#Please don't let it escape

[jojosquires]

I mean, but for why?

So, as is the way of this site, I've been seeing more and more Reverse!Robin AU breakdowns recently and... I just can't. (Disclaimer: Like what you like, I don't care... It's your life don't let others dictate your taste AKA this is my opinion and I'm allowed to have it just like you're allowed to have yours)

Why? Why? Why? Why does almost everyone just flipflop Tim and Jason's stories, huh? Everyone else still gets to be themselves (Damian is still grumpy yet skilled, Dick still gets to be an acrobat that lost his parents (though his anger gets downplayed, but that's a regular fanon issue not relegated to just this AU)). Tim always, always seems to have to be the one who dies in this AU and becomes Red Hood (except for like... Two that I've seen) and Jason comes in and takes Tim's "save Batman" role. Which, inevitably, leads right back to the fanon Jason&Tim dynamic that I'm also just.... So tired of.

It's just... Such a fundamental misunderstanding of their characters (not the least of which is due to the fact that Tim's hero is always Dick moreso than anyone else... So why would he even become a vigilante here unless the circus happens at a weird time?). Tim is not five seconds from a homicidal rampage. Even when he's close to murder he pulls back (usually of his own accord... Drags other people away from it too). Honestly, compared to the rest of the Batfam he's got decent mental health a lot of the time with some very reasonable rough patches. Jason has a lot of trauma already from dealing with piss poor adults. He's not emotionally prepared enough to be the light to Batman's darkness if he just lost a different Robin. It's also kinda why he shouldn't have been put in the Robin suit right away. Dick needed justice when he took on Robin and then learned to do the same for others over time. Jason needed a home and to see how systemic issues can be solved through investment in the community and social change. Beating up thugs in Gotham doesn't solve the injustice Jason had to deal with as a child (poverty and homelessness and drugs and domestic abuse). (Sorry, I think that's a separate rant and doesn't mean I don't think Jason should've been Robin... Just that the justice he needs for his childhood trauma is different than Dick's or Damian's or even Steph and Cass)

So, yeah, I don't know. In general, I really just dislike this AU as a whole. In comics, I think characters reign over story because there are hundreds of different storylines. If your characters suck... The story probably is gonna die out anyway. So, flipping the script on these characters just invalidates a lot of other characters. A ripple effect.

Jason and Tim are both great characters on their own. Jason's story as Red Hood makes way more sense than it ever would for Tim. Please stop molding them together. It makes both of them worse.

That's it. Sorry for the rant. I just really dislike how interchangeable all the Bat fandom makes Jason and Tim.

Others can probably articulate this better, but I need drive to work and I'd rather think about the next scene I'm writing than this. So, now that this is out in the void, I can focus.

Also, if I see "Jason is Tim's Robin" one more time today...I think I might go on an entirely different rant. It won't be as polite, I think.

[anglerflsh]

go read the escapism anthology by scribbleshrimp on tiktok

[sniperct]

KITTY SIGHTING

Also lets see, we've got Bobby, Piotr, Sooraya, Exodus, Ilyanna, Alex, and Emma, with fucking Wanda and Pietro offworld what the fuck

Also I can't read Angel's status but it looks like he's deceased and considering the end credits scene...

Dust is the biggest surprise here IMO but she was always one of my favorite of the New X-men and in hindsight maybe not super surprising...

[fauslayer]

dr baldhead is a litmus test that i have to watch people fail every day. google "he doesn't enjoy killing people and faust reflecting on violent impulses does not imply as such" and "guilty gear xx drama cd side black" for more information.

[spacebubblehomebase]

hi, just letting you know that ahmed 90s-ghost doesn't verify fundraisers anymore! he quit after it got too overwhelming, so you shouldn't @ him asking him to. you can probably find the post about it by searching his blog.

Thanks for letting me know, Anon...

I get it... I REALLY do.

I understand. Y'know I used to be so excited to get Asks. It means someone wants to talk about art and silly cartoon characters with me. But now all I feel is dread. Not because I don't want to help, but because the help I give is never enough. I used to privately mesage back to those Asks, but one became 6 became 10 to... Well. I can't donate. Euros and dollars are valued a lot higher here, thus the opposite is also true. The value of our money is but a paltry bread's worth and even if I split it in crumbs, with the amount of people who approach me for help, it'll soon run dry, but I'm just a student who still rely on my parents financially. So I thought I'd share instead, but that quickly got out of hand. I post one thing and get multiple asks by the HOUR. I already had to apologize for struggling to meet demands before and I only had 3 or 6 rare to come-by short Asks about art. Now I have a hundred and counting I have to check personally. I didn't want to admit it, but I've also long been overwhelmed. I just didn't feel like I had the right to say so. I still don't. But the truth is, anyone can say they're verified too, which is terrible because not only will I be partially responsible for my followers who got scammed by bots or scumbags who take advantage of those at war with fake fundraisers, but even worse is that the help and money may not even reach those who actually need it. I thought I would be fine the first time. I don't really like posting too much about our depressing reality or watching news in general because my account was supposed to be a "safe SPACE" and a "nice little BUBBLE" for us to be happy and escape for awhile, so I didn'tmthink much about rebloggingit at first. I only wanted to help. But it just kept going and I got swept away. There's so many of them, but there's only one of me and I've been spiraling lately. So for now, I will no longer take any Asks about this subject (which I always avoid mentioning directly because the algorithm has it out for putting you guys down and I wanted you all to make it so I didn't tag those reblogs with such). I'll still take Asks provided they're related to my actual content and of course I'll still support raising awareness for Pal est ine, yet I also get it if this may appear selfish to some of you. I tried. I really did. But if you'd rather ignore, unfollow, or block me for this decision, I understand. I'm just sorry it had to come to this and that I wasn't strong enough to help more. -Bubs.

[thissmycomingofage]

Pfffffffffffffffffffffff.......

[strayharmony943]

Intro!!!!

Stray: "Hello everyone....Uhhh, I'm stray! Uhh.....I guess I'm the creater of Some OCS|÷¢}`✓ makes..... For some reason the name keeps on glitching out, since her main persona is Glitch....but all of us are more or less, some part of her personality.....glitch is kinda like the freak side... Harmony is more of the School type, there's mimic....gremlin basically....the others will be introduced later ...I hope. But yeah! Anyway...uhhhh.... here's some stuff about the one behind the screen!"

*An info board appears*

Hi! I'm =¢§•[¥{. I'm an artist, reader, ASMR addict *cough cough* Not my fault. Uhhh, well I like tea, coffee, and anything sweet, but I really tart things!! So......yeah! I like to call everyone little stars or something depending on which person I'm using...so yay! And I don't care for pronouns or genders since the whole lgbtq thing....i support!! But I think the extra genders is a bit much in my opinion.......

anyway these are some guys I admire and actually inspired me to do what I like!!

@scythe-the-problematic-audio @escapedaudios @goodboyaudios @dayspriteofficial @capitalmaudios @magebunkshelf @obsidian-lantern @shandzii

Also, bug army founders :)))))

@rozeliyawashereyall @aspenm00n @willowve01

{REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE}

Also my ask box is for lore, requests, and stuff. I don't do NSFW and stuff like that. I don't take any payment, along with nothing much..... Also WHY THE BLOODY HELL DO ALL THESE AMAZING PEOPLE THAT I'M INSPIRED BY SOMEHOW FOLLOW ME, I'M JUST AN ANOMALY IN THE SYSTEM AGHHHHH T~T

[some-mari-thoughts]

What do you make of the idea of Blackspace kinda fusing with Hellmari after a post-good ending Omori gave her true life, therefore making her the entire realm by technicality? Omori would do that cuz he needs something to kinda fill the void that appeared when Sunny left and he's getting desperate after not finding anything in Headspace to do that...

(woooooooooo explaining my omori au lore-)

Truthfully this is so wildly different to my idea of headspace and omori and after-good ending that i cannot make anything of this! i think that's up to u to decide

[mbirnsings-71]

"I don't like sad things" hello ??? you who has come up with some of the angstiest things before ? delightfully hurt/comfort ? /t

Listen Blaines my dear friend

I never said I wasn't a hypocrite, like I was in tears about your lie in april + I want to eat your pancreas and I'm always in tears about Kojika and Ronin's Right person, not enough time dynamic- I think that's just a trope that's always gonna make me cry ngl-

I genuinely don't like sad things most of the time but angst I can handle when I know there's comfort at the end. When I know the characters are gonna get a happy ending or I know where the story is gonna go or if I'm forewarned ahead of time.

And the Angst thing is because I have Ru as my role model in the angst department so Gotta keep up with their silly antics /j

[apamates]

Fitz' loved ones going "is anyone going to inflict unimaginable trauma on that boy??" and not waiting for an answer

[dontmeanyoudontmissit]

Literally going to go insane

[katyspersonal]

Cool.. Our rent price got raised. :') I did not know it was even possible to get even MORE poor than me and mom already were, but here we are. Guess I'll start surviving on literal bread and water at this rate.

[suncaptor]

there's something specifically inside my head that is closing up that makes trusting anything so hard. i have to manually keep my mind open to the potential of anything being significant. i am so used to things being bad and things hurting and things not working and being powerless that it takes an exorbitant amount of mental energy to make sure I don't let myself shut down possibility. and I do it because I never want a certainty inside of me besides love to rule anything. but I want my brain elastic again. i want it open like breathing. it doesn't erase the unfairness or the critique or any of the bitter-built philosophy.

[intertexts]

hm.

[sam-glade]

Happy WBW! 💜💌 What does the ideal (or stereotypical, or both if they're different) marriage/partnership look like in any of the cultures present in the world of your WIP? Is it about a powerful union of equals? Is it about chemistry and happiness? Is the end goal to produce kids? How does gender impact this, if at all? etc.! :) - @liv-is

Hi Liv! Happy WBW💜

Oh, I like this question. I've talked about wedding traditions in the Sunblessed Realm before, but not the wider aspects.

How does gender impact this, if at all?

It doesn't! This is an queernorm society, designed as a bit as a thought experiment 'let's imagine what it would be like', but mostly because writing anything else wouldn't be as much fun for me in the long run.

What does the ideal (or stereotypical, or both if they're different) marriage/partnership look like in any of the cultures present in the world of your WIP?

A formal, legally-binding marriage is typically between two people, though it's possible to modify the contract and the rites for more than two (I just didn't need to figure it out on page. There's a single wedding in the entirety of Days of Dusk AND The Truth Teller).

Also, since it's a long-lived culture (age of majority: 35, average lifespan: 300 years, but in practice until you get tired of life), people tend to get married and look to settle down once they're over 100. There's this pattern in people's lives, that if you find your vocation, something that you can do every day for your life and enjoy said life, you can in theory live forever. For the first century, people are encouraged to figure out what they want to do in their lives, and try things out. Also, promiscuity isn't frowned upon - a result of a paganism-like religion which reveres nature, and a culture with a stress on nurturing, earnest communities.

So I guess a stereotypical married couple would be 150+ yo, and have their lives more or less figured out.

Is it about a powerful union of equals? Is it about chemistry and happiness?

Nope! It's about bringing two families together. In the typical case, e.g. in Lissan's hometown, the people who'd be suspected to plan on marrying soon, would be a couple that spends a lot of time together, is often seen in each other's homes, and whose families spend a lot of time together as well. On the other hand, people without families (e.g. Erya or Gullin) wouldn't really consider marriage as something for them.

This family aspect is taken to uncomfortable levels by the nobility, who see it as a way of cementing alliances, strengthening connections, and pooling fortunes. And so, at some point later in the story Lissan is 'adopted' into a noble house, and has a partner without plans for marriage. He is pestered a lot with questions if he'd consider a union with one of the other local noble houses. Clearly if he isn't planning to marry his boyfriend, the neighbours can make a better offer, with material perks and promises of stability. It doesn't help that at the time he's in a 'friends with benefits' sort of relationship, and said boyfriend doesn't feel the need to be seen with him, or attend balls and other formal functions together.

Fortunately, it's governed by legal contracts, and marriages are not that hard to dissolve, especially with mutual agreement (see: Lissan's parents). Also, queernorm -> doesn't have to involve sexual attraction. Some people will get married for the legal perks and stability, if they'd formed a platonic bond strong enough. And a similar result can probably be achieved with a series of contracts, so marriage is almost a shorthand for that.

Is the end goal to produce kids?

On that note, adoption is a popular choice for families who want children but can't have biological offspring. E.g. the Prince of Rock, from the Southern Princedom, is an adopted son of his mothers (in the current draft of Prodigal Children).

PS. In The Fulcrum, my birdfolk doesn't do romantic partnerships at all. I know some birds irl form long-term couples and some are monogamous, but I thought it would be fun to play with a society where romantic love doesn't exist. There are strong platonic bonds, there's love for one's community, and there's the drive to procreate. That's it.

[skrunksthatwunk]

not to doomer post. but. american politics is like here's a conservative warmonger who wants to burn you alive personally and here's a different conservative warmonger who definitely wouldn't stop someone from burning you alive BUT who might raise the minimum wage by $0.30/hour for you, but only like eight years from now (so re-elect me please!! >w<). yes one of them has to be president they are the only two options we'll let you have. no neither of them will stop the government from killing you or anyone else, but at least one will say "it's kind of bad to kill people :( someone should really do something about that..." while giving the people-killers $20,000,000,000,000 to keep doing it then saying they can't afford to help you at all, but oh shucks, maybe next cycle, if you vote for me again! and also everyone will pretend as though they are extremely different political entities covering two highly polarized ends of the political spectrum despite nearly identical policy views obscured by their slightly different ways of addressing their target audiences, many of whom are also conservative warmongers. and also if you don't vote or vote third party the other guy will win and you will watch as they burn everyone you love alive in the same way they've burned so many strangers so you kind of feel like you have to vote for the other warmonger because even though they both have blood on their hands you'll take a handshake over an uppercut. even if you can still see the bodies piling up behind them. even if you can only save like five people you know and not the thousands of people who are dying in the other room. because you believe the difference between 30,000 and 30,005 is still worth it even though no one needed to die in the first place and no one seems to agree with you. you have to keep living in this world every day. if anything changes it will take decades and it will never be enough. if this takes a toll on you good fucking luck surviving off the generosity of the warmonger state that claims to serve you. happy voting!!