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Randomly spun some Deadlaws characters to try and combat my post-exam art block. I think it worked :P
#this was fun and it was a cool coincidence to get like different colours or whatever lol#Aeria was I think my favourite to draw#love a melty man#my art#deadlaws#deadlaws spoilers#gnollplaying games#deadlaws argo#argo martindale#deadlaws aeria#aeria#deadlaws greeble#deadlaws rick#tw noose#the Greeble pin up pose started as a joke#I don't know if it's a joke anymore
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...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.
(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)
#tiger tiger#jamis arlesi#arno#I like to think Arno meant that as an inside thought but it came out as an outside thought. He's rolling with it though.#He did cause a Catastrophic Yaoi event though.#Jamis my beloved. You have the heart of a maiden. The body of an Ox. The brain of a loyal dog.#This is a guy who's okay being attracted to another man but *NOT* aware he's in love or that he's bisexual.#We love him for this. My god. This man is crafted so perfectly. I need you all to at least give Tigers a chance for *him*.#I'm tricking you a little bit because you will actually also fall for Ludo and Luck and Remy and Honeyfoot and-#okay you get the point. There are so many amazing characters in this comic.#I just.. my joke comic of 'gay sex is the solution' feels so ominous now knowing a few weeks later that was going to be canon.#I feel like a jester and a prophet. I don't know if I should tell anymore jokes in fear of what I may predict.#I am putting my hands together for Ludo to get a good smooch in with [redacted] in dragon form.#Also predicting something very spooky is going to go down with the diving bell. We shall see!
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When Schrodinger was talking about the cat in box that's both alive and dead, he was talking about Kalina. She's a goddess's familiar, she's a plague, she worked for Fantasy MI6, she died, she came back, she got rage stared, she snapped her own neck, she came back as the companion for a god borne from a Fantasy Mormon child's misplaced belief. She's alive and dead, good and evil. She worked tirelessly for 800 years towards one goal and then fucking abandoned it (maybe.) Her goddess thinks she can fix her. Her goddess's wife always hated her. She is everyone's problem at all times and holy shit is she a Problem. What a fucking legend.
#what a pussy#i can't not damnnit#i will make pussy kalina jokes until the day i fucking die#anyway what the fuck#like... seriously though#what is her fucking deal#like i say i want to know but i don't actually want to know#if you know what's going on in the box it's not Schrodinger's cat anymore#d20#dimension 20#fantasy high#fhjy#fhjy spoilers#fantasy high junior year#kalina
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Somebody please remind Joel he has a wife that he's comfortable being shipped with so he can STOP SHIPPING HIMSELF WITH MEN
#A STATUE OF HIMSELF AND JIMMY?!#HE ONLY GIVES NECK KISSES TO ETHO?!?! WASN'T NECK KISSES A SMALLIDARITY JOKE FIRST??#Somebody tell this man to shut the hell up /aff#He wants me dead fr#Anyways I'm normal about them#smalletho#boat boys#smallishbeans#ethoslab#zombiecleo#God bless them for she puts up with so much#solidaritygaming#hermitshipping#Kinda??? I don't know anymore man#posts-it notes
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my friends (unfortunately) like lestat so this was inevitable i guess
#i don't know anything anymore my life is a joke#interview with the vampire#iwtv#lestat de lioncourt#sorry everyone#the funniest thing is that i'm thinking 'weeeeell i doooon't like him but he reminds me of der tod a bit.....so.........'#MAN YOU DIDN'T LIKE HIM EITHER. Ok#well now i can say i have bpd im officially allowed to change my mind every 2 seconds or somwthing
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broke: Due to his attractiveness, Barok has slept with countless (wo)men.
woke: Despite his attractiveness, Barok is a virgin.
Bespoke: Because of entirely different factors, Barok does not know what sex is.
#this was the result of a silly conversation I had with my bf where we discussed that - since we believe the van zieks parents died early in—#—barok's life - barok didn't really have any women in his life until klint brought lady b along and thus is also confused and awkward with—#—them as soon as the interaction goes beyond etiquette-based back and forth and barok has to improvise#barok knows what sex does! but he is way too sexually repressed (and/or gay and/or ace) to ever really ask himself or show interest in—#—discovering the actual logistics of it. and then klint also isn't around anymore to explain it to him...#don't get me started on gay sex how is barok supposed to know how men have sex with each other if all he's hearing about is that it's bad#this is mostly a joke unless you don't want to treat it as such. i just love making up silly things about him#the great ace attorney#tgaa#barok van zieks#spoilers#tgaa spoilers#dgs spoilers#<- just to be safe
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💖 Bonus:
The Sign ft. textposts (1)
other The sign posts <3
#the sign#the sign the series#phaya x tharn#phayatharn#bl textpost#bl textposts#bl crack#i know we joke like “this show's gonna be all i think/talk about for the next 3 months” but like#i don't think it's a joke anymore
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happy pride month
#i don't know what came over me i wrote this dialogue months ago as a joke#some part of me wants to draw a follow up where baby chiaki goes “OMG SAME” or smth to that effect#sorry keito your childhood friend and the kid sharing this hospital room are idiots#ensemble stars#enstars#keito hasumi#eichi tenshouin#my art#does this even count as art anymore
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hi Silver! o/ because that fanart made me wonder - would you happen to know when/where Dick's stuffed elephant plush Zitka turns up in the comics?
GREETINGS CAM <3333 THAT ART WAS SO CUTE
Yeah, I think your instincts are right - it's a truly adorable bit of transformative fandom, but I'm 95% percent sure it's not comics canon. Barbara has canon plushies, but I don't think anyone else does.
I got kinda invested in the investigation (it's hard to prove a negative!) and I ended up typing out an entire History of Elinore/Zitka, so, uh, if you're curious, meet me below the cut for:
Where does Elinore / Zitka - the animal - appear in comics?
Did Dick ever have a stuffed elephant toy in comics?
Where does Elinore / Zitka appear in comics?
We're gonna go in chronological order!
Dick's circus elephant friend was first created for practical reasons: in Batman 436, Marv Wolfman does a big expanded flashback to Dick's circus backstory as a way to subtly show us Tim before officially introducing him (so that we can have a technically-solvable mystery-of-Tim's-identity in LPoD). In this comic, there's an elephant named Elinore who loves Dick:
Aww. Such a cute elephant!
Batman 436 comes out in August 1989. New Titans 60 comes out a few months later, in November, and guess what? When Dick visits the circus, he is suddenly surprised by an unexpected blast from the past! It turns out that even though it's been years, Elinore still remembers him!
Here's the part where Elinore remembers Dick:
SUCH a cute elephant. I love her.
(Guess who else still remembers Dick even though it was so long ago. Guess which other character is about to be an unexpected blast from the past. Guess which character Elinore is directly paralleling guess guess guess sorry everything is about Dick and Tim in my mind but I can focus I swear)
Four years later, in 1993, Batman: The Animated Series retells Dick's origin story. They like and keep Wolfman's elephant, but they change her name to Zitka:
Wolfman doesn't return to the elephant beyond those two appearances, and a few years down the line, New Titans gets cancelled and Wolfman's not writing Dick anymore anyway. So the animal gets abandoned for a while, until Devin Grayson, a fan of both Wolfman and B:tAS, revives the Wolfman-era Titans team in JLA/Titans and then the ongoing series Titans 1999.
Grayson then brings back the elephant in a flashback to Dick's past in Titans 16 (Jun 2000), where she imports the B:tAS name. Sometimes I'm skeptical of TV-to-comics imports, but honestly, I endorse this one. You lose the alliteration, which is a shame, but IMO Zitka is a better elephant name than Elinore.
Here's Dick with the newly-christened Zitka in Titans 16:
Grayson also briefly references the elephant in Gotham Knights 20 and - in a final angsty callback - in Nightwing 88 (Feb 2004), where Zitka tries futilely to comfort Dick in the midst of his trauma conga line:
... And... honestly, I think that's it for comic appearances? The two Wolfman comics plus the three Grayson comics.
Both Wolfman and Grayson are writing multiple titles - Batman, New Titans, Titans, Gotham Knights, and Nightwing between the two of them, spanning a big chunk of Dick's post-Crisis canon - and both writers use the elephant for heartwarming moments of nostalgia, which means if you're doing a post-Crisis readthrough for Dick, Elinore/Zitka feels memorable. But I don't think she actually shows up that much.
For post-2011, I am not as well-informed - throwing this out to the dash? anyone know? - but I feel like Zitka the heartwarming symbol of Dick's heartwarming circus past is, uh, thematically very at odds with the Court of Owls evil!circus vibes, so my instinct is that this story element was almost certainly dropped in the reboot.
Did Dick ever have a stuffed elephant toy in comics?
In WFA, yes; in main comics continuity, no. Technically, I have not read every comic ever published, so I could be wrong!! But I don't think so.
Below, find my rambling reasoning on the tonal vibes of pre-Crisis, post-Crisis, and post-2011, and why this particular story element doesn't seem right to me for the first two.
Pre-Crisis (...okay, mostly the Silver Age): stuffed animal, yes or no?
tl;dr no, requires too much background knowledge on the part of the reader, plus the elephant wasn't a thing until later
Elinore doesn't get created until post-Crisis, but also just generally, pre-Crisis callbacks are more along the lines of this reference in Batman 129 (published in 1960), where, wow, Batman and Robin are hunting jewel thieves - and it turns out Robin recognized this strongman! BUT HOW?!
The comic goes on to recap Dick's entire origin story in flashback, on the assumption that you may not know it.
(BTW, if you'd like to know more about Haly's Circus throughout the years, nightwingology has a great post here summarizing a lot of fun plotlines and characters!)
Basically: Silver Age comics are very self-consciously episodic and kid-friendly; they're not generally gonna do overly-elaborate callbacks because they don't know what comics their kid readers may have randomly picked up or remember.
By the time of post-Crisis, comic books were being written for an adult audience buying from the direct market, i.e. readers who are collecting whole runs & don't need or want Dick's origin story to be recapped to us in full every time it's referenced. That's why in post-Crisis, we get stuff like "hey, neat, this particular soda brand is getting mentioned in several different books!!" or "in order to understand this story arc, buy SIXTEEN DIFFERENT COMICS in FIVE DIFFERENT RUNS and read them ALL ACCORDING TO A NUMBERED ORDER and also you better be following the individual plotlines and recognize these five minor characters who we don't bother to introduce!! Good luck!!" But the elaborate post-Crisis plotlines - and subtler worldbuilding like a stuffed animal callback to Dick's backstory - don't make a lot of story sense UNLESS you're imagining your readers as completionist adult fans.
So IMO a stuffed animal wouldn't be a pre-Crisis thing unless it was The Episodic Story Of the Week, and I don't think a stuffed animal is action-adventure-y enough for the fast-paced storytelling of the Silver Age. (Unless it, like, came to life and tried to eat you or something.)
Post-Crisis: stuffed animals, yes or no?
tl;dr: no, Dick's a manly tough guy, he's not gonna have a stuffed animal, that'd be lame, like something Tim might do
Part of the edgy grimdark adult vibes in 80s/90s comics is that some characters who used to be kinda silly & goofy & lighthearted - like Batman and Robin - get reimagined as Serious and Angsty and Edgy in a Tough Cool Manly Brooding Way. This massively affects characterization for Bruce, Dick, and Bruce and Dick's relationship.
(I obviously love this change & love the tense Bruce-and-Dick interactions, but plenty of fans of the earlier fluffy comics really disliked the edgy retcons of Miller / Wolfman / Starlin / et al.)
The upshot is that post-Crisis is a period when you could have a recurring reference like a stuffed elephant, but you wouldn't have a stuffed elephant, not for Dick. I think a toy like that would be too cutesy / childish / effeminate to give a male character in post-Crisis, unless you were poking fun at him.
Now, you could probably let Tim have a stuffed animal, because Tim is sometimes cool but also sometimes a tryhard loser who is faking being cool and not entirely pulling it off (see e.g. the Robin comic where he practices tough-guy faces in the mirror, or the Teen Titans comic where Conner discovers his cringy Enya CD, or when he's fanboying over Connor and it's awkward, etc etc.). A stuffed animal would be deeply embarrassing, and you'd have to be careful to compensate by having Tim do something cool afterward - but Tim's character concept allows for "he's kind of a loser sometimes."
But Dick isn't!! In post-Crisis, Dick's a tough / impressive / "cool guy" character, the kind of guy anyone would want to be, even in the flashbacks where he's Robin, and even in the stories where he's more lighthearted than angsty. It'd be kinda lame for Dick to have a stuffed elephant, so he wouldn't. I feel like Dick would be more likely to poke fun at it if someone had one, like when he's making fun of Wally for liking the Hardy Boys. Dick could have a Batman action figure, at most, and if he had one he would have it ironically.
Basically: in post-Crisis, a male character hugging a stuffed elephant feels more likely to be a punchline to me, not something poignant. (Even with Tim, Tim could have an embarrassing stuffed animal, but he couldn't hug it when sad - that's too far. Maybe Booster Gold might do this. Probably he wouldn't, but spiritually, he would. Sorry Booster ilu! <3)
Instead, Dick instinctively deals with his inner turmoil like the TORTURED ACTION HERO he is: by punching things and brooding and yelling and joining the mob and sleeping on rooftops and going on obsessive secret missions and acquiring Angsty Stubble!! Just like Batman!
(Technically I don't know if Bruce ever joined the mob but you know he would.)
Anyway as you know this is my favorite continuity and I am poking fun affectionately, but uh, yeah sdfsfdsfs. No stuffed animals.
Post-2011 / Infinite Frontier / Wayne Family Adventures: stuffed animals, yes or no?
tl;dr it's in WFA! Probably not anywhere else, but it could be.
Post-2011 stuff tends to be cutesier overall, most of all in the current Infinite Frontier era. So I don't feel like this would be tonally out-of-line with IF comics. Taylor tends to go for more meme-y references rather than fanfic references, though.
So the obvious best fit is WFA, which is aiming for a rough approximation of Silver Age family-friendly vibes - wholesome, episodic plots, Teaching Good Moral Lessons For The Youth, etc. - plus lots of Easter eggs for fanfic readers and some comic references.
And look, here we are:
Aww.
Whew - that's everything I could find!
Anyway as you can probably tell, I LOVE the elephant, so this was a very entertaining rabbit hole to go down, thank you <3
#dick grayson#anyone with more info feel free to chime in & we can crowdsource <3#i do think the toy elephant is awfully cute though <3#total digression but i was thinking about it as i was writing:#i'm fascinated by the ways that the post-crisis batboys & their stories can intersect with 90s masculinity and all its issues with stoicism#and i'm pro-queering and gender-bending - 90s comics were a total boys' club so i think it's neat that transformative fandom isn't#but i do love 90s masculinity and All Its Issues too & one of the things i find compelling about the dick-tim-bruce trio#& especially dick's place in it - is the unspoken hierarchy whereby bruce is manlier than dick & dick is manlier than tim#and so dick's in the middle as this somewhat softer-character who aspires to be a harsher & more stoic & ultimate manly-man character#caught in the middle between robin & batman & what each role represents#and like. batman is both manhood & the only desirable thing to be AND ALSO it represents this immense narrowing of possibility#because so much of stereotypical masculinity is about reducing the range of emotions you're allowed to have or express#and dick is both incredibly conflicted about bruce AND wants to be just like him & by extension is conflicted about masculinity writ large#so a lot of dick's interactions with tim veer between trying on a frat-boy-ish 'I'm The Manly Guy' persona vs. giving up on it#or trying on imitations of Bruce's Batman persona but also trying to backtrack out of it bc he doesn't like how it feels etc etc#ANYWAY i think what i am trying to say is that if tim had a stuffed animal dick would be entertained & poke mild fun at him#and call him 'teddy' for the next hour or something while tim got increasingly defensive about how the teddy bear was steph's#and/or about how the teddy bear was OLD and tim doesn't even care about it and also WHATEVEr i'm above this#and to an uninformed observer this might look like bullying BUT ACTUALLY#this ritual would IN FACT be very reassuring to both of them + tim would feel WAY better afterward than if dick had ignored it#because by poking fun at him dick shows he still respects tim enough to tease him thus subtextually exorcising the threat of wimpiness#plus allowing tim to defend himself & demonstrate that he can take a joke so they've both reaffirmed their masculinity to each other#& they don't have to be scared of the teddy bear and all it represents anymore#however also afterward dick would have a brief nostalgic flashback to when he was a kid & had a teddy bear & feel weird about the memory#because he would be unable to articulate to himself that what he misses is a past when he allowed himself to be vulnerable#anyway this wouldn't actually happen in comics but it's what would happen in my soul. you know.#ask tag#zitka
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uhaam. like a dog by ferry. rk noah. Am i insane
I saw this ask, blacked out, and woke up to this on my screen.
So I think we're both a little insane. (The song, for context.)
#for real i don't know how this ended up on my screen. someone send help.#anyway the joke of dog-themed songs has just become something more i guess? because that's eerily fitting.#it's not a joke anymore 😨😳#imo the song's a little more fitting for rk!alejandro? since it seems like it's from the perspective of someone holding power over the 'dog#and also likening themself to a dog as well i guess? but the singer definitely holds the majority of the power in their dynamic.#maybe i just want alejandro to tell noah he'll always come running back to him “like a wounded dog”. maybe i'm crazy.#maybe i'm born with it. maybe it's maybelline. 🤷♀️#also please don't mind me linking the 'lullaby' version it just has the clearest/most coherent vocals. 🙏#total drama#td alejandro#td noah#alenoah#rice krispies fic#ophe doodles#replies
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think imma just take the L on the making friends thing, I tried my best but this having to actually talk to people shit got hands fr
#I joke but also im bein fr#people have like 0 patience for people who don't know how to socialize easily#like im learning and trying really fuckin hard#but what effort I can afford without burning myself out apparently isn't anywhere near enough for most people#so fuck it its not even worth it anymore#goin back to my emotionally repressed era ✌️
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WIP Wednesday <3
Almost didn't do it, but the lovely @changelingsandothernonsense and @skyrim-forever and @theoneandonlysemla tagged me this week, so I decided to post my WIP of this horrible rat man (affectionate?)
This fellow has been trying to hijack my brain for the past like three days (which is annoying because I haven't even played the game he's from and I'd much rather focus on my skyrim stories atm) but his name's Astor and he's a spooky antagonist from the (non canon) zelda game Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.
Already coming up with loads of headcanons (because, like many of my loves, he has painfully little canon backstory) but I'll probably share some of them when I
I lowkey hate his pose in this but, much like me whenever someone takes a picture, I had no idea what to do with his arms. *shrugs* Im pretty pleased with the anatomy though, and I like how the eyes look
#not tes#my art#wip#astor#astor aoc#age of calamity#loz fanart#this emo rat man is so many problems in a trench coat#i should despise him because I love the yiga clan and he does some really messed up shit#but i saw this reel like a month ago and I've been thinking about it ever since#he looks like a wet cat#“i got my eyes (3) on you” is i think what the pose was?? Like a stupid joke#but i don't even know anymore#anyways#rambling in the tags#gonna get some sleep now
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#ok i joke but this is how i feel about klunk rn#i don't know how to feel about him anymore HELP#This is my new fav pic of him he's so fucking cute URRHHGG 🥰#i think i'm in love#uncle klunk#the uncle klunk abomination#rock afire explosion#showbiz pizza#rockafire explosion#rae#showbiz pizza place#spp#the rock afire explosion
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All of these posts and analysis to say
Gay sex would have saved Vashwood
#dunkar rant#Vashwood#I don't even know if it's a joke anymore 😭#It is if you don't see their relationship as romantic#The platonic equivalent would be to man up and say how much they meant to the other#I suppose#Which they should do anyway
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me when the addiction is actually addictive:
#i relapsed after 6 months of being clean and now a day later the need to cut again is more intense than it was before#i don't know why i'm surprised#i don't know what i expected#i don't even know anymore#shblr#sh#tw s3lf harm#sh jokes#sh meme#self h@rm#cvtt!ng#self mutalition#cvtblr#styroblr
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a few more because I literally cannot restrain myself from screencapping this man badly
#looking respectfully?? NEVER HEARD OF HER#using his chest as a pillow every single night#my coloring is awful but who cares????#the subject is BEAUTIFUL#sculpted by the gods using a blueprint i dreamed up#squeezing his arms would fix me#you can't see me in these photos but i'm actually just offscreen#being forcibly restrained from throwing myself on him and using my tongue on every inch of him#then we become lovers plot an escape and go live peacefully somewhere#we're married and live in a little cottage and raise crops and never have any problems ever again#and we have like twenty kids because i can't keep my hands off him#i will rewrite the stars and time travel for decades to get to him#just let me be his love#i love him SO MUCH it's not even a joke anymore#driving myself up the walls with desire for him#have you SEEN his neck???#i am kissing it so gently as we speak#and his tunic is long gone btw i have no use for it if it's coming between me and my love#i hope no one actually reads all these tags#i don't even know what i'm talking about anymore#gladiator#maximus#maximus decimus meridius#gladiator 2000#russell crowe#low quality screencaps of a high quality man
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