#Who doesn't love the incredibles no capes rant?

[book-of-legends]

Hey Sirius, ever heard of the "no capes" rule?

"I do however understand your regards to it and my safety, especially considering my job, but I assure you I follow all safety regulations I can. Even so..."

"I work with alot of large machinery, that has many moving parts so naturally I am very aware of how unsafe a cape can be. Please do not worry I am not that foolish, I have been working this job for almost 3 years now."

"We're living in the new age, the moment something comes into contact with me or something that isn't supposed to be there is, the machines know to cease all processes. Major injuries only result from faulty equipment these days." "I'm more likely to die from Journey dropping me 50 feet for 'fun' than my cape snagging in anything."

[lady-arryn]

curious why you think hotd s2 was a downgrade costume vise?

I just find their costume design for season 2 very repetitive and unimaginative. Separately some of these costumes might be ok, but as a whole it's a complete miss! For me. Because, while I love costuming, I'm absolutely no expert and I have zero education/knowledge, so this is just my personal opinion based on personal preference! Just putting this out there, just in case! I'll rant a little bit more under the cut.

My biggest gripe with the female costumes this season is that there was no variation in color or silhouette for majority of them. If you'll look at Rhaenyra (and the rest of the team Black ladies) you can see that they all look incredibly similar. But not in a good way.

Broad, triangular shoulders, cinched waist. Overlap style neckline. Or just a triangle. Red, black. Material might look coarse. Cape. Dragon motif.

You could probably swap these dresses between them, because they don't have any personality (except maybe the last one with dragons on shoulders, but the cut is still so samey with everything this season, it just doesn't have the effect it should have).

Alicent's wardrobe is no better. Open-cut sleeves. Chain at the waist. Beading work. Dark green/blue.

Her silhouette also doesn't change and while she goes from green to blue throughout the season I just don't find the color variation to be enough of a change to make me appreciate it. Too little to late. Helaena's costumes are incredibility similar as well.

(I also think a lot of the materials looked cheap/modern. It was like I almost could smell the polyester. Even if they didn't use any, it looked like it for me.)

And as for the male characters... Jace simply had more masculine version of Rhaenyra's fit. I'll be honest, I can't recall any specific outfit worn by Aegon, Aemond or any of the Green counsel. Did they even had multiple? Or was it just a trousers and tunic with belt? I honestly I don't remember. Maybe it's on me for not paying attention and I'll admit I'm not good with male costuming, but to this day I still remember Joffrey's wardrobe from GoT - it had colors! patterns!

(To not be a complete hater, I actually liked a lot of the armour - Daemon's and Oscar's in particular, but also the Hightower troops with Gwayne and the various extras. Simon's purple robe was quite pretty, even if it seemed a bit generic overall. I liked they Freys a lot, the veil was gorgeous! Rhaenyra's last dress had gorgeous details and shined beautifully on screen. And I think they were trying with Jeyne Arryn, even if I personally find the results a little amiss.)

I know that I'm being very harsh and I don't want to sound mean. And I don't even expect this show to try and be as creative as for example The Borgias were with Lucrezia's dresses. Even when you look at costumes (that might be historically inaccurate and critically ridiculed, but alas) in shows like The Spanish Princess or The Serpent Queen, I think this is the direction they should be going for. Characters actually look royal. Materials seem rich and opulent.

And yes, maybe it makes sense to keep characters in similar colors and designs because it's easier for the viewer to immediately tell what's going on/who they're watching. But still, if that was their goal, I just think they went too far and lost the creative spark.

(If I'm using an incorrect term to describe something I'm sorry, I don't talk about costuming in English much, so I might confuse some of the technical words!)

[itsabouttimex2]

Just finished reading new chapter and I'm still not over how seamless yet clear are the transitions between memories. Genuinely with how naturally you reveal information about characters i have to sometimes go double check to make sure I'm not making stuff up.

But before i prate for too long - I came back to throw some more thoughts about part 5 at the wall and see what sticks:

- I assume Y/n's bookmark is the same piece of scarf Macaque used to bandage them. (Please tell me they washed and disinfected it thoroughly) (if not my condolences to MK). I'm guessing if we went with other master it would be piece of Nezha ribbon or a snippet of Wukong's headdress (maybe cape?)

- In part two it's said that our book has anatomical illustrations + pages pointing out weaknesses so I'm assuming that's what Savage and Rumble are after. (And Macaque too since he didn't try to stop them + distracted y/n with mooncakes and question instead. Or maybe he just doesn't care and sees it as a opportunity to manipulate his student further? Honestly not sure)

- Really looking forward to more information about the book and who gave it to Y/n!! In comments under part three you mention Tang pointing out that y/n's version of jttw had been altered but I'm unsure whenever that's also canon in this version of the story? If it is, my suspicions towards the gifter are doubled.

I don't want to make ask too long so i will cut it here. Hopefully this one has less typos than the previous one. I'm very glad you don't mind my rants about your work! Thanks for the food as always and i hope your pillow is cold on both sides every night! :]

Aahhh! I love getting your comments so much! It’s incredibly very heartening for me, and I appreciate it so much! I was honestly a little worried when I started writing it, but all the support from this community has been so incredibly wonderful! I’m really glad I decided to go through with it!

Uh, mild, mild spoilers for A Brand New Journey underneath? I’m not even sure they count. Also info on unchosen routes.

That’s exactly right! Y/N keeps little mementos of the things they cherish, and couldn’t bring themselves to to throw the cloth away- and started using it as a bookmark instead! It’s been cleaned top to bottom, which is part of why it’s tattered by now.

Wukong would’ve torn half of his headdress to pieces, regardless of how valuable that fabric was. (In his scenario, the reader would’ve been his bio child. He was planned to be pretty doting!) The Great Sage was sort of a helicopter parent, constantly checking in with clones and astral projection.

And given that Ne Zha’s scenario had Y/N as the “Fourth Lotus Child”, he was explicitly their older brother- and incredibly protective of them! He actually was going to shred his armillary sash to patch their wounds- that’s how devoted he was to their safety.

As for the book… Macaque gave it to them! Rumble and Savage made the illustrations themselves, cause heavens know that Mac couldn’t have drawn them. They’re basically big brothers trying to keep their baby sibling from getting into trouble. I wrote up miniature characters sheets for these two, actually!

Yes, the book is doctored! Macaque only wants his student knowing so much, after all. I don’t think the parts he changed are too hard to guess, haha!

[shiro-hatzuki]

hi i've looked at es's commemorative art like 2000 times by now i want to rant about my beloved prison guard. es discussion below the cut (will probably include minor spoilers)

i find the gloves interesting in this piece. one hand is gloved and is holding a book; from various vds such as muu's vd, we know that es is into reading books about japanese law, so we can probably safely guess that the book might be related to law.

to me, this hand is like a representation of es's "prison guard" side. the glove appears to be a part of the prison guard uniform (assuming the girl on the cover of the upcoming light novel is different than es, we can see that many aspects of the uniform, including the gloves, are shared between them, confirming that this is a constant in milgram's warden uniform.)

this hand - this side of es - treats their role as both the warden and the judge of the prisoners very seriously, studying law as well as the prisoners.

but their other hand is ungloved (actually, the glove sits off to the side on the armrest of the chair), and is petting a relaxed jackalope.

for one, I FUCKING LOVE THIS IT'S SO SOFT AND CUTE AND JACKALOPE IS SUCH A CUTE BUN LOOK AT HIS LIL RESTING FACE- ahem.

anyhow, i found it incredibly endearing that es would take off their glove just to pet jackalope. like they're petting jackalope's clothes instead of his soft fur or playing with his floppy ears or anything, and while the fabric may be soft, it doesn't compare to fur, which is literally right there, available to be pet. there is no reason for es not be wearing gloves if they're just petting jackalope's clothes, yet they bothered to take off their gloves anyway just to pet jackalope's clothed back. to me, this represents a different side of es. a softer side of them in which they are not the warden, but just es.

actually, this whole piece encapsulates that latter vibe for me. this is es off from work, an es that might have been had they not been milgram's warden.

their signature cape, hat and even one of their gloves hang of the side of the chair. and that chair looks so much more comfortable than any of the strange seats they have taken, such as this one from undercover

or this seat that's been featured all over the place and they are sat in for pieces like this (from milgram's official fanart project)

or this scale from the milgram website's homepage, which must feel precarious to sit on.

(okay i did add that last one in partly as a joke but partly fr)

in fact, the only other time we've seen them sat in a comfortable-looking seat was in the beginning of "this is the milgram," when they first wake up and don't even remember who they are and don't really know that they are the warden until jackalope tells them they are.

i think how comfortable the seat is could represent just how deep into their role they are. they sit in uncomfy seats when they are working and comfy seats when they are just being 'es.'

so many other details show just how "off work" es is in the commemorative art. their soft expression instead of a hard or serious one you'll see in many other arts of them. the book being held beside their face in such a way that they can't read it. PETTING JACKALOPE I CANNOT GET OVER HOW CUTE IT IS!!!

of course, es is not completely off work here. they still are wearing some of the clothes of the warden uniform, and they are still holding the book, ready to lower it back to a good reading level and continue from where they left off. we are merely seeing a break, not them after they finished their job.

however, even with this break, i think this might provide some insight into what es might have been like if we didn't meet them as a warden. they might have been softer (and not compelled to beat up people, tho that's not guaranteed lol), and they might pet animals with caring hands, and they might like reclining in comfortable chairs while reading a book that interests them. i really like to think about what they could be if allowed to be a normal 15 yr old, and this very well could be a glimpse into that alternative es.

[tarantulas4davey]

ok i had a small thought about the youtuber au so like

imagine one day albert wakes up and check his socials and sees some wack shit going on, he gets upset and he goes live on instagram talking about it even though he has literally not gotten out of bed yet but he's a n g e r y, so he talks, and mid-live race enters the room and he's like "hey albie, you want breakfast?" and albert, who was previously fuming, just fuckin melts and goes full on heart eyes at race and he's like "yea baby i'll be there in a sec, okay?" and the chat just fuckin has an aneurysm because he did a whole 180 in like 0.00000003 milliseconds when he saw race

ok now i have more thoughts- this always happens istg

race is Bad at gaming, we've been over this, and al teases him about it a lot when they're playing something together but whenever race starts getting frustrated over a game al notices and instantly drops it and gives him a little kith and helps him win

on the flipside, whenever al gets frustrated over a game he yells and curses a lot, so race will notice even if he's not in the room and he'll come in hoping to help him calm down but they just end up both yelling at the screen and then get a noise complaint

race and al do announce that they're engaged, but they don't announce that they,,,, actually got married until after the wedding. this was partly because albert knew it'd make the fanbase go batshit and as much as he loves them he'd rather freak out about this on his own, because he knew he would freak out, but at the end of the day it's race, he knew he wanted to marry him since like forever and he doesn't think he could ever be with anyone else so it all turns out ok. so, yeah, they get married and no one knows shit about it except the guests of course but duh, and then once they get their wedding pictures in digital form they just post a bunch captioned "cute date idea: get married" and "lol btw we had our wedding, forgot to mention" and shit like that. and like,,, technically everyone knew they were going to get married, they talked about how close the wedding is,,,,,like, constantly, but they didn't think they'd just do it and not mention it so naturally, everyone loses their shit.

I- THESE ARE ALL INCREDIBLE THANK YOU

- for the sake of keeping this modern (and the ability to mention some shit that makes me really angry too cause might as well) he’s ranting about all the assholes making ‘not all men’ trend in response to the 97% statistic. and as we know, albert isn’t always the most talkative person in the world, that’s usually race’s job, but this man chugs his respect women juice every day and has a lot of thoughts and feelings on this fuckery. he’s in the living room (cause race was still asleep and he didn’t wanna wake him up being Mad™️) and like half an hour into the live race’s half asleep self pokes his head into the living room with a blanket cape and cup of coffee in each hand asking if al wants breakfast and you can literally watch the tension leave al’s shoulders. and he takes the coffee and kiss and says that and chats just like “????? what the fuck was that you were yelling two seconds ago????” and he just shrugs like “can y o u be mad when that face is looking at you?”

- yesss. theyve know eachother for like,,,, forever, basically. so al knows when teasing ok and funny and when it’s not anymore and race needs encouragement and help instead. race also really appreciates al’s form of helping him, which is just hugs and explaining the controls while race sits in his lap cause why wouldn’t that be his form of teaching

- jdhdjd they WOULD get a noise complaint oml. as stated before, race can calm al down in 0.2 seconds, but if he gets immediately sucked into the game and gets mad too then it’s absolutely hopeless

- oh you’re 100% correct. i’ve mentioned before they make a video out of their wedding, and they DO, but it’s not released until after their honeymoon. everyone just thinks they’re on a regular ass vacation. also those captions are race and albert (in that order, specifically) to a T dhshdh. but yeah they didn’t wanna say when it actually was cause ✨privacy✨ so one day they just,,,, are married and all the fans loose their shit.

these were all really fun!! i’m especially fond of the first one ngl

[seekingxanadu]

Yuppp. And the tendency in fics to make out Jason as some icon of the poor and suffering and then turn around and write even more fics as Jason sexually abusing Dick Grayson, or disrespectful of being Dick's body autonomy. But hey, Dick probably "deserved" it because Dick hated Jason in their minds and Dick probably "asked for it" because Dick wore leotards as part of his Robin suit and his Nightwing suit doesn't have a Cape so Dick can show off his "ass"et, and Dick is written as enjoying his rapes because Dick loves to perform, so who cares whether his consent or autonomy is respected. Right?

This fandom isn't even subtle anymore in how much it hates Dick Grayson, because how dare a kid from the circus, a performer, a kid with vague mix of races in his heritage, a kid with "questionable fashion sense" (a euphemism if there was any to refer to his blood/race/people), a kid who isn't even American, how dare he appeal to a local billionaire's sense of justice, when the local kid, the local rich kid, the blood son, are even more worthy (a weird position to have when Dick has been kinder and fairer to each one of them, compared to Bruce).

Canon disproves this at every turn; because the billionaire himself treats Dick as expendable, never adopted him in his teens - something Bruce did for the others, adopts Dick in the dark Cave, alone - while the others got press coverage, threw Dick out of the manor - something Bruce never did to the others, abused and beat up Dick - becomes memes while the other Batboys' abuse rightly gets a social media rant and spawns fix it fanfics, has his death called "fake" by Batboys who call themselves "experts on death" and "second best detective" (calm down, kiddo, you may become one tomorrow, you ain't one yet, clearly!).

The Batfamily fandom is incredibly racist, classist, and elitist. And y'all have made the other Batboys in your image.

Maybe a question to ponder, Why is it that the "Golden Boy" is the one without a Bat symbol? Not as Robin (that's a tribute to The Flying Graysons) and not as Nightwing (that's a tribute to his parents and Superman). The only time Dick wears a Bat is when he is the frigging Batman.

I wonder if the fact that this canon rape survivor I project super hard onto, having like….more fics written about him being raped in ADDITION to his already canon rapes, than he does fics written about him just….being in romantic relationships…..like, I wonder if this particular tendency of fandom has anything at all to do with my super aggro aggressiveness about all the rape and incest and pedophilia in this particular fandom, even moreso than I am in others.

Nah, couldn’t be.

(I’m just saying, show me a single previous S/ladin themed week or Dick-themed whumptober that doesn’t involve a steady production and churning out of fics wherein Dick is additionally raped - and with the depiction of said rape usually being eroticized or explicitly written in depth.

Now show me a single themed week or themed whumptober about one of the other Batfamily, whether Bruce or Jason or Tim….that involves even half as many fics being produced or churned out about said character’s rapes - and with the depictions being as erotically rendered or as explicitly written.

My issues with this particular fandom in specific have a looooooot to do with the claim that everyone loves Dick Grayson the Golden Boy, and the reality that more accurately, everyone loves Dick Grayson the pretty rape victim). 

[taraljc]

ok so here's the only marginally less inflammatory essay I posted to me FB after hearing the good news reported about:

OK, so, possibly after drinking a statistically significant amount of coffee that I likely shouldn't ought to have done right before catching up on social media, I have consolidated and cleaned up what was a better bitter and angry rant about something I care a lot about, but the rest of you may not really understand or even care about. So here's what's been on my mind for quite a while now.

I've never been as incandescently happy as I was in the exact moment I learnt a certain womanising hack who has coasted on an outdated reputation for way too long is never going to get the chance to destroy one of my all time favourite female characters in the entire history of comics. I feel as if need to commemorate this with pie of some kind.

(sweet potato pecan pie with bourbon whipped cream is the frontrunner at this time, assuming I can find $$$ to go grocery shopping for the ingredients except the bourbon because you know me. I always have bourbon.)

In case you haven't guessed this is gonna be about Barbara Gordon.

It amazes me how no-one has ever thought to adapt the EPIC storyarc by Ostrander & Yale about how a former vigilante became one of if not THE most power and influential non-superpowered women in the entire DCU after literally being thrown away like trash.

(Google the quote "Cripple the bitch." Trust me, it will make you understand where I'm coming from with a lot of this.)

Oh yeah, and not only did she do so using all the skills she already had before she put on a cape and kicked some ass as one of a dozen minor figures in the Gotham vigilante scene, but she created and ran one of the best covert teams in history.

(If you do not know who the Birds of Prey are, that's OK. An origin film would solve that problem for you.)

OH OH OH and not only was she running the Birds, but she was simultaneously acting as the Field Co-ordinator that turned her original vigilante found family into a much more efficient, effective, and powerful crime-fighting force not just in Gotham but the entire DCU.

All while transitioning to life with a disability. Did I mentioned she'd been shot through the spine solely to torture her uncle/father in one of the most mysoginist comics stories of the past 50 years? Sorry. I probably buried the lede a bit, there.

What really matters is, we're talking about a woman who used her research and cyber security skills honed by her day job as a research librarian and went up against Amanda Waller and came out on top.

If someone who claims to love comics as much as that guy who did that male power fantasy TV show about hot chicks back in the 90s can't figure out why Barbara Gordon as Oracle would have legs, well...

What can I say. Maybe it's time to actually hire a writer who can deliver a solid script that doesn't reduce 50 years of history (the balance of which was spent not as Batgirl, but as Oracle) to a casualty of the feud between Bats and the Joker?

So you know, if anybody's looking for a list of creatives that as both a comics fan and a film fanatic whom I believe would be more than up to the challenge, I am ready to write a six part series on @TheMarySue any time. Y'all know where to find me.

I think what a lot of people don't realise that when you take a character like Barbara Gordon who trained hard in isolation, with no teachers or mentors, because she chose to join the fight because she knew she could make a difference, only to be under-used, under-valued, written off as collateral damage, and ultimately expected to fade away into the woodwork...

...there is an incredibly compelling story just sitting there waiting to be explored about how someone with that drive, those skills, that passion for justice who flat out refuses to let the world write her off. She takes the world by the balls and shows them there's still work to be done, and that you don't need to wear a cape and a mask to do it.

And THAT to me, ever since I was 15 years old, reading Ostrander & Yale's Suicide Squad while my other friends were off going to malls or Depeche Mode concerts or whatevs, was what made me a hardcore fan of Barbara Gordon. Not Batgirl. ORACLE. And THAT story of Barbara Gordon becoming Oracle is the story that I want to see told in theatres, to the masses, so they can see what I first saw in a former sidekick who turned into a massive powerhouse in the DCU not by force, but by using her intelect.

I've never got why people don't understand how HUGE it was to see a character who'd been literally thrown away like garbage, be reinvented as a character so much more important and integral to the future of comics, not to mention A++ representation of a hero with a disability.

If no-one can turn that incredibly compelling story into a 120 page screenplay, then it's time to stop looking to the same 4 white guys (like for reals I am not kidding) to write comics adaptations for the big screen, and cast a wider net.

What I'm saying is, I think after the last 2 decades we've seen all there really is to see in terms of range from The Usual Suspects (David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan, Zak Penn, and the aforementioned womanising hack Joss Whedon) that have stayed at the top of studios speed-dial for far too long..

Time to spin that rolodex and give The Wachowski Sisters, Zack Stentz & Ash Miller, Allan Heinberg, Jennifer Lee, or Ava DuVernay a crack at nailing just the right tone and story for a big-budget feature Batgirl.

Look, I know It's easy to play armchair producer when it's not my $$$. But as a fan, Warner Bros. ain't getting a single CENT of my money if they don't take the lessons they learnt from critical & commercial success of Wonder Woman and apply same 1st class treatment to Barbara Gordon/Batgirl.

Joss Whedon is saying goodbye to DC Entertainment heroine Batgirl. “Batgirl is such an exciting project, and Warners/DC such collaborative and supportive partners, that it took me months to realize I really didn’t have a story,” Whedon told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

Sources say that Whedon, after a year of trying, could not crack the code of what a Batgirl movie should be. Wonder Woman, in the meanwhile, became a cultural phenomenon as well as one of the biggest hits and most acclaimed movies of 2017.