piper then that's whitewashing Piper? Except they were using completely separate images of not fully rendered Piper art versus Annabeth in dramatic lighting, so it's all very awkward and poor logic, and did actually get kind of racist. A lot of people were calling it "Tannabeth Blackchase" (yeah, i know) or similar and a common sentiment you'd see repeated is "Don't draw Annabeth as having darker skin than Piper, because that's offensive/racist/whitewashing." (Note: it was not phrased "don't draw Piper as having lighter skin than Annabeth" - we also won't get into certain offensive depictions of Native Americans, but I digress). But yeah, the Annabeth stuff in all that did not age well at all.

Anyways, in October of 2021 however Rick would announce that he was co-writing The Sun And The Star - with a lot of heavy emphasis on how Mark Oshiro works as a sensitivity reader, and some false advertising from the official social media that Mark Oshiro was the first time a non-Riordan author would be collaborating on the series (disregarding the ghostwriters completely). One of the big criticisms in the breaking down of issues in Rick's writing was his lack of ever seeking a sensitivity reader, and fans claiming that a sensitivity reader could solve a lot of the problems. This was basically Rick's "look! I totally listened!!!!" (though it did little to actually improve things, based on the book) and in TSATS as well Piper gets a large cameo at the end where the text very directly addresses a lot of points made in criticism of Rick's writing of her.

We also then of course got the CoTG trilogy later, explicitly stated to be for advertising purposes for the show.

So basically, short version: Rick came under scrutiny for a lot of offensive writing within the span of two months, made some bad blog posts doubling down about it, left social media. TOA ends. Rick says he wasn't going to continue the series/write what would become TSATS. Community celebrates the end of of the franchise but also continues to discuss Rick's poor writing and the blog posts at length. Rick suddenly announces TSATS and Mark Oshiro's involvement. Everybody gets distracted from being mad. Show announcement stuff also happens and the discussions peter out.

[bunnrio]

its crazy how much people act like seeking mental help is a moral thing

like have you considered. and this might be crazy to you. that help is really fucking difficult to get ???