#I have a bias

[gothcsz]

clint being in the lead….

[gazumirei]

Hear me out

[rj-anderson]

My dash did a thing this morning and I think it's hilarious

[bogwatr]

[rj-anderson]

My previous opinion was that like xikers' Hunter*, Xdinary Heroes' Jooyeon was absolutely not meant to be blond**.

However, this gifset has me second-guessing. -- * The bleached eyebrows in particular were a Choice I hope never to see again. ** Unlike, say, SKZ Felix, or Bae from NMIXX.

[ry-ya05]

bro how could forget tokyo zombie land 💔💔 that song is such a bop 💔💔

[lonely-coconut]

Blinkie.World preview!

Here is a preview of Blinkie.world, my blinkie collecton site! The goal here is to collect every blinkie on earth (but only if they're free to use, and can be credited). They're all sorted into these color pages, and also sorted into tons of sub categories on other pages (like food, animals, holidays, etc etc). This is what some of the color pages look like now! Once I have at least 300 blinkies in each color, then I'll consider the site full enough to go live! I'm aiming to get it online by Art Fight (aka by July this year).

Do note that this isn't actually an accurate representation of how many I have. I have thousands more than this! I just have to code them all in. It's not as quick as just an image tag and a link, because it also needs to be named, linked to it's source, tagged so I know what categories they're in, have a link to a screenshot that proves who the creator is and their terms (in case the credit link dies one day), have alt text, and have hover text which says the creator and a description of what the blinkie says! So, it's not like this:

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It's actually like this:

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And that's for every blinkie! You can probably see how this is so time consuming, but I think it's worth it. I've never seen a blinkie collection with 6,000+ blinkies, much less every single one credited, and even less sorted into dozens of categories! It's like I have a blinkie for everything, while also knowing the creator of each, and being able to easily search for a specific one via the sorting system! It's especially good for helping others find blinkies, and helping people get the sources for blinkies they already have! It's also great for finding blinkies to use for your ocs (which is my initial reason for doing this).

I'm very excited about this. I really think this could be a very fun resource for people, and that aside, I just really like having so many in my possession. I love to see them. I even have blinkies that I've downloaded before they were deleted off the internet! That's very exciting to me. I have blinkies that are straight up lost media, and I'm happy to be able to preserve them.

Of course as I said, it's going to take forever to add them all, but I'm chipping away at it. I shall not be stopped! Also, if you want a blinkie in any of these screenshots above, just let me know! I'll get it and it's source for you, easy peasy! I'll post more screenshots as significant progress is made, but for now, it's back to downloading blinkies!

[yardsards]

i notice that i and many people in my area tend to omit the "to be" in phrases like "the cats need to be fed" and "your kid wants to be held" but i don't thiiink it's standard english and i'm curious if it is a regionalism or what

bonus: say what you voted and add what general region you're from/what dialect of english you speak (if you feel comfortable doing so)

[rj-anderson]

This is just like "Englishman in New York" only the Englishman is Australian and also a Sindarian Elf.

[oobbbear]

Cw a little suggestive of sunny

[pahatarcarabosse]

Titanomachy opening narration with the Muse.

[wanderingmind867]

Snapper Carr is the Rick Jones of the DC Universe. And their stories start similarly. Gardner Fox made Snapper Carr and Stan Lee made Rick Jones, and both men used their young teenage characters as aids to teams like the Justice League and The Avengers. But then we have to talk about the two missourians. Marvel had Roy Thomas succeed Stan Lee in most things, and DC had Denny O'Neil succeed Gardner Fox. And while Roy Thomas largely kept Rick Jones around by making him sidekick to Captain Mar-Vell, Denny O'Neil came in and took a baseball bat to everything good Gardner Fox did. No Martian Manhunter! No Snapper Carr! No nothing!

I won't forgive Denny O'Neil! Not for this, and not for his atorcious Green Lantern and Green Arrow stories. Sure, he had a few hits (like his superman and wonder woman stuff seems okay), but his Justice League was a net loss for DC. And then he was editor when Jason Todd was killed. He was the idiot responsible for getting Frank Miller a job with Daredevil (which would lead to Frank Miller's edginess and darkness also moving to characters like Batman later). Denny O'Neil was a menace, and every good thing he did is compensated by something awful he also did.

I just genuinely love the concept of Snapper Carr. He's just this completely normal teenager who--because they practically meet in his backyard I guess, and because he helped on one of their first adventures--is a junior member of the Justice League. He's fully accepted, he hangs out with them, he goes with them on JLA Work, and he's just NORMAL.

It's audience surrogacy in its purest form, but it's so much to think about. Just...

You're a teenager from a small town in Rhode Island. You have no special abilities, no special traumas, you're just some kid. And yet, on a regular basis, you head over to the mountain (if it can be called that) outside of town, and attend meetings of the Justice League of America.

You walk in complaining about your homework and Superman starts helping with the English essay. You have girl problems and the Flash sits you down and starts giving relationship advice. Batman asks you about music because he's trying to find a good birthday present for Robin and he knows you've got a wide range of music knowledge. Green Lantern tells stories about space and Wonder Woman borrows your history books. You and Aquaman bond over being the two New Englanders in the group. You think you might be the only person in the world who knows what Martian teenagers did in their spare time.

You've been on trips by superspeed and human flight and invisible jet. You've listened to Green Arrow and Green Lantern argue politics in the other room and rolled your eyes with the Flash. You know Superman's favorite books and you've thrown a blanket over Wonder Woman when she collapsed on the couch after a long fight. You've been at those long fights yourself, seen Batman taken by surprise and Martian Manhunter stare into the face of his greatest fears and griefs. The Atom helped you with your college applications and you paid him back in donuts. You exchange music recommendations with Robin long-distance. You have Ralph Dibny's phone number.

You've had your life threatened, and had it saved. You've saved a few people yourself.

You're abducted by the Joker and some other villains, once, because they want to brainwash you: when the heroes find you, you're so mixed up you only sort of know who you are, let alone who they are to you. But they remind you. They will always remind you, between the late nights and the afternoon meetings and the field trips and the gossip and the world-saving.

You're just a guy, it's true. Just a normal guy (as the poisonous whispers told you, before they found you again), surrounded by the extraordinary, and the famous, and the legendary. Overshadowed by them, even.

And that's okay. Because at the end of the day, those tall and shining figures the villains wanted you to feel dwarfed by, to bristle against and resent?

They're your friends.

No more.

No less.

[bigfatbreak]

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